Chris Buescher wins XFINITY race at Dover: #60-Chris Buescher won the Buckle Up 200 at Dover International Speedway for his 2nd win of the season. He was the only driver able to stretch fuel to the finish and beat #20-Matt Kenseth by more than 11 seconds. The rest of the top 10: #7-Regan Smith, #33-Austin Dillon, #88-Kasey Kahne, #9-Chase Elliott, #62-Brendan Gaughan, #3-Ty Dillon, #54-Erik Jones, and #51-Jeremy Clements.
Smith's 3rd place finish won him the $100,000 Dash4Cash bonus. The next Dash4Cash race is at Indianapolis. Drivers eligible for the bonus will be Buescher, Smith, Elliott, and Gaughan.
There were 4 cautions for 23 laps and 7 lead changes among 5 leaders. Complete results are on the Dover race results page (pdf).
(5-30-2015)
Dover XFINITY Race Fast Facts:
Chris Buescher won the 34th Annual Buckle Up 200 presented by Click It or Ticket, his third victory in 53 NASCAR XFINITY Series races.
This is his second victory and eighth top-10 finish in 2015.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in three races at Dover International Speedway.
Matt Kenseth(i) (second) posted his 13th top-10 finish in 21 races at Dover International Speedway. It is his third top-10 finish in 2015.
Regan Smith (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in 11 races at Dover International Speedway.
Ross Chastain (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Chris Buescher leads the point standings by 15 points over Ty Dillon.
Regan Smith wins the first round of the Dash 4 Cash program. He will take home $100,000.
The four drivers that qualify for the next round of the Dash 4 Cash program are Regan Smith, Chris Buescher, Chase Elliott and Brendan Gaughan.
(NASCAR Integrated Marketing)(5-30-2015)
XFINITY Driver standings following Dover:
1) #60-Chris Buescher, 448
2) #3-Ty Dillon, 433, -15
3) #9-Chase Elliott, 411, -37
4) #7-Regan Smith, 401, -47
5) #6-Darrell Wallace Jr. #, 399, -49
6) #1-Elliott Sadler, 375, -73
7) #2-Brian Scott, 358, -90
8) #16-Ryan Reed, 353, -95
9) #62-Brendan Gaughan, 346, -102
10) #18-Daniel Suarez #, 345, -103
See complete owner and driver standings on the driver standings(pdf) and owner standings page (pdf).(5-30-2015)
Race Fans - race in Delaware this afternoon. it is at 1 PM ET! (not the 6 PM in the title of the thread ~ apologies on that!)
See you this afternoon! I am in hotel, with a TV that has FS1, so I get to watch the race!