The 250-mile Nashville race (3:30 p.m. ET, USA) finds just seven drivers qualified for the Xfinity end-of-the-season games, with five spots empty. The end of the season games is booked to start Sept. 24 at Texas Motor Speedway (3:30 p.m. ET, USA).
The Xfinity Series has been inactive since June 4, when AJ Allmendinger succeeded at Portland.
Other race victors this season (and essentially sure to make the end of the season games) are Ty Gibbs, Noah Gragson, Justin Allgaier, Josh Berry, Brandon Jones and Austin Hill.
Three of those champs — Gragson, Allgaier and Berry — drive for JR Motorsports. Sam Mayer, another JRM driver, sits in the primary focuses qualifying position (eighth) beneath the seven-race victors. 10th through twelfth on that rundown are ruling series champion Daniel Hemric, Landon Cassill, Riley Herbst and Ryan Sieg.
Anthony Alfredo is the primary driver outside the season finisher cut line. He is 58 focuses behind Sieg. Alfredo won the shaft at Portland. He'll race at Nashville, interestingly.
Gibbs, the grandson of group proprietor Joe Gibbs, has been the questionable start of the series this season with triumphs at Las Vegas, Atlanta and Richmond and three posts, although he hasn't won in the beyond seven races.
Gibbs has dashed with a forceful style and has had episodes with a few drivers this year. The greatest happened in April at Martinsville Speedway as keep-going lap erosion on target prompted Gibbs and Sam Mayer to fight on pit street. Gibbs knocked on Mayer's vehicle on pit street (an activity which later came about in a $15,000 fine from NASCAR) and afterwards stood up to Mayer. After a short conversation, Gibbs smacked Mayer twice upside the head before NASCAR authorities and others reached out. Gibbs and Mayer tumbled to the ground before the occurrence finished.
Among different notes this season:
The driver who drove the most laps has won five 14 races this season.
Last-lap passes have settled four races. Gibbs has won two times like that (Atlanta and Richmond) and lost once like that (Martinsville).
Four races have gone to additional time. Just once, the pioneer at the booked distance proceeded to come out on top in the race. Cole Custer did that at Auto Club Speedway.
Xfinity hustling got back to the Nashville track last year following a slip by of 10 years. Cup normal Kyle Busch came out on top in that race (his 100th success in the series), and Allgaier was second.
After Nashville, the series visits many tracks, including street courses at Road America, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Watkins Glen International.
Nashville, June 25 (3:30 p.m., USA)
Street America, July 2 (2:30 p.m., USA)
Atlanta, July 9 (5 p.m., USA)
New Hampshire, July 16 (2:30 p.m., USA)
Pocono, July 23 (5 p.m., USA)
Indianapolis street course, July 30 (3:30 p.m., NBC)
Michigan, Aug. 6 (3:30 p.m., USA)
Watkins Glen, Aug. 20 (3 p.m., USA)
Daytona, Aug. 26 (7:30 p.m., USA)
Darlington, Sept. 3 (3 p.m., USA)
Kansas, Sept. 10 (3 p.m., USA)
Bristol, Sept. 16, (7:30 p.m., USA)
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