Justin Allgaier appeared to have Saturday's win well in hand with a more than two-second benefit over Smith when a flat left-front tire sent his No. 7 Chevrolet into the Turn wall with 5 laps staying.
The wreck and clean-up sent out the race into a two-lap overtime, where Smith got a great operate on the start and held back a fast-charging Jesse Love by 0.365 seconds to declare the surprise win.
The success is the second of Smith's profession and initially considering that he signed up with Joe Gibbs Racing in the offseason.
“What a day. We went from controling, to we weren't excellent, to controling once again, to wasn't excellent once again, simply did not have a bit on (Allgaier),” Smith stated. “I dislike that occurred to him. He certainly had it in the bag.
“I'm so pleased with everyone at Joe Gibbs Racing. It's to lastly get this very first one off the back with these guys. We require to keep racking them up.”
Smith's JGR colleague, Sheldon Creed, ended up third, Austin Hill was 4th and Cole Custer finished the leading 5.
Completing the leading 10 were three-time Supercars promote Shane van Gisbergen, Brandon Jones, Parker Kligerman, Sammy Smith and Anthony Alfredo.
Phase 1
Chandler Smith travelled to a controling Stage 1 win over Custer, leading all 45 laps. Allgaier was 3rd, Aric Almirola 4th and Riley Herbst completed the leading 5.
Jeremy Clements, Josh Williams, Dawson Cram and Patrick Emerling were associated with an early-race event that knocked Emerling out of the race and sent out Williams a number of laps down.
Custer held back a late charge by Allgaier to declare the Stage 2 win by 0.457 seconds, his very first phase triumph of the 2024 season. Almirola was 3rd, Chandler Smith 4th and Herbst completed the leading 5.
Phase 3
Throughout the break in between Stages 2 and 3, the lead lap vehicles all pit with Custer first of all pit roadway. When the last got under method, Custer led Allgaier and Herbst with 100 laps staying.
NASCAR tossed a care on lap 138 for particles on the track after Hailie Deegan tagged the wall. That sent out all the cars and trucks down pit roadway for brand-new tires and fuel to make it to the end of the race. John Hunter Nemechek was the to begin with pit roadway and led Allgaier and Herbst on the reboot on lap 144.
Simply after the reboot, Chandler Smith and Nemechek made contact off Turn 2, which set off a multi-car wreck that gathered almost a lots vehicles.
The race was stopped for about 11 minutes so the track might be cleared of particles and fluid. Amongst the competitors knocked out of the race were Nemechek, Sam Mayer and Jeb Burton.
Allgaier led Chandler Smith and Custer when the race resumed with 49 laps staying.
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