History made in the Phoenix desert: United Rentals 200 at Phoenix Raceway | Extended Highlights

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side corner you're clear and immediately that's exactly what you expect everyone to get down there from the start, but what I already see is a seven of Justin Algar losing two places from the front row, not chasing them to the floor, there, the amount of distance he lost from the beginning, it already cost them John Hunter Nemechek pushing Sheldon Creed. a little bit there when they go through the corner Nema checks in the 20. the two are Sheldon Creed second place at the moment Daniel Himrick in the 11 yes, these first laps are always very difficult because these cars have used tires, the cup cars have been on the track they're kind of retransitioning that rubber to the Xfinity cars and the rubber they have on the track and I'm sure Justin walked in there and said, "Okay, go, go, at some point." For me, yeah, well you mentioned they use old tires because they qualify and then they leave that set to a guy who isn't in that category.

Kyle Busch didn't do a qualifying race, so he starts the race from the back, but with stickers and good. I guess tires do matter, I mean I realize he has a fast car but that's an aggressive move through the dog leg, well what do you expect? I mean, it's Kyle Bush with a really fast car with new tires, stuff coming to the front. hurry up and it'll get harder as you get closer to the front, obviously, but these first two cars he'll take them out so easily, oh, that's not good, the right side, that's Leland Honeyman, 18, here in Phoenix, making his debut in the Xfinity series.

Did a good job on qualifying before, put it on the show, yeah based on how it looks I bet the back end slid a little and cut there, it goes to the fence, there will be a rubble disguise where If it would have gone there it is and there's the yellow flag and it comes out with 16 left in the stage, we'll do a couple of laps on the open pit road and we could have opened the door for some strategy here, this is right on the edge. of boys who could try to change the scenario, I mean seven now in front of the coal.

Custer, wow, and Josh Berry turns around and you're good, second caution of the day, he was running eighth when he slipped, you see him go down. Turn three here, a little help, yeah, Chandler Smith, he's the other guy up there pretty high up. I don't know if he was going down Middle Lane and the eight had him backed up to go down the right behind him, Kevin. that's more or less what happened, although yes, more or less yes, it's hard to see and it's hard to tell right there if the left front tire was locked in turn three, here you know, when you come in hard, there are some bumps over the waves that Chandler might have blocked the left front tire because he hit it pretty good, two to get out of the lane, all the guys are in charge of this on stage one, these seven had a really good restart, there he's going to clear them .

The two cars look good 18 pushing the envelope and then out of the lane that's four wide, yes, it's Kyle Busch, making it four wide. Custer is trapped there right next to his teammate. This is going to get complicated here in the last opening stage of the lap. I tell you the racing here is spectacular when you get the on such a wide track, it's really that the resin has really helped this track. Look at Nema. I mean, he's in seventh place and he could get two or three more places before he finishes the stage. All the guys are very good here over the years.

A couple of victories started. the front row took the lead on a restart at the end of the stage and he will return to the green and white checkered flag and win the first stage. A year ago in Phoenix we had four yellow flags throughout the race. Josh Berry spins. a second time, that's yellow flag number six and we know we'll have another one when the stage ends here in a few laps, this is what happened, he was in the top five, that's his teammate, oh man, yeah , there were a couple of turns before that. I watched Sam get in behind Josh here and turn three and four and I didn't really think about it, but he got in on him again right here and spun things on him that make you go hmm, there's no drafting. at Phoenix and look at Kyle Busch here, he's four rows behind but he's been going all the way to the top and he and he's all the way to the top and in turns one and two, so we'll see how that works in the four wide turn ones. and two again, Guyer takes first place.

What a disaster on these reboots. This is where it will get difficult on the exit of the corner. They'll do it now from Austin Hill. You have many pilots running to have control. of this race for the final stage Hill has that spot right now one to go for stage number two all the guys are trying to get the cowgirl sweep it looks pretty good the battle is second third fourth very good here I mean, that's huge too so you can have that number one spot to start the final stage Austin Hill three and a half seems to be in line for that for everyone, or you're going to sweep stage one and stage two, knock it out again in Phoenix, win six stages here on defecting to Kyle Bush up there in the mix Austin Hill takes the inside lane and we are rolling in the final stage how about that aggressive move by Kyle Busch?

He'll take the lead as we head into turn two, yeah, and those skid marks ain't get stuck on that apron for no reason because that's what happens when you don't have a good enough start, the guy behind you in third He gets under you and if you don't give him space, he rolls out of Austin Hill from first to third. I'll talk about that exchange, well it's also fun to see his ink car. It drives very hard in the corners, which means it has great entry and center turn stability to be able to fill up a car in front of it trying to pass. as the caution comes out here, it will be caution number eight and the window is now open to travel the distance that you can easily within the window.

Greg mentions the reason for the caution in the 08 driving for Bobby's daughter, so it's pretty straightforward. you've got one set of tires left you're in your window there's no question you get down and pit here and the pit stops are going to be huge to decide who's in control and how you finish this. What I mean is that this is your last set of tires. There are still 61 laps left, you think you stay and save them. I think if you're the leaders you'll probably come, but I don't know, I mean, I'd be open to a little bet here, maybe you can get 30 laps. your tires and you get another caution with 25 or 30 laps left and you've got a game hanging on 30 30 cars on the lead lap, which introduces us to some drivers that have the potential to do it.

You see the AMR security team addressing Greg Alding. and you can tell from his body language that it was a really, really hard hit, yeah, and it has all the hallmarks of a flat right front tire. So based on that, he probably knocked it out of him a little bit there, as well as the car. Hit the fence, but a lot of times what happens here is the right front tire gets really hot and the bead goes, uh, as you go down a three-wide race, the top five are great to have in the center. the fire oh Shelton Creed goes through caution number nine the question was who was in the lead at the time of the caution that's a great question time to run to the Checkers in Phoenix there goes Kyle that's what we talked about let's see how it turns out here down, three wide turns, one and two, Austin Hill, digging down, Nema checks the wall, we knew he would run hard, that would take him out of contention, what was going to get there, Chandler Smith, Justin Allguire, with contact , they stay side by side during the lead and that is exactly what Sammy Smith wanted to see able to overcome in front of the tent his toughest competition, which I believe was a 20 on the fence and knocked out here he fell very far Sammy Smith grew up today competing with Kyle Busch on restarts. in a place like Phoenix and comes out on the positive side, well, he's learned on every restart and he's gotten better on every restart and he's just putting that into practice, John Hunter, just sailing into an all or nothing guy like us. what was talked about is caution, the seven big damages 11th yellow flag of the day in the round of the top ten, the top five and the top three will end for Justin Olgaier just couldn't make it in this last period of the race, yeah, and what happened two restarts when that car that car just didn't start like it did the rest of the race.

I don't know if the track went through a wobble or what happened, but he just didn't start a couple of restarts ago and same thing. Something happened here and now it's buried in the field and it broke look what happened here Kevin looks like uh once again in turn three this has been the problem Corner many times oh man Brandon Jones was the first hit oh and it's not finished yet, oh yeah, and that was just a chain of events there, kind of one of those racing deals where the nine cornered themselves here and got behind him a little bit, yeah, the competition meeting at Junior Motorsports is It's going to be entertaining, yes, this is the two of them, yes, it's definitely going to be entertaining because the one who came in on the eight, yes, nine on the seven, many, many combination shots happening here, but I'm asking you from the top . today's broadcast Joey how aggressive things are going to get on the track and we're finding out 11 cautions and some race cars that are really banged up now well you think it's you think it's been aggressive up to this point what are we ?

Yeah, I mean A lot of that is because there's so much going on for everyone that's there and you might not know if you're too open three wide four wide because there's so much going on that makes it complicated, I think coming out from the corner, the white flag is waving in Phoenix with one lap to go sponsored by Credit One Bank One Smith is 18 years old and from Johnston Iowa he is a high school senior E4 here fundamental three and four without changes during the week has taken online classes on the weekends drives for Joe Gibbs Racing today gets an A plus Sammy Smith wins at Phoenix yeah thanks guys this is it Jeff repairing box one here 2020 with Brandon Jones today drives Sammy Smith to Victory Lane for the first time in his career, there's a look at Jeff.

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