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the last five Xfinity championships (Chase Chevy CAMARO
Elliott in 2014, William Byron in 2017 and CREW CHIEF:
Tyler Reddick in 2018)? JASON BURDETT FEATURED DRIVERS

Allgaier seemed on a progression to OWNER:
national stardom when he won the JR MOTORSPORTS
championship in the 2008 ARCA
Racing Series presented by Menards
at age 22. He then ran for five years “I’ve been coming here a long time,” he said, “and to finally
in Xfinity, winning single events in win here is pretty special.
three consecutive seasons, from
2010-12, with 84 top-10 finishes in “We sat in turn 1 all the way up at the top, and I remember
170 starts and championship finishes the start of the race. I was standing on the seat behind me so
between third and sixth. I could see over all the people. Hearing the roar of the cars
and crowd … it was incredible.”
But then he graduated to the NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series with HScott Motorsports In 2017 Allgaier was one of two Xfinity playoff qualifiers with
in 2014 and it was a two-year, unmitigated multiple victories – a significant achievement in fields heavy
disaster, with only a single top-10 finish in 71 with Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regulars. Last
races, plus one failure to qualify. season he was one of three playoff qualifiers with more than
one victory.
Then came Allgaier’s run-in with Earnhardt at Darlington.

Allgaier won at Dover, Iowa, Mid-Ohio and Elkhart Lake
before driving to the checkered flag in what has been his greatest FOLLOW ONLINE
victory – for now – in the Lilly Diabetes 250 at the Indianapolis
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