Twice is nice, but three in a row sounds just a little bit better.
Newly minted 19-year-old Connor Zilisch passed fellow rookie Taylor Gray down the backstretch with two laps to go to win Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, his third consecutive victory.
The win also marked JR Motorsports’ 100th in the Xfinity Series and 12th victory of the 2025 season.
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Sam Mayer finished second while Gray settled for third. Kyle Larson and Ryan Sieg completed the top five.
William Sawalich, Sammy Smith, Daniel Dye, Jesse Love and Dean Thompson completed the top 10.
On a restart with 14 laps to go, the caution originally due to raindrops, Larson slid up the track and made contact with then-leader Justin Allgaier, as Allgaier pounded the wall exiting Turn 2 and suffered terminal damage. He finished 36th. The two had a pair of clean restarts beforehand, with each driver emerging from the lead once.
With nine laps remaining, Aric Almirola and Austin Hill made contact exiting Turn 3, Hill straightening it up for a moment before contacting the right-rear of Almirola and the No. 19 hitting the outside wall nose-first. During an ensuing red flag for cleanup and raindrops, NASCAR issued Hill a five-lap penalty for reckless driving.
The Xfinity Series stays in the Midwest next Saturday for a trip to Iowa Speedway (4:30 p.m. ET, The CW, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
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