Berry outduels Allgaier to 勝利，勝つ Xfinity race at Charlotte
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) - Josh Berry outdueled チーム仲間 Justin Allgaier to give JR Motorsports its first 勝利，勝つ at Charlotte モーター Speedway in the Xfinity Series race on Saturday.
Berry took the lead with 22 （競技場の）トラック一周s to go when Allgaier got loose and 小衝突d the outside 塀で囲む in Turn 1. Berry slowly pulled away and won by more than 18 seconds while Allgaier finished seventh after experiencing a leaky tire.
Ty Gibbs finished in second place and 政治家 sitter Sam Mayer was third.
Berry led 89 （競技場の）トラック一周s. He has won four career Xfinity races in 47 starts, 含むing a victory earlier this year at Dover.
JR Motorsports has won 63 Xfinity Series races and two トラックで運ぶs races, but this was the first 勝利，勝つ at CMS. Berry said it was rewarding to get that monkey off the company's 支援する.
"I have been an 従業員 at Junior Motorsports since 2010 and I've seen them struggle a lot at Charlotte," Berry said. "We all knew this was going to be a 広大な／多数の／重要な （判断の）基準. I think I can speak for everybody there 説 I think this 越えるd our 期待s."
Josh Berry celebrates in Victory 小道／航路 after winning a NASCAR Xfinity 自動車 race at Charlotte モーター Speedway on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Concord, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)
Berry and Allgaier raced neck and neck for most of the second half of the race on a sunny afternoon.
"It´s 肉親，親類d of how it has been all year," Berry said. "We find ourselves racing each other. It seems like more than not it has been me and Justin."
Allgaier led 63 （競技場の）トラック一周s, but his chances of winning ended after he 攻撃する，衝突する the 塀で囲む. That ended any chance of a 劇の finish after the two cars had been 刻々と racing more than 15 seconds ahead of the 残り／休憩（する） of the pack.
With Allgaier out of the picture, it was smooth sailing for Berry.
"After the first 接触する I felt like the tire was going soft and I had to 炭坑，オーケストラ席," Allgaier said. "... We laid it all on the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する and neither of us were going to give an 辛勝する／優位."
There were eight 警告を与えるs in the race.
Berry 現れるd as the 行う／開催する／段階 1 勝利者, even though Noah Gragson led 32 of the race's first 40 （競技場の）トラック一周s. Allgaier won the second 行う／開催する／段階.
Xfinity Series leader A.J. Allmendinger lost 空気／公表する in his tire in the second half of the race, costing him a chance at a 勝利，勝つ. He finished in 19th place.
DILLON'S WRECK
Austin Dillon was 伴う／関わるd in a 衝突，墜落 on （競技場の）トラック一周 110 that took out four other cars after his tire went 負かす／撃墜する and sent him careening into the outside 塀で囲む. の中で those caught up in the 難破させる were Ryan Seig, Stefan Parsons, Joe Graf Jr. and Anthony Alfredo.
"There was nowhere to go and we got 攻撃する，衝突する from all four 味方するs, or at least it felt like it," Alfredo said.
JACKED UP
Nicholas Sanchez, who started 31st, lost a （競技場の）トラック一周 when he left the 炭坑，オーケストラ席s with a tire jack stuck under the 権利 味方する of his 黒人／ボイコット No. 99 Chevy. He ran an entire （競技場の）トラック一周 with the jack sticking out from underneath the car before having to 炭坑，オーケストラ席 again.
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The 炭坑，オーケストラ席 乗組員 of Josh Berry celebrates winning a NASCAR Xfinity 自動車 race at Charlotte モーター Speedway on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Concord, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)
Josh Berry (8) 運動s into Victory 小道／航路 after winning a NASCAR Xfinity 自動車 race at Charlotte モーター Speedway on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Concord, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)
Josh Berry (8) competes during a NASCAR Xfinity 自動車 race at Charlotte モーター Speedway on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Concord, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)
