Sam Mayer steals second career Xfinity victory at Watkins Glen

Sam Mayer dumps Ty Gibbs on the final restart to secure his second career NASCAR Xfinity Series win at Watkins Glen International.

The endings of road course events in the NASCAR Xfinity Series are always full of drama and the race at Watkins Glen International did not disappoint. Despite leading a race-high 70 laps, Joe Gibbs Racing driver Ty Gibbs did not cross the finish line as the winner. In fact, it was the driver that ruined his day.

On the final restart, JR Motorsports driver [autotag]Sam Mayer[/autotag] dumped Gibbs going into Turn 1 and ended up claiming his second career Xfinity Series victory at Watkins Glen. It would have been Gibbs’ second straight win in the series but Mayer made sure that did not happen. In fact, both of Mayer’s victories have come due to mass chaos in the closing laps of road courses.

There are now three races remaining in the 2023 Xfinity Series season with the next event coming at Daytona International Speedway next weekend.

Shriners Children’s 200 top-10 finishing order:

  1. No. 1 Sam Mayer
  2. No. 2 Sheldon Creed
  3. No. 48 Parker Kligerman
  4. No. 91 Ross Chastain
  5. No. 24 Connor Mosack
  6. No. 20 John Hunter Nemechek
  7. No. 00 Cole Custer
  8. No. 16 Chandler Smith
  9. No. 17 Alex Bowman
  10. No. 27 Jeb Burton