Austin Hill wins Xfinity race at Atlanta, opens 2024 with back-to-back victories

Austin Hill opens the 2024 season with back-to-back victories after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

The NASCAR Xfinity Series arrived at Atlanta Motor Speedway with a feeling of inevitably after [autotag]Austin Hill[/autotag] won the opening race of the season at Daytona International Speedway. Despite the late-race drama, plus a lack of speed, he put himself in position again. Hill beat Chandler Smith to win the Xfinity Series race at Atlanta in overtime after teammate Jesse Love ran out of fuel.

Love dominated the race at Atlanta but ran out of fuel on the final restart. Hill was pushed to the front by Smith, who held the No. 81 car behind him. The Richard Childress Racing driver had enough fuel to win and perform a burnout on the front stretch. Hill said in his post-race interview that Love should have won the race after he won the first two stages.

Yet, Hill found a way through the drama. After winning Atlanta, Hill became the first driver since Tony Stewart in 2008 to win back-to-back races to open an Xfinity Series season. The next time the series heads to a superspeedway race, that same inevitability will be felt again.

RAPTOR King of Tough 250 finishing order:

  1. No. 21 Austin Hill
  2. No. 81 Chandler Smith
  3. No. 97 Shane van Gisbergen
  4. No. 18 Sheldon Creed
  5. No. 31 Parker Retzlaff
  6. No. 51 Jeremy Clements
  7. No. 5 Anthony Alfredo
  8. No. 26 Jeffrey Earnhardt
  9. No. 19 Ryan Truex
  10. No. 8 Sammy Smith
  11. No. 1 Sam Mayer
  12. No. 2 Jesse Love
  13. No. 16 A.J. Allmendinger
  14. No. 9 Brandon Jones
  15. No. 98 Riley Herbst
  16. No. 00 Cole Custer
  17. No. 91 Kyle Weatherman
  18. No. 78 B.J. McLeod
  19. No. 48 Parker Kligerman
  20. No. 44 Brennan Poole
  21. No. 42 Leland Honeyman
  22. No. 39 Ryan Sieg
  23. No. 27 Jeb Burton
  24. No. 14 J.J. Yeley
  25. No. 43 Ryan Ellis
  26. No. 92 Nick Leitz
  27. No. 15 Hailie Deegan
  28. No. 7 Justin Allgaier
  29. No. 35 Joey Gase
  30. No. 29 Blaine Perkins
  31. No. 4 Dawson Cram
  32. No. 20 John Hunter Nemechek
  33. No. 07 Patrick Emerling
  34. No. 6 Garrett Smithley
  35. No. 38 C.J. McLaughlin
  36. No. 28 Kyle Sieg
  37. No. 11 Josh Williams
  38. No. 32 Jordan Anderson