Friday, April 10, 2015

Erik Jones takes maiden Xfinity Series win at Texas

Erik Jones took the #20 Joe Gibbs Toyota to victory lane in the 300-mile Xfinity Series race in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday evening. It was Jones' first win in the series in just his ninth start, following a similar pattern set by last year's winner and defending series champion Chase Elliott. Jones, who is currently a full-time Camping World Truck Series driver piloting the #4 Toyota owned by Kyle Busch in an alliance with Gibbs, started the race on the pole and led 79 of 200 laps, a good fifth of the total race distance. Jones held of Brad Keselowski in the #22 Team Penske Ford, Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the #88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet and Darrell Wallace Jr. in the #6 Roush Racing Ford in the late stages of the race, which featured such incidents as Wallace's teammate Chris Buescher hitting the frontstretch wall just after the start, and Cale Conley getting caught up in a wreck with Brendan Gaughan.

Race Results:

  1. 20-Erik Jones
  2. 22-Brad Keselowski
  3. 88-Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  4. 7-Regan Smith
  5. 33-Austin Dillon
  6. 6-Darrell Wallace Jr.
  7. 54-Denny Hamlin
  8. 9-Chase Elliott
  9. 60-Chris Buescher
  10. 2-Brian Scott
  11. 1-Elliott Sadler
  12. 3-Ty Dillon
  13. 42-Brennan Poole
  14. 98-Sam Hornish Jr.
  15. 16-Ryan Reed
  16. 43-Dakoda Armstrong
  17. 25-John Wes Townley
  18. 18-Daniel Suarez
  19. 28-J.J. Yeley
  20. 39-Ryan Sieg

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