The Xfinity Playoffs opener has not fully followed the script

The qualifiers for the Nascar Xfinity series are underway and some suitors for expected fringes immediately fell below the cutting line because of their various misfortunes on Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway.

For my part, Richard Childres Racing We spent a terrible night with both Hill Austin And Jesse Love Having a non -competitive speed and the latter needing to put himself for a loose wheel. In the meantime, JR Motorsports competitor Sammy Smith underwent a kind of engine failure almost immediately in the race and joins Nick Sanchez Like all behind the elimination cut line.

Hill and Love finished 19th and 25th.

“Yes, obviously, it was a terrible night at one of our best songs, I feel like a team with car n ° 2,” Love on Motorsport.com after the race. “I don’t know why. I have the impression that we tried everything we did in the spring but literally nothing happened in our own way.

“It can always be worse, but tonight was quite bad, so obviously, we are below the cup, but nothing that we cannot explain. Not a good night but could always be worse.”

Jesse Love, Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

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For Hill, it is worse because he has already entered the playoffs without eliminatory series due to his suspension resulting from an intentional detraction of Aric Almirola at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July. No one leaves Bristol in the face of essential chances, but Hill must rebound significantly in two weeks in Kansas.

And love savor the week to empty your head.

“No, I’m ready for a short break,” said Love. “Just more time to prepare for Kansas, in a way reset and shake this evening. It is not as if we were going to Bristol again in two weeks. It is a completely different race track and that our intermediate things were really good. … But yes, it’s a bad night.”

Grid of the update qualifying series

Connor Zilisch +85
Justin Allgaier +53
Sam Mayer +35
CARSON KVAPIL +16
Harrison Burton +9
Brandon Jones +8
Sheldon Creed +7
Taylor Gray +3
Nick Sanchez -3
Jesse Love -3
Austin Hill -16
Sammy Smith -24

For a good start

Sheldon Creed, Haas Factory Team Ford

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At the other end of the spectrum, Sheldon Creed of the Haas factory team was and Sam Mayer, who finished second and third behind time Joe Gibbs Racing Friday evening, driver Aric Aric Almirola.

Mayer and Creed have experienced moderately successful seasons, but they were not regularly in the mixture with JR car acs throughout the summer.

“Yeah, I knew that I was not going to get there, but I thought I would experience it there and see how close I could,” said Creed. “I had to lift at the very end so as not to hit him. It wouldn’t have seem good if I was doing so happy to run second for the 15th time, to take a weekend and go to one of my favorites in Kansas. ”

Harrison Burton in The Resource Limited I run Because – which is a satellite program at the Haas factory team.

Burton finished third in the first step and 10th in the second stage, winning nine points in total, all before ranking with a seventh place.

“I think we have to remain aggressive, honestly, and it’s so difficult, this series is so difficult,” said Burton. “When you have somehow left your foot out of gas, you are going to fight, and I would like to get as many points as possible at the start of these races and I intend to be aggressive if we are fast in Kansas.

“I think it’s a race to do or die for us.”

House money

Connor Zilisch, JR Motorsports Chevrolet, Justin Allgaier, JR Motorsports Chevrolet

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Meanwhile, the favorites of the 1A and 1B championship to Connor Zilisch and Justin Allgaier played with the money of the house in the sense that they are already locked in the second round. But this round has a certain degree of consequence in that each victory or victory on stage adds to their advantage in the penultimate lap.

The two were supported for the victory and were both died when they died but, once again, it is largely without consequences overall.

Their teammate, Carson Kvapil, is still looking for his first career victory, but also got into a very good place to move forward with his fourth place and his stage points.

“This is certainly not what we wanted,” said Kvapil. “We finished second last time here in the spring Kyle Larson. It is essentially a victory, right? You will come back and it does not run and you expect somehow to the same thing, but as I said, we had a little something a little different and it was not as good but I mean it was still good to go from 25 to 5th or 6th there in the last step, so it was a very good song, we just burned up there. “”

And now it is a little above the cutting line.

“We just need to continue to eliminate the right finishes and these guys continue to bring us fast cars and go do my job and everyone must go to do theirs.”

The other championship

Again, Aric Almirola opened the qualifiers for the Xfinity series by winning a race that highlighted the owner’s championship.

For the second consecutive season, Almirola placed the Joe Gibbs Racing n ° 19 in the owners’ championship with a victory. Last season, he ended up playing all the playoffs and advanced to the Final Four, making two separate championships to follow all about the fall.

He will not be in the car with each race this fall, but it seems that Almirola can be supported again to try to deliver this title of title to Gibbs.

“Stay listening,” he said. “We have to work through it. We obviously made a full effort in this last year. I ran all the playoff races. The way it worked this year, we did not know how the calendar was going to arise (because there were some other opportunities where people brought money.

“I was only going to run a handful of races, then some of these offers failed and our schedule continued to develop. I do not direct all the playoff races. Justin Bonsignore directs the Kansas, but I don’t know how everything will work.

“But I know how important it is to coach and everyone at Joe Gibbs.”

And yes, being the guy who receives the call to drive and win races for Gibbs when these circumstances take place are “as good as possible” for the veteran of the Cup series. It is particularly rewarding to be able to win so many races with a young family with whom it is also.

“If you ask” it’s better than that “, then the answer is” no “, and I told you in Phoenix that last year,” said Almirola. “I love what I do. I love it. I am out of the next two weeks.

“I don’t go to Loudin. I could go to kansas just to go out with our guys from the cup but I don’t have to do it and I like life right now. ”