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Brandon Jones takes Phoenix Xfinity win in JGR 1-2-3
Another Xfinity Series win at Phoenix Raceway for Joe Gibbs Racing, but this time it was not Kyle Busch.
Jim Utter
Edited: Mar 7, 2020, 11:56 PM
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Brandon Jones passed Busch with 20 of 200 laps remaining and held off his other JGR teammate, Harrison Burton, to win Saturday’s LS Tractor 200.
The race was the first this season in the series for Busch, who owns 11 victories at the track.
For Jones, 23, it’s his second career victory. He earned his first win last season at Kansas Speedway.
“I could not believe (Busch) left the bottom (lane) open. We were so strong on that top lane,” said Jones, whose victory is the 500th in NASCAR’s three national series for Toyota Racing. “Toyota is the manufacturer to be with – I love them so much.
“We work hard and we’re going to get good results this year because of it.”
Busch ended up third, Brad Keselowski was fourth and Justin Haley completed the top-five.
“I don’t know, we missed the set-up.” Busch said after the race.
Rounding the top-10 were Chase Briscoe, Noah Gragson, Austin Cindric, Ross Chastain and Riley Herbst.
On Lap 128, Joe Nemechek hit the wall in Turn 3 to bring out a caution. Most of the lead-lap cars elected to pit with Gragson the first off pit road. Justin Allgaier did not pit and led the way on the restart on Lap 134.
Brandon Brown made contact with Dillon Bassett on Lap 137 and spun out to bring out a caution. After the race, Bassett got into a physical confrontation with members of Brown’s crew.
Allgaier used the caution to give up the lead and add fuel. On the restart on Lap 143, Jones led the way followed by Busch and Gragson.
Busch powered into the lead on the restart just before Daniel Hemric got into Keselowski, which triggered a multi-car wreck and another caution.
The race returned to green on Lap 154 with Busch leading the way followed by Jones and Gragson.
With 25 laps to go, Busch remained out front but was closely followed by his teammates Jones and Burton.
With 20 laps remaining in the race, Jones went to the inside of Busch and emerged with the lead. With 10 laps left, Jones had opened up a 2-second lead over Burton as Busch dropped to third.
Stage 2
With the advantage of four new tires, Gragson ran down Chastain on a restart with two laps to go to claim the Stage 2 victory, the second stage win of his career.
Briscoe was third, Busch fourth and Allgaier completed the top-five.
Following the break between Stages 1 and 2, most of the lead-lap cars pit with Allgaier the first off pit road. Keselowski stayed out and inherited the lead when the race returned to green on Lap 56.
Allgaier battled Chastain for the lead after the restart and quickly moved back into the lead.
On Lap 64, Busch had battled back to the second spot and set his sights on Allgaier for the lead. Busch finally got around Allgaier to retake the lead on Lap 70. However, Allgaier managed to get back around Busch for the top spot on the following lap.
After regrouping, Busch once again got the momentum to retake the lead from Allgaier on Lap 77.
With six laps remaining in the stage, Colby Howard hit the wall hard off Turn 2 to bring out a caution. Most of lead-lap cars elected to pit with Gragson the first off pit road. Chastain remained on the track and led the way on the restart on Lap 88.
Stage 1
Allgaier grabbed the lead late in the stage and held on for the stage victory over Chastain.
Briscoe was third, Busch fourth and Cindric completed the top-five.
Busch started on the pole but Cindric got around him to take the lead shortly after the green flag.
On Lap 10, Busch was able to run down Cindric and retake the lead.
With 25 laps remaining in the first stage, Busch held a small but steady lead over Cindric as Chastain ran third.
On Lap 31, Ray Black II wrecked in Turn 2 to bring out the first caution of the race. On the restart on Lap 37, Busch continued to lead followed by Chastain and Allgaier.
With five laps to go, Allgaier powered around Busch to take the lead for the first time as Chastain move into second.
Black started the race from the rear of the field because of unapproved adjustments to his car following qualifying.
Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Laps Led 1 19 
Brandon Jones Toyota 200 24 2 20 Harrison Burton Toyota 200 3.556 3 54 Kyle Busch Toyota 200 4.787 78 4 12 Brad Keselowski Ford 200 5.057 7 5 11 Justin Haley Chevrolet 200 8.129 6 98 Chase Briscoe Ford 200 8.360 7 9 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 200 10.470 27 8 22 Austin Cindric Ford 200 10.656 9 9 10 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 200 13.120 4 10 18 Riley Herbst Toyota 200 13.756 11 39 Ryan Sieg Chevrolet 200 15.218 12 68 Brandon Brown Chevrolet 200 23.553 13 7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 200 23.815 51 14 21 Myatt Snider Chevrolet 200 25.228 15 93 Jeff Green Chevrolet 200 26.019 16 92 Josh Williams Chevrolet 200 26.331 17 1 Michael Annett Chevrolet 200 26.795 18 90 Dillon Bassett Chevrolet 199 1 lap 19 02 Brett Moffitt Chevrolet 199 1 lap 20 0 B.J. McLeod Chevrolet 199 1 lap 21 4 Jesse Little Chevrolet 199 1 lap 22 36 
Alex Labbé Chevrolet 199 1 lap 23 61 Timmy Hill Toyota 198 2 laps 24 13 Chad Finchum Toyota 196 4 laps 25 07 Ray Black Jr. Chevrolet 196 4 laps 26 6 David Starr Chevrolet 196 4 laps 27 78 Vinnie Miller Toyota 196 4 laps 28 44 Tommy Joe Martins Chevrolet 194 6 laps 29 52 Kody Vanderwal Chevrolet 177 23 laps 30 8 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 142 58 laps 31 08 Joe Jr. Chevrolet 142 58 laps 32 47 Joe Nemechek Chevrolet 127 73 laps 33 66 Stephen Leicht Toyota 101 99 laps 34 15 Colby Howard Chevrolet 81 119 laps 35 89 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 63 137 laps 36 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 58 142 laps
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