Race report

NASCAR O'Reilly Iowa II

Chase Briscoe rebounds from penalty to win Iowa Xfinity race

Chase Briscoe ran down Christopher Bell and passed him for the race win with just six laps remaining at Iowa Speedway.

Nick DeGroot

Edited: Jul 28, 2019, 12:49 AM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Race Winner Chase Briscoe, Stewart-Haas Racing

It was Briscoe's first win of the 2019 season and the second of his Xfinity Series career.

"It was a fun race first off," he said in Victory Lane. 'I just cant believe it ... once we got that caution when I was gonna restart fourth I knew we were in good shape. Christopher was way better than I thought he was gonna be on those tires though. It was fun we were throwing sliders on each other and everything else."

Stage 1

Bell was dominant from the get-go at Iowa Speedway and went unchallenged in the early running of the race.

On Lap 45, the first caution was called when Austin Cindric and Noah Gragson came together, ending Cindric's day.

Jeremy Clements took the opportunity to stay out and try to gain some stage points, but he was quickly dispatched by Bell on the ensuing restart.

He went on to win the first stage ahead of Cole Custer, Briscoe, Brandon Jones, Justin Allgaier, Tyler Reddick, Justin Haley, John-Hunter Nemechek, Michael Annett, and Riley Herbst.

Stage 2

On Lap 74 Herbst spun and collected Clements, forcing another yellow as Bell continued to control the race. Bell's teammate Jones saw his race go awry after contacting the wall while battling Justin Haley for position, forcing him to make an unscheduled pit stop.

Bell would sweep the stages, this time beating Briscoe, Reddick, Custer, Haley, Nemechek, Annett, Ryan Sieg, Zane Smith and Allgaier.

Stage 3

The final stage saw major drama for Stewart-Haas Racing as both Briscoe and Custer were sent to the rear for separate pit road violations with under 100 laps to go. Custer would soon after crash, ending race prematurely.

With fresher tires, Nemechek was able to mount a challenge against Bell in the final 50 laps but his charge was halted by another caution with 33 laps remaining for Brandon Brown losing an engine.

During that same caution period, there was a bizarre incident when Dalton Bassett collided with a sweeper truck near pit entry, ending his day and delaying the race further. He was uninjured.

The race resumed with 22 laps to go and Nemechek found himself embroiled in a heated battle for second place. Eventually, Briscoe prevailed and went on the hunt against Bell. With six laps to go he completed the pass and drove off with the victory.

Despite leading 234 laps, Bell was forced to settle for second and Nemechek third.

Complete results below:

Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Laps Led 1 98 United States Chase Briscoe Ford 250 2:28'00 7 2 20 Christopher Bell Toyota 250 1.069 234 3 23 John Hunter Nemechek Chevrolet 250 4.775 6 4 9 Noah Gragson Chevrolet 250 4.991 5 2 Tyler Reddick Chevrolet 250 5.782 6 7 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 250 6.111 7 28 Shane Lee Toyota 250 7.183 8 11 United States Justin Haley Chevrolet 250 7.363 9 8 Zane Smith Chevrolet 250 8.277 2 10 1 Michael Annett Chevrolet 250 10.049 11 07 Ray Black Jr. Chevrolet 250 12.430 12 39 Ryan Sieg Chevrolet 250 13.352 13 18 Riley Herbst Toyota 250 13.928 14 08 Gray Gaulding Chevrolet 250 14.355 15 36 United States Josh Williams Chevrolet 250 16.130 16 4 Stephen Leicht Chevrolet 249 1 lap 17 15 Ryan Vargas Chevrolet 249 1 lap 18 5 Matt Mills Toyota 249 1 lap 19 35 Joey Gase Toyota 248 2 laps 20 78 Vinnie Miller Toyota 246 4 laps 21 99 Stefan Parsons Toyota 246 4 laps 22 United States Garrett Smithley Chevrolet 245 5 laps 23 66 Stan Mullis Toyota 243 7 laps 24 93 Camden Murphy Chevrolet 239 11 laps 25 01 Ryan Repko Chevrolet 237 13 laps 26 90 Dillon Bassett Chevrolet 222 28 laps 27 86 Brandon Brown Chevrolet 217 33 laps 28 68 Will Rodgers Chevrolet 211 39 laps 29 00 United States Cole Custer Ford 160 90 laps 30 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 160 90 laps 1 31 52 David Starr Chevrolet 150 100 laps 32 42 Chad Finchum Toyota 113 137 laps 33 19 Brandon Jones Toyota 105 145 laps 34 74 Mike Harmon Chevrolet 87 163 laps 35 13 Timmy Hill Toyota 80 170 laps 36 89 United States Morgan Shepherd Chevrolet 73 177 laps 37 22 Austin Cindric Ford 43 207 laps 38 38 J.J. Yeley Chevrolet 5 245 laps

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article 2019 Pocono/Iowa NASCAR weekend schedules

Next article Bubba Wallace kicks off redesign of Roval’s backstretch chicane

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Laurent Mekies extends contract as Red Bull's F1 team boss

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

Singapore GP

1 h

Laurent Mekies extends contract as Red Bull's F1 team boss

Alex Palou to drive Indy NXT machinery in Chris Griffis Memorial Test at IMS

IndyCar

Indy IndyCar 1 h

Alex Palou to drive Indy NXT machinery in Chris Griffis Memorial Test at IMS

The six drivers doing double duty in Portimao GTWCE and Barcelona WEC this weekend

WEC

WEC WEC

Barcelona

2 h

The six drivers doing double duty in Portimao GTWCE and Barcelona WEC this weekend

Into the unknown: What to expect from WEC's Barcelona debut

WEC

WEC WEC

Barcelona

3 h

Into the unknown: What to expect from WEC's Barcelona debut

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts