Austin Hill dominates the NASCAR Xfinity Collection race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday night within the Bennett Transportation & Logistics 250
HAMPTON, Ga. – The Atlanta Motor Speedway is Austin Hill’s residence observe in spite of everything – and the Georgia native proved once more Saturday night time that he completely “owns it.”
Austin Hill Dominates at Atlanta
Hill dominated the NASCAR Xfinity Collection Bennett Transportation and Logistics 250 on the Atlanta excessive banks – main 146 of the 163 laps to assert his first victory of the early 2025 season driving the No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet sponsored by the race’s title sponsor.
Hill has received 4 of the final six Atlanta races – the final three consecutively and 5 in all – together with a sweep of each occasions final 12 months. And though his laps led complete is spectacular, he needed to work for this trophy, after dropping the lead briefly on a restart with three laps to go.
With a well timed faucet on Hill’s Chevrolet’s rear bumper from Parker Retzlaff, Hill pushed ahead to take the lead getting into the primary activate the ultimate lap. He held on to the win by a slight 0.216-second having to fend off reigning collection champion, JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier and Joe Gibbs Racing’s veteran Aric Almirola – who each beforehand led at varied instances on that ultimate restart.
“Thanks to Parker Retzlaff for giving me that push, after which as soon as I received clear and into [turn] one I used to be simply vast open and I hoped they weren’t going to construct up momentum,” Hill mentioned, including, “To have the ability to do that is one thing particular.”
Austin Hill and Richard Childress Racing Going after Information
Hill’s 5 Xfinity Collection wins at Atlanta ties a report set by former NASCAR Cup Collection champion Kevin Harvick. His eight-win complete at drafting tracks ties a collection report with a pair of NASCAR Corridor of Famers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart.
Hill swept the 2 stage wins – for the second time in as many races this 12 months giving him a one hundred pc mark in 2025.
Together with his teammate Jesse Love successful the pole place for the race, it offers the RCR crew a weekend sweep of pole and race wins for the second time – no different crew has received a pole place or hoisted a trophy in 2025. It additionally marks the 99th Xfinity Collection victory for the NASCAR Corridor of Famer Richard Childress’s crew. Hill and Love led all however 4 laps within the race.
That is Hill’s eleventh profession win and after holding the purpose for a lot of the race, he finally earned it the arduous method – a last-lap move.
“He positively had the dominant automotive however I believed we would snooker one away,” Almirola mentioned of racing Hill in these ultimate three laps. “But it surely simply wasn’t meant to be.”
JR Motorsports’ Sammy Smith and Massive Machine Racing rookie Nick Sanchez full the highest 5. A ultimate lap accident on the backstretch created chaos for a number of of the night time’s most constant prime ten frontrunners.
Jeb Burton, rookie Daniel Dye, Leland Honeyman, rookie William Sawalich, and Harrison Burton finally rounded out the highest ten on the checkered flag. Kaulig Racing rookie Christian Eckes earned the Quickest Lap Bonus level.
With the victory, Hill takes a one-point lead over Haas Manufacturing unit Workforce driver Sheldon Creed, who was eradicated from a top-ten end in that multi-car accident on the final lap and scored 14th. Hill’s teammate, final week’s Daytona winner Love completed sixteenth.
Up Subsequent
The NASCAR Xfinity Collection returns to competitors subsequent Saturday, March 1st. The Centered Well being 250 begins at 2:30 p.m. ET on CW, PRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on the Circuit of The Americas street course. NASCAR Cup Collection champion Kyle Larson is the defending race winner.
