NASCAR Xfinity Series: Tyler Reddick wins 2019 MoneyLion 300

Tyler Reddick earned his first victory of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season by winning the MoneyLion 300 at Talladega Superspeedway.

Defending NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Tyler Reddick earned his first victory of the 33-race 2019 season by winning the season’s ninth race, the MoneyLion 300, at Talladega Superspeedway.

He also won the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash prize for being the highest finishing driver of the four drivers who were eligible to win this prize in this particular race. The other three drivers who were eligible to win this prize were Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer, Team Penske’s Austin Cindric and JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier.

Reddick’s victory in this race was also his first victory driving for Richard Childress Racing, as he left JR Motorsports after winning last season’s championship to drive the #2 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet this season.

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Reddick, who started the 113-lap race around the four-turn, 2.66-mile (4.281-kilometer) high-banked Talladega Superspeedway oval in Lincoln, Alabama in second place in his #2 Chevrolet, won it by 0.127 seconds over SS-Green Light Racing’s Gray Gaulding, who recorded a career-high second place finish in his #08 Chevrolet.

Gaudling was charging hard after the race’s final restart took place with two laps remaining, but he could not quite secure what would have been the first victory of not only his Xfinity Series career but of his entire NASCAR career.

The top 11 drivers finished within 0.682 seconds of one another. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell was the highest finishing Toyota driver of the race, as he finished in third place in his #20 Toyota, 0.245 seconds behind Reddick.

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe and Cindric were the highest finishing Ford drivers of the race, as they finished in fourth and fifth place in their #98 Ford and #22 Ford, 0.281 seconds and 0.324 seconds behind Reddick, respectively.

Chevrolet drivers took the remaining 11 positions in the top 16. GMS Racing’s John Hunter Nemecheck, Kaulig Racing’s Justin Haley, DGM Racing’s Josh Williams, JD Motorsports’ Landon Cassill, Rick Ware Racing’s Chris Cockrum and JR Motorsports’ Noah Gragson were the other six drivers who finished within 0.682 seconds of Reddick.

These six drivers finished in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th and 11th place in their #23 Chevrolet, #11 Chevrolet, #36 Chevrolet, #4 Chevrolet, #17 Chevrolet and #9 Chevrolet, 0.355 seconds, 0.442 seconds, 0.447 seconds, 0.536 seconds, 0.614 seconds and 0.682 seconds behind Reddick, respectively.

One other driver finished within one second of Reddick. That driver, JD Motorsports’ Garrett Smithley, finished in 12th place in his #0 Chevrolet, 0.943 seconds behind him.

JR Motorsports’ Brett Moffitt, Jimmy Means Racing’s David Starr, Brandonbilt Motorsports’ Brandon Brown and RSS Racing’s Ryan Sieg rounded out the top 16 by finishing in 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th place in their #8 Chevrolet, #52 Chevrolet, #86 Chevrolet and #39 Chevrolet, respectively, to give Chevrolet drivers 13 of the top 16 positions.

The race featured a total of 15 lead changes among 10 drivers. Aside of Reddick, who led more laps than anybody else in the field with 34 laps led, nine drivers led at least one lap of the race.

These nine drivers were Bell, Briscoe, Gragson, Starr, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Brandon Jones, Jeremy Clements Racing’s Jeremy Clements, Allgaier, Kaulig Racing’s Ross Chastain and JR Motorsports’ Michael Annett.

Jones, Clements, Allgaier, Chastain and Annett finished in 18th, 27th, 28th, 30th and 31st place in their #19 Toyota, #51 Chevrolet, #7 Chevrolet, #10 Chevrolet, and #1 Chevrolet, respectively.

The race also featured a total of eight caution flag periods, including six that took place as a result of on-track incidents and two that took place as a result of the usual endings of stages one and two. Of the 37 drivers who started the race, 26 finished it, and of the 26 drivers who finished the race, 22 finished it on the lead lap.

JD Motorsports’ B.J. McLeod, who finished the race in 22nd place as the final driver on the lead lap, finished just 3.823 seconds behind Reddick.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 MoneyLion 300 at Talladega Superspeedway.

Race Results
1st – Tyler Reddick
2nd – Gray Gaulding
3rd – Christopher Bell
4th – Chase Briscoe
5th – Austin Cindric
6th – John Hunter Nemechek
7th – Justin Haley
8th – Josh Williams
9th – Landon Cassill
10th – Chris Cockrum
11th – Noah Gragson
12th – Garrett Smithley
13th – Brett Moffitt
14th – David Starr
15th – Brandon Brown
16th – Ryan Sieg
17th – Matt Mills
18th – Brandon Jones
19th – Vinnie Miller
20th – Max Tullman
21st – Cody Ware
22nd – B.J. McLeod
23rd – Mike Harmon
24th – Stephen Leicht
25th – Alex Labbe
26th – Jeffrey Earnhardt
27th – Jeremy Clements
28th – Justin Allgaier
29th – Timmy Hill
30th – Ross Chastain
31st – Michael Annett
32nd – Cole Custer
33rd – Josh Bilicki
34th – Ray Black Jr.
35th – Jeff Green
36th – Chad Finchum
37th – Joey Gase

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The next race on the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule is the season’s 10th race. This race, the Allied Steel Buildings 200, is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 4 at 1:30 p.m. ET, and it is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 from Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware.

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