NASCAR Xfinity Series: Christopher Bell wins 2019 CTECH Manufacturing 180

Christopher Bell secured the first road course victory of his NASCAR Xfinity Series career by winning the CTECH Manufacturing 180 at Road America.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell earned his series-high sixth victory of the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series season and the first road course victory of his career by winning the CTECH Manufacturing 180 at Road America.

Bell started this 45-lap race, the 23rd of 33 races on the 2019 schedule, around the 14-turn, 4.048-mile (6.515-kilometer) Road America natural terrain road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin in 12th place in his #20 Toyota, and he won it by 1.891 seconds over Team Penske’s Austin Cindric, the winner of the last two road course races, in second in his #22 Ford.

Cindric was running in 20th place on the final restart with two laps remaining and carved his way through the field after pitting for new tires. He was slated to finish in third before Joe Gibbs Racing’s Matt DiBenedetto, who was running in second, spun out in the final corner of the track and ended up finishing in 27th in his #18 Toyota.

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Richard Childress Racing’s Tyler Reddick, JR Motorsports’ Noah Gragson and Richard Childress Racing’s Kaz Grala rounded out the top five by finishing in third, fourth and fifth place in their #2 Chevrolet, #9 Chevrolet and #21 Chevrolet, respectively.

Kaulig Racing’s Justin Haley, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe, Jeremy Clements Racing’s Jeremy Clements, JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #11 Chevrolet, #98 Ford, #51 Chevrolet, #7 Chevrolet and #00 Ford, respectively.

Kaulig Racing’s A.J. Allmendinger, who started the race from the pole position, was running in second place on the final restart, but he and Gragson got into each other after Allmendinger didn’t have a great restart. He ended up going off the track, and another incident shortly thereafter relegated him to a 24th place finish.

This race featured a total of eight lead changes among six drivers. Aside of Bell, who led 10 laps of the race, five other drivers led at least one lap. DiBenedetto led more laps than anybody else in the field with 18 laps led. Cindric, Haley, Briscoe and Allmendinger also led the race. Allmendinger won stage one and Briscoe won stage two.

This race also featured four caution flag periods, including three as a result of on-track incidents and one that ended stage two. One of these three caution flag periods that took place as a result of on-track incidents also served as the stage one-ending caution flag period. Of the 38 drivers who started the race, 34 finished it and 27 finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 CTECH Manufacturing 180 at Road America.

Race Results
1st – Christopher Bell
2nd – Austin Cindric
3rd – Tyler Reddick
4th – Noah Gragson
5th – Kaz Grala
6th – Justin Haley
7th – Chase Briscoe
8th – Jeremy Clements
9th – Justin Allgaier
10th – Cole Custer
11th – Ryan Sieg
12th – Michael Annett
13th – Regan Smith
14th – Ray Black Jr.
15th – Nick Hammann
16th – Brandon Jones
17th – David Starr
18th – Ryan Vargas
19th – Joey Gase
20th – Josh Bilicki
21st – Ryan Ellis
22nd – Loris Hezemans
23rd – B.J. McLeod
24th – A.J. Allmendinger
25th – Tommy Joe Martins
26th – John Hunter Nemechek
27th – Matt DiBenedetto
28th – Vinnie Miller
29th – Gray Gaulding
30th – Dick Karth
31st – Josh Williams
32nd – Dexter Bean
33rd – Garrett Smithley
34th – Stephen Leicht
35th – Chad Finchum
36th – Preston Pardus
37th – Brandon Brown
38th – J.J. Yeley

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The Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 is the next race on the 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule, and it is scheduled to take place next Saturday, August 31. This race is set to be broadcast live on NBC from Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina beginning at 4:00 p.m. ET.

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