Late race restart leads to massive pileup in NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Charlotte

Late race restarts are always dangerous! With 16 laps to go in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Charlotte, we have trouble. First, Justin Allgaier forgot to pit after the debris caution, and now the field has piled up behind the leaders on the ensuing restart.

The Charlotte oval gives us some of the best NASCAR racing of the season. Today has been no different in the Xfinity Series.

Justin Allgaier was dominating. Now, he’s on old tires and has a lot of fresh tires chasing him down. This late-race wreck has changed how the end of this race will play out.

Trouble on the restart with 11 cars involved for yet another caution. #XfinitySeries pic.twitter.com/35IyxUhGVX

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These Xfinity Series races can get messy in the end. Drivers are going for broke every lap. There is no give and only take. It is no surprise that there was another caution right after this one on the next restart. This is going to give us a six-lap dash to the finish to determine the winner.

Justin Allgaier and William Byron have both dominated this race at different points in time. Connor Zilisch has been there all afternoon trying to knock them out of the top spot.

NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Charlotte devolves into crashfest late

This race was exciting and unpredictable late. Between laps 149 and the finish on lap 205, there were six cautions for cause. Even when the caution flag was out, there were issues on the track. Right before overtime began, Daniel Dye lost a wheel and spun out to extend the caution.

Single-car incidents and multiple-car incidents were popping up all over. This track was slick and greasy by the end, with so much Goodyear tire rubber laid down. NASCAR at Charlotte Motor Speedway is just pure racing. The fast cars could get to the front, cautions opened up the strategy game for many teams, and there were plenty of mental mistakes at the end.

The mistake that Allgaier made by not going down pit road was major. It put him at a huge disadvantage, and in overtime, that really showed up. He just didn’t have the grip on the track to hold off Byron or Zilisch. So, he walks away with a fourth-place finish in a race that he led 103 laps.

I don’t know about you folks, but I was on the edge of my seat. What a race. It may have gotten a little too messy there at the end. However, I’ll take an exciting finish like that with a Cup Series driver winning over a single-file parade all afternoon.