Brandon Jones won Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Kansas Speedway in an overtime finish with a last-lap pass of Austin Cindric.
There were two attempts at an overtime finish. On the last attempt, Jones restarted outside the top five.
Jones snapped Cindric’s three race win streak and claimed his second victory of year. Cindric had dominated the race, leading 131 of 175 laps and sweeping the first two stages.
The top five was completed by Cindric, Harrison Burton, Ryan Sieg and Ross Chastain.
“We’re never out of this thing, that’s what I love about these guys,” Jones told NBCSN. “We keep our head in the game, we don’t get excited during these races. We continue to make changes. My feedback I think was pretty good. It’s been a long two days, I feel exhausted and obviously the heat is big here. Looking forward to celebrating with these guys and it feels great to be back in victory lane.”
Jones competed in three of the weekend’s NASCAR races at Kansas, including the Truck Series doubleheader.
Burton has taken the lead with 10 laps to go in the scheduled distance after Cindric slapped the wall exiting Turn 2.
But the caution came out four laps later when Joe Graf Jr. got into the wall exiting Turn 4.
The leaders pit and Sieg stayed out. Cindric was first off pit road, beating Burton and Chastain.
Sieg kept the lead until the caution came out for a Jesse Little spin in Turn 2, forcing the second restart attempt.
STAGE 1: Austin Cindric
STAGE 2: Austin Cindric
WHAT’S NEXT: Xfinity race at Road America Noon ET Aug. 8 on NBCSN.
