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Regan Smith crossed the finish line 13th in the CTECH Manufacturing 180 at Road America on Saturday.

Christopher Bell came away with the victory in the race, with Austin Cindric finishing second, and Tyler Reddick placing third. Noah Gragson took fourth place, followed by Kaz Grala in the No. 5 spot.

AJ Allmendinger came away victorious in Stage 1, with Chase Briscoe taking Stage 2.

Smith earned 32 points over the weekend, increasing his total to 48 on the year. He ranks No. 42 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series points standings.

The 13th-year driver did not earn any playoff points this week and still is in search of his first playoff points of the season. Smith qualified in 13th position at 108.248 mph.

The Cato, New York product has tallied six career victories, 30 top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 79 races.

There were 38 cars in the field and the race endured four cautions and eight caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag, there were eight lead changes.

With Bell driving his Supra to glory for Joe Gibbs, Toyota added 40 points to its season totals. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 825 points, followed by Chevrolet in the No. 2 spot with 823. Ford sits at No. 3 with 816 points on the season.

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Chase Briscoe finished seventh in the CTECH Manufacturing 180 at Road America on Saturday. It’s Briscoe’s 18th top-10 finish of the season.

Christopher Bell brought home the win in the race, with Austin Cindric taking second, and Tyler Reddick placing third. Noah Gragson took fourth place, followed by Kaz Grala in the No. 5 spot.

AJ Allmendinger came away victorious in Stage 1, with Briscoe taking Stage 2.

Briscoe earned 45 points over the weekend, giving him 787 on the season. He ranks No. 6 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series overall points standings.

The second-year driver earned one playoff point this weekend and now has seven for the 2019 season. Briscoe qualified in 10th position at 108.307 mph. He led once for a total of two laps, but relinquished the lead for good after Lap 20.

The Mitchell, Indiana product has collected two career victories, 10 top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 21 races.

There were 38 cars in the field and the race endured four cautions and eight caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag there were eight lead changes.

With Bell driving his Supra to glory for Joe Gibbs, Toyota added 40 points to its season totals. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 825 points, followed by Chevrolet in the No. 2 spot with 823. Ford sits at No. 3 with 816 points on the season.

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Kaz Grala placed fifth in the CTECH Manufacturing 180 at Road America on Saturday. It’s Grala’s first top-five finish of the season.

Christopher Bell brought home the win in the race, with Austin Cindric finishing second, and Tyler Reddick crossing the finish line third.

AJ Allmendinger came away victorious in Stage 1, with Chase Briscoe taking Stage 2.

Grala earned 32 points over the weekend, increasing his total to 120 on the season. He ranks No. 32 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series overall points standings.

The second-year driver did not pick up any playoff points this week and still is in search of his first playoff points of the season. He qualified in 11th position at 108.289 mph.

Grala still is looking for his first career win, but owns two top-five finishes and five finishes in the top 10.

Grala battled 37 others cars in the field and the race endured four cautions and eight caution laps. There were eight lead changes before the checkered flag.

With Bell driving his Supra to victory for Joe Gibbs, Toyota added 40 points to its season totals. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 825 points, followed by Chevrolet in the No. 2 spot with 823. Ford sits at No. 3 with 816 points on the season.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (August 26, 2019) – NASCAR and International Speedway Corporation (ISC) today announced multi-year agreements designating Bluegreen Vacations as the “Official Vacation Ownership Provider of NASCAR®” and an “Official Partner of ISC®.”

Bluegreen Vacations will also be the race entitlement sponsor at ISM Raceway for the 2019 Bluegreen Vacations 500, deciding the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series™ Championship 4 on November 10.

The official partnerships with NASCAR and ISC provide Bluegreen Vacations with promotional rights, allowing it to market in the fan midways at ISC tracks across the country as well as host VIP experiences for vacation owners of the Bluegreen Vacation Club. Through the agreements, fans can participate in the Bluegreen Vacations Win Big Sweepstakes during race weekends for a chance to win a NASCAR VIP Race Experience, a Polaris Slingshot roadster and $5,000. To enter, fans can text NASCAR to 28007. Fans can also visit http://promo.rtm.com/NASCARSWEEPSTAKES to enter and review the official rules.

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“NASCAR fans are the most passionate fans in all of sports, but also the most traveled,” said Daryl Wolfe, executive vice president and chief sales and partnership officer, NASCAR and ISC. “By welcoming Bluegreen Vacations into the family of Official Partners, property owners will have the opportunity to visit and experience NASCAR race destinations like never before.”

Bluegreen Vacations, a leader in vacation ownership, markets and sells vacation ownership interests and manages resorts in top leisure and urban destinations. The company provides vacations at 69 resorts, including its most recent property located in New Orleans’ historic theater district – The Marquee. Bluegreen Vacations has won numerous awards and accolades, including three American Resort Development Association (ARDA) Awards in 2019.

The Bluegreen Vacation Club is a flexible, points-based, real estate backed vacation ownership program that offers new and exciting destinations, and an engaging, cost-effective way to experience memorable vacations by providing choice, flexibility and quality. Accommodations are ideally suited to comfortably accommodate guests in a space that feels like a home-away-from-home, with resort-style amenities and services just steps away.

Bluegreen Vacations will also join the NASCAR Fuel for Business Council, providing membership in an exclusive group of more than 50 Official NASCAR Partners that creates business-to-business opportunities and co-marketing programs.

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Matt Borland, crew chief of the No. 13 entry driven by Ty Dillon in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, has been indefinitely suspended for a violation of the sanctioning body’s Substance Abuse Policy, according to Germain Racing.

The organization made the announcement Monday, and NASCAR officials confirmed the suspension later in the morning. Borland said in a statement released by the team that he was notified last weekend of a positive test for the banned substance DMAA (2-amino-5-methylhexanamine). He and team owner Bob Germain Jr. said a derivative of the substance was an ingredient in a diet coffee that he had been using regularly for the last six months.

“I gave the doctor all of the details of the coffee and ingredients, and after he researched it, he said he thought that this was the cause,” Borland said in a statement provided by the organization. “Even after doing my due diligence, I felt comfortable in drinking the coffee. I plan to work with NASCAR to figure out what exactly has happened and resolve this issue as quickly as we can. I will cooperate with them and do whatever is requested of me to make this situation right.

“I have worked in the NASCAR garage for 20 years now and have never been a part of anything like this in my life. I take full responsibility for this incident and want to get it taken care of completely.”

Borland will need to complete the NASCAR Road to Recovery program to be reinstated. Justin Alexander, who was crew chief for Austin Dillon’s Daytona 500 win last season, will step in as interim crew chief for Ty Dillon.

Borland is in his second season with the Germain team. He has 13 victories at the Monster Energy Series level — all paired with driver Ryan Newman.

Germain said he supported his crew chief in his efforts to return to the sport.

“Based upon the ingredients label we do not believe that Matt had reason to know that the coffee contained a banned substance,” Germain said. “However, we also understand and respect NASCAR’s decisions to strictly uphold their policies for each and every owner, driver and crew member in the garage. As an organization, we stand behind Matt. He has been and remains an integral part of our race team and we look forward to his return to the garage and pit box.”

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Past NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series races on the historical and scenic Canadian Tire Motorsport Park road course ended in hot tempers and dramatic last-lap passes.

By comparison, Brett Moffitt’s 5.16-second victory in Sunday’s Chevrolet Silverado 250 looked like a drive in the Park. The current series championship leader earned his second playoff win in as many 2019 playoff races with the largest margin of victory in the race’s seven-year history over one of the very best road-course racers in the world: Canadian Alex Tagliani.

Ben Rhodes finished third, followed by Sheldon Creed. Austin Hill and Johnny Sauter got around another Canadian, fellow Truck Series playoff driver Stewart Friesen, on the last lap to round out the top six. Friesen still had a solid day, an impressive rally from last place on the starting grid to seventh at the checkered flag – forced to conserve fuel down the homestretch.

RELATED: Official results | Championship standings

Four of the first six series races at the track were decided on the final lap. This year for Moffitt’s strong No. 24 GMS Racing Chevrolet team, it was instead a matter of making a strong statement with earning a convincing win and extending his playoff win streak to two with the final race of this opening playoff round set for Sept. 13 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Going back to the 2018 season, defending series champion Moffitt has won four consecutive playoff races.

“As far as the team goes, I just feel like everyone at GMS all the way back from the fab shop on up has been doing a better job,’’ Moffitt said. “Our team personally has been communicating a lot better and just knowing what my words mean and what I need to find in the truck, I’d say we’re hitting our stride at the right time.

“It took a while to get here, but before it was like we were missing a little bit everywhere and now we’re hitting on all cylinders.’’

Moffitt led 45 of the 64 laps.

Playoff driver Ross Chastain finished eighth, and his nine laps led were the most by any driver other than Moffitt. Among the other playoff drivers, Tyler Ankrum finished ninth, Matt Crafton was 11th and regular-season champion Grant Enfinger was 13th.

There were only three caution flags on the afternoon – two for stage endings.

RELATED: Complete at-track gallery from Canadian Tire

As has often been the case in this event, again the action intensified in the final laps. This year it was behind the leader.

Harrison Burton lost a motor while running in the top five with two laps remaining but was able to get off the track without bringing out a caution flag. The driver racing him hardest at the time, Friesen, had to back off himself to conserve fuel on the final lap.

“It was a battle for sure,’’ Friesen said. “I screwed up in practice and wrecked the primary (truck). But we were able to battle up through there and almost had a top-five but started running out of fuel at the end.

“We gave up a couple positions at the end but still got out of here with some points.’’

It was found in post-race inspection Friesen had a lug nut that was not secure.

Two of the eight drivers will be eliminated from championship contention after the final playoff race of this round at Las Vegas in two weeks. With his two victories, Moffitt has an automatic berth in the next round. Chastain is second in the championship points standings, with a 22-point advantage on third-place Friesen.

Crafton is fourth in the championship standings, followed by Hill and Enfinger. Only four points separate Friesen, Crafton, Hill and Enfinger, though.

Two-time series champion Sauter sits a mere two points behind his ThorSport Racing teammate, Enfinger, just outside the playoff bubble, and 18-year old Ankrum is 14 points below the cutoff.

“You go into Vegas with a must-win mentality, that’s what I know I’ll do.’’ Sauter said.

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Which channels have NASCAR programming this week? We answer that and give the weekly NASCAR television listings here in the NASCAR TV schedule.

Note: All times are ET.

MORE: How to find NBCSN | Get the NBC Sports App | How to find FS1 | Get FOX Sports App

Monday, August 26
1 p.m., IMSA Auto Racing: Virginia International Raceway, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App
7 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Chevrolet Silverado 250 (re-air), FS2/FOX Sports App

Tuesday, August 27
5 p.m., Dale Jr. Download, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App
6 p.m., Glory Road, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6:30 p.m., Glory Road: IndyCar/NASCAR Crossover (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App

On MRN:
7 p.m.,NASCAR Live

Wednesday, August 28
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App

On MRN:
Noon, NASCAR Coast to Coast

Thursday, August 29
5 p.m., NASCAR America: Motorsports Hour, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FS1/FOX Sports App
6 p.m., K&N Pro Series: World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, NBCSN/NBC Sports App

Friday, August 30
Noon, NASCAR The Decades: The 1970s, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
1 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series opening practice, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
2 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series opening practice, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
3 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series final practice, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
4 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series final practice, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., Wood Brothers, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
10 p.m., IMSA Auto Racing: GT Challenge at Virginia International Raceway (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App

On MRN:
2 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice
4 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series final practice

Saturday, August 31
12:30 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
1:30 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
2 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Busch Pole Qualifying, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN App)
3 p.m., Racing Roots: Denny Hamlin, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
3:30 p.m., Countdown to Green: NASCAR Xfinity Series, NBC/NBC Sports App
4 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series Sports Clips Haircuts VFW 200 at Darlington Raceway, NBC/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN5)

On MRN:
2 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Busch Pole Qualifying
3:30 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity Series Sports Clips Haircuts VFW 200 at Darlington Raceway

Sunday, September 1
4 p.m., Wood Brothers (re-air), NBCSN/NBC Sports App
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
5:30 p.m., Countdown to Green: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, NBCSN/NBC Sports App
6 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, NBCSN/NBC Sports App (Canada: TSN1, 4) NEW GREEN FLAG: 9:50-10 p.m. ET

On MRN:
5 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway

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Matt DiBenedetto was right there, running second on the lead on the last lap at Road America — until he wasn’t.

Coming into the 4.048-mile road course’s final turn on the white-flag lap, DiBenedetto veered off the track and into the sand out of nowhere. His No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota got stuck in the pit and never made it out to cross the start-finish line. He ultimately finished 27th in the race results.

“Just being stupid on my part,” DiBenedetto told NBCSN after the race. “I was looking in my mirror, got too high and just barely got up in the marbles. Made the most rookie mistake of my life. It was dumb. It was uncalled for.”

RELATED: Road America results

DiBenedetto led a race-high 18 of 45 laps and started the race second after a strong qualifying performance. It was the first time in DiBenedetto’s career he ran out front during an Xfinity Series race, and he has been bopping in and out of the circuit since 2009. This was his first race against this level of competition in 2019.

“We could have won,” DiBenedetto said. “We had the fastest car and nothing to show for it. I drove stupid. I’m pretty pissed off at myself. Nothing else. Won’t sleep all week. This isn’t exactly good when I’m trying to make my career.”

Christopher Bell ended up winning Saturday’s CTECH Manufacturing 180, his first road-course victory ever and sixth win overall this season. Austin Cindric benefited from DiBenedetto’s mistake and took second. Tyler Reddick, Noah Gragson and Kaz Grala then made up the rest of the top five, in order.

“I’m really heartbroken for Matt DiBenedetto, too,” Bell said. “He was obviously really, really fast. We knew from practice both of our cars were going to be really good and we were going to be right there racing with each other. I don’t really know exactly what happened, but I saw him going flying off (Turn) 14. Man, that sucks. He’s in a tough spot right now and needed a good run there.”

DiBenedetto runs full time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series but that series had the weekend off. He steers the No. 95 Leavine Family Racing Toyota but revealed last week that he was told he will not be returning to the team after this season.

DIBENEDETTO: ‘I’m not done yet’ | ‘I want to win in Cup’

Just days after his news became public, DiBenedetto finished the Bristol Night Race in second. There, he also led a race-high 93 laps but lost the lead to Denny Hamlin with 12 to go.

Much like Bell did, Hamlin expressed his remorse toward his competitor after the race.

NASCAR’s top national series will return to action next week with the Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway (Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. ET on NBCSN, NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). DiBenedetto currently sits 22nd in the championship standings.

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ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — In a two-lap shootout during Saturday afternoon’s CTECH Manufacturing 180 at Road America, Christopher Bell checked out from the competition to claim his sixth Xfinity Series win of the season.

Bell found himself battling the best of the best when it comes to road-course racing inside the final laps between AJ Allmendinger and Austin Cindric. But when Gray Gaulding went into the gravel in Turn 1, the full-course caution waved and set up the eight-mile dash to the finish.

“Man, I’m honestly in shock,” Bell said. “I really butchered qualifying and tore the crap out of the left front. I felt like once we got in the race there, we’d be able to drive by those guys. Instead, they dropped the green flag and they were driving by me. That wasn’t much fun.

“Then I told Jason (Ratcliff, crew chief) I was really, really tight. We got those tires off and he said the left-front was hurt pretty bad. We got pretty good there when we put our new set of tires on.

“That strategy worked out well for us coming in there (with 14 to go) and then the yellow coming out. This car was really, really fast today. We’ve had a great road course season.”

RELATED: Official Road America results | Look at championship standings

On the final restart, Bell cleared then-second-place Allmendinger. It was Cindric, though, who pitted during the last caution and put on a show trying to charge from his 20th restarting position.

By the white flag, Cindric had passed 15 cars and found himself in the clutches of then-second-place Matt DiBenedetto. When DiBenedetto ended up spinning his No. 18 iK9 Toyota Supra in Turn 14, Cindric crossed the start-finish line second — 1.891 seconds behind Bell.

“We talked about a five-to-go plan, that was like a green-white-checkered,” said Cindric, who came a position short of claiming three straight road-course wins in August. “I wasn’t 100 percent confident, but at the same time, we were battling a lot of wheel hop after four or five laps on tires and we had a lot more than on tires.

“In this kind of racing, you pretty much know that you’re going to get used up if your slower, so we wanted to go on offense and that was our strategy all day and we probably just needed one or two laps to get our Menards–Richmond Ford Mustang in Victory Lane. All in all, a good day, good points. P-2 is all right.”

Cindric described his 19-car charge through the field in two laps in one fitting word: chaos

“I passed a lot of cars that just ended up overdriving corners and missing corners,” he said. “It was chaos, it was insane. I think it’s why all these people show up at Road America and enjoy this type of racing.

“You never know what you’re going to get, it always comes down to those last lap dashes to the finish, I’m glad to be able to put on a show at a place like this.”

RELATED: Complete at-track gallery from Road America

For Bell, it was his 14th career Xfinity Series victory but first on a road course.

“I guess I just get lucky on these things, that’s for sure,” Bell said.

Allmendinger admitted he spun the tires during the last restart and later collided with Noah Gragson while battling in the top five. Allmendinger became involved in another off-course exchange on the same lap and limped to a 24th-place finish after making a pit stop on the final lap.

Behind Bell and Cindric, points leader and Bristol Motor Speedway winner Tyler Reddick finished third. Gragson was fourth, and Kaz Grala rounded out the top five.

Justin Haley, Chase Briscoe, Jeremy Clements, Justin Allgaier and Cole Custer comprised the remainder of the top 10.

For Allgaier, the top 10 was a relief after nosediving into the gravel in Turn 1 due to a flat left-front tire on the last lap of Stage 1. Falling off the lead lap and getting the lap back, the JR Motorsports driver used the remainder of the race to earn his 15th top 10 of the year.

Playoff contender Custer also had an impressive lap-down rebound after running off course during the first lap of Stage 2 and mowing down several track signs. Earning the free pass late in the race, Custer used aggressive driving in the final run to earn his 15th top 10 of the season.

With three races remaining in the regular Xfinity Series season, next up is a throwback weekend at Darlington Raceway with the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 (Saturday, 4 p.m. ET, NBC/NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

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NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver Tyler Dippel has been indefinitely suspended for violating the Member Conduct Guidelines of the NASCAR Rule Book.

Dippel violated Section 12.1 of the NASCAR Rule Book, a behavioral penalty for “actions detrimental to stock car racing,” according to a NASCAR spokesperson.

Dippel, 19, currently sits 13th in the Gander Trucks standings. He’s logged one top-five finish and three top-10 finishes this year driving the No. 02 Chevrolet for Young’s Motorsports.

The Gander Outdoors Truck Series is on track this weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. The second race in the opening Round of 8 in the Gander Trucks Playoffs is Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

DJ Kennington will now drive the No. 02 in the Chevrolet Silverado 250.