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Justin Allgaier finished third in the Zippo 200 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International on Saturday. It’s Allgaier’s ninth top-five finish of the season.

Austin Cindric earned the checkered flag in the race, with Christopher Bell finishing second. Ryan Blaney took fourth place, followed by Tyler Reddick to round out the top five.

Stage 1 was won by Kyle Busch, while Ryan Blaney finished out front in Stage 2.

Allgaier earned 38 points over the weekend, increasing his total to 742 on the season. He ranks No. 4 in the NASCAR Xfinity Series overall points standings. Allgaier did not collect any playoff points and remains at four on the season.

The 10-year driver qualified in ninth position at 121.319 mph. He led once for a total of 13 laps but relinquished the lead for good after Lap 63.

Allgaier has tallied 10 career victories, 78 top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 164 races.

There were 37 cars in the field and the race endured seven cautions and 16 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag, there were nine lead changes.

With Cindric driving his Mustang to glory for Roger Penske, Ford added 40 points. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 720 points, followed by Chevrolet in the No. 2 spot with 715. Ford sits at No. 3 with 706 points on the season.

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Parker Kligerman finished 26th in the Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International Sunday.

Chase Elliott brought home the win in the race, with Martin Truex Jr finishing second, and Denny Hamlin placing third. Erik Jones brought home fourth place, followed by Ryan Blaney in the No. 5 spot.

Elliott won Stage 1 and Stage 2, adding 20 bonus points to his ledger for the weekend.

Kligerman did not add any points to his total this week. Kligerman did not collect any playoff points Sunday and remains on the hunt for his first playoff points of the season.

The fourth-year driver qualified in 24th position at 124.557 mph.

After 22 career starts, Kligerman continues to search for his first win and top-10 finish.

There were 37 cars in the field and the race endured four cautions and 13 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag, there were five lead changes.

With Elliott driving his Camaro to victory lane for Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet added 40 points. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 802 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 776. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 748 points on the season.

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William Byron finished 21st in the Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International on Sunday.

Chase Elliott brought home the win in the race, with Martin Truex Jr following in second, and Denny Hamlin placing third. Erik Jones brought home fourth place, followed by Ryan Blaney in the No. 5 spot.

Elliott won Stage 1 and Stage 2, adding 20 bonus points to his ledger for the weekend.

Byron earned 22 points over the weekend, giving him 604 on the season. He ranks No. 12 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series standings.

Byron did not collect any playoff points and remains at one for the season.

The second-year driver qualified in the second position at 127.144 mph.

Byron still is looking for his first career win but boasts two top-five finishes and 11 finishes in the top 10.

There were 37 cars in the field and the race endured four cautions and 13 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag, there were five lead changes.

With Elliott driving his Camaro to glory for Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet added 40 points. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 802 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 776. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 748 points on the season.

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Michael McDowell finished 16th in the Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International Sunday.

Chase Elliott came away with the victory in the race, with Martin Truex Jr following in second, and Denny Hamlin placing third. Erik Jones brought home fourth place, followed by Ryan Blaney in the No. 5 spot.

Elliott won Stage 1 and Stage 2, adding 20 bonus points to his ledger for the weekend.

McDowell earned 21 points over the weekend, increasing his total to 287 on the season. He ranks No. 26 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series points standings. McDowell did not accumulate any playoff points Sunday and has yet to tally his first playoff points of the season.

The 12-year driver qualified in 11th position at 125.589 mph.

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

There were 37 cars in the field and the race endured four cautions and 13 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag, there were five lead changes.

With Elliott driving his Camaro to victory for Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet added 40 points. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 802 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 776. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 748 points on the season.

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Ryan Blaney crossed the finish line fifth in the Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International on Sunday. It’s Blaney’s seventh top-five finish of the season.

Chase Elliott earned the checkered flag in the race, with Martin Truex Jr taking second, and Denny Hamlin crossing the finish line third.

Elliott came away victorious in both Stage 1 and Stage 2, picking up 20 points along the way.

Blaney earned 34 points over the weekend, giving him 633 on the year. He ranks No. 10 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series standings. Blaney did not earn any playoff points and remains at two on the season.

The sixth-year driver qualified in 19th position at 125.391 mph.

Blaney has tallied two career victories, 22 top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 50 races.

There were 37 cars in the field and the race endured four cautions and 13 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag, there were five lead changes.

With Elliott driving his Camaro to victory for Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet added 40 points. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 802 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 776. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 748 points on the season.

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Erik Jones finished fourth in the Go Bowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International on Sunday. It’s Jones’ eighth top-five finish of the season.

Chase Elliott brought home the win in the race, with Martin Truex Jr finishing second, and Denny Hamlin crossing the finish line third. Ryan Blaney followed in fifth.

Elliott came away victorious in both Stage 1 and Stage 2, picking up 20 points along the way.

Jones earned 39 points over the weekend, increasing his total to 598 on the season. He ranks No. 13 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series overall standings. Jones did not earn any playoff points Sunday and still is seeking his first playoff points of the season.

The fourth-year driver qualified in 14th position at 125.587 mph.

Jones has tallied one career victory, 21 top-five finishes and has placed in the top 10 in 43 races.

There were 37 cars in the field and the race endured four cautions and 13 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag, there were five lead changes.

With Elliott driving his Camaro to glory for Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet added 40 points. Overall, Toyota ranks No. 1 with 802 points, followed by Ford in the No. 2 spot with 776. Chevrolet sits at No. 3 with 748 points on the season.

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The race-winning No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet has passed post-race inspection at Watkins Glen International with no issues, confirming Chase Ellott’s second victory of the season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.

The No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was found to be compliant with the 2019 NASCAR Rule Book after Sunday’s GoBowling at The Glen. Only issue reported from post-race lug-nut check was one lug nut missing on the 26th-place No. 96 Gaunt Brothers Racing Toyota of Parker Kligerman.

With the post-race teardown complete, the race results are official. Competition officials are not taking any cars back to the NASCAR Research & Development Center in Concord, North Carolina, this week for further evaluation.

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The post-race process is part of a new, more timely approach to inspection for all three NASCAR national series. Competition officials announced in February thorough post-race inspections would take place shortly after the checkered flag at the track instead of midweek at the NASCAR R&D Center.

Those inspections come with a stiffer deterrence structure that includes disqualification for significant rules infractions — “a total culture change,” said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer. In the past, race-winning teams found in violation of the rules were penalized with post-race fines, points deductions and/or suspensions, but victories were allowed to stand.

Competition officials introduced the quicker post-race inspection timetable in an effort to make the results official on race day, aiming for a 90-minute target time frame to complete their scrutiny. The new post-race inspection process was also designed to deal with potential violations more promptly, avoiding any midweek news that might cloud the previous week’s results or the build-up to the next week’s event.

NASCAR will still inspect cars and parts for technology trends at the R&D Center as needed, but the more comprehensive at-track inspection will take priority.

The first NASCAR national-series organization to run afoul of the new inspection system was Niece Motorsports, which absorbed a disqualification June 16, stripping Ross Chastain’s No. 44 of an apparent Gander Outdoors Truck Series victory at Iowa Speedway. The first-finishing Niece truck failed to meet the minimum ride height, an infraction that was upheld after an appeal.

Three disqualifications have occurred in the NASCAR Xfinity Series since then: Christopher Bell’s third-place finish at Chicagoland Speedway was thrown out June 29 for a ride-height violation, AJ Allmendinger’s third-place result was nullified July 5 at Daytona International Speedway because of an engine infraction, and Allmendinger’s second-place finish at Watkins Glen on Saturday was disqualified because of a ride-height violation.

According to NASCAR statistical archives, the last time a premier series driver was disqualified occurred in 1973, when early retiree Buddy Baker was demoted to last place in the National 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The last time an apparent race winner in NASCAR’s top division was disqualified came April 17, 1960, when Emanuel Zervakis’ victory at Wilson (N.C.) Speedway was thrown out because of an oversized fuel tank on his No. 85 Chevrolet.

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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Jimmie Johnson shared fist bumps with his No. 48 crew, chatted with spanking-new crew chief Cliff Daniels, then added something different to his Sunday afternoon post-race routine at Watkins Glen International.

He went looking for Ryan Blaney.

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A half-dozen pit stalls away, Johnson found Blaney’s Team Penske No. 12 Ford after the GoBowling at The Glen. He swapped the fist bump for a stern wag of the finger over their on-track altercation with 29 laps to go that sent Johnson’s No. 48 spinning. Blaney continued on to a fifth-place finish while Johnson limped to a 19th-place result, further imperiling his hopes at clinching a postseason berth — though he’s currently the last who would qualify for the 16-driver field.

The minute-long talking-to seemed to end in an agree-to-disagree stalemate, but emotions continued to run high after the cool-down lap.

“I was trying to hear what he had to say but his lips were quivering so bad he can’t even speak,” Johnson said. “I guess he’s nervous or scared, maybe both, I don’t know what the hell the problem is. … He claims it was racing, I can’t wait to go racing. Everybody stay tuned.”

Johnson’s car sustained significant damage after the Blaney bump and an impact with the Turn 5 barrier — an encounter that Johnson described in subsequent interviews as “he just drove through me.”

Blaney indeed chalked their contact up to a racing incident, saying that his No. 12 entry was riding on fresher tires when they battled for position and that he had found an advantage through the bus-stop chicane over the course of the event. He jumped at the passing opportunity when Johnson left a small opening, but that window quickly closed.

“He hit the third curb pretty bad and got in that position and he was up, and I had a good run,” Blaney said. “I was there. He left probably a lane-and-a-quarter or so, and I took it. At first he didn’t turn down like I thought he knew I was there, and then he kept coming. I tried to check up and it was just too late.”

As for their conversation, Blaney said that he understood Johnson’s reaction.

“He’s angry. I can’t blame him for being angry,” Blaney said. “He’s trying to get in the playoffs now and have good runs. Trust me, the last guy I want to spin out is Jimmie. We always run great together and I’ve looked up to him for a long time and still do. (He’s) the last guy I want to spin out. It didn’t end well, he wasn’t happy and I can’t blame him. He’ll probably race me pretty hard here for the next few weeks, but can’t blame him for that. Definitely not my intention there.”

The post-race meeting of the two drivers capped an eventful day for Daniels, who took his seat atop the No. 48 pit box for the first time. Daniels’ task of rejuvenating the team’s playoffs hopes remained a difficult one, but he was able to stem some of the damage by targeting stage points, a strategy that netted six additional points at the stage breaks.

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Johnson currently sits in a tie with Ryan Newman for the provisional 16th and final playoffs spot with four regular-season races remaining. Johnson owns the tiebreaker.

“I understand him being frustrated after a day like today, but this track’s known for guys being in tough spots and racing each other hard,” Daniels said. “Super disappointed with what happened to us. I’d be crazy if I wasn’t. Definitely disappointed with that happened to us, but our focus is on maximizing our game moving forward. We’re not going to get caught up in any distractions or any other issues. We’re just going to make sure we do our job and execute every week and the rest will take care of itself.”

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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – It was a striking case of déjà vu.

In a replay of last year’s GoBowling at The Glen, Martin Truex Jr. chased pole winner Chase Elliott lap after lap around the 2.45-mile road course, using everything in his arsenal to try to deprive Elliott of his second straight victory at the track.

Nothing worked for Truex, who crossed the finish line in the wake of the winning No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, .454 seconds in arrears.

Elliott logged his second victory of the season, his second at The Glen and the fifth of his career, becoming the first Chevrolet driver to win multiple races this season.

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“This is wild,” exulted Elliott, who outran Truex last year at WGI to pick up his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory. “Thank you, guys, that was pretty awesome. I’ve never been so far from home and thought I was at my house. Thank you. What a day!

“We had such a bad fast Camaro, and we stayed mistake-free. Martin was a little quicker those last two runs, but track position was king, and I didn’t mess up in (Turn) 1 this time, so that was good.”

In fact, nothing went wrong for Elliott until he ran out of fuel after his celebratory post-race burnout—same as last year.

“Sorry I ran out of gas again,” Elliott said.

Elliott swept the first and second stages and led 80 of the 90 laps, surrendering the top spot only during pit stop cycles. Truex, who led one lap by pitting one circuit later than Elliott on Lap 60, got tantalizingly close to Elliott’s rear bumper at several points during the final 25-lap green-flag run, but the 2017 series champion couldn’t mount a serious threat to overtake the winner.

“I tried to do all I could,” Truex said. “Chase did an excellent job, just not making mistakes, and really all I could do was get to two car lengths—one-and-a-half at the closest in braking—and just try to force a mistake. But he hit his marks. His car was really fast in the key areas that you need to be, leaving a few of the key corners.

“I just couldn’t get a run on him, and we just were kind of stuck there. Unfortunate, but our Bass Pro Camry was really, really fast today. We passed quite a few cars there that were fast and finished up front, just couldn’t pass that last one.”

Denny Hamlin ran a consistent-if-distant third, 11.229 seconds behind Elliott at the finish. Erik Jones started 14th and came home fourth, posting his fourth straight top-five result and solidifying his position in the standings with four races left before the cutoff for the Playoffs. Jones is 13th, 54 points to the good.

Ryan Blaney ran fifth on Sunday, followed by Matt DiBenedetto, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski and Kurt Busch. Kyle Busch finished 11th, recovering from a pit road speeding penalty and on-track dust-ups with front-row starter William Byron (21st on Sunday) and Bubba Wallace (28th).

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Scoring points in both the first and second stages, Jimmie Johnson finished 19th in the debut of new crew chief Cliff Daniels and made up 12 points on Ryan Newman, who ran 25th after a flat tire forced an unscheduled pit stop, and a subsequent loose wheel compounded the problem. Newman and Johnson head for next Sunday’s race at Michigan tied for 16th, the last Playoff-eligible position.

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Bubba Wallace spun Kyle Busch’s No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota after the two tangled on Lap 61 at Watkins Glen International, then had some harsh words after the race.

Wallace and Busch had just battled for position on the 2.45-mile road course, banging side-by-side, when Busch shoved his way ahead of the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Chevrolet.

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Wallace promptly nudged Busch from behind, spinning the No. 18 into the corner in the midst of traffic — though his No. 18 made no contact.

After the race, NBC Sports’ Nate Ryan caught up with Wallace, who didn’t mince words.

“I won’t put up with no (expletive),” Wallace said. “So I flat out wrecked his ass back. … That’s what happens when you get run over. You just pay him back. So I won’t be like, ‘Oh, it’s Kyle Busch, he didn’t mean to.’

“(Expletive) him.”

Busch’s response was short as he prepared to leave the track.

Busch had already tangled with William Byron earlier in the race. Busch spun on Lap 2 while battling Byron for second place in Turn 1. The two traded retaliation as Busch nudged Byron’s No. 24 through the grass of the bus stop just before the end of Stage 1.

After the green-and-white checkered flag flew, Byron attempted to show his displeasure with Busch by tapping the No. 18 Toyota from behind – and Byron ended up crumpling the hood of his No. 24 Chevrolet, necessitating extensive repairs that pushed him back in the running order.

Both Byron and Wallace drove for Busch’s Gander Outdoors Truck Series team, Kyle Busch Motorsports, as they were coming up the NASCAR ladder.