NASCAR News: Hill holds off Creed to win Daytona Xfinity Race

Austin Hill took the checkered flag in Monday evening’s Xfinity Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway.

It’s the third time in a row the driver of the No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet has kicked off the season in Victory Lane, becoming the fourth driver to win three consecutive February races at the 2.5-mile superspeedway.

Hill joins a prestigious list that includes Tony Stewart (four straight February Daytona wins), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (three straight wins) and Dale Earnhardt (five straight wins).

Hill led a total of nine laps, taking the lead with two laps to go from Jordan Anderson.

Sheldon Creed, Anderson, Parker Retzlaff and Chandler Smith rounded out the top five. Riley Herbst, John Hunter Nemechek, Justin Allgaier, Brandon Jones and AJ Allmendinger completed the top 10.

Xfinity Series rookie Shane van Gisbergen rallied from a handful of incidents to score a 12th-place finish, while defending series champion Cole Custer scored a 13th-place result.

United Rentals 300 Results won by Austin Hill

POS	CAR	DRIVER	MANUF	BEHIND	LAPS
1	21	Austin Hill		—	120
2	18	Sheldon Creed		0.591	120
3	32	Jordan Anderson		1.161	120
4	31	Parker Retzlaff		1.163	120
5	81	Chandler Smith		1.253	120
6	98	Riley Herbst		1.279	120
7	20	John Hunter Nemechek(i)		1.314	120
8	7	Justin Allgaier		1.353	120
9	9	Brandon Jones		1.545	120
10	16	AJ Allmendinger		2.445	120
11	43	Ryan Ellis		2.887	120
12	97	Shane Van Gisbergen #		2.914	120
13	00	Cole Custer		4.775	120
14	29	Blaine Perkins		8.377	120
15	78	BJ McLeod		10.947	120
16	6	Garrett Smithley		12.186	120
17	07	Patrick Emerling		12.527	120
18	36	Natalie Decker		15.390	120
19	44	Brennan Poole		20.638	120
20	2	Jesse Love #		25.752	120
21	19	Ryan Truex		29.153	120
22	39	Ryan Sieg		33.293	120
23	8	Sammy Smith		0.254	119
24	5	Anthony Alfredo		-2	118
25	48	Parker Kligerman		-2	118
26	27	Jeb Burton		-2	118
27	10	Daniel Dye(i)		-3	117
28	26	Sage Karam		-9	111
29	51	Jeremy Clements		-11	109
30	42	Leland Honeyman #		-18	102
31	4	Dawson Cram #		-69	51
32	92	Josh Bilicki		-69	51
33	35	Frankie Muniz		-83	37
34	11	Josh Williams		-83	37
35	14	Daniel Suarez(i)		-97	23
36	1	Sam Mayer		-98	22
37	15	Hailie Deegan #		-98	22
38	91	Kyle Weatherman		-98	22

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