NASCAR Xfinity Daytona Results 2015

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford driven by Ryan Reed made one final pit stop on its way to Victory Lane on Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.

With the checkered flag in tow, Reed parked his ride next to the No. 60 of teammate and close friend Chris Buescher, who stuck his hand into Reed’s window to exchange just about as emotionally charged of a handshake as one could imagine.

After a joint, loud roar of “Yeah!,” Reed burned his tires and took off to celebrate his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series victory while Buescher basked in the glory of a 1-2, last-lap finish for the apparently resurgent Roush camp.

“(That last lap) was insane,” said Buescher, who hooked up with Reed to overtake Brad Keselowski’s dominant No. 22 Ford on the final go-around. “First off, congrats to Ryan Reed. That was huge for us as an organization. For him to get his first win here, to start off the XFINITY season like this, it’s great. It’s perfect. It’s what we needed to come out here and do.

“It was a wild finish right there to the end with a couple of cars getting torn up and it just left holes and it left people down on momentum, and we just shot through the middle and we had a chance to work together down the backstretch and we got to the 16’s bumper and that was about all she wrote.”

For Buescher, the runner-up finish in this race is beyond a boon for getting his season started on the right note. The 22-year-old driver picked up his first NASCAR victory last season at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, but failed to qualify for the XFINITY season opener at Daytona to start 2014.

“It’s just night and day difference (from last year),” Buescher said. “To sit and watch this race from a pit box last year, it hurt. It’s just something that really set us back for the whole year and we came into this year and had to do something different and we did.”

For the Roush organization as a whole, the statement made by the pair of young drivers at the front of the field is unparalleled. Jack Roush’s group has seen trying times over the past few seasons, from struggles at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series level (including the departure of longtime flagship driver Carl Edwards) down to the XFINITY Series range (no drivers placing in the top five in the standings since Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s second consecutive title in 2012).

With a pair of new drivers joining the fold in 2015 in Darrell Wallace Jr. (who finished 12th) and veteran Elliott Sadler (19th), starting the season on a high note was crucial — but not something the stable didn’t see coming.

“I think we knew beforehand (that we were building something at Roush),” Buescher said. “Leading up to this, we made so many personnel changes in the offseason, we have new teammates in the form of Bubba Wallace and Elliott Sadler. … Elliott has taken on a role more of like a mentor, someone that has the extreme amount of experience that he does and it able to bring a lot to the table.

“We’re excited; we have a good mentality around our group. Everyone is working hard together to get here and make this happen. We’re going to be contenders for more wins this year and we’re going to be contenders for the championship between our four teams.”

The XFINITY Series races next at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday in the Hisense 250 (2 p.m. ET, FS1) as part of a joint doubleheader with the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

 

NASXAR Xfinity Daytona Results 2015

POS. CAR # DRIVER START LAPS LED + / – STATUS POINTS BONUS
1 16 Ryan Reed 8 120 14
0
Running 47 4
2 60 Chris Buescher 10 120 12
0
Running 43 1
3 3 Ty Dillon 34 120 16
0
Running 42 1
4 33 Austin Dillon 1 120 1
0
Running 0 0
5 22 Brad Keselowski 14 120 13
0
Running 0 0
6 44 David Starr 18 120 0
0
Running 38 0
7 98 Aric Almirola 5 120 0
0
Running 0 0
8 42 Kyle Larson 27 120 4
0
Running 0 0
9 4 Ross Chastain 21 120 0
0
Running 35 0
10 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr 40 119 0
0
Running 0 0
11 43 Dakoda Armstrong 7 119 0
0
Running 33 0
12 6 Darrell Wallace Jr 28 119 18
0
Running 33 1
13 26 Mike Wallace 31 119 0
0
Running 0 0
14 51 Jeremy Clements 23 118 0
0
Running 30 0
15 90 Mario Gosselin 37 118 0
0
Running 29 0
16 55 Jeffrey Earnhardt 13 118 0
0
Running 28 0
17 24 Eric McClure 25 116 0
0
Running 27 0
18 20 Erik Jones 6 116 0
0
Running 0 0
19 1 Elliott Sadler 11 116 0
0
Running 25 0
20 8 Blake Koch 38 115 0
0
Running 24 0
21 13 Chris Cockrum 20 115 0
0
Running 23 0
22 40 Derek White 33 115 0
0
Running 22 0
23 97 Josh Reaume 24 115 0
0
Running 21 0
24 74 Mike Harmon 19 114 0
0
Running 20 0
25 2 Brian Scott 15 112 0
0
Accident 19 0
26 54 Kyle Busch 32 111 27
0
Accident 0 0
27 28 J.J. Yeley 9 111 0
0
Accident 17 0
28 9 Chase Elliott 35 111 0
0
Accident 16 0
29 62 Brendan Gaughan 4 110 0
0
Accident 15 0
30 14 Cale Conley 17 110 0
0
Accident 14 0

Source: NASCAR Xfinity Series

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