Shane van Gisbergen was already a NASCAR race winner but on Saturday he earned his first opportunity to battle for a championship.
Van Gisbergen, a three-time Supercars champion, passed leader Justin Allgaier with three of 75 laps remaining and held on to win Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Portland International Raceway. Allgaier had dominated much of the race on the 1.97-mile, 12-turn road course, winning both stages and led a race-high 46 laps. He led the way to start the final stage while a slow pit stop left van Gisbergen fighting from behind.
Completing the top 10 were Cole Custer, Josh Williams, Parker Kligerman, Parker Retzlaff and Riley Herbst. Stage 1 With van Gisbergen’s decision to pit before the break, Allgaier inherited the lead and held off Herbst by 0.667 seconds to earn the Stage 1 win. Sheldon Creed was third, Josh Bilicki fourth and Kligerman fifth. Sam Mayer, who started on the pole, lost the lead in the first turn of the first lap when he got spun by van Gisbergen and fell back to 27th place.
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