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In a chaotic race, which featured 14 cautions and two red flags, it was 20-year-old Jesse Love, who pulled off the win in Saturday's North Carolina Education Lottery 250 at Rockingham Speedway. The win marks the second win of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series season for Love, and its the driver's third career win and it came in what was his 43rd career start. The Richard Childress Racing driver led early and often as he was in front of the field six times for 53 laps, which was second only to Ryan Sieg.
While Sieg was a fixture at the front of the field for 77 laps, the driver of the No. 39 RSS Racing Ford Mustang Dark Horse lost the lead under caution on Lap 239 when his car fell below pace car speed as he was attempting to save fuel. Sieg would then get severely damaged in a multi-car melee on a restart on Lap 241, which would effectively end his bid to win the race.
After an incident between Jeb Burton and Connor Mosack brought out the caution on Lap 248, the race was sent into Overtime, where Love would outduel Sammy Smith for the race win. Parker Retzlaff, who narrowly missed out on the pole by 0.001 seconds earlier in the day, finished third in the race after charging toward the front on fresh tires.
Retzlaff rallied from a cut tire earlier in the day. Harrison Burton continued his solid season with AM Racing as he collected a fourth-place result, and Brennan Poole finished fifth. Poole's fifth-place finish made it a double-top-five day for Alpha Prime Racing, which also fields Retzlaff's No.
4 Chevrolet. Taylor Gray, Austin Hill, Josh Williams, Jeb Burton, and Daniel Dye rounded out the top-10 finishers in Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Rockingham Speedway. *This story will be updated with post-race quotes and additional details about the race.
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