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Austin Hill bests Cole Custer for crucial Homestead Xfinity victory
Driving the No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, Austin Hill ran down Cole Custer and easily passed the reigning series champion for the lead with just 12 laps to go at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
After passing Custer, Hill drove off with the race win in hand. This will be his first ever appearance in the Championship 4, causing him to become emotional on the radio after taking the checkered flag. This victory is Hill’s fourth of the year and the tenth of his Xfinity career.
“I work so hard at this,” said Hill after the race. “A lot of people doubt me but I wake up everyday to prove everyone wrong. I deserve to be here. I deserve to race for a championship. This No. 21 team deserves it just as much as I do.
“They worked their asses off each and every day just like I do.I have to give it up to those guys. They gave me a hell of a car. I didn’t have to go run the wall. I could run wherever I wanted to … Oh my God, I am out of breath. I can honestly say I’ve never cried coming to the start/finish line — I couldn’t even get my emotions together getting into Turn 1 after the checkered. All the hard work and dedication that goes into this. I don’t think anyone is going to understand what this means to me (and) my family.”
The run to the finish
After the final round of green-flag pit stops with about 40 laps to go, A.J. Allmendinger was actually in control of the race. He was already locked into the final four via his Las Vegas win last weekend, so he chose to gamble for a late caution while saving his final set of tires. Kaulig Racing teammate Shane van Gisbergen and JR Motorsports’ Brandon Jones did the same.
Once Allmendinger finally pitted from the lead with 20 laps to go, Custer regained control of the race. However, it was short-lived as Hill rapidly closed in, making the move to the outside and snatching the lead away.
Custer ended the race three seconds behind Hill with Aric Almirola, Jesse Love and Sheldon Creed rounding out the top-five. Riley Herbst, Ryan Sieg, Justin Allgaier, Sam Mayer, and Allmendinger filled out the rest of the top-ten.
Van Gisbergen was the only driver to never use their final set of tires, stretching the fuel to the very end in hopes of a caution that never came and finishing 17th.
Heading into the Round of 8 elimination race at Martinsville, the following drivers are below the cut-line: Chandler Smith (-28 points), Jesse Love (-35 points), Sam Mayer (-47 points), and Sammy Smith (-95 points).
Allgaier is 35 points above the cut-line and Custer is 28 after their showings at Homestead.
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Oscar Piastri has conceded the error that saw him eliminated from Q1 for Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix was a “very poor mistake”.
The McLaren driver went off the track at Turn 12 in the opening phase of qualifying, with his car bottoming out over the kerbs. His lap time was deleted for crossing the track limits, but the time he lost by getting out of shape would not have been good enough to secure a spot in Q2 anyway.
Up until that point the Australian had been over a second up on his previous best, leaving him to rue the error that saw him dumped out of Q1 for the first time this season.
“I just went off in the Turn 12, got beached on the kerb there, and that was it,” Piastri told Sky Sports F1. “My lap was easily going to be enough, so it’s very frustrating to make that mistake. I lost about a second.
“It’s just a tricky circuit but I don’t think today was down to it being tricky. It was just I made a very poor mistake, and that was it.”
Oscar Piastri, McLaren F1 Team
Photo by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Images
Piastri’s Q1 exit mirrors team-mate Lando Norris‘ last year, when Norris saw his best lap deleted for track limits and was forced to start from the back of the field.
Despite qualifying 19th – and starting from 17th due to grid penalties for others – Norris moved up to finish fifth in the race, with Piastri hoping to emulate his team-mate on Sunday afternoon.
“We had a similar kind of position for Lando last year,” Piastri added. “So I’ll make sure I do my homework on how he went through the field and try and do the same.”
Piastri will be joined at the rear of the field by home hero Sergio Perez, who was eliminated in 18th. Perez is facing a similar comeback race in front of his ardent Mexican fans on another challenging weekend for the under-pressure Red Bull man.
Sergio Perez says braking issues were behind his painful Q1 elimination at his Mexican Grand Prix home race, explaining he “could not stop the car” at the end of the straights.
Perez only managed the 18th-fastest time in Q1 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, missing the cutoff by two tenths and joining McLaren driver Oscar Piastri in the drop zone.
Perez had been struggling all weekend with the front of his Red Bull RB20 and unresolved braking issues, which made him unable to attack corners.
“I’ve been struggling quite a bit with braking. Every time I try attack the braking, I just put too much energy through the tyres and that makes it very tricky for me to stop the car,” he said.
“It’s been there for the last three races where I cannot stop the car. I’m having to modulate my braking quite a lot and that’s something we can see in the data, but we are not able to fix it at the moment. It’s mainly on the straight line I cannot stop the car. I just slide too much and given that it’s all surface sensitivity here, it makes it a lot harder.”
Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB20
Photo by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
Perez crashed out of the race at the first corner last year and is desperate for a morale boosting result in front of his home fans after a tough run of results.
But with his braking issues also occurring on longer runs, Perez is pessimistic over his chances of a strong comeback race. Given the severity of his handling issues, it is not out of the question the team may opt to make parc ferme changes and let him start from the pitlane instead.
“We will discuss all the options,” he said. “The problem is that we are also very tight on parts that we have available. We don’t have the spec of floor that we would like to go on to. I don’t know, we will discuss it for sure with the team.
“It’s going to be hard because it’s also present there in the long run, so I will try everything. I will try and see what we are able to do with the team and see what solutions we are able to find.
“It’s obviously very disappointing. If there’s a grand prix that I want to do really well, it’s this one. Unfortunately, this event has been really difficult and tricky.”
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