Jesse Love began the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Collection season on a powerful notice by profitable the season-opening race at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. Since that journey to Victory Lane in February, the 20-year-old driver has been stable with 5 high 10s within the subsequent eight races heading into Saturday’s race at Rockingham Speedway and the primary time the sequence had raced on the observe since 2004.
Throughout NASCAR’s much-anticipated return to The Rock, the Richard Childress Racing driver regarded robust all through the race, and extra importantly, survived, in what turned out to be a battle of gasoline technique and attrition with 15 cautions, together with a few red-flag delays within the closing 10 laps.
Jesse Love races throughout the Exhausting Rock Guess 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.Sam Navarro-Imagn Photographs
On the time beyond regulation restart, Love began within the second row on the within behind Sammy Smith and going into the primary flip moved the No. 8 up the observe and surged out into the lead. Within the closing journeys across the mile-long circuit, the No. 2 driver stayed out in entrance and crossed the end line first to file his second win of the 2025 marketing campaign.
Or so everybody thought.
Good factor my home has a secure 🏆
— jesse love jr (@jesselovejr1) April 20, 2025
Hours later NASCAR introduced that Love had failed post-race inspection and been disqualified for a rear suspension violation. Smith, who completed second, was declared the winner.
A short while after the announcement, Love responded to the information on social media.
“Good factor my home has a secure,” he wrote on X, together with an emoji of a trophy, suggesting he wouldn’t be giving again his race-winning {hardware}.
Love and his fellow Xfinity Collection rivals return to racing motion April 26 at Talladega. Race protection begins at 4 p.m. ET on The CW.
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