LEBANON — Dale Earnhardt Jr. spent Could 31 in victory lane, a day earlier than returning to the broadcast sales space for the NASCAR Cup Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway.
The previous Cup Sequence driver and present proprietor of JR Motorsports joined his driver Justin Allgaier, who received the Xfinity Sequence Tennessee Lottery 250. Making the second much more pleasurable for Earnhardt was that Allgaier handed one other JR Motorsports driver, Connor Zilisch, for the win. Zilisch completed second.
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“It is a nice racetrack for Justin. He all the time runs good right here,” Earnhardt mentioned. “Jim Pohlman (Allgaier’s crew chief) places a very nice race automotive on each single racetrack we go to for Justin. Justin’s coming off an (Xfinity Sequence) championship. He is chased that for therefore a few years and I really feel like now that he has that out of the way in which, his race craft is nearly as good because it’s ever been.”
It was the third win this season for Allgaier, who received back-to-back at Las Vegas and Miami in March, and he’s coming off a fourth-place end final week at Charlotte.
Allgaier has 10 top-5 finishes this season.
NASCAR Xfinity Sequence driver Justin Allgaier celebrates after successful the Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tenn., Saturday, Could 31, 2025.
Zilisch took the lead on Lap 123. After pole setter William Sawalich spun out, Allgaier handed Zilisch on the restart on Lap 141 and stayed within the lead the remainder of the way in which.
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Allgaier was joined in his No. 7 Chevrolet to victory lane for the primary time by his daughters, Harper and Willow.
Earnhardt mentioned Allgaier’s means to remain calm by way of races just like the Tennessee Lottery 250 has been the important thing to his success.
“He makes manner, manner much less errors (than earlier in his profession),” Earnhardt mentioned. “He is put nice races collectively. He is actually harmful for the remainder of the competitors at this level, I feel, in his profession.”
Allgaier mentioned successful the championship modified the attitude on his profession.
“I all the time thought I used to be fairly calm,” he mentioned. “However successful the championship for me was an unimaginable eye-opening second. That modified my mentality for the way these races go. I used to assume it is obtained to be the proper night time (to win).
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“We type of had that tonight. However 5 years in the past I in all probability would have pushed myself into the fence attempting to get again to the clear air. I’d have possibly made a mistake on a kind of restarts, put myself in a very dangerous place and wrecked myself or any person else.”
Zilisch, 18, made his Cup debut within the 2025 Daytona 500. He received the Xfinity race on the Circuit of the Americas two weeks later and completed second final week at Charlotte.
“Zilisch was simply actually robust (on Could 31),” Earnhardt mentioned. “He is nonetheless obtained so much to achieve and develop and perceive and he is already pushing Justin for a win tonight. As he continues to develop, he’ll be sensational.”
JR Motosports’ different three entries additionally ran properly, with Ross Chastain ending fifth, Carson Kvapil ninth and Sammy Smith tenth.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. seems to be ahead to second Amazon Prime NASCAR Cup race broadcast
Earnhardt was proud of the primary Amazon Prime Video broadcast for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. It exceeded his expectations, which have been excessive.
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“That was a enjoyable race. The 600 has been among the finest races. Lots of people say it is perhaps the most effective race within the collection,” Earnhardt mentioned. “So we had a very good race to kick off our protection. We’ve numerous flexibilities on a streaming platform that enable us to do issues a little bit otherwise the networks do not have. We have been ready to succeed and I am glad individuals loved what they noticed.”
The stress is now on for Earnhardt and the remainder of the Amazon crew, which incorporates Carl Edwards, Adam Alexander, Steve Letarte, Trevor Bayne and Kim Coon, to provide one other robust broadcast.
“We’ve an unimaginable staff of individuals, some that I’ve identified very briefly, some that I’ve identified for years,” Earnhardt mentioned. “It is bizarre, it is like a race staff with that very same aggressive spirit, the identical want-to, the get-up-and-go, the hustle. All of that’s current within the TV compound similar to it’s in a race store or storage.”
