Iowa Xfinity results: Sam Mayer collects first victory of season
NEWTON, Iowa — Sam Mayer led the final 28 laps to win Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at Iowa Speedway and claim his first victory of the season.
The win is Mayer’s eighth career in the Xfinity Series. He snapped a 25-race winless streak.
Mayer gave Haas Factory Team its first series win. The organization was formed in the offseason after the demise of Stewart-Haas Racing. This also was Ford’s first Xfinity victory of the year.
Jesse Love scored his second runner-up finish in the last three races. Ross Chastain won a stage and placed third. Connor Zilisch finished fourth after winning the opening stage and overcoming an extra pit stop to tighten a wheel. Zilisch had won the past three series races.
Harrison Burton completed the top five, earning his second top-five result of the season. Burton moved above the cutline and holds the final playoff spot with four races left in the regular season.
Stage 1 winner: Connor Zilisch
Stage 2 winner: Ross Chastain
Next: The series races at 3 p.m. ET Saturday, Aug. 9 at Watkins Glen International on the CW Network.