Not a lot of room out there on these restarts. ? pic.twitter.com/bd1K5zHy8U
— NASCAR Xfinity (@NASCAR_Xfinity) July 13, 2024
With a small cell of weather quickly approaching the Pocono Raceway, the action really began to pick up steam in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Explore the Pocono Mountains 225. On a Lap 46 restart, things got wild, and a seven-car incident transpired, which sent the race into its fifth caution of the day.
The field fanned out three and four wide heading into Turn 1, and as Kyle Sieg and Parker Retzlaff reached Turn 1, they were unable to get funneled down enough to make it without contact. As Retzlaff made contact with the left rear of Sieg’s car, it got Retzlaff’s car out of shape, and he slid up the track into the left front of Leland Honeyman’s No. 42 machine.
As Retzlaff and Honeyman made contact, it sent Retzlaff into the side of Brennan Poole’s No. 44 Alpha Prime Racing machine and Honeyman into the side of Ryan Ellis’ No. 43 car.
As he was trying to get by the incident, Thomas Annunziata lost control of his No. 4 JD Motorsports Chevrolet, and as he was trying to wrangle his car, he received contact from Josh Berry in the No. 15 AM Racing Ford.
Ellis was the driver that suffered the biggest hit in the crash, and had to retire from the race due to the extensive damage he sustained on the No. 43 Alpha Prime Racing Chevrolet. Ellis joined Josh Bilicki, and Dawson Cram, who crashed hard on Lap 2, as drivers out of the running in Saturday’s Xfinity race at Pocono.
