Austin Hill will not collect his second win of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series season in Saturday’s GOVX 200 at Phoenix Raceway as his day came to an end on Lap 62.
Hill was following Sammy Smith in the seventh position as they were barreling toward Turn 3 following a restart. Hill misjudged the inside wall, clipped it, which violently shot his No. 21 Chevrolet into Sheldon Creed’s No. 00 Haas Factory Team Ford, which spun Creed.
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Creed and Hill would collide hard with the outside wall. Dean Thompson would also spin in the chaos after contact from Connor Zilisch. Thompson would collide with Hill, and would suffer big damage as well to his No. 26 Sam Hunt Racing Toyota.
The incident would spell the end of the race for Hill and Thompson, while Creed would return to the track for an additional lap to gain a couple of positions, but he would park his No. 00 machine a lap later and would exit the race.
“It looks like I was a missile [into the incident], but I think I got punted into it,” said Dean Thompson. “I saw a bunch of smoke [in front of me]. I tried to hang a left [to avoid the incident], but I got moved.”
