Unfortunately, there was a massive eight-car pileup on lap 102 of Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway. Fortunately, none of the four Championship 4 contenders were involved.
JR Motorsports’ Sam Mayer and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Sammy Smith got into a heated battle for position, and by the time the duo reached Turn 4 on lap 102, they were making plenty of contact. The final nudge was hard enough to send Mayer spinning.
Here is video of the big crash:
Pileup!
Sammy Smith gets into Sam Mayer and multiple cars are collected.
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The full list of drivers involved in this one were Sam Mayer, Sammy Smith, Riley Herbst, Anthony Alfredo, Stefan Parsons, Ryan Sieg, Kyle Weatherman and Kaz Grala.