Jones took the lead for good on the final restart and held off Darrell Wallace Jr. over the final five laps. For Wallace, second marked his best finish of the season.
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It wasn’t the first time Jones faces a dash for the checkered flag off a restart.
“If I remember the first time, I was pretty upset,” he told media members, “and this time I was pretty calm and collected and wasn’t too worried about it. I knew we had a good car and knew that as long as we got a decent restart, we would be able to hold it off. Enough guys stayed out on old tires with us that we were in a good spot and it all worked out.”
Of the full-time Sprint Cup drivers in the field, Joey Logano was top finisher in seventh place. Sunday’s Cup race, the AAA 400, begins about 1 p.m. ET at Dover.
The Xfinity Series takes next week off while NASCAR is at Charlotte for All-Star Race weekend. The next race is May 28.
Here are the race results from the Ollie’s Bargain Outlet 200.
