Fantasy NASCAR Racing

in the Xfinity Playoffs.  They kicked off the season like a house on fire; posting a third place finish as the season opened at Daytona.  They followed that with another third at Fontana, and then a second place run at Las Vegas.  They kept putting together good runs until they finally won at Charlotte.  They won again at Daytona and then again three weeks later at Bristol.  The pair advanced through each round and into the final championship race.  At Phoenix Cole Custer had the best car and led 96 laps on the way to the win and to claim the championship.  Allgaier finished third in the race; second in points.  Pohlman and Allgaier had a successful 2024 season.  They always seemed to be competitive, and ran near the front most races.  Their first top ten came at Las Vegas, and four weeks later they had their first top five at Martinsville.  At Texas they improved to third, and broke through to get their first win of the year at Darlington.  The next 14 races, other than when he got caught up in an accident; Pohlman led Allgaier to top ten finishes.  This included another win, coming at Michigan.  When the play-offs started Justin crashed and finished 36th, putting him in a bind trying to advance to the next round.  In the rounds second race, Allgaier finished 25th at Talladega.  Now he was in a bad spot with only one race to go.  He finished seventh at the Roval, and barely managed to squeak into the Round of 8.  He ran great there with finishes of third, eighth and fifth to advance to the Champion ship race at Phoenix.  There, Riley Herbst was the class of the field, leading 167 of 213 laps.  Meanwhile, Allgaier seemed to do about everything possible to sabotage his own efforts.  First his car was trashed in practice, and he did not get to qualify; thus having to start at the rear.  But he came through the field quickly and was sixth by the end of Stage 1.  A poor pit stop shoved him back in the field; but again he rallied to finish in the top ten at the end of Stage 2.  As the final stage started, Allgaier was hit with a penalty for jumping out of line too soon on the restart; resulting in a drive-through penalty.  But he stayed on the lead lap.  Unfortunately on his drive through penalty; Allgaier was nabbed for speeding, and had to do another drive through as a penalty.  Now he was a lap down and behind the eight-ball and badly needed a yellow.  The yellow didn't fall until 45 laps to go.  Allgaier's crew chief had threw a hail-Mary with pit strategy and it worked out.  Then a late yellow fell on lap 199 of the 200 lap race.  The battle was on between Allgaier and Austin Hill to see who would claim the Championship.  Hill stayed out; while Allgaier got a new set of skins and was raring to do battle the final two laps.  Riley Herbst had a great car; but was not part of the Championship picture.  Allgaier led lap 212 in the over-time; but Herbt was too much for Justin and took the win. Allgaier finished second and claimed his first Xfinity Series Championship.