KANSAS CITY, KS. – Last Saturday at Darlington, Sheldon Creed made a dramatic bid for a victory but came home second in a three-car battle against race winner Noah Gragson and double-duty driver Kyle Larson.
Creed could have clinched a spot in the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs with a win. Instead, the trails 12th-place Ryan Sieg by 16 points with two regular-season races left as the series heads to Kansas Speedway for Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 (3 p.m. ET on USA, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Creed has never raced at Kansas in the Xfinity Series, though he did post a runner-up finish there in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2020.
Sieg, on the other hand, comes to Kansas with three straight top fives and five straight top 10s at the 1.5-mile intermediate track.
Ty Gibbs is the defending winner of the Kansas Lottery 300 and is the favorite to win a second straight race at the track. Second in the standings, Gibbs trails leader AJ Allmendinger by 51 points in the battle for the Regular Season Championship.
“I’m looking forward to heading back to Kansas,” Gibbs said. “We won there last year in the Xfinity car, the same weekend we clinched the ARCA championship, so it’s a special place for me.
“Hopefully, we can get another win, as there are only two more races before the Playoffs start, and we would like to get all the points we can to give ourselves the best shot in the final seven races.”
Source: Reid Spencer / NASCAR Wire Service
