Food City 300 Bristol Motor Speedway

Justin Allgaier, driver of the No. 7 BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevrolet, was poised to fight for the victory with 15 laps remaining in Friday evening's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series event at Bristol Motor Speedway. Allgaier, who led for 49 laps, won the first stage and scored extremely valuable points in the second stage, lined up for the lap-285 restart as the race leader in the outside lane.

However, as the field entered Turn 1 just one lap later, contact with another car sent the JR Motorsports driver into the outside retaining wall, shuffling Allgaier back to fourth. The Illinois native would hold steady in fourth through a green-white-checkered restart to earn his 15th top-five finish of the season. With tonight's result, Allgaier remains second in The Chase standings, just 11 points out of the top spot.

Justin Allgaier, driver No. 7 BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevrolet

"Our BRANDT Professional Agriculture Chevrolet was really strong tonight. Hats of to Andrew (Overstreet, crew chief) and everyone on this No. 7 team. We scored a ton of valuable points, but I just hate that we didn't get the chance to race for the win there in the end. However, we'll move on and take away all of the positives from tonight and use this momentum to be just a couple spots better when we get to Las Vegas."