Kyle Sieg scores career-best Xfinity finish at Atlanta
By Joe Laracuente and Jonathan Fjeld
HAMPTON, GA. — Kyle Sieg won big during the overtime chaos as he leaped to a seventh-place finish in the Alsco Uniforms 250 at Atlanta.
It’s Sieg’s best career finish and bests his previous best finish of 2023, 11th at Charlotte.
He qualified 34th and struggled with handling but the team worked on the car throughout the race.
“We had a good car but we weren’t really that good. Hell, I qualified 34th and couldn’t really hold it wide open and was all over the place. Teddy made adjustments to where we could hold it wide open at the end and we showed what we could do,” Sieg told TRE post-race.
Sieg started the year with Brad Parrott as his crew chief. Then, ahead of the Darlington race in May, Teddy Brown took over for Parrott.
“Ever since we made a crew chief change, we’ve been 100% better. We’ve been fast and we’re good everywhere,” Sieg said.
Full interview with Kyle Sieg is here:
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Brown and Sieg have the strong Atlanta finish, an 11th-place finish at Charlotte and a ninth-place start at Nashville under their belt after five races together.
Now they head to New Hampshire Motor Speedway, July 15, for the Ambetter Health 200.
Last year, Sieg’s brother, Ryan, won stage one and led 10 laps but crashed out on lap 124 of 200.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com