Sheldon Creed earns tenth runner-up finish
Despite leading at the white flag in the Sci Aps 200 Saturday, Sheldon Creed had to settle for another NASCAR Xfinity Series second-place finish.
Creed’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Christopher Bell, went on to win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with a last-lap pass while Creed earned his tenth runner-up result in the series.
“Just stayed in the hunt all day,” Creed said. “I wasn’t great on the short run, but I felt like we could compete at times.
“Just stayed in it, worked hard at it and came home second again.”
Creed has three second-place finishes this year, with the other races at Daytona in February and Sonoma in June.
Overall, Creed has 18 Top-5 finishes — the most among active Xfinity Series drivers without a victory — 39 Top-10 finishes, and 364 laps led, another category the 26-year-old driver leads non-winners in.
Through the first 16 races of the year, Creed has picked up 7 Top-5 finishes, 10 Top-10 finishes, led 19 laps, and sits fifth in points with a 100-point cushion over the playoff cutline (13th-place Ryan Sieg).
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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