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The final races in the Round of 8 for the NASCAR Cup and NASCAR Xfinity Series take place this weekend at Martinsville Speedway with spots in the Championship 4 still up for grabs.

Kaulig Racing announced today that Chandler Smith will not return to the organization’s NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) program next season.

With two races remaining, Chevrolet has clinched the 2023 Bill France Performance Cup in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

At the end of Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, John Hunter Nemechek came home with a third-place finish, keeping him 44 points above the playoff cutline heading into Martinsville next weekend.

In three previous starts, Burton holds an average finish of 10.7 with a 99.7% lap completion rate running 577 laps of the possible 579.

The race signifies the 13th race of the second half of the 2023 Xfinity Series season for the Statesville, N.C.-based organization. It kicks off the stretch drive for NASCAR’s secondary national series, with just three races remaining on its calendar.

Kaulig Racing has made two NCS starts at Homestead-Miami Speedway and earned a third-place finish in the 2022 Dixie Vodka 400 with AJ Allmendinger.

Cole Custer heads to Saturday’s Contender Boats 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on a mission, first and foremost, to protect his position in the NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs.

NASCAR’s three national series head to Homestead-Miami Speedway for the final intermediate track of the season.

JR Motorsports has competed in South Beach 54 times in the NXS. In those starts at the 1.5-mile oval, the organization has recorded three wins (2012, 2017 and 2022), 11 top fives and 26 top 10s.