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NASCAR XFINITY Series Driver Austin Hill caused a massive shipwreck at Watkins Glen International on Saturday afternoon and absorbed a severe disaster from others.
There were 9 laps in the event. HILL, Michael McDowellZane Smith and Sam Mayer are the guys who chase leader Connor Zilisch. Hill and the rest of the packs came out of the fifth round as he entered the back of McDowell.
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Austin Hill performed a grid walk ahead of the NASCAR XFINITY series Pennzoil 250 on July 26, 2025 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Jonathan Bachman/Getty Image)
The crash involved multiple drivers because Hill was held responsible for hitting McDowell’s back.
“There are only two people going to find it. There is no malice, like everyone wants to sit there and try to do more,” Hill said. By stretching forward. “It’s just two guys running out of the race. I tried to run as fast as 88 (Connor Zilisch) because 88-year-old drove away from us and I thought we could probably race him and compete for the victory there. I ran a huge run in Carousel.
“I kind of thought I was trying to catch myself off guard (McDowell) and get to his left.”
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NASCAR Xfinity series driver Austin Hill leads driver Connor Zilisch during Glen mission 200 at Watkins Glen International in New York on August 9, 2025. (Memories of Matthew O’Haren/Imagn)
McDowell said Hill hit him in the last two laps before the crash.
“He definitely turned me around. I mean, he couldn’t be standing with me,” McDowell said via nascar.com. “I walked around cleanly and neatly at these reboots and finally, like I said, I had to understand it better. But, for me, he wasn’t standing with me.”
“I’m not talking like he deliberately draws me. He doesn’t need punishment. It’s just that he can’t end the pass there, he just decides not to lift me up – but that’s not the same as the elliptical right-hand hook. It’s not what I say, so I don’t want to convey that. I don’t want that to communicate.”
NASCAR Xfinity series driver Michael McDowell led Brandon Jones and Riley Herbst in Watkins Glen International’s Glen Mission 200 on August 9, 2025. (Memories of Matthew O’Haren/Imagn)
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It is not clear whether Hill will have further discipline. Nasca suspended A few weeks ago, he had a race in Iowa crash.
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