LINCOLN, Ala. — Caesar Bacarella earned his highest finish to date in a NASCAR Xfinity Series race with his fifth-place finish Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway.
After starting 25th in the United Rentals 250, Bacarella found himself among the Top-5 on the final lap after avoiding crashes throughout the race.
Bacarella compared the racing at a superspeedway to “playing chess with a rattlesnake. You gotta pick every move, and the next thing you know, you get bit in the ass.”
Prior to Talladega, Bacarella’s highest finish was 6th at Talladega in 2023.
“Top-5, I’ll take it all day long,” Bacarella said, giving the credit to his Alpha Prime Racing team. “…We earned it, that’s huge.”
Bacarella had Stefan Parsons on standby as he battled a sinus infection and a headache, but Bacarella finished the entire 100-lap race.
The 49-year-old driver said he enjoys racing these superspeedways because of the chance of winning smaller teams have against the big teams.
For Bacarella, he said his biggest lesson from the Talladega race was patience.
“I think we made all the right choices,” Bacarella said.
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.
Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.
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