NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Riley Herbst overcame a pair of pit road speeding penalties and a series of late-race cautions to lead Ford with a 10th-place finish in Saturday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Nashville Superspeedway.

Austin Cindric was once again a contender for the checkered flag, but saw his chances disappear with 25 laps to go when he got collected in a multi-car accident on the frontstretch.  Prior to that, he had won the first stage by leading all 45 laps and was consistently in the top 10 all afternoon.

Ryan Sieg rounded out the Ford driver lineup with a 16th-place finish after being involved in a couple of late-race incidents.

Despite his late-race bad luck, Cindric remains comfortably atop the series point standings, 90 ahead of second-place AJ Allmendinger.

The series will be back in action as the first half of a Pocono doubleheader on Sunday at 12 Noon ET (NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Ford Finishing Results:
10th -- Riley Herbst
16th -- Ryan Sieg
32nd -- Austin Cindric

AUSTIN CINDRIC, No. 22 Car Shop Ford Mustang
“I wish we would have been able to regain our track position there a little bit better.  That’s probably the only thing we could have done to avoid getting wrecked there.  I drove all the way down to the grass and got right-reared and went head-on into the wall.  It’s unfortunate for our Car Shop Ford Mustang.  We obviously had some speed early and were kind of trying to recover.  We got out of the groove there for a while and thought we were making some gains.  We learned a lot today, but it’s a shame.  Every time we get up to a 100-point points lead, we end up getting wrecked.  It’s frustrating, but that’s racing.  There’s nothing you can do.”

RILEY HERBST, No. 98 Monster Energy Ford Mustang
“It was a long day.  We came from the back twice.  I felt like we had a pretty decent long run race car, it’s just that we couldn’t get the long run at the end and cycled too tight at the last restart.  It’s cool to get a 10th-place and some good points for the playoffs.  We’ll head to Pocono.”

ANYTHING YOU CAN POINT TO FOR THE SPEEDING PENALTIES TODAY? 
“I don’t know.  I guess you try to be perfect and when you try to be perfect you can step over the line a little bit.”

RYAN SIEG, No. 39 CMR Construction and Roofing/A-Game Ford Mustang
YOU WERE BATTLING FOR A TOP-10 FINISH AND THEN A LOT HAPPENED THE LAST 20 LAPS TO TAKE THAT AWAY.  WHAT HAPPENED? 
“The 9 just got down on our door and we were just a little too free, but that’s how we had to race to be good at the end.  We just drove it in a little hard and got washed up and you know he’s gonna ride my door.  I tried to stay off of him, but, all in all, it was a good day.  We just didn’t get the result that we deserved.  We’ve made gains the past four or five weeks on the car.  It drove really good all day, so we’ve been fine-tuning our setups and getting some positives.”