Dillon beats teammate in rainy Xfinity race

Austin Dillon and Daniel Hemric didn’t have much time to battle for the lead after the final restart.

As long as one of them was in front when the rain came, Richard Childress Racing was going to win.

Dillon ended up beating his teammate Saturday in the rain-shortened NASCAR Xfinity race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich.

The race was delayed around three hours at the start because of the weather, and there had been a threat of more rain for a while before the race was finally called after 91 of the planned 125 laps.

Dillon, in his No. 3 Chevrolet, fought with Hemric’s No. 21 on a restart on the 89th lap, but the race went under caution again almost immediately because of the weather.

“We definitely needed that win for our Xfinity Series team,” said Dillon, a Cup Series driver who won this year’s Daytona 500. “It was great to have the 21 up there shoving me around. He had our back. If we didn’t have the strategy, the rain coming, he was going to have a great shot to win also.”

It was the ninth career Xfinity victory for Dillon, and his first in 2018.

Qualifying earlier in the day was canceled because of the weather at the 2-mile track. Kyle Busch started the race at the front based on owner points.

Like at last weekend’s Xfinity race at Pocono, NASCAR used a restrictor plate package.

“My hats are off to NASCAR for looking at different packages for our product out there,” Childress said.

Formula One: Sebastian Vettel has claimed the pole position in the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix with the fastest lap ever on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Vettel steered his Ferrari over the 2.71-mile track in 1 minute, 10.764 seconds to deprive Lewis Hamilton of a record seventh pole in Montreal.