NASCAR XFINITY SERIES: PLAYOFFS | CHAMPIONSHIP 4

November 1, 2025

Jesse Love

Frontstretch Quotes

An Interview with:

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Q. Jesse Love, first-time champion. Congratulations. You are the NASCAR Xfinity Series champion for 2025. This has been the dream. What does this mean for you?

JESSE LOVE: I just feel so clean, relieved. It's been a tough year for me. Man, I've just put so much work into it. People like my dad and Scott Speed, my whole 2 team, have worked just as hard for my dream as I have for my own.

Man, thank you to Whelen. For one last time this car was fast as Xfinity Mobile. It really hasn't set in yet. I just tried to tune out all the emotion. It doesn't feel real at all (smiling).

Q. The pass over Connor, you had to pass him in order to win this championship. Walk me through that.

JESSE LOVE: Yeah, he's my best friend in the whole world, but not when we're racing each other.

We race each other hard, but fair. Yeah, my I had to take it through. I knew he was going to put in my door. I knew I had to throttle up and just get my nose ahead. He was running a really good race. My car was just better tonight and allowed me to roll off the center and get off the corner better.

Hats off to the 88 team and Connor for all they've done this year. Tonight, I can't even believe it, you know?

Q. It wasn't necessarily an easy race. A little bit of a roller coaster. We didn't see you out front till the end there. How did you keep your head in the game?

JESSE LOVE: We were so bad to start. I couldn't believe how bad we were. We were awful. Danny put one of his magic wrenches in there and we came to life.

I'm so grateful for everybody at ECR, back in North Carolina, Marty Houston, all the boys, Chevrolet. I'm forgetting a laundry list of people. This means the world to me. Everybody that's been on this journey with me over the last few years, especially the last probably eight months or so, I've really tried to just rebuild myself and come back better.

Oh, I feel so just clean and relieved.