FORT WORTH, Texas -- Darrell Wallace Jr. is thinking he would like to trade car numbers with Elliott Sadler.
If Wallace is a little consumed with numbers, he has a good excuse. The NASCAR Xfinity Series driver of the No. 6 car finished sixth for the fifth consecutive race Saturday afternoon at the repaved and reconfigured Texas Motor Speedway.
"I'm going to talk to Elliott," Wallace quipped about Sadler, who carries the No. 1 car. "I have to buy his number."
With about nine laps remaining Saturday, Wallace said he had 10 car lengths on the driver behind him, so he looked up at the scoring pylon.
"I'm coming down the front stretch, and I'm looking, looking [at the pylon], and I'm like, 'There's no way that we are in sixth,'" Wallace said. "Then [I was told], 'Clear by five [lengths], and I'm like, 'Oh, stop looking.' I had no idea until that point."
Wallace, who still needs sponsorship this year following a season in which he finished 11th in the standings, will gladly take the sixth-place finishes, in many of which he has had to come back from adversity. He was spun with 134 laps left Saturday and rallied for sixth place.
"A lot of people are telling me I'm better than sixth," said Wallace, who sits fourth in the standings. "You won't see me complaining one bit if we do finish sixth. This is another good day for us.
"We're a top-10 car, no doubt, every weekend. That's been a big improvement from last year, where we were a top-20, top-15 car at best."
Wallace's streak is the series' second-longest with the same finish in the top 10, one behind the six straight second-place finishes by Jack Ingram in 1983.
Erik Jones, 20, led 112 of 200 laps en route to his seventh career Xfinity win. He got this one at the 1½-mile track where he first got to Victory Lane two years ago.
Jones finished a half-second ahead of Ryan Blaney, another full-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver and the second-place qualifier for Sunday's race. Blaney led 43 laps and went into his final pit stop with the lead before Jones went back in front for good on lap 156.
"We passed him before the last pit stop, and I thought our car was pretty decent right there," Blaney said. "We didn't come out with the lead, and that hurt us. I think if we would have come out with the lead, I don't know if I could have held him off."
Only nine drivers finished on the lead lap.
Kevin Harvick, the pole sitter for Sunday's Cup race, finished third, more than 21 seconds off the lead but ahead of Austin Dillon and Cole Custer.
Sadler kept the Xfinity season points lead after a 10th-place finish, the first driver off the lead lap. But his gap over William Byron, who finished seventh and got points in the first two stages, was trimmed from 17 to six points.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.