After a wreck of 17 trucks effectively ended Kyle Busch Motorsports’ stranglehold at the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Sheldon Creed overtook Ben Rhodes in the last two reboots and won LiftKits4Less.com 200 at Darlington Raceway on Friday night.
Creed drove a GMS Racing No. 2 Chevrolet, the livery of which was a tribute to the late Jason Leffler, and took the lead from runner-up Rhodes after restarting on lap 140 in a side-by-side fight. </ After Danny Bohn's spin produced the 11th warning of the race on lap 141, Creed prevailed again on a restart on lap 146 when Rhodes broke loose, slipped and lost ground. Fittingly, the race ended under yellow for Hailie Deegan's last lap on the front track.
This caution was the 12th of the race for a total of 66 of the 147 laps.
Creed, the series’ defending champion, received a bonus of 50,000 US dollars for winning the first Triple Truck Challenge event of the season.
« It feels great, » said Creed after a celebratory burnout on the front track. « I certainly didn’t have the best truck there … I was very tight. Then I broke away there and just did everything I could.
» I was very aggressive on restart – that’s what it is needs. We fought, but we keep going. We’re getting better trucks in the past few weeks. I’m just asking for trucks to race in.
The win was Creed’s first of the season, the first at Darlington and the sixth of his career. This not only stopped a record series of five wins in a row for KBM, but also broke Toyota’s seven-race monopoly for the start of the season.
However, before a groundbreaking restart on lap 117, the KBM drivers seemed to be in control about the race. Series leader and stage two winner John Hunter Nemechek held the point down with teammate Corey Heim, who debuted at NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on one of NASCAR’s most challenging tracks.
Big differences in However, the tire strategy resulted in an accordion effect on restart as trucks with newer tires pushed trucks that had problems slowing performance. Nemechek and Heim both turned sideways from contact from behind, and chaos reigned in their wake.
A total of 17 of the 33 trucks still running were damaged in the wreck, including all three KBM entries.
That set the stage for Creed and Rhodes to fight for victory. Rhodes had recovered from two flat tires and a penalty for pitting early to work his way back.« I saw us go into the corner we were after wanted to push down so I tried working our way back up to give us a line so we could get out side by side out of (curve) 2 but we got really loose. Rhodes said about the final restart. “Luckily we saved it, but it was an up and down night. I had a lot of fun.
“We adjusted to a long end with our Bombardier tundra – with similarly low pressure and then, lo and behold, red flags and caution after caution after caution. So what are you doing right He had newer seven lap tires, some help with the restart and I think the conditions were perfect for him but I’m not going to sulk about it. I drive a racing car. I’m happy. «
Sunoco newcomer Carson Hocevar finished third, followed by Matt Crafton, Grant Enfinger and Johnny Sauter as ThorSport Racing finished four trucks in the top six. Timmy Hill finished seventh and Nemechek recovered to eighth Austin Wayne Self and Jordan Anderson completed the top 10.
[…] This set the stage for Creed and Rhodes to fight for victory, as Rhodes had recovered from two flat tires and a penalty for running early the box had gone to work our way back up. « I saw us walk into the corner we wanted to push down into, so I tried to work our way back up to get a line so we can get side by side out of (turn) 2 but we really got loose. Rhodes said of the final restart. « Luckily we saved it, but it was an up and down night. I had one Lots of fun. “We met up there with ours Bombardier tundra set on a long end – with similarly low pressure and then, lo and behold, red flags and caution after caution after caution. So what are you doing right He had newer seven lap tires, some help with the restart and I think the conditions were perfect for him but I’m not going to sulk about it. I drive a racing car. I’m glad. « Sunoco newcomer Carson Hocevar finished third, followed by Matt Crafton, Grant Enfinger and Johnny Sauter as ThorSport Racing finished four trucks in the top six. Timmy Hill finished seventh and Nemechek recovered to eighth. Austin Wayne Self and Jordan Anderson completed the top 10. RESULTS Source link […]
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