Trucks in the field: 36
Pole: Tanner Gray (15)
Outside Pole: Corey Heim (11)
Stages: 30-30-74
Weather Cloudy, 72°F, Feels like 75°, Wind N 1 mph, Gusts 1 mph
Missed most of this one, tuned in with 50 laps to go.
Caution on lap 119 of 134 for Chase Purdy (77) visiting the wall several times. Unfortunately that will bunch up the field giving Corey Heim another opportunity to stink-up-the-show. The only good news is that there are less than 15 laps to go.
Restarting on lap 126 of 134 with Christian Eckes (19) and Stefan Parsons (75) on the front row followed by Rajah Caruth (71) and 98.
Stefan Parsons spins his tires and bunches up the outside lane on the restart.
Corey Heim (11) from 11th to 5th on the restart.
Heim is in second behind Nick Sanchez (2) on lap 129 of 134.
Sanchez takes the white flag.
Nick Sanchez (2) wins. He also wins $50,000 for the first race in the Triple Truc Challenge. The 2 truck crew-chief Chris Showalter is very emotional, tearful, during his television interview about his 700th truck series race – he has been at every race in the series. Today is also his birthday.
Congrats to Stewart Friesen (52), Grant Enfinger (9) on third and fourth place finishes respectively.
Pleasant finish to an okay race. I don’t feel like I missed anything by tuning in so late.