{"id":33281,"date":"2021-04-17T22:14:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T03:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=33281"},"modified":"2021-04-18T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:50:09","slug":"john-hunter-nemechek-leads-kbm-1-2-4-finish-at-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/17\/john-hunter-nemechek-leads-kbm-1-2-4-finish-at-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hunter Nemechek leads KBM 1-2-4 finish at Richmond\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"<\/a>

John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the #4 Safeway Toyota, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway on April 17, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

By Holly Cain, NASCAR Wire Service<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

John Hunter Nemechek earned his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win in the last four races and had to hold off his boss Kyle Busch to do so Saturday afternoon. Nemechek scored the victory by a slim .307-seconds over Busch in the ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the #4 Safeway Toyota, crosses the finish line to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway on April 17, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Sean Gardner\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Nemechek, 23, led a race best 114 of the 250 laps in his No. 4 KBM Toyota, reclaiming the lead for good with 17 laps remaining after racing back from a late race pit stop. Busch, who has 12 wins overall at Richmond \u2013 six in the NASCAR Cup Series and six in the Xfinity Series \u2013 was pushing for his first truck series win at the three-quarter mile track.<\/p>\n

The KBM truck team has now won four consecutive races \u2013 two for Nemechek (Las Vegas also), Busch (Atlanta) and Martin Truex Jr. (Bristol).<\/p>\n

For a while it looked like KBM may earn a sweep \u2013 with Nemechek, Busch and teammate Chandler Smith running 1-2-3 in the waning laps, but Tyler Ankrum got around Smith with a handful of laps remaining to take third place. Smith held on for fourth place \u2013 the 19-year old\u2019s best finish of the season.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the #4 Safeway Toyota, celebrates with a burnout after winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway on April 17, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Sean Gardner\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Former series champion Johnny Sauter finished fifth, followed by Todd Gilliland, Ben Rhodes and last year\u2019s Richmond winner Grant Enfinger.  Sam Mayer and Austin Hill rounded out the Top-10. Reigning series champion Sheldon Creed was 11th.<\/p>\n

The victory for Nemechek comes just three weeks after his wife gave birth to their first child, daughter Aspen, and they were trackside in the family motorhome for Nemechek\u2019s first win as a dad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a never give up attitude,\u201d a smiling Nemechek said after the race. \u201cI just can\u2019t thank Kyle, everyone at Toyota and all our great partners. It\u2019s pretty cool to be able to come out and here do what we did. We had a really fast truck and I\u2019m super proud of all my guys and thankful for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the #4 Safeway Toyota, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway on April 17, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

The race featured two very different halves. Defending winner Enfinger led 71 of the first 73 laps and earned the Stage 1 victory \u2013 his first of the year \u2013 in a clean opening to the event. The first caution was the stage break.<\/p>\n

Busch\u2019s team got his truck out first from that opening stage caution period, but Nemechek took the lead from his team owner on a restart at lap 100 and held it for most of the duration of the event. Nemechek won Stage 2, finishing just ahead of Enfinger and claiming his series best sixth stage win.<\/p>\n

Nemechek had to really earn the top position from there on out \u2013 holding off the field again and again and again. There were seven cautions in the last 110 laps of the race.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Ben Rhodes, driver of the #99 Bombardier Toyota, leads the field to start the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway on April 17, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Matt Crafton and his ThorSport Racing teammate Johnny Sauter \u2013 along with Smith \u2013 gambled not to pit late on a caution with 55 laps remaining in the race. Nemechek and Busch and most of the frontrunners opted to pit. The KBM teammates restarted ninth and 10th with Nemechek reclaiming the lead with 17 laps to go.<\/p>\n

Busch made a run at Nemechek after getting around Smith, but was ultimately unable to get close enough to attempt a winning pass.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d Busch said of his truck team\u2019s streak. \u201cI joked with John Hunter at the beginning of the year that if you win one and then I win one and you win one and then I win one \u2013 it would be pretty good to go back and forth.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Johnny Sauter, driver of the #13 Vivitar Toyota, drives during the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond Raceway on April 17, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Sean Gardner\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think he was serious, but so far that\u2019s kind of the way it\u2019s going so I guess I get Kansas (win).\u201d<\/p>\n

The two-win tally equals the second-generation NASCAR driver\u2019s season best \u2013 and this is only the sixth race of 2021. Nemechek now holds a 20-point advantage over fellow two-race winner Rhodes in the championship standings with the next race set for May 1 at Kansas Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).<\/p>\n

 <\/h3>\n

 <\/h3>\n

Interviews:<\/h3>\n

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Post-Race: Third-place finisher Tyler Ankrum (No. 26 GMS Racing Chevrolet), second-place finisher Kyle Busch (No. 51 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota), race winner John Hunter Nemechek (No. 4 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota) – <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nhttp:\/\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/NCWTSRRPostRace041721.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race \u2013 2nd Annual ToyotaCare 250<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richmond Raceway<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richmond, Virginia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, April 17, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. (18)  John Hunter Nemechek, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  2. (12)  Kyle Busch(i), Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  3. (30)  Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, 250.<\/li>\n
  4. (23)  Chandler Smith #, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  5. (19)  Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  6. (8)  Todd Gilliland, Ford, 250.<\/li>\n
  7. (1)  Ben Rhodes, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  8. (3)  Grant Enfinger, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  9. (40)  Sam Mayer(i), Chevrolet, 250.<\/li>\n
  10. (2)  Austin Hill, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  11. (9)  Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 250.<\/li>\n
  12. (13)  Carson Hocevar #, Chevrolet, 250.<\/li>\n
  13. (4)  Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  14. (6)  Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 250.<\/li>\n
  15. (29)  Derek Kraus, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  16. (25)  Spencer Davis, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  17. (14)  Hailie Deegan #, Ford, 250.<\/li>\n
  18. (7)  Matt Crafton, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  19. (10)  Austin Wayne Self, Chevrolet, 250.<\/li>\n
  20. (28)  Danny Bohn, Toyota, 250.<\/li>\n
  21. (34)  Timmy Hill(i), Chevrolet, 250.<\/li>\n
  22. (27)  Timothy Peters, Chevrolet, 250.<\/li>\n
  23. (5)  Raphael Lessard, Chevrolet, 249.<\/li>\n
  24. (11)  Tanner Gray, Ford, 249.<\/li>\n
  25. (31)  Dawson Cram, Chevrolet, 248.<\/li>\n
  26. (36)  Jett Noland, Chevrolet, 247.<\/li>\n
  27. (26)  Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 247.<\/li>\n
  28. (15)  Chase Purdy #, Chevrolet, 245.<\/li>\n
  29. (39)  Ryan Reed, Chevrolet, 245.<\/li>\n
  30. (32)  Keith McGee, Chevrolet, 244.<\/li>\n
  31. (21)  Cory Roper, Ford, 243.<\/li>\n
  32. (38)  Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 240.<\/li>\n
  33. (37)  Josh Reaume, Toyota, 240.<\/li>\n
  34. (35)  Howie Disavino III, Chevrolet, 221.<\/li>\n
  35. (22)  Kris Wright #, Chevrolet, Accident, 212.<\/li>\n
  36. (20)  Codie Rohrbaugh, Chevrolet, Accident, 195.<\/li>\n
  37. (17)  Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, Handling, 186.<\/li>\n
  38. (33)  Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet, DVP, 168.<\/li>\n
  39. (24)  Tate Fogleman, Chevrolet, Accident, 82.<\/li>\n
  40. (16)  Ryan Truex, Chevrolet, Rear Gear, 44.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Average Speed of Race Winner:  77.072 mph.<\/p>\n

    Time of Race:  2 Hrs, 25 Mins, 58 Secs. Margin of Victory:  0.307 Seconds.<\/p>\n

    Caution Flags:  11 for 79 laps.<\/p>\n

    Lead Changes:  9 among 6 drivers.<\/p>\n

    Lap Leaders:   B. Rhodes 1-2;G. Enfinger 3-73;K. Busch(i) 74-99;J. Nemechek 100-144;B. Rhodes 145;J. Nemechek 146-197;B. Rhodes 198;M. Crafton 199-209;C. Smith # 210-233;J. Nemechek 234-250.<\/p>\n

    Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led):  John Hunter Nemechek 3 times for 114 laps; Grant Enfinger 1 time for 71 laps; Kyle Busch(i) 1 time for 26 laps; Chandler Smith # 1 time for 24 laps; Matt Crafton 1 time for 11 laps; Ben Rhodes 3 times for 4 laps.<\/p>\n

    Stage #1 Top Ten: 98,4,51,99,16,42,24,38,19,52<\/p>\n

    Stage #2 Top Ten: 4,98,99,16,51,21,24,38,19,18<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        By Holly Cain, NASCAR Wire Service John Hunter Nemechek earned his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win in the last four races and had to hold off his boss Kyle Busch to do so Saturday afternoon. Nemechek scored the victory by a slim .307-seconds over Busch in the ToyotaCare 250 at Richmond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":33285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[447,16,160,268,486],"class_list":["post-33281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-john-hunter-nemechek","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-camping-world-truck-series","tag-ncwts","tag-richmond-raceway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1313008317-scaled-e1618780894251.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-8EN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33293,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33281\/revisions\/33293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}