{"id":47556,"date":"2024-08-10T22:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T03:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=47556"},"modified":"2024-08-11T10:49:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T15:49:57","slug":"majeski-wins-second-consecutive-race-in-regular-season-finale-truck-playoff-field-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/majeski-wins-second-consecutive-race-in-regular-season-finale-truck-playoff-field-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Majeski wins second consecutive race in regular season finale; Truck Playoff field set"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ty Majeski, driver of the #98 Soda Sense\/Curb Records Ford, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Clean Harbors 250 at Richmond Raceway on August 10, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Sean Gardner\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

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

RICHMOND, Va. \u2013 Ty Majeski took the lead on a restart with eight laps remaining in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series regular season finale Clean Harbors 250 at Richmond (Va.) Raceway to hoist his second consecutive race trophy.<\/p>\n

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Ty Majeski, driver of the #98 Soda Sense\/Curb Records Ford, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Clean Harbors 250 at Richmond Raceway on August 10, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Logan Whitton\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Majeski\u2019s No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford led Christian Eckes\u2019 No. 19 Chevy across the finish line by a slight .936-seconds to earn the win and vindicate a gut-wrenching loss at the three-quarter mile Richmond track from a year ago when he dominated the race only to lose the lead with four laps remaining.<\/p>\n

That tough loss was still very much on the mind of the 29-year old Wisconsin native this weekend. And he nearly gave this one away too after receiving a pit road penalty when a tire got loose on his first pit stop during the Stage 1 break.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis feels good, we\u2019ve had great ThorSport trucks here at Richmond the last two years, but found different ways to lose them (races) and tried to do that again tonight \u2019\u2019 said Majeski, who now has five career wins in the series.<\/p>\n

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Ty Majeski, driver of the #98 Soda Sense\/Curb Records Ford, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Clean Harbors 250 at Richmond Raceway on August 10, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Logan Whitton\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe really need to clean that stuff up.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Eckes, driver of the No. 19 McAnally-Hilgemann Chevrolet officially claimed the regular season championship in winning Saturday night\u2019s opening stage \u2013 his series best eighth stage victory of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cConfidence is high for sure,\u2019\u2019 said Eckes, a three-race winner in 2024. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re in a better position than we were last year and I thought we were in a pretty good position last year too. Real proud of the team. We didn\u2019t have quite what we needed today but proud of everybody and ready to get these next seven races underway.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Christian Eckes, driver of the #19 Instacoat Premium Products Chevrolet, leads the field to the green flag to start the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Clean Harbors 250 at Richmond Raceway on August 10, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Logan Whitton\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

For the first time in the modern Playoff format, a driver raced his way into championship contention in the last cutoff race. Daniel Dye, 20, finished eighth in the No. 43 McAnally-Hilgemann Chevrolet \u2013 good enough to put him in the Playoffs by 12-points over TRICON Garage Racing\u2019s Tanner Gray, who finished 12th.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust all the hard work these guys have put in and it\u2019s really good to validate myself and the work I\u2019ve put in to change up what I\u2019ve been doing,\u2019\u2019 Dye said. \u201cIt\u2019s so cool to have our 43 in the Playoffs.<\/p>\n

Tanner Gray stood by his car, understandably frustrated with the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just weren\u2019t good enough,\u2019\u2019 Tanner Gray said. \u201cDidn\u2019t have the speed, didn\u2019t have the balance and I didn\u2019t do a good enough job, so I\u2019m really frustrated.”<\/p>\n

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Christian Eckes, driver of the #19 Instacoat Premium Products Chevrolet, leads the field to start the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Clean Harbors 250 at Richmond Raceway on August 10, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Sean Gardner\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

His younger brother Taylor Gray finished third Saturday night, followed by veteran Grant Enfinger and rookie Layne Riggs. The third-place finish was enough to secure Gray\u2019s position in the 10-driver Playoff field and comes in his first full-time season. Fourth-place finisher Enfinger led the most laps \u2013 98 of the 250 \u2013 and earned the Stage 2 win; his first stage victory since last season.<\/p>\n

Tyler Ankrum, defending series champion Ben Rhodes, Dye, Ty Dillon and rookie Connor Hall rounded out the top-10 in Saturday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

The 10-driver Playoff field will include TRICON Garage\u2019s Corey Heim, a five-race winner who holds a three-point advantage on Eckes to start the seven-race Playoff run. Majeski goes into the Playoff run ranked third, followed by fellow race winners this season, Nick Sanchez and Rajah Caruth.<\/p>\n

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Connor Hall, driver of the #91 A-All Mini Storage Chevrolet, Matt Crafton, driver of the #88 Serta\/Menards Ford, and Dean Thompson, driver of the #5 Thompson Pipe Group Toyota, race during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Clean Harbors 250 at Richmond Raceway on August 10, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Logan Whitton\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Enfinger is seeded sixth followed by Ankrum, Taylor Gray, Rhodes and Dye.<\/p>\n

The Playoff opener, the LiUNA 175, is Aug. 25 at the Milwaukee Mile Speedway (4 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are my first two wins outside of the playoffs and they\u2019re right on the cusp of the playoffs, so this team just seems to click right around playoff time,\u2019\u2019 Majeski said. \u201cBetween that and a lot of these racetracks are just our bread and butter. [Crew chief] Joe [Shear] and I, I feel like we\u2019re pretty good at these last two racetracks and we\u2019re going to another familiar one in Milwaukee and the way that this playoff schedule lays out is pretty good for our team. I\u2019m excited to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interview:<\/h3>\n

Race Winner Ty Majeski (No. 98 Ford ThorSport Racing) – <\/p>\n

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NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Race – Clean Harbors 250<\/b><\/p>\n

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

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

Saturday, August 10, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n

                  1. (2)  Ty Majeski, Ford, 250.<\/p>\n

                  2. (1)  Christian Eckes, Chevrolet, 250.<\/p>\n

                  3. (7)  Taylor Gray, Toyota, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  4. (3)  Grant Enfinger, Chevrolet, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  <\/span>5. (4)  Layne Riggs #, Ford, 250.<\/p>\n

                  6. (10)  Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, 250.<\/p>\n

                  7. (11)  Ben Rhodes, Ford, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  8. (13)  Daniel Dye, Chevrolet, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  9. (19)  Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  10. (21)  Connor Hall, Chevrolet, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  11. (29)  Stefan Parsons, Chevrolet, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  12. (26)  Tanner Gray, Toyota, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  13. (23)  Jake Garcia, Ford, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  14. (8)  Kaden Honeycutt, Chevrolet, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  15. (17)  Matt Crafton, Ford, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  <\/span>16. (6)  Corey Heim, Toyota, 250.<\/p>\n

                  17. (16)  Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, 250.<\/p>\n

                  18. (25)  Lawless Alan, Ford, 250.<\/p>\n

                  19. (24)  Timmy Hill, Toyota, 250.<\/p>\n

                  20. (20)  Chase Purdy, Chevrolet, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  21. (22)  Bret Holmes, Chevrolet, 250.<\/span><\/p>\n

                  <\/span>22. (5)  William Sawalich, Toyota, 249.<\/p>\n

                  23. (15)  Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, 249.<\/p>\n

                  24. (32)  Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 249.<\/p>\n

                  25. (12)  Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 248.<\/p>\n

                  26. (31)  Mason Massey, Chevrolet, 247.<\/p>\n

                  27. (34)  Justin Carroll, Toyota, 247.<\/p>\n

                  28. (33)  Mason Maggio, Ford, 246.<\/p>\n

                  29. (27)  Connor Zilisch(i), Chevrolet, Accident, 236.<\/p>\n

                  30. (9)  Nick Sanchez, Chevrolet, Clutch, 227.<\/p>\n

                  31. (28)  Conner Jones #, Ford, Electrical, 180.<\/p>\n

                  32. (14)  Dean Thompson, Toyota, Accident, 155.<\/p>\n

                  33. (30)  Thad Moffitt #, Chevrolet, Accident, 148.<\/p>\n

                  34. (35)  Keith McGee, Ford, Accident, 147.<\/p>\n

                  35. (18)  Matt Mills, Chevrolet, Accident, 55.<\/p>\n

                  36. (36)  Jerry Bohlman, Chevrolet, Too Slow, 17.<\/p>\n

Average Speed of Race Winner:  77.426 mph.<\/p>\n

Time of Race:  2 Hrs, 25 Mins, 18 Secs. Margin of Victory:  0.936 Seconds.<\/p>\n

Caution Flags:  9 for 69 laps.<\/p>\n

Lead Changes:  12 among 7 drivers.<\/p>\n

Lap Leaders:   C. Eckes 1-12;T. Majeski 13-63;C. Eckes 64-115;G. Enfinger 116-125;T. Gray 126-130;T. Dillon 131-134;G. Enfinger 135-220;C. Heim 221-226;W. Sawalich 227-229;G. Enfinger 230;T. Majeski 231-241;G. Enfinger 242;T. Majeski 243-250.<\/p>\n

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led):  Grant Enfinger 4 times for 98 laps; Ty Majeski 3 times for 70 laps; Christian Eckes 2 times for 64 laps; Corey Heim 1 time for 6 laps; Taylor Gray 1 time for 5 laps; Ty Dillon 1 time for 4 laps; William Sawalich 1 time for 3 laps.<\/p>\n

Stage #1 Top Ten: 19,17,9,99,38,43,88,11,2,71<\/p>\n

Stage #2 Top Ten: 9,19,43,38,11,99,71,18,17,66<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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