Rhodes, the reigning series champion, lined up fourth on a restart with four of 150 laps remaining and quickly moved to second, then dove to the inside of leader Carson Hocevar with three to go and back into the lead.
He held off Hocevar by 0.824 seconds for the victory, his first of the 2022 season. Rhodes finished second in the inaugural Bristol Truck race on dirt last season.
Rhodes was able to battle back to the front after failing to heed a call by bis crew to pit after the first stage.
Because of the miscue, he was forced to pit at the end of Stage 2 (teams had to pit at the end of at least one of the stages). That left him in 13th place when the final, 50-lap stage went green.
“I thought we gave it away for a moment,” Rhodes said of the mistake not to pit. “Coming back through the pack like that was really, really tough. It wasn’t something we wanted to do.
“My crew gave me such an awesome Toyota Tundra this weekend that I wasn’t going to let them down. I…
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