Grant Enfinger‘s return to GMS Racing has now bore fruit as the Alabama native finished third in Friday’s (May 6) Dead On Tools 200 at Darlington Raceway.
Enfinger started third in the rain-delayed race and was in prime position to capitalize if leaders John Hunter Nemechek and Carson Hocevar tangled in the two laps of overtime, but Enfinger stayed in third.
“I was hoping with new tires that we’d have enough mechanical grip to hold it,” Enfinger said after the race. “We were just leaning on the air so much with these trucks, you lose a little bit so it’s a big deal. We were committed, we were fighting to steal the lead right there, more or less. If we could’ve stolen the lead right there, who knows? Maybe we could’ve made something happen, but we finished P3 and that’s the truck we had all night.
“[…] We struggled the first few races of the year but I do feel like we got a direction, feel like we’re gaining on it. I got all the confidence in the world we’re gonna unload next week at Kansas [Speedway] with a shot to win.”
The 2022 season was a homecoming of sorts for Enfinger with his return to GMS after getting his first Truck Series win with the team back in 2016 at Talladega. His first full-time campaign in truck competition came in 2017 with ThorSport Racing, winning several races and nearly being crowned the 2020 champion. The following year, however, brought shuffling within ThorSport and leaving him on the outside of a full-time ride. Enfinger drove part-time in 2021, competing in all but one race in a split schedule for ThorSport and CR7 Motorsports.
For 2022, Enfinger returned to GMS and to a full time seat, but not the start he wanted: two finishes outside the top 20 to start the year followed by a 12th at Atlanta Motor Speedway and his first top 10, which came at Circuit of the Americas. What followed were back-to-back eighth place efforts, capped off with the third-place effort at the Lady in Black.
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