Ryan Preece Goes Back-to-Back At Nashville

Ryan Preece picked up right where he left off in 2021 at Nashville Superspeedway, winning his second career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, both coming at the 1.33-mile oval in back-to-back years.

Preece and runner-up Zane Smith combined to lead 144 laps of the 150-lap event. Preece looked to have run away with the race after the final restart with 10 laps to go, but suddenly lost momentum with three laps to go, allowing Smith and Carson Hocevar to close to his bumper to give the fans a show for the last two laps. After Smith washed up the track on the last lap while attempting to pass Preece, Hocevar took second away. However, Smith crossed underneath Hocevar off of turn 4 to maintain second as Preece flashed under the checkered.

“I don’t ever like it to be that close,” Preece told FOX Sports 1, “But hats off to DGR [David Gilliland Racing] and this Hunt Brothers Ford F-150.”

In winning the race on Friday (June 24), Preece also won $50,000, as the race was the second leg of the Camping World Triple Truck Challenge. He also gets himself a second Gibson guitar.

“…We get a second guitar, I might have to start a band!”

David Gilliland Racing has now won back-to-back races in 2022, after Todd Gilliland dominated at Knoxville Raceway to take the win in the same No. 17 that Preece won with.

Coming home fourth was Ty Majeski, followed by Stewart Friesen. Christian Eckes, Tyler Ankrum, Max Gutierrez, John Hunter Nemechek, and Matt Crafton rounded out the top 10 in sixth through 10th, respectively.

Wood Wiped Out

Jack Wood’s rookie campaign has been anything but smooth, and it continued tonight, as he was run into from behind by Crafton, sending him into the turn 4 wall hard just seven laps into the race. It was a disappointing and quick end to a promising night for Wood, who qualified 10^th for the race, his best effort of the season.

Wood still described the incident as a racing deal, telling FOX Sports 1, “Matt is a good guy, I don’t think he did that on purpose.”

Stage Winners were… well, isn’t it obvious?

It’s worth restating that Preece and Smith were the class of the field, leading all but six laps combined on the night. So it shouldn’t be all too surprising that they split the stage victories tonight – Smith took stage one, while Preece captured stage two.

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