This MNR Review is presented by Monday Night Racing.
On Monday, Feb. 13, the Interstate Batteries Monday Night Racing Pro Series concluded its sixth season of competition with the running of the GridRival MNR Season 6 Championship race in the NASCAR Xfinity cars at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Corey Heim overcame a lap one pass-through penalty to win the race and the championship in an overtime finish. For the second week in a row, David Schildhouse finished in the runner-up spot. Adam Cabot settled for third, Bailey Turner brought it home fourth, and Collin Fern completed the top five finishers.
Check out the race recap from Frontstretch’s Joy Tomlinson here. You can also view the full race broadcast, along with the Frontstretch post-race show, featuring Brandon Hauff and Michael Massie, on the Frontstretch YouTube Channel. Here are the top five storylines from the season six finale:
1) Heim’s Journey From Worst to First
The odyssey that was Heim’s race at Homestead started last week at Chicagoland when Heim, who was 20 laps down at the time, blocked second-place Schildhouse. His teammate Leighton Sibille benefitted from the move to win the race and locked up a spot in the Championship 4. Sibille would wind up sixth overall and third among the championship drivers at Homestead.
MNR officials took notice of this and penalized Heim for manipulating the outcome of the race with his aggressive driving. As a result, Heim had to drive down pit road on the opening lap of the 200-lap championship race.
From the drop of the green, it was evident that Heim had winning speed, starting from the pole and coming out of pit road still on the lead lap. Slowly but surely, Heim ate into the deficit between himself and the other championship contenders, inching his way into the top 10 in the second half of the race. With a caution, Heim could put himself back in the championship conversation.
The only problem is that for the longest time, that caution never came. Everything changed on lap 162 when Will Rodgers in the No. 7 got into it with the No. 32 of Dakotah Curtis in turn four, and the yellow flag made its first of four appearances on the evening.
With the gap now all but erased, Heim would make aggressive moves on the ensuing restarts to navigate his way to the front and hold off Cabot through an overtime restart to win his third race of season six and add his name to the list of MNR champions.
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