Grant Enfinger made an impressive three-wide pass for the lead with 31 laps to go to win his first Craftsman Truck Series race of the season at Kansas Speedway on Saturday (May 6).
As Zane Smith and Corey Heim were fighting for the lead, Enfinger swung way down low with a ton of momentum the backstretch to pass both of them in turn 3. Heim finished second, while Smith finished third. The top five was completed by Stewart Friesen and Ross Chastain.
Top Storylines of the Race
- Toni Breidinger made her Truck Series debut in TRICON Garage’s No. 1, just hours after finishing 11th in the ARCA Menards Series race earlier in the afternoon. She finished a respectable 15th in the truck race.
- Also making his debut after several prior attempts to do so was Justin Carroll. Carroll announced as early as 2020 that he would go racing in the Truck Series, but didn’t have the funding to compete in 2021, then failed to qualify for all five races he attempted in 2022. He also failed to qualify at Martinsville Speedway this year as well before finally making the show.
- Johnny Sauter made his return to the Series, driving the No. 04 for Roper Racing in the first of multiple races, per the team. Sauter replaced Kaden Honeycutt, whose six-race deal with the team was up, leaving him without a ride.
- Both stages found eventful changes for the lead, with Kyle Busch winning stage one and Ty Majeski taking stage two.
- Majeski and Rajah Caruth were battling hard with each other inside the top five ever since the restart that began the final stage. It came to a head on lap 69, when both trucks ended up in the outside wall heading down the frontstretch, taking Caruth out of the race. Some believed that Caruth blocked too many times; others (including Caruth himself) believed Majeski just wrecked the No. 24. But the unfortunate truth is that Caruth had a bad fast truck and will have to wait to contend for that first win. The two talked it out after the race.
- On the ensuing restart, the field didn’t even get to turn one before polesitter Christian Eckes turned Matt DiBenedetto, wrecking both of them, as well as Carson Hocevar, Dean Thompson and Chase Purdy. Purdy had the wreck missed until Eckes slid down the track right into Purdy’s path, resulting in a high-speed t-bone right into Eckes’ driver’s side door. Fortunately, all drivers involved in the accident got out under their own power.
The Winning Move
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