Last year, Grant Enfinger was a controversial caution away from winning the Craftsman Truck Series championship with a team that was shutting down.
Despite his then-team GMS Racing’s announcement that it was ending its Truck program, Enfinger and the squad made it to the Championship 4 and finished runner-up in the standings. He may have even won the championship had Corey Heim not paid back Carson Hocevar to bring out the yellow flag.
But Enfinger was not a free agent for long.
The 10-time Truck Series winner quickly found a home at CR7 Motorsports, a team owned by Codie Rohrbaugh that Enfinger made nine starts for back in 2021 when ThorSport Racing had him splitting a truck with Christian Eckes. Despite racing for two different teams that season, Enfinger would’ve made the playoffs on points had he not missed a race early in the year due to not having a ride.
Enfinger reunited with Jeff Stankiewicz this year at the No. 9 truck. Stankiewicz was previously Enfinger’s crew chief for six of his ARCA Menards Series wins and his first career Truck win before spending the past few years with Sheldon Creed. Through the first six races, Enfinger has two top 10s and sits ninth in the standings.
Frontstretch caught up with Enfinger at Bristol Motor Speedway in March to discuss the final days at GMS and getting reacquainted with CR7 and Stankiewicz. Watch or read the interview below.
Michael Massie, Frontstretch: You’re [ninth] in points right now. How do you feel about the start of the season so far?
Grant Enfinger: Honestly, from a team standpoint, I feel really, really good. We have the right people in place. We have the right resources. There’s still some minor little kinks we’re working out at the shop, but overall I’m very, very happy.
We didn’t get the results we wanted at Daytona, didn’t really have the truck we wanted at Daytona. But we go the next week to Atlanta and had a truck that could win the race and contended for a win and just had a tire issue at the end that kind of took us out of contention there.
And then Vegas, we ended up ninth, which is probably what we deserved. We were a top-five truck at times and we were a 15th-place truck at times. So overall, that’s the three races that we have to take feedback from so far, but feel good about where we are as a team. We definitely are capable of good results and I feel like what…
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