RICHMOND, Va. — Grant Enfinger nearly ended his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series winless streak on Saturday night (Aug. 10).
Instead, the 10-time Trucks winner left Richmond Raceway with a fourth-place result, with his winless streak growing dangerously close to a year. His last win was at the Milwaukee Mile on Aug. 27, 2023. The next race on the Trucks’ schedule is Milwaukee on Sunday, Aug. 25.
Enfinger led a career-high 98 laps on Saturday, but lost the lead for good to Ty Majeski with eight laps to go. He had already lost control of the race to Majeski on a restart just over 20 laps to go when the two made contact with the No. 98 truck emerging ahead.
Enfinger was none too pleased with the contact from Majeski.
“[I needed] a clean restart there,” Enfinger said. “Got ran over with just kind of Truck Series chaos there. You got a restart with 25 [laps] to go or whatever, line up on the top, you know that can happen, right?
“I thought I gave him [Majeski] plenty of room for whatever may have transpired down there to have us enough room, and still I got ran over and killed the left side of our truck. That kind of took our chances away. After that, just super loose.”
Enfinger led one more lap on the night when he beat Majeski to the line on the final restart with eight laps to go, but the No. 98 cleared the Fairhope, Ala., native coming off turn 2 and never looked back.
Had Enfinger held on for the win, it would’ve been the first win for his team, CR7 Motorsports, who he just joined up with this season. Still, Enfinger notched his fifth top five of the season, and he was already locked into the Truck playoffs on points entering Saturday’s race.
The No. 9 truck was solid all night, but it wasn’t a winning truck when the race started. Enfinger never led until lap 116 of the 250-lap event.
“Overall, I felt like Jeff [Stankiewicz, crew chief] unloaded with a really good Grant County Mulch Chevrolet,” Enfinger said. “I felt like we weren’t where we needed to be to win the race the first stage. Jeff wasn’t scared to work on it.”
Once Enfinger got the lead, he held it for the 96 of the next 105 laps.
“I do think we were a truck capable of winning after our second pit stop,” Enfinger said. “From that point on, I felt really good about our truck.”
Unfortunately for Enfinger, the caution flag kept coming out as the laps closed down. That allowed Corey Heim to pit for 30-lap…
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