By David Morgan, Associate Editor
AVONDALE, Ariz. – The short track ace delivered.
Ty Majeski has had Phoenix Raceway circled on the calendar for months, knowing that if he and his No. 98 ThorSport Racing team made it to the season finale as one of the four NASCAR Truck Series championship contenders, the title would have to go through them.
With all but one of his now six career wins coming on short tracks, Majeski had the skillset necessary to get the job done on the one-mile Phoenix oval and from the time he and his team were on the ground here, they never wavered in their belief this was their year.
After placing third in practice, Majeski went out and scored the pole, setting himself up in the best position possible for Friday night’s title fight.
From the drop of the green flag, it was clear that Majeski would be the truck to beat all night, leading four times for a total of 132 laps, but with three cautions to start the final stage, there were some nail-biting moments on top of the No. 98 pit box with the chaotic nature of restarts on the Phoenix oval.
Fortunately for Majeski and his crew, the final restart with 27 laps to go went about as well as it could as he was able to pull away from his closest championship competitor in Corey Heim, leaving them in the dust as he would eventually cross the line with a 3.945 second advantage when the checkered flag flew to crown him as champion.
The other championship contenders in Christian Eckes and Grant Enfinger would finish the race in third and fifth-place, respectively.
“I knew yesterday. I was so relaxed. We unloaded top of the boards and I knew we were gonna have a truck to beat tonight. We just had to execute every single restart, and I felt like I did that,” said Majeski.
“I put a lot of emphasis on that coming into this race. A lot of times this race is won and lost on restarts and thankfully we had a little bit of a long run. Those last 20 laps or so were the longest of my career. A huge thank you to all of our partners – Road Ranger, Soda Sense, Curb Records, Duke and Rhonda Thorson, Ali Thorson.
“Everything that they do they’ve given us so many tools to go out and win championships like this and thankfully we were able to execute for them tonight.”
After a couple of false starts in his driving career, Majeski landed at ThorSport in 2021, where he earned his keep as an engineer with four part-time starts.
The following year, he…
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