A year ago, Ty Majeski was working in the shop at ThorSport Racing just hoping for a chance to race. And while he made four starts in 2021, it was hardly the full-time schedule he was supposed to run for Niece Motorsports in 2020 before it was cut short after just 15 races.
Fast forward to Friday night’s (May 14) Heart of America 200 at Kansas Speedway and he walked away with a career-best second-place finish.
“[I was] just trying to go where he (race winner Zane Smith) wasn’t, he was the class of the field all night,” Majeski explained after the race. “The last run was probably our worst run balance-wise, just a little bit too free to attack it. He could just use so much more throttle and keep his momentum up and just fell a little bit short.
But did the driver of the No. 66 Toyota have anything in his truck to put himself in victory lane ahead of Smith, who was clearly the class of the field all night?
“There was times where maybe he was vulnerable late in a run. I felt like, you know, a couple of those runs earlier on in the race, we could pace him late but I just could not fire on restarts, just really battled traffic,” Majeski continued. “And if we could have stayed in third, instead of falling back to sixth or seventh every restart, I feel like we might have had a shot to pick up some track position. But overall, solid day for us.”
The runner-up result marks Majeski’s third top five this season and his second consecutive after a fourth-place run at Darlington Raceway last weekend.
“Overall, we’re building on some good finishes here. And hopefully, we can keep building on it. And we’re close.”
On the final restart just inside 10 laps remaining, Majeski lined up in the second row behind Smith and John Hunter Nemechek, who led the field to the green flag. And taking the inside line proved to be the right decision when Nemechek spun his tires on that final restart.
“I was contemplating following him (Nemechek). But I just had…
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