Majeski dominated the final stage in Saturday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway and cruised to a 4.524 second win over Zane Smith, his second series win in the last three races.
Majeski is the only driver who advanced to next weekend’s title race at Phoenix Raceway by winning his way in.
“Man, this is awesome,” Majeski said. “This place is so hard to read in practice. Nobody had any grip, right, so I didn’t really know what we had. But this (car) was bad to the bone today.
“Thank you to Joe Shear (Jr.), my crew chief, we’ve been working great this year together. I’m just so thankful we were able to make the most of this thing. We’re going to chase a championship in two weeks.”
The three other drivers who will compete for the 2022 series title are regular season champion Zane Smith, Chandler Smith and reigning champion Ben Rhodes.
Rhodes took the final position by one point over Stewart Friesen.
Friesen finished third in the race, Ryan Preece was fourth and Corey Heim rounded out the top-five.
Completing the top-10 were Rhodes, Christian Eckes, Matt Crafton, Parker Kligerman and Chandler Smith.
Stage 3
Following the break between Stages 2 and 3, the lead-lap trucks all pit with Preece first off pit road. Kaden Honeycutt had a loose wheel on pit road and had to restart from the rear of the field.
On the restart on Lap 67, Preece was followed by Majeski, Eckes and Zane Smith.
Majeski powered to the front on the inside line on the restart to take the lead for the first time in the race.
On Lap 80, Grant Enfinger – who was running sixth at the time – hit the wall and was forced to pit under green with a flat right-front tire.
With 40 laps remaining, Majeski maintained less than a half-second lead over Zane Smith as some drivers kicked off a final round of green-flag pit stops to take new tires and fuel to make it to the end of the race.
Once the cycle of stops was completed on Lap 102, Majeski returned to the lead. He was followed by Zane Smith, Preece and Friesen.
With 20 laps to go, Majeski had built a 1.6-second lead over Zane Smith as Preece remained in third, more than 11 seconds behind the leader.
Majeski’s lead over Zane Smith approached five seconds with five laps remaining in the race.
Stage 2
Zane Smith held off Majeski to claim the Stage 2 win, his eighth stage win of the 2022 season.
Preece was third, Friesen fourth and Rhodes completed the top-five.
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