Ben Rhodes finished seventh in the Blu-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 at Kansas Speedway on Friday.
The top-10 finish for Rhodes added 41 points to his season total. He has 319 total points, good enough for second place in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series.
Rhodes started in fifth position and led three laps in the race, holding the lead a total of two times. The sixth-year driver has earned two career victories, with 27 top-five finishes and 52 results inside the top 10.
In his career at Kansas Speedway, Rhodes has compiled one top-five finish and his seventh-place result marks the first top-10.
The Louisville, Kentucky native’s starting and finishing positions compared favorably to his career averages, starting four spots higher than his career mark of 9.1 and completing the race five places ahead of his 11.8 career average finish.
Rhodes’ seventh-place finish was against a field of 38 drivers. The race endured four cautions and 19 caution laps. Prior to the checkered flag there were 17 lead changes.
Austin Hill took the checkered flag in the race, and Brett Moffitt took second. Grant Enfinger crossed the finish line third, Matt Crafton secured fourth, and Derek Kraus closed out the top five.
After Moffitt won Stage 1, Hill grabbed control and won Stage 2 before taking the checkered flag.