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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Drivers in the field for the inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994 reconvened at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this Sunday for a group photo, celebrating the stock-car history that was made 30 years ago. That moment will be rekindled with the current crop of NASCAR Cup Series stars, who return to the Indy oval after three years on the track’s road-course configuration.

Trying to get in that photo was an intense experience by itself, with the entry list swelling to 80-plus cars bidding for 43 spots. Longtime NASCAR official Morris Metcalfe conducted the qualifying draw with a bingo-ball hopper, with the many eyes of the Cup Series garage fixed on how the order would shape up. When Metcalfe pulled King Richard Petty’s pill and told him that his car would go out 84th in the qualifying line, Petty cracked, “That’s sometime tomorrow, right?”

Rick Mast wound up as the darling of qualifying, putting his No. 1 Ford on the pole position. Fittingly, his crew bought souvenir banners and scrubbed the “B” off them to make them read, “Rickyard 400.”

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IndyCar and sports-car drivers found their way into the picture, with IMSA champ Geoff Brabham and former Indy 500 winner Danny Sullivan slotting in midpack for their NASCAR debuts. The last qualifier on the basis of speed was Indy legend A.J. Foyt, who grabbed the 40th starting spot for what would be his final Cup Series race. “I was nervous as hell,” Foyt told the morning papers. “… I just didn’t want to be bumped out of this thing. It’s just an honor to be in this race.”

Nearly a full field of drivers ended up on the bump side, and it’s an intriguing list of competitors who missed the cut. The DNQs included drivers from the former Winston West Series (now ARCA Menards Series West) there for the combined event, a host of stock-car journeymen and would-be IndyCar invaders, plus three of NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers.

They won’t be in Sunday’s pre-race picture, but let’s remember some guys and pay tribute to the staggeringly long list of drivers who did their best but made the early trip home from Indy.

Failed to qualify

44. Joe Ruttman, No. 39 Chevrolet: The California veteran made 225 career Cup Series starts, and the Brickyard 400 was set to be among the last of them. He ended up just 0.003 seconds short of the final qualifying berth, which was snagged by Foyt. Ruttman reinvented himself the next year as a full-time competitor in the inaugural season for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, where he won 13 times in his 50s. Ruttman’s brother Troy was the 1952 Indy 500 winner.

45. Dick Trickle, No. 32 Chevrolet: The Wisconsin short-track ace couldn’t quite muster the needed speed in the Dean Myers-owned Chevy, one of six DNQs he’d have in the 1994 campaign. He had four more Cup Series seasons after this one, landing with Hall of Famer Bud Moore the next year.

46. Randy LaJoie, No. 20 Ford: The longtime Xfinity Series competitor made just 44 Cup starts in his career — and Indy was his only miss of the ’94 season in Dick Moroso’s Ford. His car was sponsored by the Fina oil company, which would also be his main backer for his two Xfinity Series championship seasons (1996-97) with Bill Baumgardner’s BACE Motorsports operation.

47. Jim Sauter, No. 59 Ford: The veteran Midwesterner was the driver of choice for IndyCar team owner Dick Simon’s first NASCAR venture in the Brickyard inaugural. Two years earlier, he was one of three drivers to test stock cars for the International Race of Champions (IROC) Series, along with Trickle and Dave Marcis.

48. Steve Grissom, No. 29 Chevrolet: The Rookie of the Year candidate missed three races in the 1994 season, and two were biggies — the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard. Grissom drove for car owner Gary Bechtel for two and a half seasons, reaching the Cup Series full-time after claiming the Xfinity title in ’93.

49. Davy Jones, No. 88 Ford: Sports cars and IndyCars were Jones’ claim to fame, but while his U.S. Motorsports teammate Greg Sacks made the field, the No. 88 ended up just short on the stopwatch. Jones made seven Cup Series starts the following year, but his big prize came in 1996 with an overall victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Joest No. 7 Porsche.

50. Rick Carelli, No. 61 Chevrolet: The High Plains Drifter was the reigning Winston West Series champion at the time of the first Brickyard, and he was the top competitor from that tour among the DNQs. The next year, Carelli became a full-time driver in the Craftsman Truck Series, where he won four times in its first six seasons. He’s currently the spotter for Erik Jones and the No. 43 team in the Cup Series.

51. John Krebs, No. 92 Chevrolet: Another longtime West campaigner, Krebs made his last attempt at Cup Series qualifying in the Brickyard 400. His last Cup race came just under three months earlier, ending in a wild tumble with Derrike Cope at Sonoma Raceway.

52. Bob Brevak, No. 34 Ford: The 1990 ARCA Series champion put his chances at 50-50 to make the field. “A couple of times, I’ve stopped to think about what a madhouse it’s going to be, and it made me wonder if it’s worth my while to go down,” Brevak told the (Appleton, Wis.) Post-Crescent. “But this is a historic race. It’s something, if you’re a stock-car race, you’ve just got to try.” He later found a home in the pioneer years of the Craftsman Truck Series.

53. Gary Bettenhausen, No. 60 Chevrolet: The homegrown Hoosier drove in 21 editions of the Indianapolis 500 with a best finish of third in 1980. His attempt at the Brickyard 400 represented a bid for his first NASCAR start in 20 years, with Dick Simon connecting him with Phil Barkdoll for a ride. “This is a whole new ballgame,” Bettenhausen said about the difference between IndyCars and stock cars.

54. Brad Teague, No. 52 Ford: Jimmy Means made his last Cup Series race in 1993, then turned the keys over to Teague, the eastern Tennessee driver who made eight starts in the No. 52 the next year. Indy was one of several DNQs that year for Teague, who had a long career in the Xfinity tour — he netted one win (Martinsville in 1987) in 241 starts over 29 years.

55. Mike Wallace, No. 90 Ford: Wallace — then a Cup Series rookie — gave Junie Donlavey’s Ford a ride, but slid out of the groove in Turn 1 while pressing during his second-round attempt. The weekend wasn’t a total loss; he prevailed in Friday’s Xfinity Series race at Indianapolis Raceway Park.

56. Robert Pressley, No. 54 Chevrolet: Pressley, who went out fourth for qualifying in a Leo Jackson-owned entry, made just a handful of races ahead of a full rookie campaign the next year. The Asheville, North Carolina, native missed Indy but made 205 Cup Series starts and collected 10 Xfinity Series wins.

57. Jeff Davis, No. 81 Ford: The California driver grew up in Indianapolis and had nearly a full season of Indy Lights competition on his portfolio when he went Winston West racing in 1992. The 1994 season was Davis’ best in the West with a fourth-place result in the final standings, but his Thom Bell-owned entry was short on speed for the Indy field. “If I do that, I’d be on top of the world,” Davis told The Indianapolis News a week before qualifying. “There’ll be 60 other teams with the same goal.”

58. Jerry O’Neil, No. 65 Chevrolet: Coming up through the ARCA Menards Series and other regional series from Supermodified competition, O’Neil made 16 Cup Series starts from 1989-93. The Indianapolis race was his final attempt to qualify in NASCAR’s premier series, and he holds the distinction as the last driver to fly car No. 65 — the least-used number in Cup Series history.

59. Bob Schacht, No. 57 Ford: The 17-time ARCA Menards Series winner was an Illinois native who called South Carolina home at the time of his Brickyard attempt. “I had a better run in practice,” Schacht said. “I leaned on the motor too much during this run, and I think that it actually slowed down. We’ll come back next year.” He returned to Indy in 1998, but was replaced in the No. 95 Sadler Brothers ride by Randy MacDonald, who also failed to qualify that year.

60. Ron Hornaday Jr., No. 76 Chevrolet: His Craftsman Truck Series domination wouldn’t come until that series debuted the following year, but Hornaday was in the midst of his strongest Winston West season when the first Brickyard arrived. The Wayne Spears-owned Lumina was just short of the Brickyard field, but went on to be runner-up in the West Series that year. He later won 51 times in Truck Series competition and was honored in the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2018.

61. Scott Gaylord, No. 00 Ford: The Colorado native was the first West competitor to make a qualifying attempt, going out third. The early draw was no help. Gaylord went full-time the following season and competed in nearly every West Series event for the next 12 years. His son, Tripp, followed in his footsteps with his ARCA Menards Series West debut in 2022 at Bakersfield.

62. Ken Bouchard, No. 67 Ford: The former Modified standout had just one full season in the Cup Series, but it resulted in the 1988 Rookie of the Year Award over a fledgling Ernie Irvan. The inaugural Brickyard was Bouchard’s only qualifying attempt at Indy, in a Clayton Cunningham-owned machine. His final Cup start came in the ’94 season finale at Atlanta.

63. Billy Standridge, No. 47 Ford: Standridge made a career-high eight Cup Series starts in 1994, but he also missed the qualifying cut 12 times for car owner Berendt Johnson, including the Brickyard. Standridge was a four-time winner in the former NASCAR Goody’s Dash Series, and he made his last NASCAR national-series start in 1998.

64. Tim Steele, No. 12 Ford: Driving for Hall of Famer Bobby Allison, Steele’s only five Cup Series starts came in the ’94 circuit, and Indy would have made it a half-dozen. Steele was the reigning ARCA Menards Series champion at the time, and he added two more ARCA titles (1996-97) in dominant fashion with 23 wins in just two years’ time.

65. Rich Woodland Jr., No. 36 Chevrolet: The Winston West driver returned from a vicious crash during qualifying at Sonoma just two months earlier, but missed the show again at Indy — at least not in dramatic fashion. “You see the place and you feel a sense of history,” he told the San Luis Obispo (Calif.) Tribune. His only West tour victory came four years later, when he marched from 21st place in the 32-car field to win a 150-miler at Phoenix.

66. Hershel McGriff, No. 04 Ford: The ageless wonder was 66 years old at the time, and the 1994 Brickyard marked his final attempt at a Cup Series field. “I don’t have any ambition to be the champion at Talladega or Daytona,” McGriff told The Indianapolis Star. “I don’t have anything to prove to anybody. I’m just doing this because I’d like to do it.” He joked that he wasn’t seeking a Geritol sponsorship, and that his routine included running four miles a day: “If we had a foot race around here, I’d probably come in the first five.” He made his last regional NASCAR start in 2018 at age 90.

67. Jerry Hill, No. 56 Chevrolet: The Maryland native made eight Cup Series starts in the early ’90s, and the first Brickyard was his last Cup qualifying attempt. He transitioned to the Craftsman Truck Series several years later with 58 starts from 2001-04. His son is current NASCAR driver Timmy Hill, who carries the same No. 56 that his father did in the Truck Series.

68. Andy Belmont, No. 59 Ford: The Pennsylvania resident was a three-time winner in the Goody’s Dash Series who later made a dozen Cup starts and spent seven full-time seasons in ARCA competition. He jumped at the opportunity to make the Brickyard on a shoestring. “I’m not afraid of living on a budget. I’ve done it most of my racing life,” Belmont told the Gannett News Service. “I can eat bologna while the other guys with sponsorships eat steak and go to cocktail parties. The thing is, if you’re a racer, you have to race. I can’t let an opportunity like this go by. This is a chance to make a career. This is a chance to live a dream.”

69. H.B. Bailey, No. 36 Pontiac: The Houston resident is the answer to the trivia question: Who was the first NASCAR Cup Series driver to qualify at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Bailey drew the No. 1 pill in the draw, and was serenaded by legendary IMS announcer Tom Carnegie, who proclaimed, “Annnd, he’s away!” as the unsponsored No. 36 Grand Prix that he also owned hit the track to cheers from the crowd. Herring Burl Bailey was 57 years old at the time of the first Brickyard, and he died nine years later of heart failure.

70. Norm Benning, No. 84 Oldsmobile: The longtime independent on the Truck Series circuit (246 starts) and the ARCA Menards Series (281) could not get his Olds Cutlass up to speed for the first Brickyard, and his qualifying miss was part of a streak of 25 consecutive DNQs to end his Cup career. His car number had some special synergy with his sponsor, 84 Lumber.

71. Wayne Jacks, No. 58 Pontiac: The Las Vegas native was a West Series visitor to Indy in 1994, and the lap wasn’t there for him to make his second Cup Series grid. He ended up as a part-time competitor in the earliest years of the Craftsman Truck Series, and may hold the distinction of being the tour’s first driver to flip. His No. 58 Chevy tipped up onto its side in a skid to the infield during the Truck event at half-mile Portland (Ore.) Speedway.

72. Doug French, No. 79 Chevrolet: The New Jersey product with both ARCA and Modified roots didn’t make a Thursday qualifying lap, but did get into Friday’s time trials as an underdog entrant. “We completed construction of the car a week before we got there and we ran a respectful, clean qualifying lap,” French told the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press. “We realized that it was a long shot, but we wanted to go because it was such a prestigious event. We wanted to be a part of it. It was an electric atmosphere.”

73. James Hylton, No. 48 Pontiac: Like McGriff, Hylton was among the 50-and-older crowd bidding for a spot in the first Brickyard. The South Carolina veteran was a top-five finisher in the Cup Series standings six times in a seven-year stretch from 1969-76, and a two-time race winner. He wasn’t done trying to make the field for crown-jewel races, bidding twice for a Daytona 500 berth in his 70s.

74. Steve Sellers, No. 41 Ford: Californian Sellers made just 11 Winston West Series starts, with four top 10s among the results, and the 1994 Brickyard attempt was his only Cup Series effort. A soft-drink businessman, Sellers made sure his No. 41 Thunderbird carried sponsorship from Sacramento Coca-Cola.

75. Robert Sprague, No. 91 Ford: Sprague’s spin and crash into the Turn 1 retaining wall ended his Indy hopes. He was held overnight in a hospital for treatment of a concussion. Before his Brickyard bid, Sprague had recorded 10 top-five finishes in 33 West Series races.

76. Lance Wade, No. 95 Ford: Wade Motorsports held a fund-raising banquet at $200 a plate to rally the Victoria, British Columbia community behind the 25-year-old Canadian’s Brickyard effort. At the end, the qualifying report read, “no speed; spin.” It marked his only Cup Series try. Wade landed the only Winston West pole of his career a month later at Tri-City Raceway in West Richland, Washington.

77. Stan Fox, No. 09 Chevrolet: Fox was only an occasional NASCAR competitor, and his Roulos Brothers/Hemelgarn entry – which carried sponsorship from the bowling industry – wasn’t up to speed. “I’m just hoping some old IndyCar driver will be able to make it,” Fox said the week before the race. Less than a year later, his racing career ended with a severe first-lap crash in the 1995 Indianapolis 500 that left his legs dangling from the broken front of the car. He was killed in a car accident on a New Zealand highway in 2000.

78. Loy Allen Jr., No. 19 Ford: The rookie burst onto the scene with three pole positions early in the 1994 season, but his qualifying fate was sealed when he was one of the five drivers involved in single-car incidents during Friday’s sessions. It was the highest-profile of Allen’s 12 DNQs that year.

79. Jack Sellers, No. 48 Chevrolet: Sellers was already a 10-year veteran of Winston West when he made his last bid for a Cup Series field at Indy. He was the last driver who unsuccessfully tried to bump A.J. Foyt out of the field. Sellers spent 32 seasons in the West Series, and died six days after competing in the season finale in 2016.

Bonus: Several drivers were on the early entry list, but didn’t make the “failed to qualify” list in the morning papers the next day. Among them: “Chargin'” Charlie Glotzbach and P.J. Jones, whose entry was a late withdrawal. Perhaps foremost among the hard-luck drivers was the No. 0 Ford campaigner, Delma Cowart, who blew the team’s last engine before final-round qualifying. “Sometimes the feeling is bad. Real bad, like today,” Cowart told The Baltimore Sun. “But if you can’t come here and just enjoy being here, being part of something like this, then you’re not a real racer and have no business being here at all.”

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Editor’s note: Projection was updated after practice and qualifying. Notable moves included Tyler Reddick, Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson up one spot. Meanwhile, Ryan Blaney and Christopher Bell each moved down a spot.

With the Cup Series circuit returning to the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Brickyard 400 on Sunday (2:30 p.m. ET, NBC, IMS Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App), expect the heavy hitters to be in play for a crown-jewel win.

With the Next Gen car debuting at the 2.5-mile oval at IMS, there’s no telling what’s in store for this weekend’s race. The advanced metrics are leaning on the Cup Series’ best drivers to be in the mix. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as past winners of the Brickyard 400 include names like Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Dale Jarrett, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick — proving that in big races, the stars come out to shine.

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The projected top 10 includes past champions and notable names in the sport, all vying for a Brickyard 400 win to be on their resumes.

Racing Insights is giving the nod to Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin as the projected winner. Hamlin has come close to his fourth win of the season, but no cigar just yet. His career numbers of three third-place finishes at IMS and the fact he has five top 10s over the last seven Indy races are a good omen.

However, 2024 Daytona 500 champ William Byron and defending Cup champion Ryan Blaney are predicted to make Sunday’s race a close battle. Both drivers have a chance to make history for their respective organizations on Sunday. For Byron, a win would bring the No. 24 car back to Victory Lane 30 years since Gordon first did it in the inaugural race in 1994 — before making it routine with a record five Brickyard 400 wins. For Blaney, a win would make it the first time since 2018 that Team Penske would have won the Indy 500 and Brickyard 400 in the same year, at the track owned by team proprietor Roger Penske.

You also can’t leave out drivers like Tyler Reddick and Christopher Bell. Reddick has moved into the Regular Season Championship conversation with his recent success of four straight top 10s at four very different tracks while gaining 49 tallies on the points lead in recent weeks. Bell has won nine stages this year — a series best — and is four laps away from leading 600 laps for the first time in a season.

Then there’s Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson, two Hendrick Motorsports teammates in a tight battle for the regular-season points lead. Hendrick has a dominant history in the Brickyard 400, winning three of the last nine races at Indy with three different drivers while claiming the most wins (10), top fives (27), top 10s (42), and laps led (1,071) in the crown-jewel event.

OTHER DRIVERS TO WATCH:

BRAD KESELOWSKI: Keselowski is one of three drivers entered in Sunday’s race who has won at the Brickyard. He also has three top-five finishes in the last four Indy races. Keselowski even netted a seventh-place finish at Pocono, a comparable track to Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

JOEY LOGANO: There’s no doubt Team Penske will want to show out for ‘The Captain’ Roger Penske at the track he owns. Team Penske has been firing on all cylinders of late, with its drivers winning four of the last seven races. Logano owns seven top 10s on the Indy oval since 2013, and his worst finish was 13th in that period.

ROSS CHASTAIN: Chastain needs a solid weekend at Indy. He moves to being on the bubble and is only 27 points ahead of Bubba Wallace in the fight for the final playoff spot.  It’s a tight battle as the drivers ranked 14th to 16th in the playoff standings are only separated by 40 points.

ALEX BOWMAN: Bowman’s career numbers may not jump off the page at IMS, but the No. 48 driver is having a career year. He finished third at Pocono last week after winning Chicago, and it seems as if the team has found its stride and speed at the right time of the season.

KYLE BUSCH: Busch has two wins and six top 10s at Indy from 2013-2020. While 2024 has been a trying year for him, his veteran experience will certainly come into play this week. Plus, needing a win to keep his playoff hopes and his 19-season win streak alive is extra fuel to Rowdy’s fire.

RACING INSIGHTS’ PROJECTIONS FOR THE BRICKYARD 400

Racing Insights’ advanced statistical formula includes current track, current track type, recent performance, team data and pit-crew data to arrive at a projected winner and full race results.

FinishCar NumberDriver
111Denny Hamlin
224William Byron
345Tyler Reddick
412Ryan Blaney
59Chase Elliott
65Kyle Larson
720Christopher Bell
86Brad Keselowski
922Joey Logano
1019Martin Truex Jr.
1117Chris Buescher
1223Bubba Wallace
1348Alex Bowman
141Ross Chastain
1534Michael McDowell
1654Ty Gibbs
178Kyle Busch
1899Daniel Suárez
194Josh Berry
203Austin Dillon
2114Chase Briscoe
2243Erik Jones
2342John H. Nemechek
2477Carson Hocevar
2547Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
2616AJ Allmendinger
2710Noah Gragson
282Austin Cindric
2941Ryan Preece
307Corey LaJoie
3138Todd Gilliland
3221Harrison Burton
3351Justin Haley
3471Zane Smith
3531Daniel Hemric
3633Ty Dillon
3784Jimmie Johnson
3815Cody Ware
3966BJ McLeod
4044J.J. Yeley
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HAMPTON, Va. — The 16th annual Hampton Heat at Langley Speedway featured an incredible display of fireworks, the majority of which exploded long after pre-race pyrotechnics graced the Eastern Virginia sky in front of a sellout crowd.

The main event on a Saturday night that represented the second leg of the prestigious Virginia Late Model Triple Crown — and the story that overshadowed a top-five run by NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. — was the late battle between two Langley aces, Brenden “Butterbean” Queen and Connor Hall.

They’re rivals. They’re both Langley track champions. And on Saturday, they didn’t pull any punches in the Late Model Stock Car equivalent of a heavyweight bout.

In the end, Queen was the driver who earned a trip to Victory Lane. The 26-year-old from nearby Chesapeake scored his second consecutive Hampton Heat win and third overall. This one was anything but smooth.

Entering the final quarter of the 200-lap race, Queen and Hall found themselves running first and second, respectively, after both had carved their way through the top five. A series of late-race cautions and restarts resulted in multiple side-by-side battles for the lead. On every occasion, when one driver pulled ahead, the other immediately took the fight back to his rival.

Queen delivered the final blow with six laps to go. He drove deep into Turns 3-4, slid Hall up the race track and sped on. Hall this time did not have an opportunity to retaliate.

“We’re going to race hard; we always do.” Queen said. “I just gave it back to him. We were trading blows for a little bit. And then we he ran me up the hill down here, I wasn’t going to let him do that. I’m sure he isn’t happy about it, but I’ll race him like he races me.

“I thought it was a great race. He used me up, I used him up. We can continue it or not.”

Added Hall, the defending NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champion: “It’s hard to get any room when [he] wasn’t letting me make the corner. So I couldn’t put together a whole corner and try to stretch out at all. I just kept getting moved up the hill, what I would consider darn near wrecked every corner.

“It is what it is. Just part of racing with some of the people we do.”

Queen and Hall have a history of aggressive racing at Langley. They’re cordial off the track, but the racing rivalry clearly was rekindled Saturday night. That’s part of the reasons tempers flared the way they did; Queen and Hall’s spotters even went through a verbal altercation atop the stands during the closing stages of the race.

Third-place finisher Peyton Sellers had the best view of the Queen-Hall saga. He naturally was holding his position just in case the leaders took each other out.

“They were just duking it out,” Sellers said. “Connor was better on the long run; he needed to get clear, and Butterbean knew that, so he kept him [on the outside]. Connor moved him up and kind of got a little rough with him, and Bean responded moving him out of the way a little bit.

“All of the top three finished with the fenders on. Everybody’s mad, but that’s racing. At the end of the day, the fans came to see that.”

Those fans turned themselves into another storyline for the 16th Hampton Heat. Spectator gates opened at 11 a.m. ET for a race that was originally scheduled to start at roughly 9:30, and many took the opportunity to watch late morning Late Model Stock practice.

Despite a long delay for a passing storm, the Langley grandstands were packed as track officials worked to dry the track as the sun set. The Hampton Heat didn’t take the green flag until shortly after 11 p.m. ET, and the crowd still was in full force.

Among the reasons for the capacity crowd, of course, was Earnhardt. The 49-year-old logged his fourth Late Model Stock start of the season, and late in the race, he followed Sellers to the front of the field. Earnhardt finished fifth in his debut race at Langley.

Unofficially, Landon Pembelton finished fourth behind Sellers and ahead of Earnhardt. Woody Howard, Kaden Honeycutt, Chase Burrow, Mark Wertz and Matt Waltz finished sixth through 10th, respectively.

The 2024 Virginia Triple Crown will conclude with the third leg on Sept. 28 when Martinsville Speedway hosts the ValleyStar Credit Union 300.

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WINCHESTER, N.H. – The Catalano family has been trying to win a NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour race since 2018.

On Saturday night at Monadnock Speedway, 17-year-old Trevor Catalano delivered the victory that his entire family so desperately wanted.

Trevor, the youngest of three brothers currently racing on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, held off reigning series champion Ron Silk to win the Duel at the Dog 250.

“This is awesome,” Trevor said. “My mom and dad, they give us everything they can to come out here and be competitive. They gave me everything and anything that I know. I just can’t thank my parents enough.

“It’s a whole family operation. We all pick off of each other and try to give the best type of car we can give and come out every week and be competitive. Man, this thing was on rails.”

RELATED: Complete results from the Duel at the Dog 250 at Monadnock

Prior to Saturday, the best NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour performance for the Catalano family belonged to 26-year-old Tommy Catalano, a runner-up result at Richmond Raceway during the 2022 season.

To improve upon that performance, Trevor and the Catalano Motorsports team had to gamble.

When the caution flag waved for the stalled car of Tim Connolly with 71 laps left, most of the leaders opted to head to pit road for a fresh Hoosier Tire.

Three drivers – Kyle Bonsignore, Woody Pitkat and Trevor – instead chose to stay out and inherited the top three positions. Patrick Emerling and Ron Silk, who had been the leaders prior to the caution, would line up fourth and fifth for the restart.

Once racing resumed, Trevor went to work. He dispatched Pitkat with ease and took the lead from Bonsignore on lap 195. Trevor promptly built a half second lead on the field, but it didn’t last.

Behind him, Silk was on the move. After moving past Bonsignore with 53 laps remaining, Silk quickly set off in pursuit of Trevor.

The next 50 laps saw Silk hound the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour rookie. He tried to coax him into a mistake and nearly got an opportunity with 23 laps left when Trevor bobbled in Turn 3.

Silk got to his inside, but wise beyond his years, Trevor used the lap car of Melissa Fifield as a pick and forced Silk to fall back in behind him in turns one and two.

“I messed up a couple times. I thought Ronnie (Silk) was going to get me. He raced me clean,” Trevor said. “I was just trying to drive as hard as I could without messing up.”

That was as close as Silk would get to completing the pass. Trevor crossed the finish line .254 seconds ahead of Silk to earn his first NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour win in just his ninth start.

Silk, to his credit, said he didn’t want to shoehorn Trevor out of the way. He wanted to beat him clean, but just didn’t have the car to do it.

“I probably just needed to turn the center a little bit better,” Silk said. “I would say we were basically even. I didn’t want to knock him out of the way. He did a great job. He didn’t make any mistakes. I was hoping he would make one and I could get my nose under him.

“Congratulations to Trevor. He did a phenomenal job.”

Four other members of the Catalano had tried to win NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour races prior to Trevor’s win Saturday night. They included his mom, Amy, and his three brothers Timmy, Tommy and Tyler.

However, it was Trevor, the youngest of the group currently competing with the series, who got the job done.

“This is going to be one I probably remember forever,” Trevor said.

After fading through the field during the final restart, Emerling drove back to finish third. Matt Hirschman and Kyle Bonsignore completed the top five.

Pitkat, Justin Bonsignore, Matt Kimball, Tommy Catalano and Austin Beers finished sixth through 10th, respectively.

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season continues Saturday, Aug. 3 with the running of the Nu-Way Auto Parts 150 at New York’s Lancaster Motorplex. FloRacing will provide live coverage of the event starting at 8 p.m. ET.

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Duel at the Dog 250

Monadnock Speedway

  • Race results
Pos No. Name Sponsor Laps Diff
1 56 Trevor Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 250 —
2 16 Ron Silk Blue Mountain Machine/Future Homes 250 0.254
3 1 Patrick Emerling Fleetworks Inc 250 1.779
4 60 Matt Hirschmann Elite 250 2.63
5 22 Kyle Bonsignore Chalew Performance/MTT/Munns Auto 250 3.106
6 82 Woody Pitkat Horton Avenue Materials/Gunsmoke Stables Racing 250 5.771
7 51 Justin Bonsignore Phoenix Communications, Inc. 250 7.25
8 43 Matthew Kimball J&M Towing and Recovery/Poodlack Wealth Mgmt 250 7.625
9 54 Tommy Catalano Catalano Motorsports 250 8.021
10 64 Austin Beers G&G Electrical Supply/Dell Electric 250 8.192
11 25 Brian Robie TBD 250 9.274
12 46 Craig Lutz Riverhead Building Supply 250 10.053
13 21 Stephen  Kopcik* Newtown Pools/Karchner Warehousing 250 11.779
14 3 Jake Johnson Propane Plus/Lin’s Propane Trucks 249 1 Lap
15 84 Tyler Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 249 1 Lap
16 5 Kyle Ebersole Ebersole Excavating, Inc. 248 2 Laps
17 81 Nathan Wenzel 1812 Auto Body 246 4 Laps
18 18 Ken Heagy Buoy One Seafood & Restaurant 246 4 Laps
19 01 Melissa Fifield Farm Fueled Nutrition 235 15 Laps
20 8 John-Michael Shenette* Eighty-Two Services 136 114 Laps
21 4 Tim Connolly Connolly Companies, LLC 55 195 Laps

 

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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Cole Custer nearly had a crowning capper to what was already a banner day, and Aric Almirola almost made his first NASCAR Xfinity Series start in more than two months a winning return. They weren’t kissing bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but both were in convivial spirits early Saturday evening after a tightly contested final two laps.

A Brickyard battle for the ages vaulted Riley Herbst into Victory Lane for the first time this year, but Custer and Almirola managed smiles after snagging podium spots in Saturday’s Pennzoil 250. Custer sealed the back end of a 1-2 finish for Stewart-Haas Racing Ford drivers, and Almirola recovered from a wild spin early in the final stage for his fourth consecutive top-five result.

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos: Indy

Almirola interrupted his post-race interview twice — once to applaud Herbst on his way to Victory Lane, and again when Custer walked past with a note of congratulations and to say, “lotta fun.”

“You guys were the class of the field,” Almirola told Custer.

“I thought you had it, though,” Custer replied. “You had both of us.”

It appeared that Custer might have it after his No. 00 Ford got the jump on Herbst’s No. 98 entry through the first two turns, completing the pass on a restart with 10 laps remaining in the 100-lap event and bringing Almirola’s No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota with him to second place. Herbst kept things close, getting back by Almirola two laps later and then chasing his teammate down the stretch.

Herbst brushed by Custer through Turn 4 heading toward the white flag, and their clash allowed Almirola to force it three-wide past the start-finish line and into the lead. Herbst made his winning move through Turns 3 and 4 on the last lap to the low side of Almirola, and Custer scooted through to inch by into second place at the yard of bricks.

“He’s going for the win at Indianapolis, right? I don’t think I would have done anything different,” said Almirola, who led twice for five laps. “I know he kind of doored me getting into (turn) four, but I mean, if not, I was going to put it on his door and try to suck him around or get him loose so I could have the run to the finish line. He did exactly what he needed to do to win the race, so I don’t blame him. Yeah, those guys were the fastest race car on the race track and they won the race.”

Almirola had fresher tires after a Lap 66 spin, prompted by contact with Austin Hill’s No. 21 Chevy through Turns 1 and 2. The new Goodyears helped him mount a late charge, but the moment that put him there was a hairy one. “Thankfully — I don’t know how — I just kind of stood in it, put my foot in the gas and was able to keep it off the wall,” Almirola said. “Did a couple 360s and kept going and didn’t hit anything, and thankfully, nobody hit me.”

Saturday marked Almirola’s first start in his part-time campaign with JGR’s Xfinity program since May 11 at Darlington. Published reports indicated that Almirola had been suspended for his role in a physical altercation with 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace during a team meeting later that month. Asked for confirmation, Almirola said that he understood that questions about the situation were obligatory, but politely declined comment.

“It felt so good to be back in the race car,” he said. “It’s so fun. I love coming to the race track with these guys. They’re just a class act and so much fun to come to the race track with because they have fast race cars. Every time you sit in one, you know you’ve got a shot to win. So this weekend was no different — had another shot to win.”

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Custer had already made an eventful day of it at Indy, announcing just hours earlier his plans to return to the Cup Series in 2025 with Haas Factory Team. He barely eclipsed Herbst for the pole for Saturday’s race and led the most laps (47), but settled for his ninth top-five result in 20 events this season. The hope, Custer said, was that a more hotly contested final battle between Herbst and Almirola would have provided an opening.

“I tried to lift going into (turn) one so Riley would have a shot at him, because if I would have stayed side by side with them, it probably would have screwed both of us,” Custer said. “So I tried to let him go into one, and then I was hoping they’d get together off (turn) four, and they did a little bit, but I needed them to slow down just a little bit more.”

Custer notched his first win of the Xfinity Series season a week ago at Pocono Raceway, and his teammate now joins him in the provisional 12-driver playoff field. Custer also kept his perch atop the Xfinity Series standings, holding a 56-point lead as NASCAR heads toward the multi-week Olympic break.

“I mean, look at it right now, we’ve won back-to-back races with our team and being competitive at the front, it hasn’t been given to us at all,” Custer said. “Unbelievable couple of weeks. We’ve just got to keep it rolling.”

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Duel at the Dog 250

Monadnock Speedway

  • Qualifying results
Pos. Car No. Driver Sponsor Best Time Best Speed
1 64 Austin Beers G&G Electrical Supply/Dell Electric 11.619 77.459
2 1 Patrick Emerling Fleetworks Inc 11.71 76.857
3 56 Trevor Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 11.755 76.563
4 46 Craig Lutz Riverhead Building Supply 11.782 76.388
5 51 Justin Bonsignore Phoenix Communications, Inc. 11.811 76.2
6 16 Ron Silk Blue Mountain Machine/Future Homes 11.864 75.86
7 21 Stephen Kopcik* Newtown Pools/Karchner Warehousing 11.865 75.853
8 25 Brian Robie TBD 11.95 75.314
9 22 Kyle Bonsignore Chalew Performance/MTT/Munns Auto 11.951 75.308
10 60 Matt Hirschman Elite 11.958 75.263
11 43 Matthew Kimball J&M Towing and Recovery/Poodlack Wealth Mgmt 11.991 75.056
12 84 Tyler Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 12.07 74.565
13 8 John-Michael Shenette* Eighty-Two Services 12.096 74.405
14 54 Tommy Catalano Catalano Motorsports 12.141 74.129
15 3 Jake Johnson Propane Plus/Lin’s Propane Trucks 12.203 73.752
16 82 Woody Pitkat Horton Avenue Materials/Gunsmoke Stables Racing 12.209 73.716
17 5 Kyle Ebersole Ebersole Excavating, Inc. 12.218 73.662
18 4 Tim Connolly Connolly Companies, LLC 12.299 73.177
19 81 Nathan Wenzel 1812 Auto Body 12.371 72.751
20 18 Ken Heagy Buoy One Seafood & Restaurant 12.419 72.47
21 01 Melissa Fifield Farm Fueled Nutrition 13.366 67.335

 

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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — In one of the most dramatic NASCAR Xfinity Series finishes in recent memory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Riley Herbst took the lead in the final corner of the final lap to claim his first victory of the season in Saturday’s Pennzoil 250 – formally punching his ticket to the 2024 playoffs.

Three different drivers led the final three laps in the series’ return to the famous speedway’s 2.5-mile oval after four years of competing on the track’s road course. Ultimately, the 25-year-old Herbst drove his No. 98 SHR Ford sideways exiting Turn 4 to negotiate his way past veteran Aric Almirola and race off to a .167-second win over his SHR teammate Cole Custer and Almirola.

Custer led Lap 98. Almirola led Lap 99. And Herbst held the lead for the most important, Lap 100. The three were three-wide on the white flag lap, signaling one lap to go with Almirola taking the white flag out front. Herbst caught him and dove low to claim the lead coming out of Turn 4 on the next lap and Custer raced past Almirola in the closing feet to give SHR a 1-2 finish.

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“This is Indianapolis, this is the most famous race track in the world and it’s an honor just to walk into the place, let alone win,” said Herbst, whose only other series win was in at his hometown Las Vegas track last year. “We’ve had speed all year and I felt like we could win. I just messed up on restarts a little bit but just continued to work and continued to work.

“I’m proud of these guys. Proud of Stewart-Haas Racing. Obviously, with the news of us (the current Stewart-Haas Racing team) shutting down these guys could have given up on me and Cole but they stuck behind me and Cole and it’s back-to-back wins for Stewart-Haas Racing.”

The teammates combined to lead 77 of the 100 laps with Custer’s 47 laps out front most in the field. Custer, Saturday’s polesitter was smiling when he climbed out of his No. 00 SHR Ford and was the first to congratulate Herbst.

“What an awesome day for SHR, two cars up front all day, qualified one-two and finished one-two, so an unbelievable day for SHR,” said Custer, who started his day with a big announcement that he would be driving for the new single-car Haas Factory Team in the Cup Series next year.

The defending series champion — who claimed his first win of 2024 last week at Pocono – continues to lead the points standings and with his second-place showing now has a 56-point advantage over JR Motorsports’ Justin Allgaier, who finished ninth Saturday.

The former full-time Cup Series driver Almirola, 40, making his first start in the Xfinity Series since May 11, finished third in the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. The former Stewart-Haas Racing driver was also among the first to congratulate Herbst on the hard-fought victory.

“They (Herbst and Custer) were the class of the field but I knew if they got racing there was going to be an opportunity to steal it and I got the lead and thought and just got too tight in [turn] three and he got back inside me,” Almirola said, adding, “Those guys deserve it. I know all the guys on the team. They’re a great group of guys and proud and happy for those guys.”

MORE: Custer, Almirola all smiles after dazzling finish

Rookie Shane van Gisbergen, the former Australian Supercars champion, finished a strong fourth place, making his way forward after opting for fresh tires on a final pit stop and turning in an inspired final restart with 10 laps remaining. A three-time road-course winner this season, that fourth place was his best finish on an oval since a third-place finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway in February.

“It’s tough and I’m obviously still learning and I’m probably still a bit too conservative but I feel like the car got better and I got better,” van Gisbergen said.  “This Xfinity Series is so fun, the way the cars move around and the way they’re all sliding.

“I had a blast.”

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Sheldon Creed finished fifth. Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Hill, who started from the rear of the field after some last-minute adjustments on his Chevrolet, rallied to a sixth-place finish.

Craftsman Truck Series regular Daniel Dye was seventh, followed by two-time Indy winner A.J. Allmendinger, Allgaier and 21-year-old Carson Kvapil, who was making his sixth start of the year driving for JR Motorsports.

It was perhaps a fittingly dramatic ending to a race that got off to a tumultuous start with a 12-car accident taking multiple cars out of contention early. JR Motorsports Sam Mayer, a two-time race winner this year, spun out after making a three-wide move in Turn 3, collecting multiple cars and damaging more as they tried to avoid.

Fulltime Cup Series driver Josh Berry, who was driving the No. 15 AM Racing Ford, was among those collected in the melee and was officially scored last. He and Mayer were unable to complete one lap.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Chandler Smith retired on Lap 37, his No. 81 Toyota never able to overcome the damage from the first lap incident.

RSS Racing’s Ryan Sieg holds a slim three-point edge over JR Motorsports’ Sammy Smith for the final points playoff transfer position with six races remaining to set the 12-driver Playoff field.

The sport of NASCAR will be taking a two-week sporting break during the Olympics with the Xfinity Series returning to competition on Aug. 17 at Michigan International Speedway for the Cabo Wabo 250 (3:30 p.m. ET, USA, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App). John Hunter Nemechek won the 2023 race.

NOTE: Post-race inspection was completed in the Xfinity Series garage, confirming Riley Herbst as the winner. The No. 21 had one loose lug nut.

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Brickyard 400

(⏰ Sunday, 2:30 p.m. ET | NBC | NBC Sports App | IMS Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

Weekend schedule | TV schedule | Weather tracker | NASCAR 101

Location: Speedway, Indiana
Track length: 2.5 miles
Race purse: $9,596,601
Race distance: 160 laps | 400 miles
Stages: 50 | 100 | 160
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Starting lineup: Tyler Reddick rolls to pole position
Pit stall assignments: See where drivers will pit 
Defending winner: Michael McDowell, August 2023

Key things to watch

Friday, Saturday sessions

An extended practice gave Cup Series drivers a chance to get reacclimated with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval, which will host the NASCAR crowd for the first time since 2020. Tyler Reddick was the best of the bunch in the 50-minute session — both in single-lap speed and the consecutive 10-lap average chart — putting his No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota out front early on.

That speed held up in Saturday afternoon’s Busch Light Pole Qualifying, with Reddick putting down a 181.932 mph lap to secure his second pole position of the season. Denny Hamlin made it a 1-2 Toyota sweep of the front row, and three Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet drivers completed the top five — Chase Elliott, William Byron and Kyle Larson, in that order. | Friday recap | Saturday recap

Big story line

Indy oval overtures and more playoff positioning

The Brickyard 400 is back, and several NASCAR Cup Series drivers making the media rounds during Friday’s opening day welcomed the change. The three years of racing on the combination oval and road course layout produced some chaotic moments, but reverting back to the 2.5-mile track has restored a measure of tradition and — to some — prestige.

“Excited to be back on the oval,” said Chase Briscoe, a Hoosier native and driver of Stewart-Haas Racing’s No. 14 Ford. “Every race car driver dreams of getting to race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when you grow up in Indiana; it’s just that much more special. I’ve always said I don’t care what we’re racing on, I just want to race at IMS, whether it’s the road course or the oval, the dirt track over there in the parking lot. But I would be lying if I said there wasn’t more significance in history and just meaning running the oval.”

The schedule-makers’ Indy road-course dalliance means that 10 Cup Series drivers will be making their first Cup start on the rectangular 2.5-mile oval this Sunday. The 400-miler will also represent the first IMS oval go for the Next Gen race car that debuted in Cup for the 2022 season.

What’s old might be new again, but the pressure of making the Cup Series Playoffs has been a constant this season. For the fifth consecutive week, it’s a new driver in the “last one in” slot on the provisional playoff grid — a succession that’s gone from Bubba Wallace (after Iowa) to Joey Logano (post-New Hampshire) to Alex Bowman (Nashville), Chris Buescher (Chicago) and the current 16th driver in the field, Ross Chastain. Three drivers have netted their first wins of the season in the last five weeks.

Chastain’s gap over the elimination line has shrunk from plus-93 three races ago to just 27 points above the current first-driver-out resident: Wallace. Further back, it’s Briscoe (75 points back) and two-time Cup champ Kyle Busch (102) who are almost certainly in the must-win camp.

That journey continues in Sunday’s 400 and in the final four regular-season races that follow after a two-week Olympic break.

History tells us…

Indianapolis is a prime title indicator. The winner of the Brickyard 400 has gone on to secure the Cup Series championship that season nine times. The last to do it was Kyle Busch in 2015, and in total, 10 of the 15 Indy winners are also Cup Series champions.

Another common trait among Brickyard winners is a premium starting spot. The race has been won from the pole position five times, and the race winner has started among the top 10 in 17 of the 27 oval events.

He may not be the betting favorite to win, but watch out for…

KYLE BUSCH. The recent gloomy cloud of subpar finishes has to end at some point, right? The occasion of NASCAR’s return to the oval configuration coincides with Busch’s 700th Cup Series start, and his appearance on the Vegas boards at 30-1 opening odds makes him an intriguing choice.

It’s a new car (Next Gen) and a new team (Richard Childress Racing) for Busch’s return to the Brickyard oval, but his track record here remains an impressive one. He’s a two-time Brickyard winner (2015-16), and has finished among the top 10 in 12 of his 16 Indy starts — a 75 percent clip. His slip in the points has forced him into virtual must-win territory, and the No. 8 Chevrolet group may take big swings to find Victory Lane. | Brickyard odds

Speed reads

Our biggest pieces of the week — get covered for race day from all angles.

• Jeff Gordon reflects: First-ever Brickyard win “pretty amazing and a lot to tell” | Read article
• Inside the chase: Regular-season title hunt heats up at Indy | Read article
• Kyle Busch’s blast: Warning issued to LaJoie after Pocono pileup | Read article
• ‘We’re here to win’: Chastain a bubble dweller in playoff picture | Read article
• Brickyard memories: All the best moments from NASCAR’s Indy history | Photo gallery
• Brazil at the break: Daniel Suárez to race in South America | Read article
• Raining 3s for No. 4: Josh Berry’s car has Caitlin Clark design for Indy | Read article
• Double take: Kyle Larson’s Memorial Day paint scheme returns | Read article
• Power Rankings: A change at the top ahead of Indy; see full Top 20 | Photo gallery
• Turning Point: Reddick rising in regular-season pursuit | Read article
• Racing Insights: Full finishing order projections for Sunday’s 400-miler | Read article
• Field of 16: Shifting probabilities for the playoff picture at Indianapolis | Read article
• 36 for 36: This week’s survivor pool picks for Indy | Read article
• Fantasy Fastlane: Hamlin, Keselowski make the must-start list | Photo gallery
• Fantasy Update: Reddick prominent in lineup selections | Read article
• NASCAR Classics: Dig into the video archives for vintage Brickyard replays | Read article
• Paint Scheme Preview: Fresh designs head to Gasoline Alley | Pick your favorite

Fast facts ⏩

Race-relevant statistics, brought to you by the experts at Racing Insights.

• Tyler Reddick has gained 49 points on the standings lead in the last four races — all finishes of sixth or better — as he bids for the regular-season title.
• Richard Childress Racing is the only Cup Series team to win on the oval and road-course layouts at IMS.
• Chase Elliott’s pit-road speeding penalty last week at Pocono ended a 92-race streak without one. Chris Buescher now has the best active streak — 52 races without a speeding bust.

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Duel at the Dog 250

Monadnock Speedway

  • Practice results
Pos No. Name Sponsor Best Tm Best Speed In Lap Laps Diff
1 64 Austin Beers G&G Electrical Supply/Dell Electric 11.736 76.687 49 50  —
2 51 Justin Bonsignore Phoenix Communications, Inc. 11.797 76.291 52 57 0.061
3 1 Patrick Emerling Fleetworks Inc 11.799 76.278 35 35 0.063
4 46 Craig Lutz Riverhead Building Supply 11.814 76.181 16 38 0.078
5 25 Brian Robie TBD 11.814 76.181 37 40 0.078
6 16 Ron Silk Blue Mountain Machine/Future Homes 11.815 76.174 25 45 0.079
7 60 Matt Hirschman Elite 11.827 76.097 23 34 0.091
8 56 Trevor Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 11.874 75.796 14 35 0.138
9 21 Stephen Kopcik* Newtown Pools/Karchner Warehousing 11.89 75.694 9 11 0.154
10 22 Kyle Bonsignore Chalew Performance/MTT/Munns Auto 11.916 75.529 36 38 0.18
11 43 Matthew Kimball J&M Towing and Recovery/Poodlack Wealth Mgmt 11.926 75.465 25 49 0.19
12 84 Tyler Catalano* Catalano Motorsports 11.926 75.465 42 43 0.19
13 3 Jake Johnson Propane Plus/Lin’s Propane Trucks 11.929 75.446 44 46 0.193
14 5 Kyle Ebersole Ebersole Excavating, Inc. 11.963 75.232 26 48 0.227
15 8 John-Michael Shenette* Eighty-Two Services 12.006 74.963 36 59 0.27
16 82 Woody Pitkat Horton Avenue Materials/Gunsmoke Stables Racing 12.075 74.534 13 32 0.339
17 54 Tommy Catalano Catalano Motorsports 12.098 74.392 13 35 0.362
18 4 Tim Connolly Connolly Companies, LLC 12.162 74.001 33 42 0.426
19 81 Nathan Wenzel 1812 Auto Body 12.257 73.427 8 52 0.521
20 18 Ken Heagy Buoy One Seafood & Restaurant 12.472 72.162 6 12 0.736
21 01 Melissa Fifield Farm Fueled Nutrition 12.755 70.561 28 38 1.019