Austin Hill scored his first NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race of the season Friday night at Kansas Speedway.
Brett Moffitt placed second in the Truck race results. Grant Enfinger was third and was followed by reigning series champion Matt Crafton and rookie Derek Kraus.
Matt Crafton won Saturday’s Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway, snapping a winless streak that began in July 2017.
Crafton, the defending series champion, led the final 22 laps and held off a furious charge from Christian Eckes to score the win. His last victory came at Eldora Speedway in 2017.
The victory came in the second race of a doubleheader at the 1.5-mile track. Austin Hill won the first race Friday night.
The top five was completed by Grant Enfinger, Tanner Gray and Ben Rhodes.
“It’s very, very sweet,” Crafton told FS1. “Not a lot of give up in these guys … The 18 (Eckes) had a little bit of speed, he was making me nervous right there. … I drove it in too deep a couple times, slid the nose. I’d slide the nose and he’d make up ground.”
STAGE 1 WINNER: Zane Smith
STAGE 2 WINNER: Zane Smith
WHO HAD A BAD RACE: Ty Majeski placed 30th after he had to pit early for damage from contact with Tyler Ankum in the first two laps … Travis Pastrana, making his first NASCAR start since 2017, finished 22nd after he spun through the infield grass on Lap 73 … Johnny Sauter, Stewart Friesen and Natalie Decker were eliminate in a large multi-car wreck on the Lap 83 restart … Teammates Brett Moffitt and Tyler Ankrum were eliminated in a Lap 94 wreck. It began with contact between Ankrum and teammate Zane Smith.
A @GMSRacingLLC collision! @TylerAnkrum, @Brett_Moffitt and @zanesmith77 are all involved in this incident. pic.twitter.com/GdHpueFCmu
— NASCAR Gander Trucks (@NASCAR_Trucks) July 25, 2020
WHAT’S NEXT: Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway at 6 p.m. ET Aug. 7 on FS1.
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Chase Purdy will start on the pole for Saturday’s Truck race at Kansas Speedway, the second race in a doubleheader weekend for the series.
The top 15 finishers from Friday’s Truck race were inverted for the start of Saturday’s race. Purdy finished 15th on Friday, putting him on the pole for Saturday’s event. Brandon Jones is on the front row with Purdy.
The race also marks the return of Travis Pastrana, who is making his first series start since 2017. He’s driving in the Truck that Ross Chastain raced Friday night. Pastrana will start at the rear of the 38-truck field for the driver change.
TO THE REAR:
Backup trucks: Sheldon Creed (was to have started 8th), Stewart Friesen (27th), Spencer Davis (29th), Jordan Anderson (30th)
Transmission change: Ty Majeski (5th)
Driver change: Tyler Hill for Timmy Hill (19th), Kevin Donahue in 00 for Dawson Cram (25th), Travis Pastrana for Ross Chastain (34th), Ryan Huff for Kevin Donahue in 33 (38th)
Click here for Truck starting lineup
NASCAR Truck Series at Kansas
Race Time: 1:30 p.m. ET Saturday
Track: Kansas Speedway; Kansas City, Kansas (1.5-mile speedway)
Length: 134 laps (201 miles)
Stages: Stage 1 ends Lap 30. Stage 2 ends Lap 60
TV coverage: FS1
Radio: Motor Racing Network (also SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
Streaming: Fox Sports app (subscription required); mrn.com and SiriusXM for audio (subscription required)
Next Cup race: August 2 at New Hampshire (301 laps, 318.4 miles) 3 p.m. ET on NBCSN
Next Xfinity race: Saturday at Kansas (167 laps, 250.5 miles) 5 p.m. ET on NBCSN
Austin Cindric goes for his fourth straight win in Saturday’s Xfinity race at Kansas Speedway.
Cindric won both series races at Kentucky earlier this month and followed it by winning last weekend at Texas after Kyle Busch‘s car was disqualified.
Saturday’s race marks the fourth consecutive series event on a 1.5-mile speedway.
Here are the details for the Xfinity race at Kansas (all times ET):
START: Kansas University men’s basketball coach Bill Self will give the command to start engines at 5:08 p.m. The green flag is scheduled to wave at 5:18 p.m.
PRERACE: Garage access health screening begins at 10 a.m. Engine prime and final adjustments are at 3 p.m. Drivers report to their cars at 4:45 p.m. The invocation will be given at 5 p.m. by Father Daniel Weger of the Parochial Vicar St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Parish. The national anthem will be performed at 5:01 p.m. by Chris Mann, a contestant on Season 2 of NBC’s “The Voice” and a Kansas native.
DISTANCE: The race is 167 laps (250.5 miles) around the 1.5-mile speedway.
PACE LAP: At the direction of race control, the entire field will go down pit road during a pace lap for pit road speed verification. If a driver stops in the pit box for any reason, pulls over or slows down, they will start at the rear of the field.
STAGES: Stage 1 ends on Lap 40. Stage 2 ends on Lap 80.
TV/RADIO: NBCSN will televise the race. Its coverage begins at 4:30 p.m. followed by the race broadcast at 5 p.m. Motor Racing Network’s radio broadcast will begin at 4:30 p.m. and also can be heard at goprn.com. SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will carry PRN’s broadcast.
STREAMING: Watch the race on the NBC Sports App by clicking here.
FORECAST: The wunderground.com forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, a high of 91 degrees and a 15% of rain at the start of the race.
LAST RACE: Austin Cindric won his third consecutive race last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway when Kyle Busch’s winning car was disqualified after the race. Chase Briscoe was second. Justin Allgaier placed third.
STARTING LINEUP: Click here for lineup
Kaz Grala is a little bit late to the very strange party that is the 2020 NASCAR season.
The 21-year-old driver is set to make his first Xfinity Series start of the season in Saturday’s race at Kansas Speedway (5 p.m. ET on NBCSN), the 17th race of the season. He’ll do it in Richard Childress Racing’s No. 21 Chevrolet, which Grala drove in five races last year. He last drove the car at Road America in August.
Grala hasn’t made a NASCAR start since.
“I’m definitely going to be knocking the rust off, not only because I haven’t raced in a year, but I’ve only done one mile-and-a-half (track) in the last two years,” Grala said, referring to the March 2019 Texas race.
On top of that, this will be only Grala’s second race at Kansas. His first came in 2017 in the Truck Series.
“So I look back on my track notes from Kansas, I’ve got a little bit of information to go off of from my first time there,” Grala said this week in a Zoom media conference. “But my note-taking process has gotten significantly better over the last three years. I didn’t have as much written down as I wished I had looking back on it.”
Grala, who is set to make five starts this year, said he’ll also lean on feedback he received from RCR Cup drivers Tyler Reddick and Austin Dillon after they competed on the track Thursday night.
“I feel like I’ll be pretty prepared with my track knowledge and everything that I can be going into it,” Grala said. “I’ve run a lot of laps on the simulator, but when you roll off third in dirty air in Turn 1 trying to hold it wide open for the first time … it’s definitely gonna be different in real life then in theory with all the preparation.”
Grala will start third thanks to the random draw via owner points. It’s his first top-five start in 28 career Xfinity starts.
Grala’s first start, of course, takes place in a COVID-19 world where NASCAR doesn’t hold practice or qualifying and has strict screening protocols.
“It’s a big challenge and particularly being a driver running part-time,” Grala said. “That’s a huge challenge for me. But I kind of liked the idea of the format to be honest. If I was running full-time, I think I would enjoy it a lot. But it certainly does put me in a little bit of a disadvantage for this weekend. But luckily these are long races. They’re not sprint races. So I’ll have time to get comfortable out there and to get where I need to be by the end of the race, but I’m just looking forward to seeing what this is all like this weekend.
“Every other driver, for the most part, is now used to these COVID procedures and protocols and how the screening works and what the weekend schedule is like. This will be my first time ever because of these procedures I haven’t been able to attend any race since quarantine. Even though I am one of the other drivers of the car, I still can’t go to the race when somebody else is driving the car. So I have no idea what the weekend is going to look like. I’ve gotten some information here and there from my crew chief, from the other team members, but I can tell you it’s gonna be weird pulling into the track with so much different from what I’m used to.”
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