On the lower straightaway of Eight Bowl Superspeedway, the #1 got around the slow car of Ray Chapman when the rest of the pack could not. From there, several trailing cars caught the draft too quickly, leading to contact between Eric Van Arsdale and TJ Smith that brought out a race-ending caution. Despite a lead that might have been too much to overcome, Sparky was the only one to miss the caution flag and take a lap that guaranteed the victory.
"We didn't have as strong of a qualifying trim as we wanted, so to have the race play out like it did in any way was really good for us and we're looking forward to a playoff run," crew chief Ryan Tempe said. Kenny Knox claimed the runner-up spot in the ordeal, his third top-five and fourth top-10 of the season, to move to 2nd place in the standings. "It is what it is," Knox said. "We were 9th crossing the line that lap. To be where we finished is pretty amazing." In one of the more amazing finishes, Noah Kim went from hard contact with the wall on a lap 2 accident to a 4th place finish. "I thought our day was done when I saw [Adam] Coon flip over my car," Kim said.
"There's a full lane on my bottom," Thales said. "Draft me or pass me. You don't get to do both."
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