Crafton Dominates Homestead, But Jones Wins Title
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| Erik Jones celebrates his first Truck Series title |
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Matt Crafton did everything he needed to do to try and win his third straight NASCAR Camping World Series title – he stayed out of trouble, he led the most laps, and he won the race.
But it still wasn't enough.
Crafton led 93 of the 134 laps in Friday night's Ford EcoBoost 200 to lock up his sixth win of the season, but at the end of the night it was 19-year-old rookie Erik Jones who was crowned as the youngest champion in series history.
Jones too, stayed out of trouble and crossed the finish line in sixth place, giving him a 15-point edge over Tyler Reddick to give Kyle Busch Motorsports their first-ever drivers title and fourth owners championship.
John Hunter Nemechek finished second in the race behind Crafton, followed by Reddick, Ben Kennedy and Timothy Peters.
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| Matt Crafton won his sixth race of the season, but fell short of the championship |
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Crafton passed Jon Wes Townley following a restart on lap 88 and led the final 46 laps on route to his 11th-career truck series victory.
Crafton had held the points lead since the third race of the season until a DNF at Pocono in August knocked him from the top spot. An accident last weekend at Phoenix all but put him out of contention.
"It's just that one that column – the DNF column where we've made those mistakes. I've made mistakes and I've wrecked us and we've ran out of fuel and we've done just about everything this year," said Crafton. "If you look at the last five races with how many laps we've led in these last five races and we just had a monkey on our back. It's….great to be up here in victory lane getting another trophy."
Jones entered the final race of the season with a 19-point lead over Reddick and a 32-point gap over Crafton and needed a finish of just 15th or better to clinch the title.
"Man, it's been a fun ride throughout the whole season and just getting to this point and the things we went through – so many adversity we had in the middle, early-part of the season – to really see it all come around and get back to championship form here the latter part of the season and then get the championship, man, you couldn't ask for a better end of the year."
At the age of 19 years, 5 months and 21 days old, Jones becomes the youngest champion in the 20-year history of the series, beating the previous youngest champion, Austin Dillon
Jones first drew the attention of truck owner Kyle Busch after passing Busch to win the 2012 Snowball Derby, a prestigious super late model held in Pensacola, Fla. The following year, KBM signed Jones to drive for the team in a limited schedule for the 2013 and '14 seasons before bringing him up to full time in 2015.
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| Erik Jones does a victory burnout at Homestead |
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It proved to be a championship-winning move for Busch and his team, who have now won three straight owners titles and four overall to go along with their first drivers championship.
"He put it to me – he beat me in a super late model race. I enjoy racing all the kinds of things that I do and when I go run the super late model things, I tend to pick up on the talents that are out there, the younger kids, and Erik (Jones) was probably most impressive," said Busch. "I remember the first time we raced against each other he blew my doors off and about 40 laps later he blew up so I was like, 'Okay, good, I don't have to deal with him at the end of this one,' but it was the Snowball Derby actually later on that season that he was able to battle with me and then some other guys to get the win in that race and it was pretty impressive.
"We've been in existence for five seasons and this is obviously – six seasons, I guess – our fourth championship, but our first driver's championship and it means so much more to have the opportunity to help these younger drivers and to help these kids that are coming up thought the ranks to succeed and be successful and to do that with Kyle Busch Motorsports and Toyota. There's nothing greater than to have that feeling and to build that company from the ground up from nothing and to take it to what it is today."
Jones is signed as a development driver for Joe Gibbs Racing and will move up to a full-time Xfinity Series ride for the team in 2016, but for now, he's still taking it all in.
"I think it's going to take some time to sink in, you know, but just an awesome season," said Jones.
"Only three years ago I was just getting my first opportunity in the Truck Series and just can't thank Kyle Busch Motorsports – Kyle and Samantha (Busch, team owners) – enough for really starting this whole deal out and giving me the opportunity to go out and try to prove myself and it's come a long way since then and I couldn't be happier
"It goes back that I can't think of a better way to repay these guys and I can't think of a better way to thank Kyle (Busch, team owner) for all these years – just getting a driver's championship for him. He's wanted one since the company started and to bring it home for myself and for KBM (Kyle Busch Motorsports), you couldn't really ask for a better ending than that"
Matt Crafton Post-Race Press Conference
THE MODERATOR: We're going to hear now from our race winner and two-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, certainly a very worthy and deserving champion, Matt Crafton. Matt wins tonight's Ford EcoBoost 200. He's the driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door Menard's Toyota, and he's joined by crew chief Junior Joiner.
Six wins in 2015 for Matt Crafton. His first win at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Matt, you had them covered up here tonight. Talk about your win here tonight. I'm sure you would have liked to have got that third straight championship, but overall your thoughts about tonight's win and then the season in total.
MATT CRAFTON: Tonight's win was awesome. Like I said, the last two years we haven't been able to race here, and to be able to take the gloves off and don't worry about a championship and just go out and win, and that's all we had to do was worry about winning, and I said nothing else was going to make us happy. So that's what we did tonight.
We had a phenomenal season. Six wins and 700 – I think they said 780 laps we led. That's a pretty good season. We just had one column that was bad for us: DNFs. I made mistakes and everybody made mistakes. But I promise you one thing, it's going to make us stronger for 2016.
Q. Matt, you kind of touched on this after winning Martinsville, but if you compare the two championship seasons with three wins combined in them versus this season, six wins, how do you rank them, and you've always said you don't look at points, but the checkered flags is the thing. Is that kind of the view after this year?
MATT CRAFTON: Oh, absolutely. The first year we wanted to get that championship and we won one race that year and I points raced a lot, I'm not going to lie, and I just tried not to put myself in any bad positions and we top-fived and top-tenned them to death that year. I didn't really make mistakes with wrecking. Junior didn't make any mistakes and Triad and everybody had a great year. After that we got that first championship under our belt, he made me promise him that we weren't points race anymore. That drove him crazy because he knew we could win more races. So let's lead more laps, let's win more races than last year. We led more laps, we won more races.
And then this year I said these guys are unbelievable what they build these trucks up there in Sandusky, Ohio and what Duke and Rhonda give us to be able to go out and win six races. I say it each and every race, I don't worry about the points, and I haven't worried about the points. The last five races, six races, I knew I was going to have to be that much more aggressive, and I was.
If you look at the last five races how many laps we led, I guarantee we led most laps in 90 percent of those races, and we just had stupid stuff happen. If you look at Talladega you got debris on the grille and had to fall to the back to get the debris off, and then got caught up in a late-race wreck, and then last week racing hard. Took my gloves off and like I said, I knew I had to win that race and I was going to do whatever it took to win that race. Yes, did I mean to wreck him? Absolutely not, as I said, it was just hard racing.
Q. Matt, can you talk about the battle with John Hunter Nemechek there?
MATT CRAFTON: That was a lot of fun. I mean, the first run we were good. We were really good on the short run, and the long run we missed it a little bit. We got off and I kept communicating with him. And it's just amazing what Junior can do to these trucks. We said we didn't want to jump on the other side of the fence and make it really free, and we made it a little bit better. The last run we really hit a home run there. It was good on the short run and really, really good on the long run, as well.
Q. I know you battled with Tyler Reddick and Erik Jones all season. What did you think of Erik Jones, who goes out and wins a title tonight?
MATT CRAFTON: Oh, I mean, Tyler Reddick, that kid has really, really truly impressed me. Anybody that goes back and see where that kid came from, he's a little dirt racer. He's not an asphalt racer. I remember watching him race last year, and like I've told him before, he was a weapon. He was a dart without feathers. Then he's racing for a championship this year, and I'm like, man, that kid must have had an off-season put it all together. He was fast last year but never could put a whole race together, and this year he was very, very surprising.
Q. How about Erik Jones?
MATT CRAFTON: He's a good little race car driver. He's going to have a long, long career without a doubt. Hopefully get enough Kleenex.
Q. Have you regretted or had any second thoughts about that move last weekend in Phoenix?
MATT CRAFTON: I mean, yeah, you're definitely going to think about it, yeah, man what if I did that. What if I had just lifted and I could have drove back by him later and we could have raced, and we could have settled it right there at the end, and Junior said, No, absolutely not. You did everything you did. And that's what's so good about me and Junior's relationship, we have each other's back regardless. It doesn't matter – I would have just absolutely blew the corner and just wrecked and it was a stupid thing. We have each other's back, and I kind of say, no, I would have raced him just as hard and did everything I did, because if he wins that race, and even if I finished second I was pretty much out of the championship. I knew I had to win that race and that I was going to do everything I possibly could.
Q. And back on the trend talking about the youngsters, what is it about John Hunter Nemechek that the kid seems absolutely solid and can't get anything going with that race team as far as sponsorship, as far as somebody taking a look at him to give him an opportunity for a full-time gig? Is it just that tough right now in the series?
MATT CRAFTON: Oh, it's absolutely that tough. Like I said, there's so many of these – everybody always talks about the good crop of young drivers that there is, but there is – it's amazing how good equipment they're in. I mean, Erik Jones is a great, great race car driver, but he's in some of the best equipment. Tyler Reddick, I mean, he's a great race car driver. He's in great equipment. If you guys put these guys in some of the 15th place trucks, they're not going to run in the top 5 with it. I don't care how good they are. That's what some people don't understand.
John Hunter, they've got good equipment and everything, but you see what they do, and like I said, I know how hard that kid works and how hard his dad works and to see what we race with him, and he races his butt off. It's really, truly an accomplishment what that family does with what they have.
Q. Do you have any input on who's going to replace Sauter on your team next year?
MATT CRAFTON: Nope.
Q. Is that a good or a bad thing?
MATT CRAFTON: I mean, we've talked a lot. Duke has me a part of, like I said, all the drivers that have called, and he asks me my opinions on all of them, so I guess, yeah, I do have some opinion on them, certain feedback on it I should say.
Q. Speaking of Johnny Sauter, tonight was his last race with ThorSport Racing. Can you talk about what he's brought to the table and what he's meant to the program the last several years?
MATT CRAFTON: Johnny is a great, great race car driver. It's terrible that we're losing him because he's been very good to the program. He's helped the program to be where it is today. As I said, I'm sure he's going to have a great success over where he's at, and he's going to be definitely one of the ones who will race for a championship. But at the end of the day, I'm focused on winning more races, winning more championships with ThorSport. To see what Duke and Rhonda Thorson have done with me in my career, I think this is my 15th year with them, if I'm not mistaken, and I left for one year. And it was very much a learning curve. I went back and started to drive for them. You see what we've done. You're never going to meet – I can honestly say this, you're never going to meet a more loyal owner in this sport than Duke and Rhonda Thorson.
Erik Jones and Kyle Busch Post-Race Press Conference
THE MODERATOR: Let's hear now from our 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship team, and that is, the driver is Erik Jones. He drives the No. 4 Toyota Toyota. The crew chief is Rudy Fugle, and the team owner is Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Congratulations to the No. 4 Toyota in the Camping World Truck Series. Impressive, impressive season. Let's hear from our championship driver, Erik Jones. Talk about what it feels like to be a NASCAR champion.
ERIK JONES: Well, I think it's going to take some time to sink in, you know, but just an awesome season. Just a real team effort from the start, and some of the adversity we went through early on, and putting the team back together to championship form there for the latter part of the season and really going and working for the championship and earning ourselves a cushion coming into Homestead, and honestly still being able to run strong at Homestead all day. Just really proud of everybody. Just can't thank them all enough. Thanks to Toyota and TRD and just Kyle and Samantha for the opportunity alone. So many things had to come into play for me to even be here at this moment, so it's just pretty special for everybody.
THE MODERATOR: Kyle Busch, you are a winner. You win on the racetrack; you win as a team owner. You've become the first team in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series history to win three consecutive owner's championships, so congratulations to Kyle Busch Motorsports on that accomplishment. You have the most owner titles in the history of the series with four.
Talk about the ability now to also have a driver champion in Erik Jones.
KYLE BUSCH: It's an honor. You know, it's certainly been a lot of blood, sweat and tears over the years, but it's been pretty awesome, as well, too. I can't say enough about the people, everyone that's been at Kyle Busch Motorsports at the beginning, been there now or future. You know, it certainly has been pretty awesome to work with every one of those individuals, and it takes a lot of that in order to get the job done the way that we have over our existence in the series, and to set the record of winning an owner's championship the first year out was pretty awesome, and then to continue that on with different people on down the line with Eric Phillips and with Rudy and Jerry now, we'll see how that continues to go on down through the years.
But I can't say enough about the kid to my right. Erik Jones here is just awesome. He did a great job racing against me in South Florida, I guess the panhandle there in Pensacola, with having the opportunity to race in the Snowball Derby together. We had fun. I never would have expected to get beat by him in that race, but the last run of the race he did a great job. We raced clean, we raced hard, and he scored the victory, and I knew he was going to be good that day, and to get him signed up with Kyle Busch Motorsports and to have the opportunity to work with him over the last two seasons on the part-time side and to get him ready for the full-time side, you know, I'm thankful that he's stuck with me and that he believed in what our plan was for him, to give him this shot and to give him this opportunity, and I think he's got a lot of bigger and greater things to have on his plate with years to come.
All in all, though, I can't say enough about everyone at Kyle Busch Motorsports, the chassis shop, painter, all the body guys, everybody that does such a great job that prepares these trucks and makes them so fast and so fun to drive, and bringing home championships every year.
Q. Erik, how would you describe your driving tonight? Was it smart, cautious?
ERIK JONES: Yeah, I'd say it was conservative. You know, I don't think we ever put ourselves in a position to be in a situation we didn't want to be in. I thought we did a good job of letting everything sort out and then kind of going to work and getting spots. It's a shame, I think we had a really good truck, but we never really needed to race or had the opportunity to go up and race with the guys up front. You know, we just kind of ran around the middle part of the top 10 all day, and that's honestly all we needed to do.
Q.For Erik, as you mentioned earlier, or alluded to, the first 15 races of the year you didn't have the point lead. The last eight races you did. Can you just talk about sort of your mindset over the final eight weeks and basically how you managed to just focus on protecting your lead?
ERIK JONES: Well, after Gateway back here in the summer months, we finished 23rd, and I think we were down 20-something points to Crafton, third in points, and at that point I don't think I had the right mentality to go win a championship. I think we had the fastest trucks week in and week out, and you know, I think at that point we were just focused on winning races.
I kind of switched my mentality to the point of take the wins when we can get them, but we need to take these seconds, thirds, fourths and fifths when we can get them, as well, and not try to force anything. The last eight races or even a little bit before that we had a streak of top 10s here all the way to the end. I don't know the exact number it ended up at, but just finished in the top 10, being consistent, being competitive and running up front and contending for wins, that's all we needed to do throughout the rest of the year, and that's what we did.
Q. At this point you've won a Truck Series championship in your first full year. You've also had a taste of the Cup Series so far this year, substituting for Kyle and Matt and Denny. Ideally, what would your career trajectory be from this point on if you could design it yourself, and are you going to be content to spend a year in the XFINITY Series paying more dues?
ERIK JONES: Yeah, absolutely. I think the XFINITY Series is completely necessary. I have no problem with running a year as long as need be there. I don't know what the exact career path is for me down the road, and at some point, yeah, I want to race in the Cup Series every weekend, and I feel like there's a plan in place for that opportunity to arise, and I'll just keep taking what's given to me every week and go out and try to win races.
Q. Kyle, Erik was talking about some of the adversity and maybe his feelings after Gateway. Was there ever a time this year where you felt like I don't know if they've got it to win the title this year, and if you did feel that way, was there a point where you felt like, okay, they do have it?
KYLE BUSCH: I don't know that I ever doubted them with the opportunity that was given to both Rudy and Erik. You know, I felt like they were certainly missing on some things, and something just wasn't quite right there for a little bit. But I always believed and I always knew that they'd figure it out. I think Rudy is a great leader. I think he's done a tremendous job with Erik being a younger driver and having the emotions that I once had, as well, too, and trust me, they were probably still there two years ago.
Erik has done a lot of growing up I think in a short period of time, and it's also the limelight, but I think with the great people that have been around him, that we've had surround him, that's brought him to the level which he raced those final 15 weeks and top-10'd it each and every week to end the season
I never discounted our team or our trucks or Erik's ability or anybody. I just knew that sooner or later it needed to turn the corner, and fortunately they did that, and everything turned out well once they got through Texas I think was a rough night, and then Gateway was a rough night, then went to Iowa and put it right back on top. Since then they've seemed to do the right things.
There were a few other moments probably where things could have been derailed through the final 10 weeks, but they all did the right thing to focus forward and make sure that they just kept their head on and kept going forward.
Q. Kyle and Erik, can you talk about racing against each other this season? I know it was the first time you both raced against each other in the Truck Series. Can either of you talk about that, just being on the track for the first time since the Snowball Derby?
ERIK JONES: I just wanted to beat him, that's all.
Q. How did that go for you?
ERIK JONES: It didn't work out (laughter). You know, I was definitely excited about it. It had been a while since we got to race each other, and there's a nice little competition there that I want to go out and beat him. It makes it fun. It makes it exciting.
KYLE BUSCH: Yeah, no doubt. I had an enjoyable time racing against — racing my own trucks and just kind of feeling it out and knowing where our equipment stacks up. That's one of the main reasons I still like to get in it and make sure our stuff is really good, and we've got nice stuff for these guys to be driving.
You know, it was fun to race against Erik. Actually I remember it was Pocono, and Erik was super fast, and I was probably third quick. I wasn't even going to be close, and I told Jerry, I was like, man, you've just got to give me what Erik has got because whatever Erik has got I know I can beat him with it. It was that day that we had a good pit stop, we got out in front of him, he ran me back down. He was fast. He was faster than me at Pocono. But then later in the going, I think some restarts, they got kind of tangled up a little bit, and that was probably one of the moments I mentioned to Bob about how that could have derailed them, but they kept their focus on the task at hand and did a good job.
Q. Erik, you obviously started the year with aspirations of — this was the series you were competing full-time in and wanted to win a championship, and there seemed to be during the course of the season many different things that took place: Kyle's injury, Matt's suspension, getting in for Denny, things that you never anticipated going in. Now that the season is over, you've won the championship. All of those other experiences, looking back, did they add to helping you get to this point, detract some, a mixture? How would you rank?
ERIK JONES: Well, looking back on it, I think at the beginning of the year, I had obviously the full season here and then I had probably around 11 or 12 races in the XFINITY Series, which put me at 34, 35 races, something like that, which is a normal load of races, and then all of a sudden I had a stacked plate every week, and I was kind of all over the place, and at first it was a little overwhelming, but once we kind of got in the groove of it and got used to it, I think it was definitely a good experience for me just to be in and out, working with different people, different crew chiefs, different teams, driving different cars, and honestly, some of the biggest things that helped me was those Cup races this year, just being in those cars and seeing that level of competition and trying to adjust myself, and I think all it did was really better myself, especially at this level.
Q. Kyle, you've obviously left your mark in the history books of the Camping World Truck Series. What's the next goal? And you've got some other powerhouse drivers in the wings; what would you like to see continue for KBM?
KYLE BUSCH: I think that in this day and age, you know, we're pretty pleased with where we're at in the Truck Series. We did the XFINITY thing, and unfortunately it's just too hard to compete against the Cup guys at that level. Maybe 15 years ago we probably could have done it, you know, but as I said, this day and age, we're good with where we're at. I feel like Kyle Busch Motorsports chassis, those guys, they do a great job building us our chassis for our Tundras, and we build all kinds of stuff through the chassis shop, but I'm really looking forward to the future of Kyle Busch Motorsports with Erik going on and doing bigger and better things.
That's what our program is. We help the younger kids try to come up through, give them a good opportunity to succeed in some good equipment, and you know, they've got to make the most of it. It's their opportunity. Just like Erik Jones here, you know, we brought him up through with a part-time schedule, and he did the most of it. He won a race, a couple of them the first year, or Phoenix?
ERIK JONES: Just one.
KYLE BUSCH: Just one, and then last year won a few, and then this year again he won a few. That's how I foresee it going. We don't have any part-time kids next year, I guess besides Cody Coughlin, but with seeing what Chris Bell has done these last few weeks at Texas, he drove up to the front again tonight, he drove up on the front on fresher tires, but there's going to be a learning curve there. I don't expect us to be able to come out next year and contend for a championship. I would certainly love it if we did, but realistically, you know, I think there's going to be a growing year there for the drivers, and hopefully the crew chiefs can do exactly what Rudy has done here with the younger drivers and keep their heads on them and keep them straight and be successful.
If we can win some races next year with Chris Bell and William Byron and Cody Coughlin and Daniel Suarez, then that's going to be a by-far successful year to get each one of those four drivers into victory lane.
Q.When you guys started KBM in 2010, did you imagine it would be as successful as it is today?
KYLE BUSCH: I did, of course. I wouldn't have done it if I didn't think that we could be successful at it. I always thought it would be somewhere that I'd kind of have a golf game and just enjoy racing late models and trucks and go have some fun, but it's certainly turned into a better business than that, and we've gotten the opportunity to work with some great young talent that's been able to now accomplish a championship. And we've done the owner's championship thing for a few years, but I've always wanted to grow it past that into these younger drivers and their abilities to get championships at a younger age and to progress on through, and it takes good people, you know, from Rudy and Jerry, to Eddie and the chassis shop guys, everybody that's at Kyle Busch Motorsports. It's hard to keep people in the Truck Series. You know, they either want to go venture off and grow and do bigger and better things, or sometimes the money is just not good enough because we've got a budget. You've got to stay within the budget, and these guys know all too well on how to do that. So just been fortunate to have those good people stick around as long as they have.
Q. And despite their inexperience for next year, would you be surprised if William Byron or Christopher Bell were sitting in this position a year from now?
KYLE BUSCH: I would not be surprised. I'm not counting on it, but I would not be surprised. I think Chris Bell has obviously learned a lot I'm pretty sure over these last six weeks of racing in the Truck Series and getting his feet wet more and more on pavement and mile-and-a-half racing, the aero side of things and everything. And William Byron obviously having his debut last week, it didn't quite go as well as we would have hoped, but I still think he showed plenty of potential in practice running up front, or qualifying up front, and having the opportunity to race up front, but I look forward to the off-season just being able to sit down with those guys, talk to them and teach them some things, and I hope Erik is still willing to help them out as much as he can if they've got questions for him. Obviously Erik running this full season, he's been in the truck a heck of a lot more than I would have been in the truck, so I don't necessarily have all of the answers for those guys on what they can do better, but Erik will, and so I feel like he's a KBM guy here on out, from this time forward through his whole career. He's won his first championship for us. He's a business guy now. He's a company man.
Q. Erik, going into this final race, how conservative was the No. 4 team's approach to this race?
ERIK JONES: You know, from a setup standpoint, not conservative at all. We went into this weekend with the sense that we're going to prepare a race-winning truck like we would any other week, and I think from a strategy and a driving standpoint, you know, it's definitely more conservative. We had no reason to try to bulldog our way to the front to win a race or get up in the fence. I ran left side tires on the seam all day. I never had to go up and run the wall. There was no reason to. And we ended up sixth. So that's honestly better than I thought we would do, as conservative as we were running all day.
Just never really challenged anything on the restarts. I think about every restart we lost a spot or two and then had to work to get it back over the course of the run. Conservative, yeah. We just honestly did what we needed to do.
Results
| Pos | No. | Driver | Make | Start | Laps | Led | Status | Points |
| 1 | 88 | Matt Crafton | Toyota | 1 | 134 | 93 | Running | 48 |
| 2 | 8 | John Hunter Nemechek | Chevy | 2 | 134 | 24 | Running | 43 |
| 3 | 19 | Tyler Reddick | Ford | 4 | 134 | 1 | Running | 42 |
| 4 | 11 | Ben Kennedy | Toyota | 3 | 134 | 0 | Running | 40 |
| 5 | 17 | Timothy Peters | Toyota | 12 | 134 | 0 | Running | 39 |
| 6 | 4 | Erik Jones | Toyota | 5 | 134 | 0 | Running | 38 |
| 7 | 98 | Johnny Sauter | Toyota | 10 | 134 | 0 | Running | 37 |
| 8 | 14 | Daniel Hemric | Chevy | 7 | 134 | 0 | Running | 36 |
| 9 | 13 | Cameron Hayley | Toyota | 11 | 134 | 0 | Running | 35 |
| 10 | 05 | John Wes Townley | Chevy | 13 | 134 | 1 | Running | 35 |
| 11 | 23 | Spencer Gallagher | Chevy | 8 | 134 | 0 | Running | 33 |
| 12 | 29 | Austin Theriault | Ford | 18 | 134 | 0 | Running | 32 |
| 13 | 31 | Rico Abreu | Chevy | 14 | 134 | 0 | Running | 31 |
| 14 | 97 | Jesse Little | Toyota | 19 | 134 | 0 | Running | 30 |
| 15 | 0 | Scott Lagasse Jr | Chevy | 16 | 134 | 0 | Running | 0 |
| 16 | 92 | David Gilliland | Ford | 15 | 133 | 0 | Running | 0 |
| 17 | 59 | David Levine | Ford | 22 | 133 | 0 | Running | 27 |
| 18 | 07 | Ray Black Jr | Chevy | 27 | 133 | 0 | Running | 26 |
| 19 | 02 | Tyler Young | Chevy | 23 | 133 | 0 | Running | 25 |
| 20 | 15 | Mason Mingus | Chevy | 20 | 132 | 0 | Running | 24 |
| 21 | 94 | Timmy Hill | Chevy | 25 | 132 | 0 | Running | 23 |
| 22 | 50 | Travis Kvapil | Chevy | 28 | 132 | 0 | Running | 22 |
| 23 | 58 | Kyle Weatherman | Ford | 21 | 131 | 0 | Running | 21 |
| 24 | 1 | Dexter Stacey | Chevy | 32 | 131 | 0 | Running | 20 |
| 25 | 54 | Christopher Bell | Toyota | 9 | 130 | 5 | Out of Fuel | 20 |
| 26 | 10 | Jennifer Jo Cobb | Chevy | 24 | 128 | 0 | Running | 18 |
| 27 | 08 | Korbin Forrister | Chevy | 31 | 127 | 0 | Running | 17 |
| 28 | 63 | Garrett Smithley | Chevy | 29 | 126 | 0 | Running | 16 |
| 29 | 74 | Jordan Anderson | Chevy | 30 | 115 | 0 | Running | 15 |
| 30 | 51 | Daniel Suarez | Toyota | 6 | 84 | 10 | Accident | 0 |
| 31 | 33 | Brandon Jones | Chevy | 17 | 67 | 0 | Accident | 13 |
| 32 | 86 | Brandon Brown | Chevy | 26 | 2 | 0 | Transmission | 12 |