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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

TSport 200

Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park

August 11th, 2023

Race #17 of the 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 22
- Extended to 200 laps
Miles Raced : 137.0
Time of Race : 01 Hours 49 minutes 39 seconds
Average Speed: 75.075 mph
Margin of Victory : 03.422 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 41
Lead Changes: 3

Ben Rhodes drives during the TSport 200 — Indianapolis, Indiana - August 11th, 2023: Ben Rhodes, driver of the #99 Farm Paint Ford, drives during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series TSport 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Photo by Justin Casterline | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Ty Majeski	2	1	1	1	1	2	1.1	+1	10	9	+1	10	76	100.0%	179	200	150.0	60
Christian Eckes	1	4	2	2	1	11	3.1	-1	16	15	+1	16	9	100.0%	3	200	120.4	50
Layne Riggs	12	10	3	3	3	16	6.9	+9	24	13	+11	24	10	99.5%	0	200	109.0	43
Carson Hocevar	5	5	4	4	3	13	4.4	+1	17	17	+0	17	8	100.0%	0	200	114.1	44
Zane Smith	8	7	5	5	2	34	8.7	+3	49	26	+23	23	0	88.0%	0	200	99.2	37
William Sawalich	10	6	6	6	3	15	8.2	+4	31	39	-8	28	2	100.0%	0	200	99.1	36
Rajah Caruth	4	13	7	7	4	19	9.9	-3	41	33	+8	41	1	95.5%	0	200	93.6	33
Corey Heim	3	2	8	8	1	21	5.3	-5	25	17	+8	22	10	92.5%	18	200	111.7	47
Matt Crafton	13	12	10	9	6	18	11.1	+4	41	45	-4	41	3	91.5%	0	200	85.5	28
Matt DiBenedetto	24	15	11	10	8	24	14.8	+14	54	46	+8	40	3	60.5%	0	200	78.7	27
Nicholas Sanchez	9	11	9	11	7	16	10.1	-2	43	43	+0	42	0	99.5%	0	200	88.5	27
Grant Enfinger	6	3	13	12	2	20	7.8	-6	35	34	+1	35	8	95.0%	0	200	98.6	37
Jake Garcia	7	16	14	13	3	18	11.7	-6	43	40	+3	42	5	78.5%	0	200	82.1	30
Chase Purdy	22	17	15	14	6	22	16.3	+8	40	36	+4	19	0	39.5%	0	200	72.7	23
Tanner Gray	19	8	17	15	4	20	12.0	+4	56	57	-1	34	0	65.5%	0	200	79.7	27
Ben Rhodes	21	9	12	16	5	21	11.1	+5	47	56	-9	40	0	97.5%	0	200	76.8	21
Jake Drew	20	14	16	17	9	20	14.7	+3	49	39	+10	19	2	58.5%	0	200	73.1	20
Jack Wood	23	21	18	18	13	30	21.1	+5	36	43	-7	1	1	8.0%	0	200	58.9	19
Shane van Gisbergen	28	22	19	19	9	28	20.2	+9	39	33	+6	9	0	1.5%	0	199	59.8	18
Taylor Gray	34	20	20	20	17	34	20.5	+14	31	26	+5	0	0	0.0%	0	199	60.2	17
Logan Bearden	26	18	21	21	8	35	21.9	+5	44	34	+10	0	0	1.5%	0	199	54.5	16
Daniel Dye	15	23	22	22	9	24	22.0	-7	21	28	-7	1	0	1.0%	0	199	53.3	15
Matt Mills	17	28	23	23	17	36	26.3	-6	32	26	+6	0	0	0.0%	0	198	46.3	14
Lawless Alan	36	27	24	24	23	36	26.1	+12	31	24	+7	0	0	0.0%	0	198	46.3	13
Bret Holmes	32	31	25	25	25	36	29.8	+7	16	21	-5	0	0	0.0%	0	197	36.0	12
Tyler Hill	30	25	26	26	25	35	27.5	+4	23	35	-12	0	0	0.0%	0	197	35.0	11
Conner Jones	18	26	27	27	16	33	26.7	-9	21	38	-17	0	0	0.0%	0	196	43.0	10
Landen Lewis	29	32	28	28	23	36	30.7	+1	19	16	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	196	35.0	9
Chris Hacker	33	30	29	29	25	33	28.9	+4	44	40	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	195	36.0	8
Stewart Friesen	14	34	30	30	11	35	29.6	-16	14	35	-21	2	0	4.5%	0	183	49.5	7
Hailie Deegan	25	24	31	31	19	33	25.6	-6	27	24	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	140	45.7	6
Dean Thompson	11	19	32	32	11	21	22.3	-21	32	37	-5	7	0	10.0%	0	130	57.8	5
Spencer Boyd	31	29	33	33	28	35	31.1	-2	20	28	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	128	35.2	4
Tyler Ankrum	35	33	34	34	28	35	33.5	+1	14	11	+3	0	5	0.0%	0	127	27.9	3
Colby Howard	16	35	35	35	13	35	29.9	-19	11	24	-13	4	10	12.0%	0	79	48.8	2
Greg Van Alst	27	36	36	36	23	36	35.3	-9	4	10	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	14	25.0	1

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Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park
TSport 200
Race Winner: Ty Majeski
Age: 28
Team : No. 98 - Road Ranger Ford
Owner: Mike Curb
Crew Chief: Joe Shear Jr.
Ty Majeski won the TSport 200, his third victory in 60 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races.
This is his first victory and 12th top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in two races at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
Christian Eckes (second) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. It is his ninth top-10 finish in 2023.
Layne Riggs (third) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
Rajah Caruth (seventh) was the highest finishing rookie.
Corey Heim leads the point standings by 3 points over Ty Majeski.

Race Recap

Ty Majeski dominates NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Playoff opener

August 11th, 2023

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Ty Majeski’s timing was impeccable.

Winless this season before Friday night’s TSport 200 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Majseki put an old-fashioned beating on the rest of the field in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Playoff opener.

The driver of the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford cemented a spot in the Playoffs’ Round of 8 in dominating fashion, leading 179 of 200 laps, sweeping the first two stages of the race and beating pole winner and runner-up Christian Eckes to the finish line by 3.422 seconds.

That was the smallest margin Majeski held at the end of any stage. He held a 3.904-secodn advantage over eventual eighth-place finisher Corey Heim at the finish of Stage 1. He was up by six seconds over Heim before the second stage ended under caution for Chris Hacker’s spin on the backstretch.

Clearly, the short-track ace was in his element at the .686-mile speedway.

“I’m proud of the effort, but this is just the start of our Playoff run,” said Majeski, who failed to win with the fastest truck two weekends ago at Richmond.

In that race, Majeski sped on pit road, and his team failed to cover a late green-flag pit stop by race winner Carson Hocevar. In contrast, the effort of the entire No. 98 team was impeccable on Friday night.

“Mistakes really cost us (at Richmond),” Majeski said. “We learned from those. Obviously, tonight we were in a really similar situation, and we were able to execute on all fronts. The pit crew was great, (crew chief) Joe (Shear Jr.) made great calls, and I felt like I executed pretty good on the restarts.

“We put it all together as a race team tonight, and I’m pretty proud of that.”

Hocevar came home fourth behind non-Playoff driver Layne Riggs. Reigning series champion Zane Smith was fifth after starting from the rear of the field because of unapproved adjustments to his No. 38 Ford.

William Sawalich was a career-best sixth in his fourth Truck Series start, followed by fellow non-Playoff driver Rajah Caruth. Heim in eighth was penalized for too many men over the wall late in the race. Three-time series champion Matt Crafton and Matt DiBenedetto completed the top 10.

The race also was a triumph for another driver who never led a lap and finished 19^th in the first car one lap down. Shane Van Gisbergen, who took the NASCAR world by storm by winning the Chicago Street Race in his only Cup start, avoided all trouble and got plenty of seat time in his first trip around an oval.

“It was awesome,” said the New Zealander. “With 10 to go, I finally dropped off the lead lap. “I had a ball. It was awesome racing with people, a lot of fun… I’m living the dream, it was really cool, and everyone was respectful. It was awesome.”

Heim, the regular-season champion, retained the series lead by three points over Majeski.

After the next two races—at the Milwaukee Mile (Aug. 27) and Kansas Speedway (Sept. 8)—the Playoff field will be cut from 10 drivers to eight. The two drivers currently below the cut line are Crafton and DiBenedetto, who trail eighth-place Nick Sanchez by two points and three points, respectively.