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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Love's RV Stop 250

Talladega Superspeedway

September 30th, 2023

Race #21 of the 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 100
- Shortened to 99 laps
Miles Raced : 263.3
Time of Race : 02 Hours 26 minutes 07 seconds
Average Speed: 108.136 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.089 seconds
Cautions: 8
Caution Laps: 41
Lead Changes: 23

Charlotte, North Carolina - May 7th, 2021: Spencer Davis #11 inox Toyota at Darlington / Darrell Waltrip throwback. Photo by Spencer Davis Motorsports | Spencer Davis Motorsports

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Brett Moffitt	31	7	3	1	1	31	11.7	+30	133	114	+19	60	2	60.6%	22	99	92.6	0
Ben Rhodes	8	20	4	2	1	26	9.3	+6	181	177	+4	105	1	79.8%	0	99	86.3	41
Dean Thompson	4	11	5	3	3	30	9.8	+1	171	145	+26	127	3	87.9%	0	99	89.0	37
Chandler Smith	28	25	2	4	1	28	12.8	+24	196	203	-7	89	0	53.5%	0	99	77.7	0
Corey Heim	9	6	6	5	3	20	7.4	+4	157	140	+17	135	1	96.0%	0	99	96.5	41
Daniel Dye	29	19	7	6	5	30	16.2	+23	202	187	+15	55	1	45.5%	0	99	73.3	31
Nicholas Sanchez	2	1	12	7	1	25	7.7	-5	86	91	-5	75	0	84.9%	25	99	95.9	49
Hailie Deegan	23	27	23	8	8	31	23.8	+15	31	50	-19	7	1	8.1%	0	99	57.7	29
Parker Kligerman	13	14	8	9	1	25	8.5	+4	164	169	-5	128	0	81.8%	10	99	103.0	0
Lawless Alan	21	15	21	10	5	26	16.3	+11	176	171	+5	57	1	34.3%	0	99	72.8	27
Carson Hocevar	7	26	18	11	1	26	10.1	-4	116	118	-2	94	2	70.7%	5	99	101.9	43
Rajah Caruth	14	17	17	12	1	28	17.6	+2	174	180	-6	79	2	27.3%	0	99	70.2	25
Grant Enfinger	25	24	16	13	6	31	19.4	+12	173	162	+11	60	2	28.3%	0	99	75.5	24
Jack Wood	6	21	22	14	2	34	20.6	-8	116	162	-46	72	0	37.4%	0	99	58.2	23
Garrett Smithley	32	29	14	15	2	32	24.2	+17	28	43	-15	6	2	11.1%	0	99	54.2	0
Bret Holmes	15	13	11	16	1	23	9.9	-1	165	164	+1	142	0	87.9%	3	99	84.8	30
Ryan Vargas	33	28	24	17	2	33	24.0	+16	42	47	-5	13	0	10.1%	0	99	53.7	20
Taylor Gray	24	18	26	18	1	29	18.9	+6	138	140	-2	82	1	42.4%	1	99	72.3	23
Christian Eckes	16	5	1	19	1	21	9.3	-3	180	200	-20	134	1	83.8%	8	99	75.2	18
Jake Drew	10	8	15	20	2	32	16.0	-10	153	130	+23	98	0	52.5%	0	98	71.5	17
Ty Majeski	5	22	13	21	2	27	12.2	-16	106	100	+6	55	1	57.6%	0	93	90.0	30
Cory Roper	35	23	19	22	8	35	22.1	+13	107	100	+7	19	5	11.1%	0	93	62.1	15
Colby Howard	17	4	25	23	2	28	14.3	-6	136	138	-2	89	1	62.6%	0	92	70.9	19
Matt Crafton	12	12	9	24	1	27	17.7	-12	144	146	-2	61	3	36.4%	1	91	64.5	13
Tanner Gray	19	2	10	25	1	25	11.0	-6	164	142	+22	116	2	82.8%	12	91	80.1	20
Greg Van Alst	26	30	20	26	3	33	26.3	+0	22	36	-14	4	4	3.0%	0	91	49.7	11
Jason M White	36	33	28	27	27	36	31.5	+9	3	0	+3	0	2	0.0%	0	88	33.4	10
Chase Purdy	1	3	27	28	1	27	11.8	-27	160	181	-21	129	2	67.7%	11	84	91.3	9
Jake Garcia	3	34	29	29	29	36	33.1	-26	2	0	+2	0	3	0.0%	0	79	33.8	8
Tyler Hill	34	9	30	30	4	34	25.6	+4	26	44	-18	17	0	11.1%	0	59	47.5	7
Bayley Currey	27	16	31	31	1	33	24.6	-4	154	130	+24	21	2	11.1%	1	58	57.2	6
Zane Smith	18	35	33	32	4	35	29.4	-14	62	60	+2	40	0	16.2%	0	55	50.5	5
Tyler Ankrum	22	10	32	33	4	33	26.3	-11	142	123	+19	45	2	12.1%	0	50	63.6	4
Stewart Friesen	20	31	34	34	12	29	27.1	-14	122	125	-3	22	2	10.1%	0	38	40.5	3
David Gilliland	11	32	35	35	2	24	23.8	-24	61	79	-18	51	0	34.3%	0	38	68.0	4
Bryan Dauzat	30	36	36	36	30	34	35.7	-6	1	2	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	5	24.2	1

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Race Fast Facts

Talladega Superspeedway
Love's RV Stop 250
Race Winner: Brett Moffitt
Age: 31
Team : No. 34 - Fr8Auctions Ford
Owner: Bob Jenkins
Crew Chief: Seth Barbour
Brett Moffitt won the Love?s RV Stop 250, his 13th victory in 93 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in four races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Ben Rhodes (second) posted his third top-10 finish in eight races at Talladega Superspeedway. It is his 12th top-10 finish in 2023.
Dean Thompson (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Daniel Dye (sixth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Corey Heim leads the point standings by 10 points over Carson Hocevar.

Race Recap

Three-wide move propels Brett Moffitt to NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series victory at Talladega

September 30th, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Brett Moffitt made it a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start to remember pulling off an amazing three-wide move to the front during an overtime restart to claim the victory in Saturday’s Love’s RV Stop 250 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway – the former series champion’s first series race of the 2023 season ending in his first superspeedway victory.

It was a typically dramatic day on the 2.66-mile Talladega high banks, taking an overtime restart to settle the busy day of competition. Moffitt restarted on the front row alongside NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Playoff driver Christian Eckes following a 10-truck accident with two laps remaining in regulation time that forced the OT finish.

Eckes moved up track to block Moffitt from a run, but the veteran Moffitt deftly dropped his No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford to the middle of the track and pulled away to a .099-second victory over Playoff driver Ben Rhodes while Kraus lost momentum, drifted backwards and ended up 19^th.

All eight Talladega truck Playoff races have now been won by non-Playoff drivers.

“It’s pretty awesome,’’ said the 31-year old Moffitt, the 2018 series champion. “I’ve notably struggled on the superspeedways in the past and dreaded coming to them. But this was an all pressure-off situation that Front Row gave me to go out there and try to help a teammate. Obviously, that didn’t work out for that group. But to come here and have a shot at a win and to do it, is just amazing.

“Reminds me of the good ole days and I want to get back to doing this on a regular basis so we’ll see what happens.’’

It was an especially dramatic day for the eight Playoff drivers still vying for one of the four championship-eligible positions in the Nov. 3 finale. Among them, Rhodes was the top finishing driver – even though he did not lead a lap Saturday.

“This style of racing, you never know what to expect,’’ said Rhodes, driver of the No. 99 ThorSport Ford. “Just all in all, really happy we were able to finish second. We needed this for a points day. I think last year we were seven points out coming to homestead and we made it to the Championship Four. We’re eight out now so we did what we needed to do just one spot short. It would have been a real luxury to lock ourselves in today.”

TRICON Garage driver Dean Thompson finished third with Rackley W.A.R. Racing’s Chandler Smith and TRICON Garage’s Corey Heim, the championship leader rounding out the Top-5.

There were only three Playoff drivers in the Top-10 and that was a true effort for seventh place finisher Nick Sanchez. Although the Rev Racing driver dominated a lot of the afternoon, winning a stage and leading a race best 25 laps on the day, he received a “pass through” penalty for changing lanes on a restart with 32 laps remaining that set him back in the field. He made his way forward again in the No. 2 Chevrolet only to be involved in the final multi-car accident that forced an overtime restart.

He still finished seventh and having earned 19 stage points on the day while so many other Playoff driers also involved in incidents, he improved his position in the standings and will go into the next race – at Oct. 21 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He’s ranked fourth, three points ahead of fifth place Grant Enfinger. The top four ranked drivers following the Homestead race advance to the Championship round, Nov. 3 at Phoenix Raceway.

The GMS Racing driver Enfinger was also among those Playoff competitors caught up in multiple accidents on the afternoon. He finished 13^th. Niece Motorsport’s Carson Hocevar was 11^th. ThorSport’s Ty Majeski was 21^st.

Reigning series champion Zane Smith – race winner Moffitt’s teammate – had a rough afternoon from an incident on pit road to mechanical problems that set him back early. His truck hit his crew member Charles Plank coming into the team’s pit stall on the first stop of the day. Plank, a tire carrier, was okay and even finished out the race.

A lap later, however, Smith’s No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford suffered clutch problems and made multiple stops on pit road before going behind the wall for more extensive repairs.

He returned to the track in the closing laps and with moved up two finishing positions in the race standings to salvage some points. He drops to last place among in the championship standings, however, 36 points behind Sanchez on the cutoff line and needing to win at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

“I feel terrible about that, so that wasn’t a great start,’’ Smith said of the pit road incident with his crew member.

“And then after that rolled off pit road down the backstretch, my clutch started slipping and it got worse and worse and worse. So fighting that and changing the clutch to get back out there.

“Just such a bummer. It’s a tough situation here. ‘’

Heim is the only Playoff driver who has already secured a position in the Championship Four thanks to his win at Bristol, Tenn. Hocevar leads the points standings – up 23 points on fifth place. Eckes is third and Sanchez fourth.

Enfinger (-3) is ranked fifth, followed by Rhodes (-5), Majeski (-19) and Smith (-36).

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Playoffs continue Oct. 21 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the top four drivers in the standings after the race set to decide the Championship in the Nov. 3 season finale at Phoenix. Majeski is the defending Homestead-Miami race winner.

Following the race, there was an incident in the garage area between the 47-year old former series champion Matt Crafton and the 22-year old Rookie of the Year Sanchez that left Sanchez’ face bloodied. NASCAR is investigating the situation and will announce its finding and any penalties next week.