Inexperience or a Product of the New Race Format?
After months of hard work and waiting, seventeen teams were frustrated during the second lap of the Camping World Truck Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway.
Shortly after the field crossed the start-finish line to signal the start of Lap 2, Chase Briscoe in his #29 Ford and racing for the first time in the Truck Series, gave Rookie Noah Gragson's #18 Toyota an off-center tap on the rear bumper. The move sent Gragson bouncing off the outside wall in Turn 1 and out of control. That ignited a chain reaction that ended up collecting a total of seventeen trucks in a wild wreck.
Shortly after the field crossed the start-finish line to signal the start of Lap 2, Chase Briscoe in his #29 Ford and racing for the first time in the Truck Series, gave Rookie Noah Gragson's #18 Toyota an off-center tap on the rear bumper. The move sent Gragson bouncing off the outside wall in Turn 1 and out of control. That ignited a chain reaction that ended up collecting a total of seventeen trucks in a wild wreck.
#18 Noah Gragson, #19 Austin Cindric, #16 Ryan Truex, #68 Clay Greenfield, #66 Ross Chastain, #52 Stewart Friesen, and #199 Tommy Joe Martins were only able to record one lap in the race. Somehow Briscoe managed on to finish third.
“I was running seventh or eighth at the time and felt like I just got popped from behind by the 29 going through (Turns) 1 and 2. … I had a good time out there for the lap that I got,” Gragson, an eighteen-year-old driving for Kyle Busch Motorsports stated.
"We had a short run here at Daytona. My team prepared a truck that qualified 15th and even had a shot at the pole. You have just as big a chance of winning as you do of getting caught up in 'the big one', it's a product of speedway racing. We will be back at Talladega and go for the win there." Clay Greenfield reported via Instagram
A dissatisfied Ryan Truex said he saw smoke and it was over. "People just aren’t patient. It’s lap four and we’re bump drafting. There’s no reason for it. It’s disappointing. Chalk it up to inexperience, I guess. There’s just no need to race this hard that early. Unfortunately, we’ve got a wrecked truck. I saw smoke and I slowed down and got pushed from behind and got hit three or four times and our truck was stuck in the mud and wrecked. We’ll go on to Atlanta.”
NASAR Race Mom believes that Dale Jr. expressed it best:
Quick recap of tonight's action. 😳 pic.twitter.com/LM00Hsamle— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) February 25, 2017
Photos by Paul Harraka Sr.
| Race Results | ||
| Pos | Driver | Laps |
| 1 | #33 Kaz Grala | 100 |
| 2 | #132 Austin Wayne Self | 100 |
| 3 | #29 Chase Briscoe | 100 |
| 4 | #8 John Hunter Nemechek | 100 |
| 5 | #87 Joe Nemechek | 100 |
| 6 | #92 Regan Smith | 100 |
| 7 | #24 Scott Lagasse Jr. | 100 |
| 8 | #4 Christopher Bell | 100 |
| 9 | #22 J.J. Yeley | 100 |
| 10 | #51 Myatt Snider | 100 |
| 11 | #13 Cody Coughlin | 100 |
| 12 | #27 Ben Rhodes | 100 |
| 13 | #23 Spencer Gallagher | 100 |
| 14 | #88 Matt Crafton | 99 |
| 15 | #21 Johnny Sauter | 99 |
| 16 | #98 Grant Enfinger | 99 |
| 17 | #17 Timothy Peters | 99 |
| 18 | #183 Todd Peck | 99 |
| 19 | #49 Wendell Chavous | 98 |
| 20 | #5 Korbin Forrister | 71 |
| 21 | #63 Bobby Gerhart | 41 |
| 22 | #7 Brett Moffitt | 20 |
| 23 | #2 Tyler Young | 12 |
| 24 | #50 Travis Kvapil | 11 |
| 25 | #130 Terry Jones | 4 |
| 26 | #18 Noah Gragson | 1 |
| 27 | #19 Austin Cindric | 1 |
| 28 | #16 Ryan Truex | 1 |
| 29 | #68 Clay Greenfield | 1 |
| 30 | #66 Ross Chastain | 1 |
| 31 | #52 Stewart Friesen | 1 |
| 32 | #199 Tommy Joe Martins | 1 |
Racing with a heavy heart for Jeff and Stephanie tonight. You will be missed❤ #RIPStephie— Noah Gragson (@NoahGragson) February 25, 2017
Here's what 1 lap looks like @DISupdates @Garmin— Ryan Truex (@Ryan_Truex) February 25, 2017
Even got my trip to the infield care center on there 🤔 pic.twitter.com/VyXuKk5reE
Yeah. Me too. Had just gotten back in the gas when @TylerYoung02 spun back up on front of us. Just stinks. https://t.co/y4lwhTt8m3— Tommy Joe Martins (@TommyJoeMartins) February 25, 2017
*NASCAR Race Mom’s opinion, NASCAR’s 2017 enhancement will definitely aid television ratings but at the cost of grass-roots racing – Oh Well, Let's Get Ready To Rumble.
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