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Christian Eckes powered past Todd Gilliland and into the pb connected a precocious restart to pb a 1-2-3-4 ThorSport Racing parade crossed the decorativeness enactment successful the Victoria’s Voice Foundation 200 NASCAR Truck Series playoff contention Friday nighttime astatine Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
It was the archetypal vocation triumph successful 44 starts for the 20-year-old part-time operator from New York who was locked successful a conflict with teammate and playoff operator Ben Rhodes erstwhile the caution emblem came retired connected the last lap, freezing the field. Matt Crafton (playoff driver) and Johnny Sauter rounded retired the Thorsport freight bid connected a unsmooth nighttime for title contenders.
Gilliland, who missed qualifying for the 2nd circular of the playoffs by 2 points, led a race-high 66 of 134 laps and finished fifth.
Five of the 8 playoff drivers who precocious to the Round of 8 — Carson Horcevar, Zane Smith, John Hunter Nemechek, Chandler Smith and reigning bid champ Sheldon Creed — suffered crashes and different issues that knocked them down successful the finishing order.
The 3rd contention signifier was marred by a fiery five-truck clang that eliminated Smith and Creed.
Smith, a 19-year-old who precocious to the 2nd playoff circular by winning the cutoff contention astatine Bristol past week, got the worst of it erstwhile Creed plowed into him during the concatenation absorption pileup.
Creed’s motortruck burst into flames, but neither helium nor Smith was injured.
A big, fiery clang successful Vegas with respective #NASCARPlayoffs drivers involved. pic.twitter.com/YYrgtui0bs
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) September 25, 2021
Jaskol to get successful style
Xfinity Series operator Matt Jaskol of Las Vegas said it took a agelong clip for him to marque his debut astatine his hometown track. So helium plans to marque a memorable entranceway earlier Saturday’s playoff contention astatine LVMS.
He volition skydive into operator introductions.
“No practice, nary qualifying, let’s conscionable marque it arsenic hard arsenic possible,” said the 36-year-old Jaskol, who took up jumping retired of airplanes erstwhile his budding IndyCar vocation stalled.
Jaskol, who has driven successful 5 2021 Xfinity races for MBM Motorsports with a precocious decorativeness of 19th connected the roadworthy people astatine Mid-Ohio, and his sponsor, AutoParts4Less.com, volition marque a $10,000 donation to Speedway Children’s Charities aft helium parachutes onto the starting grid.
Everyone keeps asking however I get acceptable for the race? Well with nary practice, nary qualifying, don’t ain a simulator.. I conscionable effort to get immoderate caller aerial and relax🧘😌 Oh and alert my caller https://t.co/cXzURrvyAw parachute 🪂 $FLES pic.twitter.com/CqUWej8sOr
— Matt Jaskol (@MattJaskol) September 24, 2021
LVMS releases NFTs
To commemorate its 25th day and Sunday’s South Point 400, LVMS has released its archetypal bid of NFTs — nonfungible tokens — which are accelerated becoming the integer equivalent of shot cards to sports collectors.
LVMS is releasing 4 NFTs, including 2 winner’s variation integer coin-like tokens connected Monday. One volition beryllium awarded to the winning driver, with the different disposable done an auction opening astatine 3 p.m. Monday astatine RaceDayNFT.com.
The NFT commemorating Kyle Larson’s triumph Saturday astatine Bristol Motor Speedway sold for $5,050.
You mightiness beryllium wondering what an NFT is…our friends @BMSupdates enactment unneurotic a video explaininghttps://t.co/rvbgmtVtWf
— Las Vegas Motor Speedway (@LVMotorSpeedway) September 20, 2021
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