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• Wins: 4
• Poles: 4
• Top-five finishes: 16
• Top-10 finishes: 31
• Laps Led: 864

• Race Rewind: Talladega… After a rough qualifying session at Talladega Superspeedway, Myatt Snider rebounded to finish second at the checkered flag, earning a career-best NCWTS finish. Racing from the tail of the field at green flag to third at the end of Stage 1, Snider and the team eventually finished the second stage 10th en route to the career-best finish after making 186 green flag passes. Taking to superspeedways in the NCWTS, Snider bested his previous career-best finish of third, coming in 2017 at the 2.66-mile superspeedway at Talladega.
• Louisiana Hot Sauce Returns… Last featured aboard Snider’s No. 13 ThorSport Racing Ford F-150, Louisiana Hot Sauce, a brand among the Southeastern Mills family, returns to the track at Martinsville Speedway this weekend. A longtime partner of Snider’s, Southeastern Mills is a fourth generation, professionally managed food company headquartered in Rome, Georgia. Southeastern Mills serves the world’s largest grocers, restaurants and food manufacturers across North America. The company markets multiple national consumer brands including Better Than Bouillon®, Louisiana Hot Sauce®, Southeastern Mills®, Shore Lunch®, Better Than Gravy®, and Crockery Gourmet®. For more information, please visit betterthanbouillon.com, louisiana-brand.com, semills.com, and shorelunch.com to learn more.
• Stopover in the Sunset State… Not only did Ben Rhodes get a pre-race preview of ISM Raceway’s recent redesign, he spent the day back in a high school classroom with students at Trevor Browne High School and the DRAGG program (Drag Racing Against Gangs and Graffiti). DRAGG Phoenix’s mission is to “provide an alternative to gangs and graffiti through a positive learning opportunity that teaches youth responsibility and respect for others in the unique environment of the automotive industry, while gaining hands on exposure to knowledge of automotive careers.” Originating in Oxnard, California, the program was recently introduced to the Phoenix, Arizona-area after starting with an automotive shop, an idea and a Ford Mustang. After spending time in the classroom with the students and checking out their vehicles built for the upcoming 2018 SEMA Show, it was Rhodes’s turn to take the students to his turf, spending the afternoon at ISM Raceway, many of the students’ first time exposed to NASCAR.
• Locked In… Matt Crafton may have had an early end to his Fr8Auctions 250 at Talladega Superspeedway, however he and the No. 88 Menards Ford F-150 team are locked in to NASCAR’s Round of 6. Competing for what could be his third NCWTS Driver Championship in his career, Crafton has finished his last three seasons strong, including earning two wins (2015: Martinsville, Homestead-Miami Speedway), two poles (2015: Texas Motor Speedway, Homestead-Miami), six top-five and nine top-10 finishes in 12 starts. Having two wins at Martinsville previously (Spring 2014, Fall 2015), a win this weekend would lock Crafton into NASCAR’s Championship 4.
• Playoff Push… Grant Enfinger looks to finish the 2018 NCWTS season strong in his first Playoff appearance of his career. Sitting fourth among the Round of 6 with four points separating Enfinger and Justin Hayley (fifth), Enfinger looks to the three of four remaining tracks with victory as his goal – Martinsville Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway and ISM Raceway – which would lock him into the Championship 4. Of eight starts made at Martinsville, Texas and Phoenix in his NCWTS career, Enfinger has accumulated three top-five and four top-10 finishes: fourth at Martinsville in the spring 2018 race, two top-five and three top-10 finishes at Texas in 2017 and 2018, and a ninth-place start at Phoenix in 2017.
• Protect The Harvest Returns… Last partnered with the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford F-150 team at Kansas Speedway, Protect The Harvest returns with Grant Enfigner for this weekend’s race in Martinsville, along with Texas and ISM Raceway. An organization made up of farmers, ranchers, sportsmen, outdoor enthusiasts and animal owners, Protect The Harvest’s mission is to educate and inform Americans about the activities of extremist groups threatening our heritage and traditions. The organization works to defend and protect our American way of life which is important, vital and what we value most. For more information about Protect the Harvest, visit ProtectTheHarvest.com.

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