No. 45 Moore’s Venture Foods Chevrolet Silverado RST
Driver: Kaden Honeycutt | Crew Chief: Phil Gould
– Key Takeaway: Kaden Honeycutt secured the No. 45 team’s spot in the NCTS Owner’s Playoffs following tonight’s regular season finale at Richmond Raceway. Honeycutt qualified a strong eighth-place, and just missed out on stage points with an eleventh-place finish in stage one. He dropped to 22nd in stage two, and was eventually spun due to contact with another competitor, but rebounded for a top-15 finish in 14th.
– Kaden Honeycutt’s Post-Race Thoughts: What does it mean to know you’re going to fight for the owner’s championship?
“It’s big for us. We really want to be a couple of spots better than where Ross and Carson were the past couple of years and bring home an owner’s championship for Al. We’ll try to do that for sure, but also learn and take things week-by-week and continue to figure out how to win races. Tonight was rough, but I’m happy that we can go on and fight for a title.”
No. 42 J.F. Electric / Utilitra Chevrolet Silverado RST
Driver: Matt Mills | Crew Chief: Jon Leonard
– Key Takeaway: A bead failure on the right front tire of the No. 42 J.F. Electric Chevrolet forced Matt Mills out of the race early in Richmond. After qualifying 18th, Mills put in work to climb into the top-15 shortly before the conclusion of stage one. On lap 57, the tire blew and Mills made hard contact with the wall in turn four. He was credited with a 35th-place finish.
– Matt Mills’ Post-Race Thoughts: “Yeah, I’m all good. The impact, I just wasn’t expecting it. I didn’t have a warning that the tire was going down. We were really moving through the field and it felt like we had really good pace in our truck. I went to the outside to make another move to pass on another one and it blew on us. I’m heartbroken; I love this place and I felt like we had a really good truck and this was the last chance for us to turn our season around and make the playoffs. Just wasn’t our day.”
No. 41 DQS Solutions & Staffing Chevrolet Silverado RST
Driver: Bayley Currey | Crew Chief: Wally Rogers
– Key Takeaway: Bayley Currey’s promising run in Richmond was hindered by electrical issues. After starting 15th, the No. 41 team began to make ground in stage one. Currey would finish 17th in the stage, followed by a 19th-place run in stage two. When the issues were found, he was forced to wait two laps under caution as the crew rectified them. Currey settled for a 23rd-place result in the race.
– Bayley Currey’s Post-Race Thoughts: “Hate that we had those issues to put us behind tonight. I really was impressed with the speed that we had in our DQS/Masked Owl Chevy and the gains we made after practice. We were really coming into our own and almost broke into the top-10 there for a little while. Then we had those electrical issues that just took us out of it. On a positive note, we are making gains on our short track package, so hopefully all the guys on my No. 41 team can use that for Milwaukee.”
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