Sunday, September 20, 2015

TRUCKS: Tyler Tanner Joins Crowded Truck Series Garage At Chicagoland

SOURCE: Ross Chastain
Tyler Tanner picked up the 2nd last-place finish of his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career in Saturday’s American Ethanol E15 225 at the Chicagoland Speedway when his #36 Mittler Bros. Machine & Tool Chevrolet fell out with engine issues after he completed 5 of the race’s 150 laps.

The finish was Tanner’s second of the 2015 season, his first since Bristol, two races ago, and came in his 10th series start.

Tanner returned to MB Motorsports for the first time since the last-place run at Bristol to take his turn in the team’s “start-and-park” entry while Justin Jennings again drove Mike Mittler’s primary #63.  The two Mittler trucks were among 36 drivers on the preliminary entry list, a group reduced before Friday’s practice to 34 after the withdrawals of Tim Viens and Mike Harmon.  Tanner was 26th-fastest in that first session and would start 24th after qualifying was rained-out.

Rain also pushed the green flag from Friday night to Saturday morning, and when it came, the 32nd spot belonged to Norm Benning, who took the spot by virtue of his 25th spot in Owner Points.  Missing the race were Chad Boat in the #16 CorvetteParts.net Chevrolet, a new second team for Billy Boat Motorsports, and Ross Chastain’s #18 AISIN Toyota fielded by former series driver Shigeaki Hattori.  Hattori’s team is still looking for its first Truck Series appearance since Brett Moffitt’s 17th-place run at Michigan in 2013.

Several drivers were sent to the back with Benning, including two for engine changes that reports indicate had to do with damage after car covers came off several trucks during the storms the night before.  One of the victims was Daniel Hemric, whose #14 California Clean Power Chevrolet was still smoking during the pace laps.  On Lap 2, 27th-place starter Jennifer Jo Cobb’s #10 POWMIAFamiles.org / Driven2Honor.org Chevrolet slowed with a sudden engine issue of her own.  Sometime likely around Lap 25, Ross Chastain tweeted pictures of Cobb’s truck in the garage area along with teammate Caleb Roark’s #0, B.J. McLeod’s #45, and Tanner’s #36.  By that point in the race, two more trucks had also joined the rapidly-filling garage: Hemric’s snake-bit #14 had dropped the driveshaft in Turn 1 on Lap 14, one lap before Jesse Little’s second series start ended with what was reported as a  “catastrophic” engine failure on his #97 ProtectTheGarvest.com Toyota.

Of this group, only Cobb and Hemric were able to return to the track laps down and finish under power, coming home 23rd and 25th, respectively.  Tanner, meanwhile, stayed put and trailed the field, besting both Roark and Little by nine laps.  Ryan Ellis saw his second-straight early exit from a Truck Series race while driving MAKE Motorsports’ #50, though this time he completed 18 laps in Mark Beaver’s Landworks Solutions Chevrolet.  Rounding out the Bottom Five was McLeod - his fifth-straight bottom-five finish in the #45 Tilted Kilt Chevrolet.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is the first last-place finish for both Tanner and the #36 in a Truck Series race at Chicagoland.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
32) #36-Tyler Tanner / 5 laps / engine
31) #0-Caleb Roark / 14 laps / brakes
30) #97-Jesse Little / 14 laps / engine
29) #50-Ryan Ellis / 18 laps / vibration
28) #45-B.J. McLeod / 25 laps / vibration

2015 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Norm Benning, Caleb Roark (3)
2nd) Tyler Tanner (2)
3rd) Adam Edwards, Joey Gattina, Stew Hayward, Justin Jennings, Jennifer Jo Cobb, Travis Kvapil, Justin Marks, Robert Mitten (1)

2015 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing (5)
2nd) Norm Benning Racing (4)
3rd) MB Motorsports (3)
4th) MAKE Motorsports, Mike Harmon Racing, NDS Motorsports, Win-Tron Racing (1)

2015 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (13)
2nd) RAM (2)
3rd) Toyota (1)

Saturday, September 12, 2015

CUP: Michael Annett’s Hard Crash Leaves Him 43rd At Richmond

SOURCE: @TeamHSM46
Michael Annett picked up the 2nd last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in Saturday’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at the Richmond International Raceway when his #46 Switch Hitch Chevrolet was involved in a single-car crash that ultimately ended his night after 145 of the race’s 400 laps.

The finish was Annett’s second of the season and his first since Bristol, two races ago.  It came in the Iowa driver’s 62nd series start.

Following his first-lap exit at Bristol, Annett struggled to a 39th-place finish at Darlington after an early-race accident ripped the sheet metal from the driver’s side of his Chevrolet.  Statistically, an equally-tall task was ahead of him at Richmond, where he’d finished no better than 33rd in three previous Cup starts.  Rumors also swirled about the HScott Motorsport team’s driver lineup in 2015, and if Clint Bowyer would be joining the program next season.  Clearly, on-track tensions for Saturday would not be limited to the drivers contending for spots in the Chase.

In Friday’s opening practice, Annett was 35th-fastest of the 45 drivers entered, but he climbed to 32nd in Happy Hour before securing the 27th starting spot with an average speed of 127.095 mph.  Missing he race were Josh Wise, his second DNQ in a row in his first attempt driving The Motorsports Group’s #30 Chevrolet, and Timmy Hill in the slower of two unsponsored Premium Motorsports Fords, his the #62.

Starting 43rd on Saturday was J.J. Yeley, who was again looking to help BK Racing bring the #26 Maxim Toyota higher in Owner Points.  Yeley held the spot until Lap 2, when the #32 BeerFrost.com / CorvetteParts.net Ford from Go Green Racing slipped to 43rd.  The #32 was driven this week by XFINITY Series regular Jeffrey Earnhardt, who was making his Cup Series debut.  Unfortunately, Earnhardt was the first to be lapped on the 19th circuit, and he was still running in the rear when the first caution fell on Lap 39.

That time by, Reed Sorenson in Premium Motorsports’ #98 Ford dropped oil entering Turn 1, causing several lead-lap drivers to slide up the track.  Among them, 14th-place Martin Truex, Jr. tagged the outside wall and began to trail smoke, forcing a series of pit stops.  As Sorenson pulled behind the wall to take last from Earnhardt, Truex made a stop just before the Lap 47 restart and lost four laps, leaving him 42nd.  Sorenson came back out on Lap 95, moments before the second caution of the evening came out for debris.

On Lap 113, Annett was running nearly two laps down in 32nd when he found trouble on the backstretch.  Coming off of Turn 2, Annett slid into the #95 Thrivent Financial Ford of Michael McDowell, then was bumped into a spin by Jeb Burton’s #23 Estes Toyota.  Annett’s Chevrolet switched ends, then made hard contact with the inside wall with the driver’s side of his machine.  Annett managed to get the car re-fired, but then stopped at the entrance of pit road with the car leaking fluid.  A tow truck pulled the #46 behind the wall under the 13-lap caution, and the crew set to work on repairs.  On Lap 170, Annett took last from Sorenson.

Although Annett would remain in 43rd for the rest of the race, the HScott team once again managed to get their battered machine back on track.  This moment came on Lap 271, when he was 163 circuits behind leader Matt Kenseth’s dominant Toyota.  Annett completed just a handful more laps before pulling out for the final time on Lap 308.

McDowell came home 42nd on the night after a bizarre accident where his #95 clipped the safety truck entering Turn 3 during the fifth caution that came out on Lap 290.  No injuries were reported, but most of the rear sheetmetal was torn off McDowell’s Ford, ultimately ending their night with a trip to the NASCAR hauler.  He and Annett were the night’s only two retirees.  Sorenson came home 41st, Earnhardt 40th, and Burton 39th, all of them 13 or more laps down.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is the first last-place finish for the #46 in a Cup Series race at Richmond since September 10, 2011, when Scott Speed’s #46 T&T Performance Ford crashed 7 laps into the Wonderful Pistachios 400.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
43) #46-Michael Annett / 145 laps / crash
42) #95-Michael McDowell / 287 laps / crash
41) #98-Reed Sorenson / 335 laps / running
40) #32-Jeffrey Earnhardt / 387 laps / running
39) #23-Jeb Burton / 387 laps / running

2015 LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Alex Bowman, Landon Cassill (3)
2nd) Michael Annett, J.J. Yeley (2)
3rd) Justin Allgaier, A.J. Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Joey Gase, David Gilliland, Timmy Hill, Sam Hornish, Jr., Kasey Kahne, Bobby Labonte, Brian Scott, Tony Stewart, Cole Whitt, Josh Wise (1)

2015 LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Hillman Smith Motorsports, HScott Motorsports, Tommy Baldwin Racing (3)
2nd) BK Racing, Go FAS Racing, Front Row Motorsports, Hendrick Motorsports, Phil Parsons Racing / Premium Motorsports, Richard Petty Motorsports (2)
3rd) Joe Gibbs Racing, JTG-Daugherty Racing, Richard Childress Racing / Circle Sport, Roush-Fenway Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing (1)

2015 LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (15)
2nd) Ford (8)
3rd) Toyota (3)

XFINITY: Jeff Green Sets New NASCAR Single-Season Last-Place Record

SOURCE: NBC Sports
Jeff Green picked up the 76th last-place finish of his NASCAR XFINITY Series career in Friday’s Virginia 529 College Savings 250 at the Richmond International Raceway when his #19 Premier Barter Exchange Toyota fell out with a vibration after he completed 2 of the race’s 250 laps.

The finish was Green’s 16th of the season and his first since Road America, two races ago.  With eight races to go, Green has already broken his 2013 record of 15 last-place finishes in a single season.

Green was one of 41 entrants at Richmond, and was the slowest in Thursday’s opening practice with a single lap of only 77.548 mph - 12.590 seconds slower than Austin Dillon’s fastest lap of 121.474 mph.  He improved dramatically with a lap of 119.011 mph in qualifying, good enough for 31st on the grid.  Missing the show was Morgan Shepherd, whose #89 Chevrolet was edged by J.J. Yeley’s #28 Toyota by two-tenths of a second.

When the green flag flew on Friday, the 40th spot belonged to Josh Reaume, back with Motorsports Business Management for the first time since a 39th at Mid-Ohio last month.  Reaume’s #13 followed the field into Turn 1 when trouble broke out in front of him.  The 24th, 26th, and 28th-place starters of Benny Gordon, David Starr, and John Wes Townley made contact and spun, triggering a wreck that also collected Joey Gase, Carl Long, and Jimmy Weller III.  Reaume avoided involvement, as did Green, who both cut to the apron to avoid contact.

The two drivers whose vehicles were most severely damaged in the wreck were Weller’s #90 BYB Extreme Fighting Series Chevrolet and Gordon’s #66 Somerset Regional Water Resources / VSI Toyota.  However, both were still edged for last by Green, who during the ensuing caution pulled the #19 behind the wall at the same time as Weller.  37th went to Starr, Green’s teammate in the #44 Zachry Toyota, his damaged #44 colliding with the Turn 3 wall on Lap 19.  Long rounded out the Bottom Five for Motorsports Business Management in the white #40 Grafoid Dodge - teammate Reaume finished 28th, eight laps down to race winner Chase Elliott.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*Green sweeps both XFINITY Series last-place finishes at Richmond for 2015 with his fifth last-place run at the track in the last eight series races.
*This is the first last-place finish for the #19 in an XFINITY Series race at Richmond since September 10, 1993, when Tom Peck’s #19 Delco Remy Chevrolet lost the engine after 9 laps of the Autolite 250.  It was Peck’s only last-place finish in 171 series starts from 1984 through 1995.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #19-Jeff Green / 2 laps / vibration
39) #90-Jimmy Weller III / 2 laps / crash
38) #66-Benny Gordon / 3 laps / crash
37) #44-David Starr / 16 laps / crash
36) #40-Carl Long / 38 laps / suspension

2015 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Jeff Green (16) - 2015 CHAMPION
2nd) Dexter Bean (2)
3rd) Ryan Ellis, C.J. Faison, Mike Harmon, Charles Lewandoski, Carl Long, Morgan Shepherd, Derek White (1)

2015 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) TriStar Motorsports (17)
2nd) King Autosport, Motorsports Business Management (2)
3rd) JGL Racing, Mike Harmon Racing, Rick Ware Racing, Shepherd Racing Ventures (1)

2015 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Toyota (19)
2nd) Chevrolet (3)
3rd) Dodge (2)
4th) Ford (1)

Sunday, September 6, 2015

CUP: Cole Whitt Gives #35 First Darlington Last-Place Finish Since 1960

SOURCE: Rubbin's Racin' Forums
Cole Whitt picked up the 2nd last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in Sunday’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at the Darlington Raceway when his #35 Speed Stick Ford was involved in a crash that ended his run after 5 of 367 laps.  The finish occurred in Whitt’s 75th series start.

The finish was Whitt’s first of the year and his first since another early crash last year at Watkins Glen, 39 races ago.

2015 marks Whitt’s fifth season on the Sprint Cup tour and his first for Front Row Motorsports.  Following a difficult 2014 where the collapse of Swan Racing sent he and his sponsors to a sudden third team for BK Racing, Whitt has continued to try and find a rhythm in NASCAR’s top division.  He began the year with a 22nd-place finish in the Daytona 500 - the first of four top-25 finishes in the first six races - and earned a career-best 13th at Talladega.  While inconsistency saddled Whitt with the 31st spot in points headed to Darlington, he’d failed to finish just one race all season - an engine failure at Atlanta that left him 37th.

At Darlington, Whitt’s machine was one of just 13 of the 46 entered which did not have a “throwback” scheme of some kind.  In fact, none of Front Row’s three cars participated in the promotion, choosing instead to run schemes used earlier in the season.  Whitt was 41st-fastest in the opening practice session and 37th in Happy Hour, then secured the 37th spot on Owner Points after a lap of 175.159 mph.  The only “throwback” car to miss the race was that of Josh Wise, whose Ricky Craven 2003 scheme on the #32 CorvetteParts.net / BeerFrost.com Ford was sent home with Travis Kvapil’s #30 Curtis Key Plumbing Chevrolet for The Motorsports Group and the #62 ChampionMachinery.com Chevrolet for Premium Motorsports.

The 43rd starting spot went to T.J. Bell, who was making his first Cup Series start since September 30, 2012, when he came home 33rd driving for Frankie Stoddard at Dover.  The #98 Royal Teak Ford that Bell drove for Premium Motorsports had changed hands twice during the week.  It was originally to be driven by Reed Sorenson, whose wife Laura gave birth to their first daughter Ella on September 1.  Bell was brought in to drive Premium’s #62 in Sorenson’s place while Timmy Hill drove the #98, but Hill and Bell switched rides again by Friday.  In qualifying, Bell was 2 mph slower than Hill, but secured a starting spot based on his rank in Owner Points.

Bell was joined by two cars sent to the back - Danica Patrick, who was running a backup black #10 GoDaddy Chevrolet, and Chase Elliott, whose #25 NAPA Auto Parts 1985 Throwback Chevrolet required a rear gear change before the race.  Patrick took last from Bell at the start and held it on Lap 1, but Bell re-took it on Lap 2.  The #98 was still trailing the field on Lap 6 when trouble broke out in front of him.

Coming off Turn 2, rookie Brett Moffitt tagged the Turn 2 wall with his #34 Dockside Logistics Ford.  Whitt, who was right on his bumper when it happened, couldn’t avoid contact and tore open his right-front fender.  Elliott, climbing through the field, rear-ended Whitt, who spun to the inside of the track and collided with the inside wall.  Moffitt and Elliott managed to keep rolling, but Whitt’s Ford was too damaged to continue.  The crew pondered repairs, but around Lap 38, the team concluded nothing could be done and retired from the event.

Moffitt, meanwhile, spent more than 30 laps in the garage before returning to the track.  He came home under power in 36th while the Bottom Five shuffled behind him.  By race’s end, 28 drivers were on the lead lap, but everyone from 33rd on back was at least 11 laps down.  Many of those drivers were involved in multiple accidents that accounted for a record 18 cautions for 89 laps.

When the dust settled, 42nd went to Patrick, whose #10 clobbered the wall off Turn 4 on Lap 190, then returned to the track 74 laps down only to cut another right-front tire and hit the wall on Lap 266.  41st went to Elliott, who after suffering nose damage in the Whitt accident made hard contact with the Turn 1 wall on Lap 229, taking him out of the race.

40th fell to David Ragan, his #55 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota honoring his privateer father Ken and the #77 TRW Ford he ran in the late 1980s.  Ragan was on the lead lap until Lap 266, when he lost control in Turn 4, then wrecked even harder on Lap 279 after contact from Paul Menard.

Rounding out the group was Michael Annett, whose throwback #46 Pilot / Flying J Chevrolet spun on Lap 110, then was torn open on the driver’s side in a Lap 126 crash with J.J. Yeley and Mike Bliss.  The extensive damage to Annett’s car required more than 60 laps of repairs, though he did gather a few spots and finished under power.

The race was won by Carl Edwards in the #19 Arris Toyota, meaning that the 43-car field was bookended by non-“throwback” cars.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
Geoffrey Bodine's #35 Chevrolet, 2000
SOURCE: Andy Petree Racing
*This is the first last-place finish for the #35 in a Cup Series race since November 20, 2000, when Geoffrey Bodine’s Bari Italian Foods Chevrolet - a third entry fielded by veteran crew chief and team owner Andy Petree - lost an engine after 11 laps of the NAPA 500 at Atlanta.  It was Bodine’s 14th start after returning from his terrible Truck Series crash that February.
*The #35 had not finished last in a Cup race at Darlington since September 5, 1960, when E.J. Trivette’s 1959 Plymouth owned by M.J. Black fell out with handling issues after he completed just 1 lap of the Southern 500.  It was the second of ten last-place runs for Trivette, who competed in 178 Cup Series races from 1959 through 1971.  His best career finish came on a half-mile dirt track in Valdosta, Georgia, where he ran 6th on June 27, 1965.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
43) #35-Cole Whitt / 5 laps / crash
42) #10-Danica Patrick / 190 laps / crash
41) #25-Chase Elliott / 227 laps / crash
40) #55-David Ragan / 275 laps / crash
39) #46-Michael Annett / 300 laps / running

2015 LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Alex Bowman, Landon Cassill (3)
2nd) J.J. Yeley (2)
3rd) Justin Allgaier, A.J. Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, Michael Annett, Trevor Bayne, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Joey Gase, David Gilliland, Timmy Hill, Sam Hornish, Jr., Kasey Kahne, Bobby Labonte, Brian Scott, Tony Stewart, Cole Whitt, Josh Wise (1)

2015 LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Hillman Smith Motorsports, Tommy Baldwin Racing (3)
2nd) BK Racing, Go FAS Racing, Front Row Motorsports, Hendrick Motorsports, HScott Motorsports, Phil Parsons Racing / Premium Motorsports, Richard Petty Motorsports (2)
3rd) Joe Gibbs Racing, JTG-Daugherty Racing, Richard Childress Racing / Circle Sport, Roush-Fenway Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing (1)

2015 LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (14)
2nd) Ford (8)
3rd) Toyota (3)

XFINITY: Ryan Ellis Ends Jeff Green’s Last-Place Streak At Eight

SOURCE: NASCAR GarageCam
Ryan Ellis picked up the 4th last-place finish of his NASCAR XFINITY Series career in Saturday’s VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 at the Darlington Raceway when his #17 Navy Seals vs. Zombies Ford fell out with suspension issues after he completed 1 of the race’s 147 laps.  The finish occurred in Ellis’ 24th series start.

The finish was Ellis’ first of the year and his first in an XFINITY race since last fall at Texas, 26 races ago.  The finish also ended Jeff Green’s record-setting last-place streak at eight races.  Green, who came home 38th on Saturday, can still break his single-season record of 15 last-place runs with a finish in any of the nine remaining races in 2015.

For the second year, Ellis, a 25-year-old racer from Ashburn, Virginia, has split his time running partial schedules in both the NASCAR XFINITY Series and Camping World Truck Series.  This year, he’s improved his career-best finish in both divisions.  He came home 16th in the Truck opener at Daytona, giving longtime team owner Jim Rosenblum his best finish in the series since 2003, and was 22nd in the XFINITY Series race at Watkins Glen despite driving a car that wasn’t set up to run the road course.  The car Ellis raced at the Glen was owned by Rick Ware, who again tabbed Ellis to drive at Darlington.

This time, the car Ellis would drive was a relatively new ride - the #17 Ford that Stanton Barrett debuted last week at Road America.  Barrett, a part-time stuntman who has made infrequent NASCAR starts, arranged for the entry with the help of Ware’s team.  It proved to be an up-and-down weekend: Barrett was unable to turn a lap in practice, but had muscled the car toward a respectable finish before a last-lap crash left him 26th.  The crew apparently made repairs to Barrett’s car in time for Darlington, where Ellis was tabbed to drive.  With Barrett’s directorial debut in the upcoming horror film “Navy Seals vs. Zombies,” now in post-production, the film’s title appeared on the hood of Ellis’ car.

As at Road America, the #17 did not participate in either of the weekend’s practices, and a qualifying lap of 144.499 mph - more than five seconds off the pole speed set by Denny Hamlin - was the slowest overall.  However, with 40 cars again entered to fill a 40-car field, Ellis secured the final starting spot.  After one lap, he pulled behind the wall with suspension woes, followed three circuits later by Carl Long in Motorsports Business Management’s unsponsored #40 Dodge.  Jeff Green did not exit until Lap 7.

Rounding out the Bottom Five were Carlos Contreras, Ellis’ teammate, who fell out with crash damage on the #15 BYBExtreme.com Chevrolet, and T.J. Bell, making his first XFINITY Series start since Chicago in June driving the unsponsored #26 JGL Racing Toyota.

Another longtime team owner, Johnny Davis, enjoyed one of his team’s best overall performances with two of his three cars finishing inside the Top 10.  8th went to Landon Cassill, his best finish since Road America last year, driving a #01 Flex Seal Chevrolet which paid homage to the late Butch Lindley, who won five of his six XFINITY Series races with the number.  10th went to Ross Chastain - his third top-ten finish in the last ten races - his #4 South Carlina Education Lottery Chevrolet honoring Joe Thurman, the first driver to race for Davis back in 1983.  Thurman, the 1985 XFINITY Series Champion, never won a race in 184 series starts, but earned six top-five finishes, including a career-best 4th on four occasions.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is the first last-place finish for the #17 in an XFINITY Series race since May 24, 2014, when Tanner Berryhill’s NationalCashLenders.com Dodge lost an engine after he completed 81 of the race’s 200 laps.  The year before, Berryhill also scored the number’s most recent last-place run at Darlington with an early rear gear failure.
*This is the first last-place finish by a Rick Ware-owned car since June 14, 2014, when Tim Schendel’s unsponsored #87 Chevrolet lost an engine without completing a lap of the Ollie’s Bargain Outlet 250 at Michigan.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #17-Ryan Ellis / 1 lap / suspension
39) #40-Carl Long / 4 laps / suspension
38) #19-Jeff Green / 6 laps / suspension
37) #15-Carlos Contreras / 10 laps / crash
36) #26-T.J. Bell / 23 laps / clutch

2015 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Jeff Green (15) - 2015 CHAMPION
2nd) Dexter Bean (2)
3rd) Ryan Ellis, C.J. Faison, Mike Harmon, Charles Lewandoski, Carl Long, Morgan Shepherd, Derek White (1)

2015 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) TriStar Motorsports (16)
2nd) King Autosport, Motorsports Business Management (2)
3rd) JGL Racing, Mike Harmon Racing, Rick Ware Racing, Shepherd Racing Ventures (1)

2015 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Toyota (18)
2nd) Chevrolet (3)
3rd) Dodge (2)
4th) Ford (1)