TRUCKS: Jesse Little’s abrupt exit at Bristol results in his first last-place finish

PHOTO: Jesse Little, @jesselittle97

Jesse Little picked up the 1st last-place finish of his NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series career in Thursday’s UNOH 200 at the Bristol Motor Speedway when his #97 Visit Kingsport / Skuttle Tight Ford was collected in a multi-truck accident after 2 of 200 laps.

The finish came in Little’s 30th series start. In the Truck Series last-place rankings, this was the first for the #97, the 105th for Ford, and the 154th from a crash. Across NASCAR’s top three series, it was the 39th for the #97, the 955th for Ford, and the 1,191st from a crash.

It’s no coincidence that NASCAR has a new driver with the last name Little behind the wheel of #97. Jesse’s father Chad Little campaigned the number from 1996 into late 2000, first for Tex Powell and then for Roush Racing. The green-and-gold John Deere colors were one of the most recognizable cars on the Winston Cup circuit, propelling Little to six of his eight last-place finishes and a career-best runner-up finish to Mark Martin at Texas in 1998.

Jesse has been racing since he was seven, and in 2012 became the youngest-ever driver to start a NASCAR K&N Pro Series race at age fifteen. Two years later, he won his first K&N Pro Series East race at Loudon and finished a career-best sixth in points. The following season in 2015, Little and his family made the jump to the Truck Series, starting a part-time effort, JJL Motorsports. Now just eighteen, Little made his series debut at Dover and qualified 9th, only to be eliminated in an early crash. His first Top Ten came the next year at Iowa.

JJL switched from Toyota to Ford last year and improved even more, finishing in the Top 10 in six of their nine starts. The strong runs lifted Little to 19th in series points despite running less than half the schedule. The youngster also made his first two Cup starts that year, finishing 35th both times – at Kentucky for Premium Motorsports and at Bristol for Gaunt Brothers Racing.

This year, however, Little and JJL have struggled to find the same consistency. Coming into Bristol, the pair made seven Truck Series starts but finished no better than 13th at Texas in March. They also finished outside the Top 20 in three of their most recent four starts, including Dover, where the track bar failed and left them a disappointing 29th after a 13th-place qualifying run. Bristol, the scene of Little’s most recent Cup start, was a chance for a turnaround. The team debuted new sponsorship from the tourism board for Kingsport, Tennessee as well as returning backing from Skuttle Tight. On Monday, the truck made an appearance at golf's World Long Drive competition on the way to the track.

Little began the Bristol weekend running 35th of the 36 trucks in opening practice with just five laps complete, then climbed to 15th in Happy Hour. He then qualified 22nd with a speed of 122.905mph (15.612 seconds).

Little was originally among 37 entries who were set to attempt the 32-truck field, but the list shrank by one after Michigan last-placer Norm Benning withdrew his #6 H&H Trucking Chevrolet. This still left four teams on the outside looking in after qualifying: Codie Rohrbaugh in the #9 Grant County Mulch Chevrolet, Cory Roper in the #04 Preferred Industrial Contractors Ford, Timothy Peters in Ricky Benton’s #92 BTS Tire & Wheel Distributor / NAPA Filters Ford, and Lou Goss in his #74 Kramer Service Group / A&A Haulers Chevrolet.

Starting last was Angela Ruch, who returned to the series for the first time since June at Texas. She drove one of Al Niece’s entries, the #44 The Ruch Life Chevrolet, and although she’d made just six starts in 2019, the #44 had attempted every race, giving the team a superior rank in Owner Points to the four part-time efforts sent home after qualifying. She’d be joined at the rear by just one other driver – Sheldon Creed, whose #2 Chevrolet Accessories Chevrolet had started 24th, but was sent to the rear for unapproved adjustments following engine issues in qualifying. Coming to the start, either Creed or Ruch was still in the last row with a black truck, likely 29th-place qualifier J.J. Yeley’s #34 Colonial Countertops Chevrolet, starting alongside.

On the break, the last row showed a white and black truck in the final row. Ruch remained in last place for the start, but dropped Yeley to last at the end of the first lap, 8.166 seconds back of the lead. Yeley was still last on Lap 3 when the battle ended abruptly.

That time by, Little was running in a large pack of traffic when Gus Dean spun coming off Turn 4. Little checked-up and was rear-ended by a closing Sheldon Creed, knocking Little into a spin that backed him into the outside wall before he stopped next to Dean’s truck. The contact left Little sitting backwards in the middle of the track with heavy damage to the rear clip. While Dean, Creed, and the trailing Jordan Anderson in the #3 Capital City Towing / Sefton Steel Chevrolet all stopped at the scene, each started moving again and eventually cleared the minimum speed requirement under the Crash Clock. Little, however, remained stopped on track long enough to be the first to lose a lap. He was then brought to the garage, done for the night.

Yeley pulled his truck behind the wall shortly after the restart, and Ruch was eliminated in a crash down the frontstretch at the start of Stage 2. Finishing 29th was John Hunter Nemechek, whose #8 Berry’s Manufacturing Chevrolet was rear-ended in the opening stages, then collected in a pileup with Johnny Sauter on Lap 76. With heavy damage to the front and rear of his machine, Nemechek pulled behind the wall, done for the day. Jordan Anderson, who narrowly avoided serious damage in the Little accident, lost an engine past the halfway point and rounded out the Bottom Five.

For more on Jesse Little, check out his website here: https://jesselittle.com/JesseLittle.html

LASTCAR STATSTICS
*This marked the first ever last-place finish for the #97 in a Truck Series race. The number is also one of the rarest in the series. Prior to JJL Motorsports’ first start in 2015, the number had just seventeen starts, capped by a strong 7th-place finish by Jeff Choquette at Iowa in 2014.
*Little is tied for the fewest laps completed by a Truck Series last-place finisher at Bristol. Also completing two laps in the race was Johnny Sauter, now tied with Norm Benning for the most series last-place finishes. On August 22, 2012, Chapman’s #5 RSS Racing Chevrolet had electrical issues in the UNOH 200.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
32) #97-Jesse Little / 2 laps / crash
31) #34-J.J. Yeley / 12 laps / transmission
30) #44-Angela Ruch / 65 laps / crash
29) #8-John Hunter Nemechek / 75 laps / crash
28) #3-Jordan Anderson / 102 laps / engine

2019 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) NEMCO Motorsports (3)
2nd) Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing, Norm Benning Racing, Young’s Motorsports (2)
3rd) Copp Motorsports, DGR-Crosley, Halmar Friesen Racing, Hattori Racing Enterprises, JJL Motorsports, Niece Motorsports, Reaume Brothers Racing, ThorSport Racing (1)

2019 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (13)
2nd) Ford, Toyota (2)

2019 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP

PREVIEW: Bristol sees a multitude of Truck and XFINITY teams rejoin the circuit

PHOTO: TriMaxx Graphics

Thursday, August 15, 2019
TRUCKS Race 17 of 23
UNOH 200 at Bristol
Round of 8 – Race 1 of 3
2018 Last-Place Finisher: Bayley Currey

ENTRY LIST
There are 36 drivers entered for 32 spots in Thursday’s opener at “Thunder Valley,” meaning four teams will miss the show (following the withdrawal of Norm Benning). It’s the most entrants for a Truck Series race since Charlotte in May, where 38 drivers entered before two withdrew.

MISSING: #0-Jennifer Jo Cobb
Jennifer Jo Cobb will not be entering the #0 truck at Bristol, one week after Daniel Sasnett wrecked during his qualifying lap. Sasnett’s #0 was originally planned to be Cobb’s truck for Bristol and Mosport, but those plans have likely changed. Cobb is still entered in her #10, but it is not yet clear which of her remaining trucks she will drive.

WITHDREW: #6-Norm Benning Racing
Following his last-place finish at Michigan, Benning has withdrawn from this week's race. He is expected to run the following Sunday in Mosport, again running the truck he ran at Eldora.

MISSING: #14-Trey Hutchens Racing
Trey Hutchens returned to the circuit last week with a 16th-place finish in his own equipment. The team is not entered for this Thursday’s race.

DRIVER CHANGE: #15-DGR-Crosley
One to watch on Thursday will be Dylan Lupton, who has finished strong in his previous starts for DGR-Crosley. This week, he takes the place of Anthony Alfredo in the #15, which was collected along with his teammates in a late-race accident, leaving Alfredo 26th.

DRIVER CHANGE: #20-Young's Motorsports
Spencer Boyd was entered in this truck, but by Tuesday was once again out, and will again be replaced by Landon Huffman, who filled in for Boyd at Eldora. Boyd made his Cup debut just last Sunday with Rick Ware Racing.

RETURNING: #21-GMS Racing
Current K&N Pro Series East championship leader Sam Mayer will run double-duty between the East Series and his first national series start in Trucks. The 16-year-old from Franklin, Wisconsin will drive GMS Racing’s #21, a team we haven’t seen on the circuit all year following Johnny Sauter’s release at the end of 2018. Manpower is the listed sponsor.

RETURNING: #30-On Point Motorsports
Brennan Poole and the On Point team are back in action for the first time since Kentucky, where Poole steered his Toyota to a 15th-place finish. Poole has five XFINITY starts at Bristol, including a track-best 6th in his most recent start in the summer of 2017. However, if he qualifies, this will be his first Truck start at the track.

DRIVER CHANGE: #33-Reaume Brothers Racing
Ryan Sieg is going Truck Series racing for the second time this year and first since his 16th-place showing at Dover back in the spring. Then as now, he drives in place of Josh Reaume in the #33 Chevrolet, this time sponsored by Cook’s Comfort System. Reaume finished 18th with this team last week in Michigan.

DRIVER CHANGE: #34-Reaume Brothers Racing
XFINITY Series regular Chad Finchum was slated to make his Truck Series debut with the #34 team, taking the place of 21st-place Michigan finisher Jesse Iwuji. However, that plan apparently changed by Tuesday as J.J. Yeley was listed to drive the Colonial Countertops Chevrolet, leading off a triple-header weekend for the Arizona native. If he qualifies, it will be Yeley’s first Truck start since last year at Pocono, when he drove this same team to a 31st-place finish.

MISSING: #38-Niece Motorsports
At both Pocono and Michigan, T.J. Bell was entered at the last minute in Al Niece’s part-time #38 Chevrolet. However, with a large entry list, it’s unlikely that will happen this week. Bell finished 29th at Michigan.

DRIVER CHANGE: #44-Niece Motorsports
Angela Ruch returns to action for her seventh series start of the year and first since Texas in June, where crash left her 29th in the running order. She takes the place of Bayley Currey, a career-best 6th at Michigan following his first top-ten finish since his second career start at Phoenix in the fall of 2017. This week, Currey will instead run both XFINITY and Cup (see below).

RETURNING: #46-Kyle Busch Motorsports
Raphael Lessard returns to action for the fourth time in 2019 and first since Iowa, where he ran 9th for DGR-Crosley. This time, he moves back to Kyle Busch Motorsports and their part-time #46 team, last seen at Gateway where Chandler Smith finished a team season-best 4th. Spectra Premium will back Lessard’s effort.

MISSING: #49-CMI Motorsports
Ray Ciccarelli has not entered his #49 Chevrolet, one week after earning his first career top-ten finish at Michigan with a 9th-place showing.

DRIVER CHANGE: #51-Kyle Busch Motorsports
The aforementioned Chandler Smith will also be running this Thursday, taking the place of 13th-place Michigan finisher Brandon Jones. On top of his 4th-place finish at Gateway, Smith won the pole in Iowa and led 55 laps before he finished 8th. iBUYPOWER, his backer at Gateway, will again sponsor the Toyota.

RETURNING: #56-Hill Motorsports
The Hill brothers are back for the first time since their season-best 11th-place showing at Kentucky, and Timmy Hill will drive the Southern Freight Services Chevrolet for the first time since Chicagoland. Timmy has five Cup starts at Bristol and another 12 in XFINITY, but he has never before raced a truck at Bristol. Timmy is also entered in Friday’s XFINITY race (see below).

RETURNING: #68-Clay Greenfield Racing
Clay Greenfield also rejoins the Truck Series, eyeing his third series start of the year and first since a 16th-place finish at Kentucky. Rackley Roofing continues as sponsor as Greenfield looks to make this race for a sixth time and third year in a row. His track-best finish was a 16th for Rick Ware Racing in 2010. Greenfield's blue truck will also carry a decal celebrating Darrell and Stevie Waltrip's 50th wedding anniversary.

RETURNING: #74-Lou Goss Racing
Lou Goss will drive his own truck for the first time since his brief debut at Gateway. William Soquet, our Guest Contributor for the ARCA Menards Series, had the opportunity to speak with Goss, who said the #74 that Darwin Peters, Jr. ran at Eldora was not the former Harmon truck Goss acquired over the offseason, but another truck Peters entered using Goss' Owner Points. The Bristol truck, however, will be the Gateway truck with A&A Haulers and Kramer Service Group remaining as sponsors.

RETURNING: #75-Henderson Motorsports
Bristol mainstay Charlie Henderson brings his Food Country USA Chevrolet back to “Thunder Valley” with Parker Kligerman behind the wheel. Henderson and Kligerman haven’t started a Truck Series race since Atlanta, where they ran 20th.

MISSING: #87-NEMCO Motorsports
Joe Nemechek has not entered his second truck, which ran 31st at Michigan with Camden Murphy. Murphy is also not entered in this race, and will instead run XFINITY on Friday (see below).

RETURNING: #92-RBR Enterprises
Ricky Benton’s team has made just one start all year – Martinsville, where Austin Theriault finished 22nd, two laps down. The team missed the cut in their two other attempts, failing to qualify at both Daytona and Charlotte. Timothy Peters, who ran the Charlotte truck, is entered this week in RBR’s Ford sponsored by BTS Tire & Wheel Distributors and NAPA Filters.

RETURNING: #97-JJL Motorsports
The reunion continues as Jesse Little rejoins the circuit for the first time since Gateway, where he ran 21st. The JJL team has picked up new sponsorship from Visit Kingsport, the tourism board for Kingsport, Tennessee. Little has three Bristol starts in this series with a best of 13th two years ago.

CUP INVADERS: None.

Friday, August 16, 2019
XFINITY Race 22 of 33
Food City 300 at Bristol
2018 Last-Place Finisher: J.J. Yeley

ENTRY LIST
There are 42 drivers entered for 38 spots, meaning four teams will miss the race.

DRIVER CHANGE: #4-JD Motorsports
The red-and-gold paint scheme returns for JD Motorsports’ #4 Chevrolet, one week after Lawson Aschenbach’s dizzying paint scheme wound up 28th after a late crash at Mid-Ohio. Landon Cassill will drive as part of a double-duty effort with Cup, making his eighth XFINITY start of the year and first since Loudon, when he drove Morgan Shepherd’s #89 to a 37th-place finish.

DRIVER CHANGE: #5-B.J. McLeod Motorsports
DRIVER SWAP: #78-B.J. McLeod Motorsports
The first of four team driver swaps this week comes from B.J. McLeod’s effort, where Vinnie Miller moves from the #5 back to the #78 after a 25th-place finish in Mid-Ohio. Miller takes over for Scott Heckert, who drove the #78 to a 29th-place finish after a late crash. The swap allows Matt Mills to return to the #5 for the first time since Iowa, where he ran 18th. Mills finished 21st in the spring Bristol race.

DRIVER CHANGE: #8-JR Motorsports
Jeb Burton eyes his fourth XFINITY start of the season and first since Michigan in June, where he ran 9th. Burton has finished no worse than that run all season, peaked with a 5th-place run at Texas. As at Michigan, LS Tractor will sponsor the #8 Chevrolet. He takes the place of Regan Smith, who finished 21st at Mid-Ohio.

DRIVER CHANGE: #10-Kaulig Racing
Now 5th in this year’s ARCA Menards Series standings, Joe Graf, Jr. will drive for a second different XFINITY team this year. After two previous starts with Richard Childress Racing’s part-time #21, he will instead drive Kaulig Racing’s part-time #10 that ran 3rd last Saturday with A.J. Allmendinger. Graf’s sponsorship from EATSLEEPRACE.com follows him as sponsor.

RETURNING: #12-Penske Racing
Roger Penske’s #12 Ford Mustang is on the entry list, and as in its previous six starts, that means another Cup driver is in the field. This time, it’s Joey Logano, who last ran the series at Chicagoland, finishing runner-up to Cole Custer.

DRIVER SWAP: #13-Motorsports Business Management
DRIVER SWAP: #66-Motorsports Business Management
After running both road courses in the #66, Tommy Joe Martins switches to the #13, and Chad Finchum takes his place in the #66. Martins finished well ahead of Finchum last week, running 18th to Finchum’s 35th.

RETURNING: #17-Rick Ware Racing
Rick Ware hasn’t fielded his XFINITY car since Iowa, where Mark Meunier’s accident caused them to miss the cut. The team has returned this week with Bayley Currey running double-duty. It was Currey who gave the team its most recent start at Loudon, where he finished 35th. UPDATE: On Thursday, Currey was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for violating their substance abuse policy. Kyle Weatherman will be the replacement driver. UPDATE 2: Joe Nemechek was instead tabbed the relief driver in place of Weatherman.

DRIVER CHANGE: #18-Joe Gibbs Racing
Another Cup regular in the field is Kyle Busch, who has won three of his five XFINITY starts this year and likely would have won his last time out at Watkins Glen before his suspension failed in Turn 5. Busch takes the place of Jack Hawksworth, who enjoyed an excellent debut at Mid-Ohio, starting outside-pole, leading five laps, winning Stage 2, and finishing 15th.

RETURNING: #28-H2 Motorsports
Shane Lee and Matt Hurley’s team rejoin the XFINITY Series for the first time since Iowa in July, where they ran a season-best 7th in their sixth and most recent start. Lee has one XFINITY start at Bristol with Richard Childress Racing in the spring of last year, where he ran 14th.

DRIVER CHANGE: #38-RSS Racing
DRIVER SWAP: #93-RSS Racing
J.J. Yeley moves from the #38 that ran next-to-last in Mid-Ohio to the #93 for the second leg of his triple-header at Bristol. Taking over the #38 this week is Camden Murphy, who comes over from NEMCO’s #87 truck that wasn’t entered this week. Murphy’s fifth and most recent XFINITY start of the year came in Iowa in July, where he ran a season-best 24th.

MISSING: #42-Motorsports Business Management
NEW TEAM: #61-Motorsports Business Management
MBM has made a curious choice this week in Bristol, not entering the #42 that has run every race this season and finished 27th with Timmy Hill last week in Mid-Ohio. Hill will instead run a new car number for the team, the #61. We last saw this number take the green with upstart Fury Race Cars LLC with Kaz Grala behind the wheel. UPDATE: This #61 is the Hattori Racing Enterprises team that failed to qualify at Daytona. Timmy Hill drives in place of Austin Hill, meaning the rear window decal doesn't need to be changed.

DRIVER CHANGE: #68-Brandonbilt Motorsports
DRIVER SWAP: #86-Brandonbilt Motorsports
Another driver swap sees Brandon Brown return to his #86 in place of Will Rodgers, who is not entered after a strong 12th-place showing in Mid-Ohio. Brown struggled through at least two accidents before a 24th-place finish. Taking Brown’s place in the part-time #68 is Mason Diaz, who finished 36th in his series debut at Richmond, then 30th at Charlotte.

DRIVER CHANGE: #74-Mike Harmon Racing
After two straight weeks of road racers Dan Corcoran and Aaron Quine running his Chevorlet, Mike Harmon was set to return to the seat of his #74 Chevrolet for his 14th series start at Bristol. That changed by Tuesday, when Tyler Matthews, who formerly drove for JD Motorsports, was tabbed to drive in Harmon's place. There is no word as yet if Matthews or another road course ringer will run the car next week in Road America.

RETURNING: #81-XCI Racing
The end of Jeffrey Earnhardt’s partnership with iK9 last week has extended into XCI Racing’s part-time XFINITY effort, which returns to action this week. In Earnhardt’s place is Cup regular Erik Jones. Jones hasn’t started an XFINITY Series race since November 11, 2017 at Phoenix, when he won the pole and finished 3rd for Joe Gibbs Racing.

RETURNING: #89-Shepherd Racing Ventures
Morgan Shepherd looks to make his 11th XFINITY start of 2019 and first since Iowa in July, where he ran 36th. If he qualifies, it will be Shepherd’s 33rd series start at Bristol, a track where he’s won three poles and four races.

DRIVER CHANGE: #90-DGM Racing
Chris Dyson’s XFINITY debut at Mid-Ohio came to an abrupt end on an early restart when he rear-ended Cole Custer, crumpling his Thetford-sponsored #90 Chevrolet. This week, the branding on the Mario Gosselin car is again Bassett Gutters and More. While Dillon Bassett was on the preliminary entry list, it will instead be older brother Ronnie Bassett, Jr. in the car this week. Ronnie’s eighth and most recent series start came at Kentucky, where he ran 29th.

DRIVER CHANGE: #99-B.J. McLeod Motorsports
Patrick Gallagher enjoyed a quiet run in his XFINITY debut at Mid-Ohio, finishing 23rd as he became the first driver one lap down in the race’s final moments. This week, C.J. McLaughlin will run the #99, rejoining the XFINITY circuit for the first time since Loudon, where he ran 28th for RSS Racing in the #39 Chevrolet. Then as now, the sponsor is Sci Aps.

CUP INVADERS: #12-Joey Logano, #18-Kyle Busch, #81-Erik Jones

Sunday, August 17, 2019
CUP Race 24 of 36
Bass Pro Shops / NRA Night Race at Bristol
2018 Last-Place Finisher: Gray Gaulding

ENTRY LIST
There are 39 drivers entered for Saturday’s 40-car main event, marking the sixth straight short field and 19th out of the 24 races this season.

TEAM UPDATE: #38-Front Row Motorsports
News broke on Wednesday that David Ragan will retire from full-time competition at the end of this season to spend more time with his family. Ragan has run every Cup race since his 5th-place finish in the 2007 Daytona 500, earning two wins and two last-place finishes. Ragan has made 25 Cup starts at Bristol alone with a best finish of 10th in the 2008 night race.

DRIVER CHANGE: #51-Rick Ware Racing
The entry list story on the Cup side has to be Rick Ware Racing, which expands from three to four cars for the first time and has different drivers in each. Last week, Cody Ware finished 36th in the flagship #51, the last car under power. This week, B.J. McLeod will run double-duty with his XFINITY ride for JD Motorsports, and welcomes new sponsorship from Pinnacle Sports & Entertainment.

DRIVER CHANGE: #52-Rick Ware Racing
Bayley Currey’s double-duty weekend with the XFINITY Series continues on Saturday, where he takes the place of 32nd-place Michigan finisher Austin Theriault. Belmont Classic Cars rejoins the Ware team as sponsor, as they had with B.J. McLeod’s last-place run at Dover earlier this year. This time around, the car will be a soft cream color with brown accents. Currey ran another Belmont-sponsored Ware car in his first Cup start at Bristol earlier this year, where he ran 31st, 12 laps down. UPDATE: On Thursday, Currey was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for violating their substance abuse policy. Kyle Weatherman will be the replacement driver.

DRIVER CHANGE: #53-Rick Ware Racing
Spencer Boyd struggled in his Cup debut last week, ultimately eliminated in an accident that left him in last place. Josh Bilicki takes the controls of the part-time #53 team this week with AQRE as a team sponsor for a third straight race. Bilicki’s most recent start was when AQRE debuted as sponsor for the #52 at Watkins Glen, yielding a 32nd-place showing for his best of 2019. This will be Bilicki’s first Cup start at Bristol.

NEW TEAM: #54-Rick Ware Racing
Rounding out the Ware quartet is triple-duty driver J.J. Yeley, who brings car #54 back to the Cup Series for the first time since the 2003 season finale at Homestead, the last start for Sam Belnavis’ short-lived BelCar racing team. Yeley carries sponsorship from legendary metal band Slayer. The driver is currently taking a poll on which of the band’s songs to be played during his part of driver introductions.

DRIVER CHANGE: #77-Spire Motorsports
Last week, Reed Sorenson practiced and qualified the Spire Motorsports car at Michigan while Garrett Smithley was running the XFINITY race at Mid-Ohio. This week, Sorenson is the entered driver of the #77 with returning sponsor Go-Parts.com as sponsor.

LASTCAR STAT OF THE WEEK
Today in LASTCAR history (August 15, 1993): Rich Bickle picked up the 1st last-place finish of his Cup Series career when his #45 Terminal Trucking Ford lost the engine after 10 laps of the Champion Spark Plug 400 at Michigan. The finish, which came in Bickle’s 12th series start, saw him qualify 36th in the 41-car field. Another eleven drivers failed to qualify for the race, including James Hylton in a Pontiac sponsored by Rumple Furniture, future Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday, Jr. in a Wayne Spears #76 Chevrolet, and Jeremy Mayfield in the Sadler Brothers’ #95 Shoney’s Ford.

CUP: Spencer Boyd’s Cup debut gives car #53 first Cup Series last-place finish since 1993

PHOTO: @SpencerBoyd

Spencer Boyd picked up the 1st last-place finish of his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career in Sunday’s Consumers Energy 400 at the Michigan International Speedway when his #53 Chelle Corporation Ford was eliminated in a single-car crash after 123 of 200 laps.

The finish came in Boyd’s series debut. In the Cup Series last-place rankings, it was the 19th for the #53, the 587th from a crash, and the 694th for Ford. Across NASCAR’s top three series, it was the 25th for the #53, the 954th for Ford, and the 1,190th from a crash.

When Boyd was last featured on LASTCAR.info in April 2018, he’d been involved in a spectacular crash down the backstretch at Talladega during the XFINITY Series race there. At the time, he was driving for Bobby Dotter’s team SS-Green Light Racing, running the full tour with sponsorship from the veteran-backed clothing line Grunt Style. The season proved a struggle with no finishes better than a 17th at Daytona in July, and the two parted ways at season’s end.

This year, Boyd has made the move to the Truck Series, joining a revamped three-driver lineup at Young’s Motorsports. With Austin Hill making the move to Hattori Racing Enterprises, Boyd would drive the team’s #20 Chevrolet alongside Tyler Dippel in the #02 and ARCA competitor Gus Dean in the part-time #12, now a third full-time effort. Boyd proved best in class in the Daytona opener, surviving the chaos to finish 4th – his first top-five finish in NASCAR national touring series competition. Other than that and an 11th-place finish in the April race at Texas, Boyd has continued to struggle to find consistent finishes inside the Top 20. He has, at times, found controversy, such as the time Trey Hutchins rammed his truck late after a pileup at Texas, or the time Natalie Decker pulled off his hat and tossed it aside following a wreck in Kentucky.

On top of this, Boyd suffered an off-track back injury in late July, preventing him from running the previous round at Eldora. Landon Huffman was tabbed to drive in his place, and steered the #20 to a 24th-place finish. Boyd announced he would be returning to action the following weekend at Michigan, and in a big way – he would be running double-duty with both the Truck Series and his first-ever start in Cup. Boyd’s Sunday ride was the third team fielded by Rick Ware Racing, the #53 that B.J. McLeod debuted in the All-Star Open in Charlotte back in May. As at Young’s Motorsports, he would be flanked by young teammates – Cody Ware in the #51 and Austin Theriault in the #52. The Ware team also announced a fourth car joining the group next week in Bristol with J.J. Yeley running the new #54.

On the Truck Series side, Boyd qualified 27th and finished 22nd, his #20 1A Auto Chevrolet the last truck to finish on the lead lap. In Cup, he was slowest in the first two practice sessions and didn’t participate in Happy Hour. He put up the slowest time in qualifying with a speed of 173.590mph (41.477 seconds), nearly four full seconds off Brad Keselowski’s pole time and more than a second off the next-slowest car of Watkins Glen last-place finisher Reed Sorenson. That soon changed, however, as Richard Childress Racing teammates Austin Dillon and Daniel Hemric had their times disallowed due to illegal non-functioning alternators found in their Chevrolets. Dillon, who qualified his #3 Chevrolet Accessories Chevrolet 7th, was dropped to 37th with Hemric’s #8 Bass Pro Shops / Tracker Boats Chevrolet, 11th in time trials, starting 38th. Boyd would start ahead of the pair in 36th.

On race day, four more drivers were sent to the rear. Headlining the group was 15th-place qualifier Martin Truex, Jr., making his 500th series start in the #19 Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota, after his car failed three trips through pre-race inspection. Joining him in the drop to the rear were Garrett Smithley, back from the XFINITY race in Mid-Ohio after Reed Sorenson practiced and qualified his car, and transmission changes for both 19th-place Matt Tifft in the #36 Meijer Ford and 31st-place Corey LaJoie in his #32 Schluter Systems Ford.

The mix of drivers starting in the back and being sent to the back created a logjam at the rear of the field as cars tried to line up in the proper order. On the first pace lap, Dillon and Hemric were no longer side by side in the last row, but nose-to-tail as the last two cars in the outside line. First Hemric was ahead of Dillon, then the two swapped positions. Boyd lined up to the inside of Hemric in the last row with Smithley’s penalized #77 lining up in front of Boyd. This became complicated when others voluntarily fell to the rear. Ross Chastain first dropped from 30th in his #15 Premium Motorsports Chevrolet along with teammate Quin Houff in the #27 Chevrolet. Dillon and Hemric moved to the inside lane with Houff to Dillon’s outside and Chastain further back. Cody Ware had dropped back to flank Hemric, and Truex and Tifft dropped back after this to slot in behind those two. Contrary to the broadcast, this did not put Truex last on the grid as two more rows were behind him. Truex hugged the apron on the backstretch for some time as he was instructed to line up next to one of the Childress cars. By that point, he already had four cars behind him – LaJoie and Chastain, followed by Smithley and Boyd in the final row.

Once all that was done, Boyd shook out of line in the first corner and tried to race Chastain, who cleared him onto the backstretch. Heading into Turn 3, he saw a black car slide up the track and watched Houff skate sideways up the banking before he finally regained control without a spin. Houff took over last by the time he crossed the stripe, and was 9.9 seconds back of the lead as they returned to the backstretch. On Lap 5, Houff caught Boyd quickly into Turn 1, then cleared him in Turn 4, putting Boyd back to last. Boyd then set to work following Houff’s tire tracks, but gradually lost more ground to the leaders. On Lap 14, polesitter Brad Keselowski zipped past in the high lane between Turns 1 and 2, putting Boyd the first car one lap down.

Boyd was still running last on Lap 18, when Jimmie Johnson entered the last-place battle. Coming off a frustrating last-lap spin at Watkins Glen, Johnson qualified 10th in his #48 Ally Chevrolet and was racing Clint Bowyer inside the Top 10 when he slapped the Turn 2 wall with the right-rear of his car. The contact battered the right side and cut down a right-rear tire, but did not draw a caution, forcing a green-flag stop. Johnson lost two laps as he returned to the track and passed Boyd on Lap 25 to get on the same lap as him. Boyd passed Ware for position that same time by, so on Lap 26 Johnson passed Ware to climb out of last place. But the damage was still rubbing the right-rear of his car, and on Lap 27, Johnson pitted a second time to repair a fender brace, dropping him another two laps down. Even then, the repairs didn’t completely repair the tire rub, leading to a long afternoon for the seven-time champion.

Johnson did manage to get on the same lap as Boyd on Lap 44, when he dropped the #53 back to last. At the time, the Rick Ware Racing crew was trying to encourage their new driver to pick up the speed. Boyd dropped Johnson to last again on Lap 46 following a third stop, at which point the #48 was seven laps back of the leader. This kept Johnson last at the end of Stage 1. It wasn’t until Lap 97 that Boyd lost enough laps to be on the same circuit as Johnson, and not until Lap 102 that Johnson once again dropped Boyd to last with a pass in Turn 2.

Encouraged by the team to pick up half a second, Boyd began to experiment with his line, running his right side tires in a new strip of PJ1 adhesive added to the upper groove. On Lap 116, Boyd said he was finding some success running the edge of the PJ1 groove, but was encouraged to find more speed. Another restart followed for an accident triggered by Aric Almirola, and on Lap 128 he let both Chastain and Smithley pull away from him to run by himself. Just five circuits later, however, Boyd lost control in Turn 3 and backed hard into the outside wall with the left-rear. He made it to pit road, only to be told to go back to the garage. The team waited until Lap 136 for traffic to clear pit road before pushing the #53 backwards into the garage. On Lap 140, Boyd’s car was shown “unavailable” on RaceView.

Johnson spent the rest of the race trying to gain as many spots as he could, but couldn’t quite avoid his first Bottom Five of 2019, finishing 34th, eight laps down on the same circuit as Smithley. Ware finished 36th, the last car running, one lap behind Smithley and Johnson. The only other DNF was Playoff bubble driver Clint Bowyer, whose #14 One Cure Ford snapped loose in traffic in Turn 4, slamming the outside wall and dislodging the rear decklid. Bowyer’s Stewart-Haas Racing crew attempted to clear the Crash Clock, but ran out of time, and he was eliminated under the Damaged Vehicle Policy.

The race was run on August 11, the 28th anniversary of the Lap 5 crash at Watkins Glen that claimed the life of longtime independent driver J.D. McDuffie. It was during this same Michigan race on August 18, 1991 that Darrell Waltrip gave a eulogy to McDuffie prior to the Champion Spark Plug 400. On Sunday, Father Geoff Rose of St. Francis de Sales High School opened his invocation in McDuffie's honor. He said, in part, "As we begin today, we are mindful that on August 11, 1991, we lost J.D. McDuffie at Watkins Glen, a great race car driver for NASCAR."

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This marked the first last-place finish for car #53 in a Cup Series race at Michigan, and the first in any Cup points race since June 13, 1993, when Graham Taylor’s run in Jimmy Means Racing’s unsponsored Ford ended after 3 laps of the Champion Spark Plug 500 at Pocono. Taylor’s official reason out in 1993 was “quit,” the 58th and most recent time a last-place finisher was listed out for that reason. This was the same race, won by Kyle Petty, where a fan ran across the backstretch in front of the race leaders, narrowly escaping with his life. Curiously, the Means team brought back this car number for the first time in Saturday’s XFINITY race in Mid-Ohio, where Max Tullman finished last.
*Boyd is the first driver to finish last in his Cup debut since Garrett Smithley, also at Michigan, on June 10, 2018.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
38) #53-Spencer Boyd / 123 laps / crash
37) #14-Clint Bowyer / 139 laps / crash
36) #51-Cody Ware / 191 laps / running
35) #77-Garrett Smithley / 192 laps / running
34) #48-Jimmie Johnson / 192 laps / running

2019 LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Rick Ware Racing (7)
2nd) Front Row Motorsports, Stewart-Haas Racing (3)
3rd) Chip Ganassi Racing, Richard Childress Racing, Spire Motorsports (2)
4th) Germain Racing, Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Motorsports Business Management (1)

2019 LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (13)
2nd) Ford (8)
3rd) Toyota (2)

2019 LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP

XFINITY: Max Tullman fights ill-handling oval car around Mid-Ohio for two laps in first last-place finish

PHOTO: @maxtullman

Max Tullman picked up the 1st last-place finish of his NASCAR XFINITY Series career in Saturday’s B&L Transport 170 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course when his #53 Means Motorsports Chevrolet fell out with a loss of fuel pressure after 2 of 75 laps.

The finish came in Tullman’s 6th series start. In the XFINITY Series rankings, it was the 2nd for fuel pressure problems, the 3rd for the #53, and the 532nd for Chevrolet. Across NASCAR’s top three series, it was the 5th from fuel pressure, the 24th for the #53, and the 1,679th for Chevrolet.

A 21-year-old racer from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, Tullman has raced infrequently among most of NASCAR and ARCA’s top series. He ran four K&N Pro Series races in 2017, finishing inside the Top 10 each time. The next year, he made eight starts in the ARCA Menards Series for Mason Mitchell Motorsports, finishing a best of 6th on the plate races at Daytona and Talladega. He also ran three Truck Series starts that year for Young’s Motorsports with a best of 9th at Talladega. His XFINITY debut came during the summer with a team he partially owned, Tullman Walker Racing. The #26 Ford attempted four races and made three, but ran no better than a 23rd in Las Vegas.

Thanks to his strong runs on the plate tracks, Tullman has continued to earn part-time rides in the XFINITY Series this year. Coming into Saturday, he’d driven for Motorsports Business Management at both the Daytona opener and at Talladega. He finished under power both times, coming home 28th in the first and 20th in the second. Mid-Ohio would be a very different race for Tullman, as he was originally not even entered.

Tullman landed in Jimmy Means Racing’s second car, a team Means has entered frequently when there have been short fields. In the past, it was the #79, but this time around, it was the #53, a number with obscure significance to the team. While Means had never entered the #53 in an XFINITY race, it was frequently a “start-and-park” entry for his Cup team in the early 1990s, including Johnny McFadden’s LASTCAR title in 1992. That year, a Means #52 became the #53 by crafting a “3” out of two upper halves of number “2” decals. According to Sebastian LaForge from Motorsports Business Management, this #53 was Means Racing’s Kentucky car with no adjustments made to it to run a road course. Franklin Signs & Graphics had their logos on the quarter panels. No driver was entered in the car until late in the week, when Tullman was named to drive.

Tullman didn’t participate in opening practice, then ran slowest of the 33 drivers who turned a lap in Happy Hour. His best of two laps was just 65.581mph (2 minutes, 3.950 seconds), 38.567 seconds off Jack Hawksworth’s fastest time in Joe Gibbs Racing’s #18, and just over thirty seconds off the next-slowest car of Vinnie Miller, driving the same car that failed to start last week in Watkins Glen. With exactly 38 drivers entered for as many spots, Tullman was still assured a spot in Saturday’s field, though he did not complete a qualifying lap. Tullman’s part-time car was outranked by the B.J. McLeod Motrosports #99, which road racer Patrick Gallagher likewise did not run in qualifying after he ran off course in practice.

On race day, Tullman and Gallagher were among the five drivers sent to the rear before the start for unapproved adjustments. Joining them were 12th-place Regan Smith for brake line issues on the #8 Fire Alarm Services Chevrolet, 13th-place Justin Haley for something moving around in the rear end of his #11 Leaf Filter Chevrolet, and Aaron Quine, the second-straight road course ringer to make his series debut with Mike Harmon Racing. Quine had qualified Harmon’s #74 Summit Racing Equipment Chevrolet 31st on the grid, and unlike Dan Corcoran at Watkins Glen, was able to take the green flag with the rest of the field.

The Means team works on Tullman's #53 in the garage area.
PHOTO: Spencer Gogol, @spencergogol

When the green flag fell, Tullman was in the last row, 9.186 seconds back of the lead, but this time alongside 36th-place qualifier J.J. Yeley, who voluntarily fell to the rear in the #38 RSS Racing Chevrolet. On that first lap, Tullman was told over the radio to pit his car and go to the garage, apparently done for the day. But by Lap 4, Tullman was back on the track and shown on camera trying to stay out of the way of the leaders as they passed by. By this point, Yeley had pulled his #38 behind the wall. Tullman joined him soon after, and both ended up credited with just two laps complete. Tullman was unable to pass Yeley for 37th before he pulled in that second time, this time for good.

Finishing 36th was Joey Gase, who went behind the wall after eight laps due to a leak that proved terminal to his #35 Lifeline of Ohio / Donate Life Toyota. Gase’s teammate Chad Finchum took 35th in the #13 MBM Motorsports Toyota, having swapped rides with Timmy Hill, who took over the #42 in place of an originally scheduled Stanton Barrett.

Rounding out the group was sports car driver Chris Dyson, making his NASCAR debut in the #90 Thetford Chevrolet fielded by DGM Racing. A press release on the Trans Am page indicated Dyson picked up the ride through friend and teammate Andy Lally, who drove the #90 to a strong 7th-place finish at Mid-Ohio in 2016. After a runner-up finish to Ernie Francis, Jr. in Dyson Racing’s Mustang, Dyson qualified 27th in the DGM car, only to rear-end Cole Custer on a Lap 31 restart, destroying the front end. While Dyson promptly pulled his car off the track, crews mistakenly towed it across the track, leaving a long trail of fluid that required four laps to clean.

Making his second series start, Will Rodgers had the most serious accident in Friday practice, running off course in China Beach and ripping the front valence from off his car. The Brandonbilt Motorsports team replaced the lower front valence and splitter, and were still working on repairing and decaling it Saturday morning. After starting 22nd, he ran as high as 3rd by staying out on old tires for a restart with 16 laps to go. He finished 12th.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This marked only the third last-place finish for car #53 in an XFINITY Series race and the first since October 21, 2000, when Hank Parker, Jr.’s Team Marines Chevrolet was involved in a crash after 24 laps of the Sam’s Club 200 at Rockingham. The only other last-place finish for the number in XFINITY came on April 20, 1985, when Ronnie Thomas’ Green Hill Sausage Pontiac lost an engine five laps into the Busch 200 at South Boston Speedway. Coming into Saturday’s race, only six other currently available car numbers had two or fewer last-place finishes in the series: #30, #65, #69, #78, #80, and #06.
*The only other recorded time in XFINITY Series history where the last-place finisher retired with a loss of fuel pressure came on October 9, 2010, when Jeff Green’s #36 TriStar Motorsports Chevrolet retired after 2 laps of the CampingWorld.com 300 at Fontana.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
38) #53-Max Tullman / 2 laps / fuel pressure
37) #38-J.J. Yeley / 2 laps / brakes
36) #35-Joey Gase / 8 laps / oil line
35) #13-Chad Finchum / 13 laps / brakes
34) #90-Chris Dyson / 31 laps / crash

2019 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Motorsports Business Management (6)
2nd) RSS Racing (5)
3rd) DGM Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kaulig Racing (2)
4th) B.J. McLeod Motorsports, JD Motorsports, Jimmy Means Racing, Rick Ware Racing (1)

2019 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (13)
2nd) Toyota (8)

2019 LASTCAR XFINITY SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP

TRUCKS: Norm Benning ties Johnny Chapman for most last-place finishes in Truck Series history

PHOTO: FS1

Norm Benning picked up the 14th last-place finish of his NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series career in Saturday’s Corrigan Oil 200 at the Michigan International Speedway when his #6 H&H Transport Chevrolet fell out with engine issues without competing any of the 105 laps.

The finish, which came in Benning’s 211th series start, was his second of the season and first since Dover, 10 races ago. In the Truck Series last-place rankings, it was the 13th for the #6, the 129th from engine trouble, and the 378th for Chevrolet. Across NASCAR’s top three series, it was the 60th for the #6, the 1,073rd from engine trouble, and the 1,678th for Chevrolet.

The finish also tied Benning with Johnny Chapman for the most last-place finishes in Truck Series history. Chapman has held sole possession of the record since June 7, 2013, when his #38 Chevrolet, fielded by current XFINITY Series team RSS Racing, had ignition issues at Texas. On that day, Benning had just five last-place finishes in the series and none since June 10, 2011 at Texas.

Since his most recent last-place finish, the fan favorite Benning has continued to confront the same struggles faced by many small teams in the sport. He was again flagged off the track at Kansas for not meeting minimum speed, then was parked at Chicagoland after just 35 of the 150 laps. His season-best has been a 17th in the crash-marred June race in Texas, where he came home three laps down. He was closest to a lead-lap run at Pocono, where he finished 22nd, just two laps down to race winner Ross Chastain. He was again one to watch at Eldora, where he improved ten spots from his last-place run in 2018 to finish 22nd once more.

According to part-time team member Robert Taylor, Benning would run the Eldora truck at Michigan, then again on the road course in Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. A run at Bristol was unlikely due to the large entry lists common to the event. H&H Transport would remain as sponsor of his black Chevrolet.

The preliminary entry list for Michigan stood at 31 drivers for 32 spots, but the short field was averted when Jordan Anderson, whose #3 Mission Ignition Systems / Bommarito.com Chevrolet was missing for the first time this year, confirmed he was bringing his black Chevrolet to the track. The list then grew by one more when Al Niece entered the #38 Niece Equipment Chevrolet with T.J. Bell, just as he had at Pocono. Bell’s entry increased the list to 33 drivers, meaning one would fail to qualify. That was decided before qualifying ended as Daniel Sasnett, driving Jennifer Jo Cobb’s second truck, spun in Turn 1 and backed hard into the outside wall, destroying the #0 Driven2Honor.org Chevrolet. This raised concerns at the Cobb camp as, according to Chris Knight, that truck was supposed to be Cobb's primary at Bristol and Mosport.

Benning started 32nd and last when he, like Sasnett, failed to complete a qualifying lap, but secured a starting spot based on a higher rank in Owner Points. Benning would also incur a redundant tail-end penalty, likely for repairs that kept the team from taking a timed lap. He’d run just seven laps in Happy Hour after skipping the first session, and was slowest in final practice, 3.167 seconds back of the lead and a half-second off the next-slowest truck of Jennifer Jo Cobb. Benning was joined at the rear by Matt Crafton, whose ThorSport team had to change engines on his #88 Chi Chi’s / Menards Ford, then qualified 12th, and Camden Murphy, who voluntarily surrendered 25th on the grid in Joe Nemcehek’s #87 NEMCO Motorsports Chevrolet.

On the break, Benning was apparently on the track in the last spot. When the green flag dropped, Benning was shown 5.353 seconds back of the leader with 31st-place Murphy 4.021 seconds back. However, Benning never completed that first lap as his interval wasn’t updated at the end of that circuit. He would not surrender the last spot for the rest of the race. This included the improper start penalties NASCAR handed to both Tyler Ankrum and Austin Wayne Self, who only fell as far back as 30th and 31st without losing a lap. Meanwhile, Murphy climbed to 23rd in the first twelve laps before he pulled into the garage to join Benning, finishing 31st in the final running order.

Finishing 30th was Ross Chastain, who stormed to the pole and dominated Stage 1, only to be undone on pit road after Johnny Sauter and Codie Rohrbaugh made contact as Chastain left his pit stall, steering Rohrbaugh into Chastain’s right-front. Chastain returned to the track briefly, but pulled off when he struggled to maintain a competitive pace. Rounding out the Bottom Five was Cory Roper, his #04 Preferred Industrial Contractors Ford back in action for the first time in two months. Roper broke a track arm bar and backed into the wall, ending his day.

Earning a strong 9th-place finish was Ray Ciccarelli and his CMI Motorsports team. A two-time LASTCAR headliner during his time driving “start-and-park” races for Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing, Ciccarelli had been quietly putting together steady runs. Driving the former Premium Motorsports equipment under Premium’s old team number #49, Ciccarelli ran 16th in the March race at Texas and had a solid 19th-place showing at Pocono, just one lap down to the leaders. He hadn’t entered Eldora, and instead turned his attention to Michigan. The effort paid off with Ciccarelli’s first-ever top-ten finish in NASCAR national series competition.

After he was added back onto the entry list, Jordan Anderson enjoyed one of his best runs since Texas, earning stage points with a 4th-place finish in Stage 2. He was still among the leaders with just three laps to go, when he was collected in a pileup triggered by Matt Crafton’s contact with Tyler Ankrum on the restart. Anderson finished 14th.

For the second-straight week, a driver who finished last in a Truck Series race won the following round. This time, it was Austin Hill, who scored his first-ever Truck last-place finish at Eldora, then won a hotly contested race in overtime.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This marked the fifth time the last-place finisher of the Truck Series race at Michigan failed to complete a single lap, joining Ryan McGlynn (1999), Rick Ware (2003), Chris Jones (2011), and Ryan Blaney (2013).
*This was the second last-place finish for the #6 in the Truck race at Michigan. The previous time was on August 27, 2016, when Ryan Ellis’ one-off driving Benning’s unsponsored Chevrolet ended with rear gear trouble after 1 lap of the Careers for Veterans 200.

BOTTOM FIVE
32) #6-Norm Benning / 0 laps / engine
31) #87-Camden Murphy / 11 laps / vibration
30) #45-Ross Chastain / 26 laps / crash / led 23 laps / won stage 1
29) #38-T.J. Bell / 41 laps / clutch / led 1 lap
28) #04-Cory Roper / 58 laps / crash

2019 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) NEMCO Motorsports (3)
2nd) Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing, Norm Benning Racing, Young’s Motorsports (2)
3rd) Copp Motorsports, DGR-Crosley, Halmar Friesen Racing, Hattori Racing Enterprises, Niece Motorsports, Reaume Brothers Racing, ThorSport Racing (1)

2019 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (13)
2nd) Toyota (2)
3rd) Ford (1)

2019 LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP