CUP: Timmy Hill Trails Dover Field In Team XTREME Racing’s Return

SOURCE: @Teamxtreme44

Timmy Hill picked up the 2nd last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in Sunday’s AAA 400 at the Dover International Speedway when his #44 Phoenix Warehouses Chevrolet fell out with a vibration after he completed 11 of the race’s 400 laps.

The finish was Hill’s second of the 2014 season and his first since the spring race at Bristol, 25 races ago.  With seven races to go, Hill now takes sole possession of second in he 2014 LASTCAR Cup Series Championship, one finish behind co-leaders Dave Blaney and Mike Bliss.  If the season ended today, Bliss would win the title on a bottom-ten tiebreaker 6-4.  However, Hill now equals Bliss and Blaney with 4 bottom-fives of his own and already has 7 Bottom Tens.  This means that with one more last-place finish in any of the next few races, Hill could take the lead in the championship.

Team XTREME Racing, formerly known as Xxxtreme Motorsport, made its most recent appearance at late June, when J.J. Yeley gave the team a season-best 34th in the Toyota / Save Mart 350 at the Sonoma Raceway.  The team then withdrew from the following race at Kentucky to reorganize, including a move to a new shop.

Plans for XTREME to return to the track at Indianapolis were pushed back two months to this past weekend, when they brought out the red-white-and-blue Chevrolet the team had unsuccessfully tried to qualify at Charlotte.  With Yeley already committed to run the #32 Corvetteparts.com Ford for FAS Lane Racing, journeyman Timmy Hill was tabbed as the team’s driver.

Hill, making his seventh start of the season for a fourth different team, was guaranteed a starting spot in Sunday’s race as only 43 cars showed up to qualify.  After trailing the opening practice, he settled for the 43rd starting spot with an average speed of 152.355 mph, more than a second and a half off the pole lap set by Kevin Harvick.  On Saturday, Hill improved to 42nd in the morning, passing Travis Kvapil in his second-straight run in the #83 Burger King Toyota, then did not participate in Happy Hour.

On Sunday, Hill never relinquished the 43rd spot.  He pulled behind the wall on Lap 12 and was soon listed as the race’s first retiree.  For much of the distance, the 41st and 42nd spots belonged to Yeley, who brushed the wall on Lap 172, and Mike Wallace, who was making his first Dover start since 2005.

No other drivers fell out of the race until the halfway point, when the lapped #98 Phil Parsons Racing Chevrolet of Josh Wise pulled out with suspension issues.  It was just Wise’s second 42nd-place finish of the year and his first since Las Vegas.  After winning the last three LASTCAR Cup Series Championships, Phil Parsons Racing has yet to finish last once and is virtually out of contention for the 2014 title.

Finishing 41st was Michael Annett, who is officially listed as out due to crash damage despite his late-race wreck not bringing out a caution.  Wallace and Yeley rounded out the Bottom Five.

UPDATE (Oct. 1): The updated standings now indicate Annett fell out with a broken axle.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is Team XTREME’s second last-place finish in a Cup race at Dover.  On June 2, 2013, Scott Riggs lost the transmission on his #44 No Label Watches Ford after 16 laps of the FedEx 400 Benefiting Autism Speaks.  That race was also the #44's most recent last-place finish at this track.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
43) #44-Timmy Hill / 11 laps / vibration
42) #98-Josh Wise / 197 laps / suspension
41) #7-Michael Annett / 361 laps / axle
40) #66-Mike Wallace / 384 laps / running
39) #32-J.J. Yeley / 387 laps / running

LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Dave Blaney, Mike Bliss (3)
2nd) Timmy Hill (2)
3rd) A.J. Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne, Clint Bowyer, Landon Cassill, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., David Gilliland, Denny Hamlin, Travis Kvapil, Kyle Larson, Michael McDowell, Joe Nemechek, Clay Rogers, Johnny Sauter, Morgan Shepherd, Tony Stewart, Martin Truex, Jr., Ryan Truex, Brian Vickers, Cole Whitt, J.J. Yeley (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #93-BK Racing (4)
2nd) #37-Tommy Baldwin Racing (3)
3rd) #77-Randy Humphrey Racing (2)
4th) #11-Joe Gibbs Racing, #14-Stewart-Haas Racing, #15-Michael Waltrip Racing, #21-Wood Brothers Racing, #26-BK Racing, #32-Go FAS Racing, #33-Circle Sport, #38-Front Row Motorsports, #40-Hillman Racing, #42-Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, #43-Richard Petty Motorsports, #44-Team XTREME Racing, #47-JTG-Daugherty Racing, #55-Michael Waltrip Racing, #66-Michael Waltrip Racing / Identity Ventures Racing, #78-Furniture Row Racing, #83-BK Racing, #87-Identity Ventures Racing, #88-Hendrick Motorsports, #95-Leavine Family Racing (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet, Toyota (11)
2nd) Ford (7)

N’WIDE: Ryan Ellis Last At Dover, LASTCAR Battle Down To Koch and Green

SOURCE: Rubbin's Racin' Forums

Ryan Ellis picked up the 2nd last-place finish of his NASCAR Nationwide Series career in Saturday’s Dover 200 at the Dover International Speedway when his unsponsored #46 The Motorsports Group Chevrolet fell out with a vibration after he completed 2 of the race’s 200 laps.

The finish was Ellis’ second of the 2014 season and his first since the spring race at Iowa, eighteen races ago.

With five races to go, TMG’s #46 team can only tie TriStar Motorsports’ #10 for the most last-place finishes in 2014, and only if they trail all five of the year’s remaining races.  If that happens, whether one team or the other fails to finish in the bottom five could determine the tiebreaker - the #46 leads the #10 by a single bottom-five: 23-22.  A last-place finish by any car other than the #46 will give TriStar its fourth-straight LASTCAR Owner’s Title.

In the LASTCAR driver’s championship, only two drivers are now mathematically eligible - Blake Koch and Jeff Green.  While third-place Kevin Lepage does have a chance to tie Koch for the most last-place finishes in 2014, he will only do so if he becomes the first NASCAR driver to trail five consecutive races.  Even if he does, and if Koch doesn’t finish in the bottom-five in any of those races, Lepage would lose the bottom-five tiebreaker 15-12 as Lepage has only 7 bottom-five runs so far.  Koch currently leads Green in bottom-fives 15-12, a slim lead which could evaporate if Green catches Koch.

Ellis was making his eleventh Nationwide Series start of the season and his third in a row driving TMG’s #46.  In those two previous starts, Ellis had come home 39th, edged for last by Koch and Green in both races.  For Dover, TriStar’s dominant #10 Toyota would be driven by third-ranked Kevin Lepage.  Koch and Yeley would drive TriStar’s fully-funded #44 and #14, respectively.  All were among the 42 entries who showed up at The Monster Mile to make the 40-car field.

Ellis put up the 32nd-fastest lap of the 39 who participated in Friday’s opening practice session and stayed 32nd in Happy Hour.  Saturday, he dropped just one spot to qualify 33rd at an average speed of 146.080 mph - more than enough to bump Mike Harmon and Milka Duno from the field.  During that qualifying session, Josh Reaume crashed Rick Ware’s #87 Chevrolet without completing a lap.  When Ware didn’t have a backup car, reports indicate Harmon was given the spot.  Harmon’s #74 was re-numbered 87 and he would start Saturday’s race at the back, joining Ellis, who had surrendered his starting spot during the pace laps.

Ellis edged Harmon for last when he pulled behind the wall one lap before him.  Both avoided disaster on Lap 8 when Jamie Dick and Derrike Cope crossed paths coming off Turn 4, sending both hard into the inside wall.  Done for the day, Dick and Cope took the next two spots in the Bottom Five, followed by Harrison Rhodes and the #72 James Carter entry during the ensuing caution.

Lepage, who was briefly credited with 40th when Ellis retired, exited the race after 50 laps.  The high attrition rate in the early laps left the #10 TriStar team 31st, barely inside the Bottom Ten.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is TMG’s first last-place finish in a Nationwide Series race at Dover.  Curtis Key’s team had previously finished next-to-last in five of its previous 31 combined starts.
*This marks the first time the #46 has finished last in Nationwide race at Dover.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #46-Ryan Ellis / 2 laps / vibration
39) #87-Mike Harmon / 3 laps / ignition
38) #55-Jamie Dick / 8 laps / crash
37) #70-Derrike Cope / 8 laps / crash
36) #72-Harrison Rhodes / 14 laps / vibration

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Blake Koch (8)
2nd) Jeff Green (6)
3rd) Kevin Lepage (3)
4th) Matt DiBenedetto, Ryan Ellis (2)
5th) Tanner Berryhill, Matt Frahm, Roger Reuse, Robert Richardson, Jr., Tim Schendel, Jimmy Weller, Josh Wise (1)

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #10-TriStar Motorsports (11)
2nd) #46-The Motorsports Group (6)
3rd) #91-TriStar Motorsports (3)
4th) #74-Mike Harmon Racing (2)
5th) #17-Vision Racing, #23-R3 Motorsports, #55-VIVA Motorsports / SS Green Light Racing, #77-Mike Harmon Racing, #87-Rick Ware Racing, #93-JGL Racing (1)

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Toyota (14)
2nd) Chevrolet (9)
3rd) Dodge (5)

TRUCKS: Replacement Driver Charles Lewandoski Last In Vegas

SOURCE: MasonMingusRacing.com

Charles Lewandoski picked up the 2nd last-place finish of his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career in Saturday’s Rhino Linings 350 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway when his unsponsored #35 Win-Tron Racing Toyota fell out with a vibration after he completed 5 of the race’s 146 laps.

The finish was Lewandoski’s second of the 2014 season and his first since Charlotte, thirteen races ago.  He is now tied with Ryan Ellis, Justin Jennings, and Caleb Roark for the most last-place finishes in the 2014 Truck Series season.  If the season ended today, Roark would win a close tiebreaker with 8 bottom-five finishes over Lewandoski’s 7, Jennings’ 6, and Ellis’ 4.  With five races to go, however, the 2014 LASTCAR Truck Series Driver’s title is still very much anyone’s to win.

Lewandoski’s ride for Win-Tron Racing, owned by series veteran Kevin Cywinski, had for all of this season been driven by 2013 ARCA Series runner-up Mason Mingus.  The full-season effort was to be Cywinski’s first as an owner - his last full season as a driver came driving for Bob Brevak in 1999.

Heading into Las Vegas, Mingus stood 11th in points, 85 points out of 10th, and 2nd to Ben Kennedy in the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings.  Mingus earned a career-best 10th-place finish at Kansas and just two early-season DNFs.  However, Mingus and his sponsorship from the 811 service moved to Billy Boat’s #15 team for Vegas, leaving Cywinski without a sponsor and driver.  It wasn’t until Thursday that Lewandoski was tabbed as Mingus’ replacement in a flat black Toyota.

Just 30 trucks showed up to run at Las Vegas, so both Lewandoski and Mingus would be guaranteed starting spots on Saturday.  Lewandoski did not participate in the opening session, then timed in 25th of the 28 drivers in Happy Hour.  He qualified 26th for the race, putting up a lap of 167.551 mph.

Curiously, it was during a caution for a spin by Mingus in Turn 4 that Lewandoski pulled the #35 behind the wall, following Roark to the garage.  Two laps later, Kansas last-placer Scott Stenzel pulled Mike Mittler’s #36 Mittler Bros. Machine & Tool Chevrolet out of the race, followed by B.J. McLeod’s #07 ThunderExhaust.com Chevrolet on the following circuit.  Rounding out the Bottom Five was McLeod’s teammate Jimmy Weller III, who started 11th but fell out with crash damage after 28 laps in the #08 Geneva-Liberty Steel /Engine Parts Plus Chevrolet.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first last-place finish for a Toyota in a Truck Series race since last fall’s season finale at Homestead, when J.J. Yeley’s #07 BYF.org / nccer.org Toyota broke a fuel pump after 2 laps of the Ford EcoBoost 200.  Toyota hadn’t finished last in a Truck race at Las Vegas since 2010, when Johanna Long’s #20 Panhandle Grading & Paving Toyota lost the transmission on the first lap.
*This is the first last-place finish for the #35 in a Truck Series race since Mason Mingus’ series debut at Talladega last fall.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
30) #35-Charles Lewandoski / 5 laps / vibration
29) #0-Caleb Roark / 5 laps / electrical
28) #36-Scott Stenzel / 7 laps / electrical
27) #07-B.J. McLeod / 8 laps / electrical
26) #08-Jimmy Weller III / 28 laps / crash

LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Ryan Ellis, Justin Jennings, Charles Lewandoski, Caleb Roark (2)
2nd) Mike Affarano, Bryan Dauzat, Alex Guenette, Mike Harmon, Blake Koch, Ted Minor, Tommy Regan, Scott Stenzel, Jason White (1)

LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #0-Jennifer Jo Cobb (4)
2nd) #36-Mike Mittler, #63-Mike Mittler / Randy Young (2)
3rd) #28-FDNY Racing, #35-Win-Tron Racing, #42-Randy Young, #45-Regan Motorsports, #57-Norm Benning, #74-Mario Gosselin, #74-Mike Harmon, #93-RSS Racing, #03-Mike Affarano Motorsports (1)

LASTCAR TRUCK SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (14)
2nd) RAM (2)
3rd) Toyota (1)

9/15/85: Maurice Randall Scores Chrysler’s Final NASCAR Last-Place Finish

SOURCE: Howie Hodge - www.thechromehorn.com

On September 15, 1985, during the Delaware 500 at the Dover Downs International Speedway, Maurice Randall picked up the 3rd last-place finish of his NASCAR Winston Cup Series career when his #93 MRE Racing Chrysler fell out with overheating problems after he completed 1 of the race’s 500 laps.

The finish was Randall’s second of the 1985 season and his first since Michigan, eight races ago.

Randall, a 32-year-old owner-driver from Charlotte, Michigan, made his fourth Cup Series start at Dover.  Just like in the other three, he ran a long-bodied Chrysler Imperial, a car that by 1985 was fielded only by him and fellow independent drivers Buddy Arrington (#67) and Phil Good (#76).  Randall’s best Cup finish was a 30th-place finish in his Cup debut at Nashville - ironically, it was also his first last-place finish.  The only race where Randall did not finish last was at Rockingham in early 1985, when he came home 35th in a field of 40.

Randall, Good, and Arrington all made the field for the Delaware 500, though Arrington did so in a Ford Thunderbird, a change he made after the season’s fifth race at Bristol (save for one last run in the Chrysler at Riverside).  Arrington timed in 27th, Good in 34th, and Randall trailed the field in the 39th spot.

After just one lap, Randall slowed in Turns 3 and 4 and was passed by polesitter Bill Elliott.  He pulled behind the wall, ending his race.  Phil Good, now the only Chrysler in the field, finished under power in 18th while Arrington’s Ford finished 11th.  Both were laps down to Harry Gant, who led 216 laps on his way to a dominating victory in the Hal Needham-owned #33 Skoal Bandit Chevrolet.

Behind Randall in the Bottom Five was 38th-place Chuck Walton, who made his first and only Cup Series start driving an unsponsored black #63 Chevrolet fielded by his own team.  In 37th was Roanoke, Virginia driver Tommie Crozier, whose fourth of eight career Cup starts ended when his Pontiac also overheated.  36th-place Earle Canavan had been racing in Cup since 1969, but the Dover race was to be the next-to-last of his 68 starts - the 46-year-old from Fort Johnson, New York was the 1977 LASTCAR Cup Series Champion.

Rounding out the Bottom Five was 44-year-old Buddy Baker, who was in the closing stages of his first season as both owner and driver.  Partnered with Danny Schiff, Baker was still searching for his first Cup victory since 1983.  His #88 Bull Frog Knits Oldsmobile slammed the Turn 4 wall after 85 laps, ending his race.  Although Baker did not win another race by his retirement in 1994, he became a well-known broadcaster for CBS in the years that followed.

Neither Maurice Randall nor Chrysler competed in another Cup Series race after Dover, but it was not the end of the line for both driver and car.  With the ARCA Racing Series accepting entries from Cup underdogs, Randall made 46 starts from 1986 through 1993.  Surprisingly, Randall drove a Chrysler in all but three of those events, using not only the Imperial, but also a Cordoba and a LeBaron coupe.  In fact, Randall’s Chryslers carried him to his best career finishes in the series - a pair of 14th-place runs at Owosso Speedway in 1986 and Perry County Speedway in 1988.

In the spring of 2012, Randall participated in this thread at Randy Ayers’ NASCAR Modeling Forum, providing details on the Mopar products he ran.  Among them are some excellent pictures of his old stock cars sitting in his garage - including his Imperial.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first last-place finish for the #93 in a Cup race at Dover since September 14, 1975, when Dick May quit after 8 laps while driving his 1973 Ford, a second Truxmore-sponsored entry fielded by the late Junie Donlavey.  Dick Brooks, driving Donlavey’s primary #90, finished 2nd that day to race winner Richard Petty after Petty passed Brooks for the lead with nine laps to go.
*This was the 29th and final last-place finish for Chrysler in NASCAR competition and its first last-place run at Dover.  Chrysler’s first last-place finish in Cup competition took place on at North Wilkesboro Speedway on March 30, 1952 when Harold Mays’ 1951 Chrysler was involved in a crash after the opening lap of the Wilkes County 200.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
39) #93-Maurice Randall / 1 lap / overheating
38) #63-Chuck Walton / 5 laps / handling
37) #85-Tommie Crozier / 30 laps / overheating
36) #01-Earle Canavan / 53 laps / brakes
35) #88-Buddy Baker / 83 laps / crash

1985 LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER’S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) J.D. McDuffie, Maurice Randall, Tim Richmond, Ronnie Thomas (2)
2nd) Buddy Baker, Eddie Bierschwale, Trevor Boys, Delma Cowart, Cecil Gordon, Jeff Hooker, Jimmy Means, Benny Parsons, Phil Parsons, David Pearson, Mike Potter, Ken Schrader, Morgan Shepherd, Rusty Wallace (1)

1985 LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER’S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #27-Blue Max Racing, #41-Thomas Racing, #70-McDuffie Racing, #93-Randall Racing (2)
2nd) #0-H.L. Waters, #2-Cliff Stewart, #6-U.S. Racing, #21-David Pearson, #51-Arnie Sacks, #52-Means Racing, #53-Jeff Hooker, #55-Jackson Brothers, #66-Jackson Brothers, #68-Jimmy Walker, #88-Baker-Schiff Racing, #90-Donlavey Racing, #98-McCaig Racing, #00-Helen Rae Smith (1)

1985 LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER’S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Chevrolet (9)
2nd) Pontiac (6)
3rd) Ford (3)
4th) Chrysler, Oldsmobile (2)

CUP: Clay Rogers’ Cup Debut Ends Early At Loudon

SOURCE: NASCAR

Clay Rogers picked up the 1st last-place finish of his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in Sunday’s Sylvania 300 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway when his #93 Iowa City Capital Partners Toyota fell out with overheating problems after he completed 45 of the race’s 303 laps.  The finish came in Rogers’ series debut.

Rogers is the fourth different driver this season to trail a Cup field in the #93 BK Racing entry, joining Mike Bliss (Loudon in July), Johnny Sauter (Pocono in August), and J.J. Yeley (Richmond in September).  The team now takes a one-finish lead in the LASTCAR Cup Series Owner’s Championship over the #37 Tommy Baldwin Racing entry, which did not compete Sunday.

Sunday was Rogers’ first Cup start, but not his first in NASCAR.  The 33-year-old from Mooresville, North Carolina excels at the short tracks.  He’s competed in the X-1R Pro Cup Series since the age of 18, scoring 36 wins and five championships in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2013.  He’s also the 2006 winner of the Snowball Derby.

At Rockingham in 2001, Rogers finished 18th in his first NASCAR start - the Nationwide Series race at Rockingham - driving the Robbie Reiser-owned car previously driven by Matt Kenseth.  Late that season, he’d improve to a career-best 12th at Memphis.

When Reiser turned his attention to Kenseth’s Cup career, Rogers branched out into ARCA and the Camping World Truck Series.  In 36 Truck starts, he’s scored two top-fives and three top-tens, including a career-best 3rd in the 2011 race at Daytona.  And in just thirteen ARCA starts, Rogers has scored two top-five finishes and four top-tens, including a career-best 4th at Iowa in his most recent start in 2012.

More than half of Rogers’ ARCA starts have come driving for longtime car owner Mark Beard, who had also entered a handful of Nationwide Series races from 1982 through 1991.  This year, Rogers and Beard teamed up once more with designs on entering a white #75 Beard Oil Chevrolet the Sprint Cup Series.  The team’s first race was supposed to be Loudon in July, but the team withdrew before qualifying.  They returned to the track at Richmond earlier this month, but came just three spots shy of bumping their way into the field.

Surprisingly, neither Rogers nor the #75 team were on the preliminary entry list for NASCAR’s return to Loudon.  However, by Tuesday, a shake-up at BK Racing presented another opportunity.  Struggling rookie Ryan Truex, the original driver of BK’s #83 Burger King Toyota, was replaced by Travis Kvapil, originally slated to run BK’s “start-and-park” #93.  With the #93 ride freed-up, Rogers was announced as the replacement.  And with only 43 cars showing up for 43 spots, Rogers would this time be guaranteed his first Sprint Cup start.

Rogers turned in the 37th-fastest time in the opening practice, then timed in 33rd with an average speed of 136.560 mph.  He was the only driver to not participate in Saturday’s opening practice, but returned to the track in Happy Hour to put up the 38th-fastest time.

On Sunday, Timmy Hill started last in Frankie Stoddard’s #32 U.S. Chrome Ford, and was making his first Cup start since the July race at the New Hampshire track.  Two laps later, Hill was passed by the flat white #66 Royal Teak Collection Toyota of Mike Wallace, who was making his first Cup start since this same race in 2009.  On the 16th circuit, Wallace was the first driver to be lapped.

Hill again took the last spot when the competition caution on Lap 36, then after pit stops lost it to Corey LaJoie.  LaJoie, son of two-time Nationwide champion Randy LaJoie, was also making his Cup debut.  He drove the #77 Fochler Veterans Law Ford owned by Randy Humphrey, whose team was making just its third start since suspending operations in June.  Hill briefly retook 43rd on the restart before Rogers pulled behind the wall on Lap 44.

The remainder of the Bottom Five shuffled for much of the remainder of the race.  On Lap 94, LaJoie’s Ford pulled behind the wall after trailing smoke in Turn 3.  Around twenty laps later, David Stremme’s black #33 Little Joe’s Autos Chevrolet had a similar problem and crept onto the access road entering the same corner.  Both returned to the track 102 and 74 laps down, respectively - just in time for a series of late-race wrecks involving Chase contenders.

Finishing 42nd was David Ragan, who snared the spot from LaJoie with just twenty laps to go.  On Lap 181, Ragan was involved in a four-car accident that steered his #34 Taco Bell Ford head-on into the outside wall before being tagged by the lapped machine of Denny Hamlin.  Hamlin, himself as low as 41st after a broken fuel probe, had clawed his way to 36th before slipping back to 39th.  Hamlin ended up 37th at the checkers, passing Cole Whitt, damaged in the Ragan wreck, and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., involved in two tangles in the final 100 laps, the last being a hard shot to the Turn 1 wall after a cut right-front tire.  LaJoie and Stremme finished between Stenhouse and Ragan, completing the Bottom Five.  LaJoie brought out the eleventh caution on Lap 258 when he spun in Turn 2, but still finished under power.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*The BK Racing #93 team swept both last-place finishes at Loudon in 2014 - the first team to sweep a track this season.  This has not happened since 2011, when Jeff Green and Travis Kvapil finished last at Loudon driving Front Row Motorsports’ #55 Ford.
*Rogers is the first driver to finish last at Loudon due to overheating problems since September 20, 2009, when Tony Raines’ #37 Long John Silvers Dodge fell out after 8 laps.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
43) #93-Clay Rogers / 45 laps / overheating
42) #34-David Ragan / 177 laps / crash
41) #77-Corey LaJoie / 201 laps / running
40) #33-David Stremme / 228 laps / running
39) #17-Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. / 263 laps / crash

LASTCAR CUP SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Dave Blaney, Mike Bliss (3)
2nd) A.J. Allmendinger, Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne, Clint Bowyer, Landon Cassill, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., David Gilliland, Denny Hamlin, Timmy Hill, Travis Kvapil, Kyle Larson, Michael McDowell, Joe Nemechek, Clay Rogers, Johnny Sauter, Morgan Shepherd, Tony Stewart, Martin Truex, Jr., Ryan Truex, Brian Vickers, Cole Whitt, J.J. Yeley (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #93-BK Racing (4)
2nd) #37-Tommy Baldwin Racing (3)
3rd) #77-Randy Humphrey Racing (2)
4th) #11-Joe Gibbs Racing, #14-Stewart-Haas Racing, #15-Michael Waltrip Racing, #21-Wood Brothers Racing, #26-BK Racing, #32-Go FAS Racing, #33-Circle Sport, #38-Front Row Motorsports, #40-Hillman Racing, #42-Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, #43-Richard Petty Motorsports, #47-JTG-Daugherty Racing, #55-Michael Waltrip Racing, #66-Michael Waltrip Racing / Identity Ventures Racing, #78-Furniture Row Racing, #83-BK Racing, #87-Identity Ventures Racing, #88-Hendrick Motorsports, #95-Leavine Family Racing (1)

LASTCAR CUP SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Toyota (11)
2nd) Chevrolet (10)
3rd) Ford (7)