On Friday, every of the 31 NASCAR Truck Sequence entries for Kansas Speedway rolled by means of inspection. A lot of the groups made it by means of with out a lot drama, however not all of them. 4 vans, together with three from ThorSport Racing, struggled to go.Â
They had been the No. 99 ThorSport Racing Ford of Ben Rhodes, the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford of Ty Majeski, the No. 88 ThorSport Racing Ford of Matt Crafton, in addition to the No. 26 Rackley W.A.R. Chevrolet of Dawson Sutton.
Matt Crafton, ThorSport Racing Ford
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Every of those vans failed twice earlier than passing on the third try. In consequence, every group will lose pit stall choice for subsequent weekend’s race at North Wilkesboro, however there was a extra instant punishment as properly. Every of their automotive chiefs — or reasonably, ‘truck’ chiefs, have been ejected from the observe for the rest of the race weekend. That is frequent protocol for when there are two failures in making an attempt to go pre-race inspection.
Brad Means (No. 98), Derek Rohlfing (No. 99), Tyler Kontos (No. 88), and Tucker Scanlon (No. 26) can be watching the race from afar on Saturday. This would be the extent of the penalties.
ThorSport, which has received the final two Truck Sequence titles (Rhodes in 2023 and Majeski in 2024), have but to go to Victory Lane this 12 months. The group’s fourth entry is the No. 66, pushed by Luke Baldwin this weekend, which made it by means of tech with out problem.
UPDATE: On Saturday, two Cup groups failed twice as properly earlier than passing on the third try. They had been the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota of Tyler Reddick and the No. 34 Entrance Row Motorsports Ford of Todd Gilliland. Each lose their automotive chief and pit stall choice for this weekend’s race at Kansas. Automotive chiefs Joe Marra (No. 34) and Michael Hobson (No. 45) had been ejected from the observe, bringing the full to 6 for the weekend.
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