REPORT - christianeckes held on in overtime to win the NASCAR_Trucks race at Darlington, beating StewartFriesen: NASCAR
Christian Eckes held on during a pair of overtime restarts and escaped with the victory in Friday night’s NASCAR Truck race at Darlington Raceway.What had been a very tame race, turned a bit chaotic down the stretch with six cautions in the final 56 of 158 laps.
Eckes, 22, is the first multiple Truck winner of the year, which is his first with McAnally Hilgemann Racing.Eck yeah!@christianeckes wins @NASCAR_Trucks at @TooToughToTame. pic.twitter.com/IhIzEnm3Wr— Xfinity Racing May 13, 2023“I can’t say enough about this truck. I’m not that excited because it was such a damn good truck it drove itself,” Eckes said. “So proud of everyone on our team. It’s been a really, really rough couple of weeks.
Completing the top-10 were Rajah Caruth, Bubba Wallace, Corey Heim, Kaden Honeycutt and Dean Thompson.Eckes easily held off Heim by 1.797 seconds to take the Stage 1 win. Matt DiBenedetto was third, Byron fourth and Enfinger completed the top-five. Reigning series champion Zane Smith, Colby Howard and Chase Purdy were involved in a multi-truck accident on lap 101 that brought out the first caution for an on-track incident.
Heim, who elected not to pit while the other lead-lap trucks did, led the way on the restart with 29 laps to go. Eckes quickly powered around him on the restart.
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