NASCAR: Darrell Wallace Jr. Wins At Gateway
Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. claimed his first NASCAR Camping World Truck victory of the season Saturday night at Gateway Motorsports Park, taking the lead from German Quiroga in a three-lap dash to the finish line.
With Wallace’s Kyle Busch Motorsports teammate, Erik Jones, in the lead Quiroga tangled with his truck by slamming into the back and sending Jones spinning hard into the inside wall with only seven laps left in the race.
Wallace led the first 62 laps of the race, but had a little difficulty with his left-rear tire and forced his crew to re-jack the left side of the truck up to get the tire back on again. After multiple trucks chose to pit, Matt Crafton rose to the lead until the defending NCWTS champion suddenly veered right and crashed into the Turn 4 wall after a reported failure.
Wallace also won last year at Martinsville to join Wendell Scott as the only black winners on NASCAR’s national level. Scott won the Sprint Cup Series, the highest of NASCAR’s three national levels in December of 1963.
For the NASCAR Camping World Truck-Drivin’ for Linemen 200 results: CLICK HERE
(Photo by Sarah Glenn/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway)
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