
Biggest thing is to keep winning and get ourselves in the Championship 4 and execute.” “I’ve had such a stressful month trying to figure out what I’m doing next year, so many mixed emotions on what I’m going to do and if I’ll even have a ride. I didn’t want it, but when it came out I was just thinking, okay, just focus and execute.” They gave me a hot rod today and I couldn’t be happier. But we were able to build this brand new truck and I feel like we’ve taken everything we’ve learned this year and applied it. “We’ve been working hard all year and obviously haven’t had the speed at times and I’ve made mistakes at times. “My guys put together such a good truck” said Creed, who drives the No. It was a career best finish for Wood as well.

The seventh-place work by rookie Hailie Deegan marked her first top-10 finish in the series and third-best finish by a female in the series all-time. Veteran Johnny Sauter rounded out the top five.Ĭhase Purdy, Hailie Deegan, Playoff driver Carson Hocevar, Austin Wayne Self and Jack Wood completed the top 10.
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It is Creed’s second win of the season and seventh of his career.įellow Playoff drivers Ben Rhodes and Stewart Friesen finished third and fourth. Ultimately the Californian Creed, 23, beat fellow Playoff driver Matt Crafton to the finish line by.

Regular season champion John Hunter Nemechek experienced a frustrating night as well on the 1.25-mile Gateway oval, finishing 22nd, five laps down. Sheldon Creed dominated the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Playoff opener, the Toyota 200 presented by CK Power at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, sweeping both stages and leading 142 of 163 laps to take the victory Friday night in overtime.Īnd while the evening went relatively straight-forward for the defending series champion Creed in his winning-performance, the race was full of storylines elsewhere from a nearly one-hour red flag delay when the track lost power to a multi-truck accident shortly after that derailing championship-eligible drivers such as Todd Gilliland and Austin Hill.
