2019 SRD SuperTruck Series - Round 8 - Armory Digital

Lap 62: Through pit stops Robert Lillie cycles back to the lead ahead of Harris, Maulana, Gray, and Jennings.

 

Lap 63: Here's somebody we haven't said much about all day, Tim Kunkel currently running fourth spent most of his day in the rear but he now has worked his way up to potentially be in position for the win.

 

And how about this, same story as Kunkel, Josh Remington had the same strategy as the 2 and he now sits in the top ten as well.

 

Merzlak now finally coming off pit road four laps down. Harris led that time by.

 

Lap 68: Ten laps remain, D.J. Harris out front ahead of Robert Lillie, Brett Gray, Devin Mahoney, and Ben Althen.

 

Lap 69: With Kraus a lap down, truck 69 won't lead lap 69 this week. Brett Gray leads, a good number of the trucks running in the top ten haven't won an SRD SuperTruck Series race in their career. Could we see a first time winner?

 

Lap 70: Mike Ehresman just made his way up to second, an up and down year for the driver that won three races in 2018. He may be putting himself in position to finally take his first of the year.

 

The leaders go by Merzlak to put him a fifth lap down.

 

Lap 72: Six laps remain, Tyler Jennings back out front with his owner Maulana in fifth. Reza Maulana Racing didn't place a single truck into the main event in our last race at Eldora, what a rebound it would be to turn it around and take a W today.

 

Mike Ehresman rides the wall in turns one and two and will lose a ton of spots.

 

Maulana now to the lead and look who's behind him. John Hooper, Sr. is back in the mix!

 

Hooper takes over the lead coming to five to go.

 

Lap 73: Another lead change, this time it's Connor Root gunning for his third win of 2019.

 

A final round of pit stops! Root leads Jennings, Althen, and Wayne in. Hooper back out front.

 

As the leaders were coming to lap Sebastian Ruiz here come another handful of guys led by Hooper.

 

Lap 76: As we come to two laps remaining almost everyone else comes in except for one lone leader, Devin Mahoney. Can the 41 truck make it two more circuits or will he too have to come in?

 

Lap 77 (White Flag): He couldn't make it!

Here comes Mahoney to the pits! D.J. Harris is the first truck coming off pit road right now, John Hooper, Sr. the first one up to speed, it could be a race between the two Opp trucks or possibly Tim Kunkel could spoil the party.


Harris and Kunkel get up to speed just in time as Hooper catches them. They have a good lead over Jacob Craigo and Robert Lillie who shouldn't be a factor as they come to the white flag. Don't count out Devin Mahoney who may have gained enough of a lead to beat them all. Tim Kunkel will take the white as Devin Mahoney is on the pit exit road trying to get up to speed to beat these three off pit road.

Devin Mahoney has cleared pit road ahead of these three but he still has to make it through all the gears, that'll be trouble getting up to speed without any drafting partners.

Mahoney just has to make it through three and four and he'll see the checkers but it's a long way around and Tim Kunkel and company would love to spoil the party.

 

Checkered Flag: Out of turn four it won't be enough for Tim Kunkel, Devin Mahoney holds on to win his first career SRD SuperTruck Series race and will lock his ticket into the Playoffs!

 

UNOFFICIAL STANDINGS

F S # DRIVER INTERVAL LAPS LED POINTS STATUS
1 7 41 D Mahoney 170.082 77 6 180 Running
2 13 10 J Hooper Sr -0.74 77 6 175 Running
3 25 2 T Kunkel -0.93 77 0 165 Running
4 22 15 D Harris -0.94 77 8* 170 Running
5 6 44 T Jennings -2.77 77 8* 165 Running
6 1 39 R Wayne -2.84 77 2 155 Running
7 21 76 J Remington -3.00 77 0 146 Running
8 26 62 J Craigo -3.07 77 1 147 Running
9 5 99 C Rogers -3.10 77 5 143 Running
10 10 98 R Maulana -3.15 77 1 139 Running
11 18 55 B Althen -3.15 77 1 135 Running
12 17 16 A Scheidly -3.18 77 0 127 Running
13 32 47 R Lillie -3.23 77 7 129 Running
14 20 03 C Fogg -3.27 77 3 126 Running
15 23 12 B Hancock -3.31 77 2 123 Running
16 14 19 C Root -3.39 77 0 115 Running
17 30 92 M Ehresman -3.56 77 3 117 Running
18 27 7 J Peterson -4.09 77 0 109 Running
19 16 6 S English -8.49 77 5 111 Running
20 31 8 D Caudill -8.57 77 0 103 Running
21 3 89 R Kurz -8.94 77 0 100 Running
22 9 9 B Thomas -8.99 77 0 97 Running
23 24 48 C Llamas -9.08 77 0 94 Running
24 15 22 B Gray -12.55 77 3 96 Running
25 8 87 E Lintz -12.62 77 0 88 Running
26 4 67 C Farrell -14.93 77 2 90 Running
27 11 74 J Blanford -14.99 77 4 87 Running
28 29 69 J Kraus -27.95 77 4 84 Running
29 2 42 S Ruiz -1L 76 0 76 Running
30 12 95 J Franklin -1L 76 0 73 Running
31 19 73 M Fiorentini -1L 76 0 70 Running
32 33 1 S Merzlak -4L 73 6 72 Running
33 28 11 J Hawkins -62L 15 0 64 Header


Caution Flags: 1 (4 laps)
Lead Changes: 41 (19 drivers)
Weather: Clear, 70 °F, North 8 mph

 

#98 CC: "Excellent work. P10, P10. Rogers P9, Jennings P5."
Maulana: "Yes! Awesome job to everyone, what a way to rebound after such a shitty two race weeks for us! Today feels like a win for us, let's go and keep up this pace for the rest of the season!"

(sometime later in the cooldown lap)

Maulana: "You know guys, the results that we have feels so, so good, but there's this sense of emptiness knowing that on the other side of the Atlantic, we've lost such an amazing talent in Anthoine Hubert. I don't know him at all, but its a loss in which its shockwave is going to be felt all across the world of motorsport. God, still can't believe he's gone, I'm sure he's going to be a future F1 driver with his form in F2 so far... This one's for you, my friend. May you rest well in the heavens, and we'll wish for a speedy recovery for Juan Manuel Correa."