Grant Enfinger’s Chevrolet Silverado lastly changed into a pumpkin on the Phoenix Raceway.
A fifth-place end solely netted Enfinger a fourth-place factors end, ending his Cinderella run within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence championship race.
It was a yr for Enfinger and CR7 Motorsports that completely encapsulated the underdog story that everybody likes to root for.
On Friday evening, nevertheless, the No. 9 group had neither the pace nor the technique to upend the dominant run put forth by eventual race winner and champion Ty Majeski.
Enfinger, together with fellow Championship 4 driver Christian Eckes, pitted with 38 laps to go as a way to acquire a tire benefit, placing each drivers on offense for the race’s last inexperienced flag run.
Whereas Eckes and Enfinger have been in a position to make their means again into the top-five, neither driver had something for Majeski or runner-up finisher Corey Heim.
“I believe we have confirmed to ourselves and our opponents that we are able to do that, we are able to compete for wins and contend for championships,” Enfinger mentioned. “I am actually happy with the group we have had all yr, the shopping for in from all people we have had all yr. We nonetheless have a protracted solution to go from a corporation (standpoint) to get us to a degree the place me and (crew chief) Jeff, (Stankiewicz) and Sheldon and (group proprietor) Codie (Rohrbaugh) envision.”
“I am happy with how far we have come. I really feel like we earned out spot right here. On the finish of the day, we simply did not have the pace just like the No. 11 and the No. 98.”
