Grant Enfinger’s Chevrolet Silverado lastly become 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 Collection 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 night time, nonetheless, the No. 9 workforce had neither the velocity 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 to be able to acquire a tire benefit, placing each drivers on offense for the race’s remaining inexperienced flag run.
Whereas Eckes and Enfinger had been in a position to make their method again into the top-five, neither driver had something for Majeski or runner-up finisher Corey Heim.
“I feel we have confirmed to ourselves and our rivals that we are able to do that, we are able to compete for wins and contend for championships,” Enfinger said. “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 technique to go from a company (standpoint) to get us to some extent the place me and (crew chief) Jeff, (Stankiewicz) and Sheldon and (workforce 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 velocity just like the No. 11 and the No. 98.”
