We know that Daytona is one of those races where you either finish in the top 10 or you end up on the trailer home.” You just go right or left, and they ended up bouncing back up off another truck, so it is what it is. “I saw him going down the track, so I went up. “I saw the 84 (Greenfield) sideways and that was pretty much that,” Deegan said. Debris from the accident caused a red-flag delay. Hailie Deegan‘s truck was heavily damaged in the incident. Several trucks spun out behind him.Ĭlay Greenfield lost control of his truck in three-wide racing on lap 28 and triggered a six-vehicle accident. Stewart Friesen, racing on the outside near the front, attempted a block but wound up running head-on into the outside wall. The trucks had been under a red flag for an hour.Īn accident involving several trucks on the backstretch forced a caution flag at the end of the second stage. Smith led the race at that point.Īfter a delay, trucks returned to the track under caution, but showers and a stubborn lingering mist forced them to pit road again six laps later, and NASCAR made the race official a few minutes later. The trucks remained on the track as light rain fell earlier in the race, but officials parked the field on pit road under red-flag conditions when showers across the 2.5-mile track became heavier with 27 laps to go. Not as smooth of a race as we would like.”įormer Cup Series champion Chase Elliott was 10th, and action sports star Travis Pastrana, who is scheduled to make his Cup Series debut in the Daytona 500 Sunday, was 13th.

“Obviously, with the way our night was going, second was a good night for us. “We want to win and I think it’s time for me to do that,” Gray said of his second-place run. Smith led the final 15 laps and 17 total.

Following Smith at the finish were Tanner Gray, Christian Eckes, Colby Howard and Grant Enfinger.

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