Complete domination is what is expected from the top qualifiers in the field. All 11 top-times were in the top-20 in points last season, with Tony Pizzaro at the helm. Last year's winner Mark Murphy starts a respectable 13th, with John Battista ready to roll in his attempt at three in-a-row at Phoenix.

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The event started in grand style with Craig Lee and Dave Miller flying by the pole sitter. 8th place qualifier Scott Jackson would be the first casualty after a blown motor, finish last and dropping from 12th to 21st in the standings. Craig would continue the trend of Battista, Lee and Pettit leading over half of all laps this season.

The first crash occurred on lap 4 towards the back of the pack. Glenn Kaufmann got loose while in the middle-three wide off of turn 2. He corrected into Brandon Raines, both slamming the outside wall. Kevin Corbat was also involved in the wreck.

Pizzaro found the lead once more after a beautiful pit stop. He restarted at the top, while Dave Miller pulled the same move on Pizzaro that Lee did several laps before. Lee would also share his viewpoint, telling the field that he would like a second shot at the top position. He would succeed in style. Craig brought Ken Pettit and Bill Werkhesier with him. For the next 200+ laps, it would be the #101 and #8 leading practically all of the show. Bill couldn't keep up pace, dropping to 7th by the end of the event. Dave Miller, Matthew Dominique, Ryan Heuser, and Rick Jackson were all within near grasp of the top-2 during this period.

Ken Pettit was the first of the leaders to come in for tires. Lee followed through afterwards, though neither could match the speed of the Quantum Racing #25 pit crew. Matthew Dominique would lead 6 laps before the dynamic-duo took back the helm.

By the end of the event, Ken Pettit would achieve 150 laps led for the first time in his career. Combined with the 91 he led at Rockingham and 1 the week before, he is only two laps away from eclipsing his 2020 season total after only 6 races. Craig Lee would finish with 78, eventually finishing 6th to record his 5th-straight top-14 finish of the season.

Champion Tim McDonnell was the first of the leaders to come in. Rick Jackson followed suit behind and pulled the first recorded sub-13-second pit stop of the season. This miraculously put Rick at the top of the heap, traversing through lapped traffic a second ahead of second place teammate Ken Pettit.

The caution finally came out with 33 laps to go, recording 272 straight laps of green flag racing. Aaron Cummings and Jonathan Skrabacz off of turn 2 and both slammed hard into the outside wall. Both drivers would round out the day outside of the top-30. Later on, Zakk Miller, Jimmie Stevens, Cristian Torres and Alex Crapser were involved in a melee off of the same corner.

The big wreck of the event occurred on lap 287. Steven Spears and Craig Lee had been the two cars on top three-wide for two straight laps, banging doors with drivers jumping the gun underneath. Out of turn 4, the #65 finally spun in front of the #101. Tim McDonnell and Bill Werkheiser spun to the inside attempting to avoid the accident. towards the end of the frontstretch, Zach Michael was boxed in from avoiding the carnage and knocked his teammate Spears onto his roof and back over. The incident appeared to be over. Up ahead, Jack Paynter hit the kill-switch while attempting to avoid the accident. The Spears machine slammed into his rear and careened into the path of Zach. Immediately after, Matthew Dominique pulverized the Domino's car on the drivers side, sending Zach for a violent tumble before stopping on his roof in the dogleg apron.

It was the Jackson-Heuser show once again for the final 8-lap shootout. Ryan had taken the lead before the previous caution while Rick battled lapped traffic. Rick passed the lapped car of William Perry on the first circuit after the restart and imm ... Read more »