The popcorn flies into the air like pellets from a Remington 700. Rick Mast would be proud! So would "Toucan" Sam Elliott; watching Markell Murphy win the Rockingham pole for the second time. Dalton Lucas starts on the outside, with Championship contenders scattered throughout the starting grid. Murphy looks to make it two-straight victories at The Rock!

Race Results

Points Standings

Race Recap

Steven Spears taps the wall! Dalton Lucas and Geno Sphere spin trying to avoid, with Tony Long pounding the inside wall. Zach Michael gets clipped by the Kingsford #444, bashing the rear-end after a Piper Cherokee smash from behind! Long and Geno fail to continue. Michael continued on, dismayed after failing to traverse through the 44-car morass. He came in only 78-points back. Will the Coca-Cola #20 Mustang remain competitive?

Team Danger Zone teammates Zakk Miller and pole-sitter Markell Murphy led the field through the initial 45-laps. A mortifying crash for the points leader! Johnny Reed Foley pound-cakes the outside wall after a Clorox swipe from Donald Stewart. Tony Pizzaro clipped the #55, sliding him up the racetrack in a battle for the 12th position. Foley's right and left side lay incapacitated with bent steering, with Stewart limping to a 35th-place finish. Will the AC-Delco #3 Chevrolet remain competitive?

Miracle-man Michael Henson races Markell Murphy and Rockingham dominator Ryan Heuser for the lead. Heuser would eventually take it, navigating past the lapped car of Logan Sheets to nab a bonus point and take advantage of the points leaders' misfortune. The #138 NOS Energy team came in 138 points behind Johnny Reed Foley for the Championship, seemingly insurmountable with Pettit and Michael bockading their title path. Surprisingly, The #20 Coca-Cola Mustang rides unhindered with a sheared rear-end. Foley can barely keep pace with the last lead lap car.

Jonathan Skrabacz, Jimmie Stevens and Chauncey Redmond Jr. battled defiantly for the 35th position! The Castrol #48 pulverized the inside wall, breaking the concrete into chunks of glorified powder, choking the fans in the infield campground. "It tasted like chalk" said local-man Jim Stipple. "The frontrstetch got popcorn. We got the wall!" Skrabacz would finish 43rd. Up front, Ben Geer, Zach Michael and Ryan Heuser all took turns leading the field.

Bink Lucas took the top-spot back before the 100-lap mark. Alan Nesfeder immediately stripped it away, leading only his 15th lap since Nashville in June. The #78 Coke-Zero Chevrolet pulled away from the field, entering the pits with a five-second advantage over John Tharp. Miracle-man Adam Crapser went a record-breaking 92 laps before coming in, stealing Ken Pettit's strategy of leading a lap early. The #8 Marley machine would never make it. After the stops, Heuser, Tharp and Nesfeder battled defiantly for the top-spot. Nesfeder would pull away again.

A seven-second advantage over Adam Crapser! The Packers machine pulverized through the field with much fresher tires, but could not catch the Coke-Zero man. Ken Pettit passed Nesfeder to re-take his lap under the same strategy. His fate would not be so lucky. Pettit's #8 Chevrolet got tapped by John Tharp, slamming into the rear of Timothy McDonnell and back up the racetrack. Nesfeder mutilated the "Legend" logo on deck lid, ending both races after the blow. Nesfeder's advantage was gone; out after pure domination. Pettit was 24 spots ahead of Zach Michael and 27 ahead of Johnny Reed Foley before the crash. In fact, he was the points leader at the time of impact. Pettit would finish 38th.

Zach Michael's damage earlier in the event couldn't withstand the pressure, limping home to 34th while the day was done. This provided new life for Quick-Silver teammates Ryan Heuser and Craig Lee, John Tharp and Zakk Miller to win the title! Up front, Adam Crapser and Matthew Dominique alternated the top-spot several times from laps 210 to 280. John Battista, Alex Crapser and pheno-man Steven Spears occ ... Read more »