All four Lucas Racing drivers qualify inside the top-11! Dalton starts on the outside front-row, with winless-wonders Logan Sheets and Rod Weston out-gridding the chase drivers in hopes of their first career Extravaganza Series triumph! Points leader Zakk Miller tries to out-duel Johnny Reed Foley, John Tharp and Ken Pettit in hopes of maintaining his advantage standings through the end of the Sharpie 500!

Race Results

Points Standings

Race Recap

A crash on lap one sends rookie Molemar Diggs, Alan Nesfeder and Championship contender Timothy McDonnell into the pits for a beat-down. Dalton Lucas wins the battle off pit road over pole-sitter Tony Pizzaro, leading the field for the remaining stint. A Johnny Reed Foley spin brought out the second caution, taking John Tharp with him into the turn-3 wall.

Both Johnny Reed Foley and John Tharp struggled for the remainder of the race, both finishing outside the top-30 with Tharp failing to complete the event. Foley would lose his 15-race streak of leading a lap, while teammate Timothy McDonnell went two-down after a tire-rub from the first caution. McDonnell dropped to 10th in the standings. Tharp fell from 2nd to 5th, while Foley rose up the leader-board after some mid-race attrition to beat 11 cars. He would only fall to third in the standings; still the favorite to win the crown!

Dalton Lucas, Logan Sheets, Dakota Wilkins and Dave Miller dominated the second green-flag stint. All 43-cars managed to hold afloat through lap 200, with no Championship contenders yet to lead a lap. Team Danger Zone, Race-2-Win Motorsports and Lucas Racing all shared the spotlight, occupying over half of the top-16 positions.

An Alex Crapser spin and a Bill Werkheiser engine failure at halfway would bring out the third and fourth yellow flags. Dalton Lucas came in to pit twice due to a loose lugnut, giving up the Halfway Bacon Bonus to Logan Sheets and relinquishing his career best 173-laps led. Logan would dominate the stint before cataclysmic disaster!

Leader Logan Sheets piles into a crash involving Alan Nesfeder and Cristian Torres! Dalton Lucas tapped the #26 Gamestop Toyota, sliding off the wall and into Nesfeder. Blocked by the a-pillar Sheets slammed his left-front into the #26, sending Torres for a half-flip while Logan's victory effort came to an end. He would finish 40th after leading 123 laps.

Steven Spears led his first laps since Talladega in April, hoping to end his recent streak of DNF's with a top-10 finish. Teammate Markell Murphy inherited the top-spot on the restart, with he, Dakota Wilkins, Zach Michael and Ken Pettit battling hard for second-half supremacy! Michael and Pettit are the only two Championship contenders anywhere near the front all night, hoping to gain ground on points leader Zakk Miller who is currently mired mid-pack.

Jimmie Stevens entered the Sharpie 500 a career worst 3nd in points, with only one top-5 at Martinsville in April. Now he is battling for the win! The #2 Ampio Mustang's last victory was here in the spring of 2020, hoping to rectify his year with a late-season victory just like his teammate Bink in 2023. He, Zach Michael and Ken Pettit would battle profusely, with Pettit earning the points lead back with his newly-dominant short-track program.

Pettit would lose some ground in the end, handing Jimmie Stevens, Markell Murphy, Dakota Wilkins and Matt Raboin the only shot at victory without another caution. Dakota's team is still heartbroken after missing the chase with a seemingly insurmountable advantage during the summer-stretch. They were 6th in points after the Brickyard 400, suffering three finishes worse than 38th to lose the final chase spot to Ryan Heuser. A fifth victory of 2024 would be a medicine of Champions!

Matt Raboin and Jimmie Stevens battle maniacally for the first victory of the year during the waning stages. The final ten-laps saw the trio swap the top-spot several times as they meandered through lapped traffic. Stevens had it with two laps to go. On the white flag lap, Wilkins pulled a Bonzai-move on the outside the steal the victory away, clearing the AMPIO-man off of turn-2 and into the stratosphere. The #77 Colorado Rockies Chevrolet would cross the finish line in first for the fifth time in 2024!

Nobody thought this team could win on a short track. Jeremy Hebel was brought in to dominate the short facilities in a "fill-the-gap" strategy move during the off-season. His short track prowess and Milwaukee dollars has helped Dakota tenfold, earning his 6th career victory under the lights at Bristol! The biggest surprise team in recent memory pulls off another stunner, looking to tie Johnny Reed Foley for the league lead next week at Martinsville. Atop the standings, Ken Pettit earns a 10th-place finish to Zakk Miller's 25th, earning the #8 Bob Marley Chevrolet the points lead once more. Congratulations to Dakota, crew chief Joe "Novacane" Densham and the rest of the Blazin' Pedals Racing organization for a fantastic victory!

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