NASCAR Truck Series: Brett Moffitt wins 2018 Lucas Oil 150

Brett Moffitt earned an unlikely victory to close out the 2018 NASCAR Truck Series round of 6 in the Lucas Oil 150 at ISM Raceway.

Hattori Racing Enterprises’ Brett Moffitt closed out the second of three rounds of the 2018 NASCAR Truck Series playoffs, the round of 6, by earning his fifth victory of the season. He won the Lucas Oil 150 at ISM Raceway to lock himself into the Championship 4 next Friday, November 16 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Moffitt, who started the 150-lap race around the four-turn, 1.022-mile (1.645-kilometer) ISM Raceway in Avondale, Arizona in fifth place in his #16 Toyota, won it by 0.456 seconds over Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Noah Gragson, who finished in second in his #18 Toyota after starting from the pole position.

Toyota drivers swept the top three finishing positions, as Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Harrison Burton finished the race in third place in his #51 Toyota. He was the highest finishing non-round of 6 driver of the race.

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ThorSport Racing’s Grant Enfinger, another round of 6 driver, was the highest finishing Ford driver of the race while Halmar Friesen Racing’s Stewart Friesen was the highest finishing Chevrolet driver of the race. They rounded out the top five by finishing in fourth and fifth place in their #98 Ford and #52 Chevrolet, respectively.

DGR-Crosley’s Tyler Ankrum, GMS Racing’s Johnny Sauter, Bill McAnally Racing’s Derek Kraus, Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Christian Eckes and GMS Racing’s Sheldon Creed rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #17 Toyota, #21 Chevrolet, #19 Toyota, #46 Toyota and #2 Chevrolet, respectively.

Sauter entered the race already having clinched a berth in the Championship 4, as did teammate Justin Haley, who finished in 28th place in his #24 Chevrolet.

The race featured a total of eight lead changes among six drivers. Aside of Moffitt, who led 19 laps, five other drivers led at least one lap of the race. Those drivers were Gragson, Burton, Enfinger, Matt Crafton and John Hunter Nemechek. Burton led more laps than anybody else in the field with 46 laps led. Moffitt won stage one and Burton won stage two.

The race also featured a total of five caution flag periods for 33 laps. Of those five caution flag periods, three took place as a result of on-track incidents while two took place as a result of the usual endings of stages one and two. Of the 32 drivers who stared the race, 27 finished it and 19 finished it on the lead lap.

The final two incident-related caution flag periods, which took place as a result of a spin by Nemechek and contact with the wall by Riley Herbst, respectively, resulted in restarts that were extremely intense, as two berths in the Championship 4 remained on the line with just a handful of laps remaining.

Enfinger, who needed to win the race to advance to the Championship 4, was in the mix the whole time. In fact, he led the race during the first of these two restarts. Had he won it, Gragson would have been eliminated assuming Moffitt did not fall at least seven positions below him, at which point Moffitt would have been eliminated instead.

However, after Gragson took the lead from Enfinger on the penultimate restart, Moffitt passed both drivers for the lead after the final restart and went on to win the race, which locked him into the Championship 4 and protected Gragson against the threat of Enfinger knocking him below the Championship 4 cut line. Burton also went on to pass Enfinger.

Crafton, the other round of 6 driver who needed to win the race to advance to the Championship 4, finished in 11th place in his #88 Ford.

Here are the full race results of the 2018 Lucas Oil 150 at ISM Raceway.

Race Results
1st – Brett Moffitt
2nd – Noah Gragson
3rd – Harrison Burton
4th – Grant Enfinger
5th – Stewart Friesen
6th – Tyler Ankrum
7th – Johnny Sauter
8th – Derek Kraus
9th – Christian Eckes
10th – Sheldon Creed
11th – Matt Crafton
12th – Ben Rhodes
13th – Chase Purdy
14th – Tyler Dippel
15th – Riley Herbst
16th – Dawson Cram
17th – Todd Gilliland
18th – Tanner Thorson
19th – Austin Wayne Self
20th – Stefan Parsons
21st – D.J. Kennington
22nd – Myatt Snider
23rd – Jordan Anderson
24th – Justin Fontaine
25th – Landon Huffman
26th – Jason White
27th – Jesse Iwuji
28th – Justin Haley
29th – John Hunter Nemechek
30th – Austin Hill
31st – Jennifer Jo Cobb
32nd – Joe Nemechek

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The 2018 NASCAR Truck Series Championship 4 is scheduled to take place on Friday, November 16 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. Be sure to tune in to the live broadcast of the Ford EcoBoost 200 beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1 to see which driver will win the 2018 Truck Series title.

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