NASCAR Truck Series: Brett Moffitt wins 2018 Ford EcoBoost 200

Brett Moffitt closed out the 2018 NASCAR Truck Series season by winning the Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Hattori Racing Enterprises’ Brett Moffitt closed out the 23-race 2018 NASCAR Truck Series season by earning his sixth victory of the season and his seventh career Truck Series victory in the Championship 4 race, the Ford EcoBoost 200, at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Moffitt started the 134-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Homestead-Miami Speedway oval in Homestead, Florida in fifth place in his #16 Toyota, and he won it by exactly two seconds over ThorSport Racing’s Grant Enfinger, who finished in second in his #98 Ford after starting from the pole position.

Moffitt’s victory in this race clinched him the 2018 Truck Series championship, as he was one of the four drivers who entered this race with a chance to win it. Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Noah Gragson, another one of the Championship 4 drivers, finished in third place in his #18 Toyota.

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The other two Championship 4 drivers, GMS Racing teammates Justin Haley and Johnny Sauter, finished the race in eighth and 12th place in their #24 Chevrolet and #21 Chevrolet, respectively.

Halmar Friesen Racing’s Stewart Friesen and GMS Racing’s Sheldon Creed were the highest finishing Chevrolet drivers of the race. They finished in fourth and fifth place in their #52 Chevrolet and #2 Chevrolet, respectively.

Aside of Haley, the other four drivers who finished in the top 10 but outside of the top five were ThorSport Racing’s Matt Crafton, NEMCO Motorsports’ John Hunter Nemechek, JJL Motorsports’ Jesse Little and ThorSport Racing’s Ben Rhodes. They finished in sixth, seventh, ninth and 10th place in their #88 Ford, #8 Chevrolet, #97 Toyota and #41 Ford, respectively.

The race featured a total of 10 lead changes among seven drivers, with the most notable lead change taking place right before the final round of pit stops. Gragson had been able to hold off a hard-charging Moffitt for several laps, but the 26-year-old Grimes, Iowa native was finally able to get around the 20-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada native for the race lead. Aside of losing the lead temporarily during his final pit stop, he did not give it up after that.

Aside of Moffitt and Gragson, the five drivers who led at least one lap of the race were Enfinger, Creed, Crafton, Rhodes and Jordan Anderson. Moffitt led more laps than anybody else in the field with 59 laps led. Enfinger won stage one and Moffitt won stage two.

The race did not feature any caution flag periods aside of the two caution flag periods that took place like usual as a result of the endings of stages one and two. All but four of the 32 drivers who started the race finished it. Of the 28 drivers who finished it, 12 finished it on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2018 Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Race Results
1st – Brett Moffitt
2nd – Grant Enfinger
3rd – Noah Gragson
4th – Stewart Friesen
5th – Sheldon Creed
6th – Matt Crafton
7th – John Hunter Nemechek
8th – Justin Haley
9th – Jesse Little
10th – Ben Rhodes
11th – Harrison Burton
12th – Johnny Sauter
13th – Todd Gilliland
14th – Myatt Snider
15th – Tyler Dippel
16th – Ross Chastain
17th – Cory Roper
18th – Jeb Burton
19th – Brennan Poole
20th – Jordan Anderson
21st – Austin Hill
22nd – Austin Wayne Self
23rd – Chris Windom
24th – Chris Windom
25th – Ray Ciccarelli
26th – D.J. Kennington
27th – Robby Lyons
28th – Jennifer Jo Cobb
29th – Tanner Thorson
30th – Reid Wilson
31st – Joe Nemechek
32nd – Camden Murphy

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The 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season is scheduled to get underway on Friday, February 15, 2019 with the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. This race is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1.

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