NASCAR Truck Series: Ross Chastain earns first victory in 2019 Digital Ally 250

Ross Chastain earned the first victory of his NASCAR Truck Series career in the 2019 season’s seventh race, the Digital Ally 250, at Kansas Speedway.

Niece Motorsports’ Ross Chastain added his name to the list of NASCAR Truck Series winners by earning the first victory of his career in the 2019 season’s seventh race, the Digital Ally 250, at Kansas Speedway.

Chastain took the lead in the 167-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Kansas Speedway oval in Kansas City, Kansas with just three laps remaining in his #45 Chevrolet when race leader Stewart Friesen of Halmar Friesen Racing ran out of fuel.

Friesen’s pit crew did not have enough time to fill his #52 Chevrolet with fuel on his final pit stop as a result of miscommunication that led Friesen to pull away from his pit box after taking only two tires as opposed to four. He ended up finishing the race in 15th place, once again falling short of earning what would have been the first victory of his Truck Series career.

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Chastain won the race by 0.483 seconds over second place finisher Ben Rhodes of ThorSport Racing in his #99 Ford after starting in sixth. He saved what could have been a disastrous spin coming off of turn two prior to the race’s final restart and ended up falling from second to fifth as a result of it, but he battled back from that mistake after that restart to win.

The race’s highest finishing Toyota driver was Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland. He finished in third place in his #4 Toyota. Hattori Racing Enterprises’ Austin Hill and Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Brandon Jones rounded out the top five by finishing in fourth and fifth in their #16 Toyota and #51 Toyota, respectively.

ThorSport Racing teammates Matt Crafton, who started the race from the pole position, and Grant Enfinger, GMS Racing’s Brett Moffitt and Kyle Busch Motorsports teammates Riley Herbst and Harrison Burton rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #88 Ford, #98 Ford, #24 Chevrolet, #46 Toyota and #18 Toyota, respectively.

The race featured a total of 22 lead changes among nine drivers. Aside of Chastain, who led only five laps of the race, eight other drivers led at least one lap of the race. These eight drivers were Rhodes, Hill, Crafton, Enfinger, Moffitt, Young’s Motorsports’ Tyler Dippel, Friesen and GMS Racing’s Sheldon Creed. Friesen led more laps than anybody else in the field with 87 laps led. He won stage one and stage two.

The race also featured a total of six caution flag periods, of which four took place as a result of on-track incidents and two took place as a result of the usual endings of stages one and two. Of the 30 drivers who started the race, 20 finished it. Of the 20 drivers who finished the race, 11 finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 Digital Ally 250 at Kansas Speedway.

Race Results
1st – Ross Chastain
2nd – Ben Rhodes
3rd – Todd Gilliland
4th – Austin Hill
5th – Brandon Jones
6th – Matt Crafton
7th – Grant Enfinger
8th – Brett Moffitt
9th – Riley Herbst
10th – Harrison Burton
11th – Tyler Ankrum
12th – Tyler Dippel
13th – Jordan Anderson
14th – Gus Dean
15th – Stewart Friesen
16th – Angela Ruch
17th – Spencer Boyd
18th – Josh Bilicki
19th – Sheldon Creed
20th – Josh Reaume
21st – Norm Benning
22nd – Johnny Sauter
23rd – Jennifer Jo Cobb
24th – Joe Nemechek
25th – Natalie Decker
26th – T.J. Bell Jr.
27th – Austin Wayne Self
28th – Timmy Hill
29th – Bayley Currey
30th – Joey Gase

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The next race on the 2019 NASCAR Truck Series schedule is the season’s eighth race, and it is scheduled to take place next Friday, May 17 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. This race, the NC Education Lottery 200, is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.

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