NASCAR Truck Series: Tyler Ankrum earns first win at 2019 Buckle Up In Your Truck 225

Tyler Ankrum secured the first victory of his NASCAR Truck Series career by winning the 2019 Buckle Up In Your Truck 225 at Kentucky Speedway.

DGR-Crosley’s Tyler Ankrum was running in second place, several seconds behind race leader Brett Moffitt of GMS Racing, with two laps remaining in the 23-race 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season’s 13th race, the Buckle Up In Your Truck 225, at Kentucky Speedway.

But Moffitt’s #24 Chevrolet ran out of fuel with just over one lap remaining, and Ankrum went blowing past him in his #17 Toyota to take the white flag and then the checkered flag to secure the first victory of his Truck Series career.

The 18-year-old San Bernardino, California native started this 150-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Kentucky Speedway oval in Sparta, Kentucky in ninth place, and he ended up winning it by 7.373 seconds over Halmar Friesen Racing’s Stewart Friesen in second in his #52 Chevrolet. Friesen has now finished in second a record six times without winning a race in his Truck Series career.

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Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Harrison Burton, who overcame his involvement in a wreck, rallied to finish in third place in his #18 Toyota. Niece Motorsports’ Ross Chastain and DGR-Crosley’s Dylan Lupton finished in fourth and fifth in their #45 Chevrolet and #15 Toyota, respectively.

AM Racing’s Austin Wayne Self finished in sixth place in his #22 Chevrolet ahead of Moffitt in seventh. Rette Jones Racing’s Spencer Davis and Niece Motorsports’ Jeb Burton finished in eighth and ninth in their #11 Toyota and #45 Chevrolet, respectively.

ThorSport Racing’s Johnny Sauter was the highest finishing Ford driver of the race. He rounded out the top 10 by finishing in 10th place in his #13 Ford.

This race featured a total of 11 lead changes among seven drivers. Aside of Ankrum, who led more laps than anybody else in the field with 40 laps led, six drivers led at least one lap of the race. These drivers were Lupton, Moffitt, Crafton, GMS Racing’s Sheldon Creed, Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Brandon Jones and ThorSport’s Grant Enfinger, the race polesitter. Creed won stage one and Crafton won stage two.

This race also featured a total of five caution flag periods, including three that took place as a result of on-track incidents and two that took place as a result of the usual endings of stages one and two. Of the 32 drivers who started this race, 22 finished it, and of the 22 drivers who finished this race, only seven finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 Buckle Up In Your Truck 225 at Kentucky Speedway.

Race Results
1st – Tyler Ankrum
2nd – Stewart Friesen
3rd – Harrison Burton
4th – Ross Chastain
5th – Dylan Lupton
6th – Austin Wayne Self
7th – Brett Moffitt
8th – Spencer Davis
9th – Jeb Burton
10th – Johnny Sauter
11th – Tyler Hill
12th – Tyler Dippel
13th – Matt Crafton
14th – Codie Rohrbaugh
15th – Brennan Poole
16th – Clay Greenfield
17th – Todd Gilliland
18th – Mason Massey IV
19th – Ben Rhodes
20th – Josh Bilicki
21st – Sheldon Creed
22nd – Jennifer Jo Cobb
23rd – Brandon Jones
24th – Grant Enfinger
25th – Gus Dean
26th – Chad Finley
27th – Natalie Decker
28th – Camden Murphy
29th – Spencer Boyd
30th – Jordan Anderson
31st – Austin Hill
32nd – Joe Nemechek

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Next weekend is an off weekend for the NASCAR Truck Series, as the series is scheduled to return to action on Saturday, July 27 with the Gander RV 150 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. This race is set to be broadcast live on Fox beginning at 1:00 p.m. ET.

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