Carson Hocevar took the lead with 40 laps remaining in Friday night time’s NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Sequence Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway and held off each problem needed within the closing laps – together with a frantic push from his opponents on a re-start with three laps remaining – to earn his second profession victory.

Hocevar held off reigning collection champion, Entrance Row Motorsports’ Zane Smith and Friday’s polesitter Nick Sanchez by a slight 0.271s margin in a tightly-contested ultimate push towards the end line among the many trio. The win for the 20-year previous driver of the No. 42 Niece Motorsports Chevrolet makes him the fourth multi-race winner of the season. And it’s a formidable fifth consecutive top-five for Hocevar.

Mockingly, Hocevar’s first profession win got here after Smith and Sanchez wrecked on the entrance of the sphere on the ultimate lap of double extra time at Texas Motor Speedway. This time, the one drama was the Michigan-native’s spectacular tempo out entrance within the closing laps.

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“I’m so excited I can lastly put that different to relaxation,” Hocevar stated of the circumstances of his first win, including, “And hopefully I can win much more races for them (Neice Motorsports).”

The younger driver’s effort earned him not solely the one-of-a-kind Nashville winner’s guitar but in addition an additional $50,000 as a part of the CRAFTSMAN Truck Sequence’ Triple Truck Problem program. He joins Ben Rhodes and Grant Enfinger because the three recipients of the three-race bonus cash this season.

Corey Heim and Bayley Currey rounded out the highest 5 on Friday. Heim led probably the most laps — 57 of the 150 on the night time — and gained stage two within the No. 11 TRICON Storage Toyota. He additionally leads the championship by 16 factors over Smith.

Though he missed out on his first trophy, it was nonetheless a formidable night time for Sanchez, who earned his third pole place of the season.

Within the opening laps, Sanchez and Rajah Caruth set the tempo out entrance; the previous ARCA opponents and NASCAR Drive for Variety graduates operating nose-to-tail and door-to-door all through the opening stage. Sanchez, 22, led the opening 35 laps in his No. 2 Rev Racing Chevrolet. And after a number of spirited duels between the 2, the 21-year previous Caruth lastly obtained round Sanchez on lap 36 to guide his first profession lap in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence competitors — solely to sluggish and need to pit his No. 24 GMS Chevrolet a lap later and relinquish the lead. He returned to the race many laps down and in the end settled for a thirty second place end.

The opening stage concluded in comparable drama when Smith obtained by Sanchez within the closing laps to assert his second stage win of the season.

“On the finish of the day, it was a very good factors night time, however I’d be mendacity if I stated I wasn’t upset,’’ Sanchez stated.

Chase Purdy, Matt DiBenedetto, Tyler Ankrum, Ben Rhodes and Jake Garcia rounded out the highest 10.

It was a tricky day for veteran Stewart Friesen, who was concerned in two incidents that introduced out warning durations. He dropped from ninth to eleventh within the standings with solely three common season races remaining to set the 10-driver Playoff area.

Sanchez’s effort at Nashville mixed with Friesen’s tough-luck night time moved the Miami rookie into that all-important tenth place place with a six-point benefit on Friesen.

The collection takes every week off and resumes with some highway course racing July 8 — the O’Reilly Auto Components 150 at Mid-Ohio on the Mid-Ohio Sports activities Automobile Course (1:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

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