Austin Cindric scored his first career ARCA Racing Series victory Friday night at Kentucky Speedway. Photo: ARCA Media
Austin Cindric, on a gutsy call from his crew chief Brian Wilson, drove to victory lane Friday night at Kentucky Speedway, becoming the eighth different first-time ARCA Racing Series winner in 2016.
Cindric pitted just once for gas and tires on lap 26, then stretched his fuel mileage in overtime to win the eventful Crosley 150.
“It’s just awesome,” Cindric said. “We’ve come up short every time here, but these guys just hustle so hard and man it feels so good. Brian’s (Wilson/Crew Chief) call was the right thing. It’s the best feeling in the world to be out front and know you’re in control. We’ve been so close in these ARCA races…it means a lot to finally get here.”
Dalton Sargeant gave his Venturini Motorsports team a big boost in points, coming in second, his career-best superspeedway finish. Sargeant also put the 55 car in first place in the General Tire Superspeedway Challenge championship points.
“I can’t thank Venturini Motorsport enough,” Sargeant said. “This Toyota Racing Development-Windows 10 Toyota was really good tonight. We just didn’t have enough to get the 99, but a good night for me and this team. We have the lead in the superspeedway championship headed to Kansas and that would be a huge honor to get that for my Venturini Motorsports team.”
Matt Tifft steered home in third.
“It’s a little frustrating,” Tifft said. “Thought we had a car that could stay with the 99. We had newer tires for the end…we just couldn’t get there. The restarts were tough…there’s not a lot of outside groove up there.”
Cindric only pitted once for tires while Tifft and most of the front-runners pitted twice for tires.
“I thought General Tire brought a great tire,” Tifft continued. “It didn’t have much fall-off at all. It’s definitely a durable tire. We had newer tires, but the older tires turned out to be just as good.”
Championship points leader Chase Briscoe won the Menards Pole with a new one-lap track record but fell into second position behind Shane Lee at the start. Lee led the first 25 laps before the first caution flag came out when Sarah Cornett-Ching and Lee got together on backstretch. Lee was able to continue on, but Cornett-Ching made heavy contact with both the inner and outer safer barriers. She was not injured.
The caution brought most of the leaders to pit road for service with the exception of Briscoe and Cindric. Then Cindric gave up the lead on the restart to Tifft, who led up through lap 33 before Cindric regained control on the 34th circuit. Then John Wes Townley powered through the pack and passed Cindric for the lead on lap 44. Townley, who hails from Watkinsville, Georgia, led for six laps before Cindric took it back on lap 50, never relinquishing the lead from that point.
In fact, the only things that threatened Cindric from there were the multiple caution flags that kept coming, which kept negating the leads he would continually build. One caution on lap 77 included Briscoe and Townley, who made contact down the backstretch with each sustaining heavy damage. The wreck also took out rookie Zane Smith. There were no injuries.
“Not honestly sure what happened,” Briscoe said. “I don’t know if I came up or someone came down…it was unfortunate, especially considering how hard my guys worked on that car this week. We’ll go on to Kansas and try and win that one.”
Briscoe, who was also involved in a test crash at Kentucky on Tuesday of this week, would have clinched the ARCA Racing Series championship had the crash in the race not occurred. Now he’ll have to wait to get to the Kansas finale in order to wrap up the 2016 title.
Several late-race cautions also got in the way of Cindric’s progress, the final one for Lee and Kyle Weatherman who crashed off turn two. That put the race into overtime, but Cindric once again was able to pull away from the competition.
Tom Hessert finished fourth, with Matt Kurzejewski in fifth.
The ARCA Racing Series will conclude its 64th year of competition in the season finale at Kansas Speedway on October 14.
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Crosley 150 – Sept. 23, 2016
1. Austin Cindric
2. Dalton Sargeant
3. Matt Tifft
4. Tom Hessert
5. Matt Kurzejewski
6. Josh Williams
7. Bret Holmes
8. A.J. Fike
9. Shane Lee
10. Mark Thompson
11. Nick Higdon
12. Tom Berte
13. Codie Rohrbaugh
14. Thomas Praytor
15. Rick Clifton
16. Mike Basham
17. David Sear
18. Brad Smith
19. Kyle Weatherman
20. Mike Senica
21. Gus Dean
22. Chase Briscoe
23. John Wes Townley
24. Zane Smitih
25. Myatt Snider
26. Con Nicolopoulos
27. Mark Meunier
28. Sarah Cornett-Ching
29. Brandon Jones
30. Ed Pompa
31. Wayne Peterson
32. Chris Bailey, Jr.
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