Dalton Sargeant scored his third ARCA Racing Series victory of the season Friday night at Lucas Oil Raceway. Photo: ARCA Media
Dalton Sargeant drove underneath Michael Self with eight laps to go, then scooted away to win the Friday night’s ARCA Racing Series Sioux Chief PowerPEX 200 at Lucas Oil Raceway in Brownsburg, Indiana.
The Boca Raton, Florida racer also inched closer to Austin Theriault in series championship standings with nine races left.
Sargeant, in the No. 77 Cunningham Motorsports-Big Tine Ford, also caught a break when Mother Nature intervened late in the going with just enough rain to bring out the final caution on lap 174. Sargeant darted onto pit road for four fresh tires with 20 laps remaining and, once the brief shower let up, took off like a rocket when the green flag unfurled for the final time on lap 189 of the 200-lap race.
When Sargeant got to Self, a side-by-side battle ensued for nearly two laps before Sargeant finally cleared the former leader for good. In the end, Sargeant beat Self to the finish by a full second.
“I was just begging there at the end to go back to green,” said Sargeant. “Just a smart call from Chad (Bryant/crew chief) to stay out and pit when we did. Great car…great call. I knew it was going to take everything I had. We closed the points gap a little more…just really excited for the rest of the year.”
Self finished a career-best second. However, just before the last caution, Self, who led 29 laps, had built and second-and-half lead and was pulling away from everyone. Self had pitted with 70 laps to go for his last set of tires.
“If not for that last yellow, they never would have caught us,” said Self. “Our car was so loose in the beginning…wrecking every lap. But the crew took some big swings at it and put four fresh tires on it for that last run. If not for the rain, we would have won it. It was a really hard-fought race. The 77 made a smart call…they’re a championship team. I can’t complain, but I really want to win one.”
Chad Finley led 74 laps and finished third. Like Sargeant, he pitted under the last caution, but ran out of time trying to make his way back to the front.
“I’m disappointed,” said Finley. “I’m proud of my team…proud of my sponsors Auto Value, Air Lift, XLT…but I thought we had the best car…thought we were better than everyone. Car was phenomenal in clean air. We just didn’t have enough time. We needed one more caution. We’ll get ’em at Chicagoland.”
Theriault finished fourth, with Sheldon Creed in fifth.
The night started off great for Austin Cindric, setting a new one-lap track record in qualifying. Cindric led the first 53 laps before he stalled on the track and brought out the first caution. Cindric’s crew got it fixed but not before he lost several laps. He was later involved in a frontstretch incident that resulted in damage to the back of his car. He eventually fell out just past the halfway point.
That gave the lead to Riley Herbst who led the next 11 laps before Creed raced his way to the front. Creed then swapped the lead back and forth with Finley before Finley took control. But Finley eventually fell back on older tires while Self, on fresher tires, charged his way forward.
Gus Dean, Zane Smith, Bret Holmes, Shane Lee and Christian Eckes completed the top ten.
Sargeant, who won last time out at Iowa Speedway, unofficially trimmed Theriault’s points lead to 130, shaving 30 points off the leader. The ARCA Racing Series is off to Pocono Raceway next for the ModSpace 150 Friday, July 28.
ARCA Racing Series
Lucas Oil Raceway – Brownsburg IN
Sioux Chief PowerPEX 200 – July 21, 2017
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1. Dalton Sargeant
2. Michael Self
3. Chad Finley
4. Austin Theriault
5. Sheldon Creed
6. Gus Dean
7. Zane Smith
8. Bret Holmes
9. Shane Lee
10. Christian Eckes
11. Thad Moffitt
12. Bobby Gerhart
13. Riley Herbst
14. Spencer Davis
15. A.J. Fike
16. Mike Basham
17. Thomas Praytor
18. Dale Shearer
19. Mark Meunier
20. Mike Senica
21. Tervor Noles
22. Justin Fontaine
23. Austin Cindric
24. Brad Smiti
25. Zach Ralston
26. Will Kimmel
27. Con Nicolopoulos
28. Eric Caudell
29. Kevin Hinckle
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