Zane Smith and his team celebrate after winning Friday’s rain shortened ARCA Racing Series event at Pocono Raceway. Photo: ARCA Media
Zane Smith won Friday’s rain-shortened ModSpace 150 for the ARCA Racing Series at Pocono Raceway.
Smith led an MDM Motorsports sweep of the top four positions in his No. 41 LaPaz Margarita Mix/ICON Vehicle Dynamics Toyota. It was his fourth ARCA Racing Series win of the season.
Smith took the lead when Todd Gilliland pitted under caution on lap 14, and with the exception of lap 28, when his teammate Sheldon Creed nipped him at the line, he led the rest of the way.
For most of the final 12-lap green flag dash to the checkered, Smith held a half-second to a one-second advantage over Creed. On lap 28, Smith drifted high in turn three, allowing Creed to close the gap. The two raced side-by-side down the frontstretch, with Smith forcing Creed below the white line at pit exit. Neither driver had a solid approach to turn one, and Creed’s car wiggled underneath of Smith and they touched. Smith continued on while Creed slapped the outside wall.
“I totally drove him down the track,” Smith said with a smile. “I knew we were racing to lap 31 and I had just slipped up out of the groove around a lapper and gave up a huge lead. I didn’t want him to get by at all because that would have been the race right there. He did a nice job holding on to it to give MDM a top four sweep.”
Creed locked up the General Tire Superspeedway Challenge championship with his second-place finish. For the current series championship leader, there was no disappointment in coming home second. Instead, he was excited at the save he made in turn one.
“I hope they have a good shot of that save,” Creed said. “I absolutely pounded the wall. I thought we were both going to get taken out. If they were right up on us, there’s no way we would have finished 1-2. I saw him slide up the track and I knew it was my only chance. We went down into one and started getting sideways. It was crazy.”
Chase Purdy finished third, with Harrison Burton in fourth and Riley Herbst in fifth.
Creed maintains the unofficial series points lead with 3535 points over Smith who is second at 3375, Herbst is third at 3125, Purdy fourth at 3050 and Travis Braden is fifth at 2995.
There were three cautions for 15 laps during the event, the first for General Tire Pole winner Gus Dean who spun off turn two on lap 9. Dean, the winner of the last series event at Elko, would retire due to another incident a few laps later. The second yellow of the day waved on the restart when Joe Graf, Jr. pounded the turn two wall. Graf was evaluated and released from the infield care center. The final yellow waved on lap 31 for rain, which eventually ended the race.
The race, shortened to 33 of 60 laps, took 43 minutes, 58.23 seconds. Smith averaged 112.585 miles per hour. There were four lead changes among three drivers.
Next up for the ARCA Racing Series is the Allen Crowe 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Illinois. The event is the first of two races contested this season on one-mile dirt tracks.
ARCA Racing Series
Pocono Raceway – Long Pond PA
ModSpace 150 – July 27, 2018
1. Zane Smith
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3. Chase Purdy
4. Harrison Burton
5. Riley Herbst
6. Todd Gilliland
7. Codie Rohrbaugh
8. 2Will Rodgers
9. Travis Braden
10. Bret Holmes
11. L.B. Skaggs
12. Sean Corr
13. Christian Eckes
14. Ed Pompa
15. Natalie Decker
16. Bryan Dauzat
17. Brian Kaltreider
18. Mike Basham
19. Steve Fox
20. Leilani Munter
21. Quin Houff
22. Brad Smith
23. Con Nicolopoulos
24. Bobby Gerhart
25. Tom Berte
26. Joe Graf, Jr.
27. Gus Dean
28. Dale Matchett
29. Don Thompson
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