Tanner Gray (left) and Derek Kraus (right) scored NASCAR K&N Pro Series East wins in twin races over the weekend at South Boston Speedway. Photos: Matt Thacker/NKP/NASCAR
Tanner Gray and Derek Kraus both took home NASCAR K&N Pro Series East wins on the weekend at Virginia’s South Boston Speedway.
Gray win the first of the two WhosYourDriver.org Twin 100s on Saturday, while Kraus won the rain delayed second race on Sunday.
On Saturday, Gray nudged Bristol winner Sam Mayer out of the way in overtime to win his first career K&N Pro Series race.
For Gray getting that initial checkered flag in NASCAR was the thing. The 2018 NHRA Pro Stock Champion has already shown to be a quick study to stock cars and oval tracks.
“It feels really good to get that first win,” Gray said, exhausted after the first twin 100. “I tried to screw it up throughout the race the whole time. I just kept getting loose, chasing it up the race track and made some adjustments there under caution before the green/white/checkered.”
“We took off and I was hoping I could get a little better jump, hold him tight down there to the bottom,” the DGR-Crosley driver said. “But I missed it a little bit. Tried to follow behind him and got into him, and in (turn) 3 just moved him, got underneath him, side-by-side going on the frontstretch. After that I’m not too sure what happened to him.”
Gray had come up just .030 seconds short on March 30 at California’s Irwindale Speedway, losing out on a drag race off turn 4 to Trevor Huddleston. This time, it was Gray who was .32 seconds faster than the runner-up.
Following Gray and Mayer across the finish line was another rookie, Max McLaughlin, in third. Dawsonville, Georgia’s Spencer Davis and Ruben Garcia Jr. where fourth and fifth, respectively.
The field for the second twin 100 was set by fastest lap time per driver in the first 100.
Nick Sanchez led the field to green by virtue of his quick lap in race No. 1. He led the first 18 laps after Gray was black flagged for jumping the initial start. Then, unfortunately, the rain came.
And it stayed, forcing the postponement of the remainder of the second WhosYourDriver.org Twin 100 to Sunday.
The extra day was worth the wait for Derek Kraus, as the second Twin 100 belonged to the 17-year-old from Wisconsin.
Kraus took the lead from Max McLaughlin at the halfway juncture and didn’t look back, claiming his seventh overall K&N Pro Series checkered flag.
“It was a really good day overall,” he said. “Today was. Yesterday we were pretty good, too, but we ran out of brakes early and kind of had to ride around and manage your day, which we did for those first 100 laps. But these second 100 laps, we got the first 20 laps in and I knew we were pretty good. Really happy with my Bill McAnally crew.”
The win was Kraus’ second overall in the K&N Pro Series East this season. His first came in the season opener at Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway, a race that was also postponed due to rain.
Chase Cabre came home in second-place for the second time in the last three races – sandwiching an eighth-place run in the first twin 100 Saturday night. The Rev Racing driver was catching Kraus’ No. 16 in the closing stages Sunday, but wound up running out of time.
“Just came up a little bit short” he said. “I think if we had a caution we might have had something. Really drove as hard as I could go there. It was a guessing game when it rains out like that and goes to the next day; not bad, but not what we wanted.”
Hattori Racing Enterprises’ Max McLaughlin scored his second third-place finish in a row after battling flu-like symptoms the night prior and led a handful of laps. Tanner Gray finished fourth and Spencer Davis rounded out the top five.
With the win, Kraus assumes the points lead over Sam Mayer by four markers. Gray, Davis and Cabre round out the top five in the championship standings.
The next K&N Pro Series East events will take place on Saturday, June 1, at Memphis International Raceway.
NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
South Boston Speedway – South Boston, VA
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1. Tanner Gray
2. Sam Mayer
3. Max McLaughlin
4. Spencer Davis
5. Ruben Garcia, Jr.
6. Colin Garrett
7. Travis Milburn
8. Chase Cabre
9. Derek Kraus
10. Hailie Deegan
11. Justin Carroll
12. Drew Dollar
13. Jason Miles
14. Nick Sanchez
15. Ron Jay
16. Chuck Buchanan, Jr.
17. Mason Diaz
NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
South Boston Speedway – South Boston, VA
WhosYourDriver.org Twin 100s No. 2 – May 5, 2019
1. Derek Kraus
2. Chase Cabre
3. Max McLaughlin
4. Tanner Gray
5. Spencer Davis
6. Drew Dollar
7. Ruben Garcia, Jr.
8. Nick Sanchez
9. Travis Milburn
10. Justin Carroll
11. Sam Mayer
12. Hailie Deegan
13. Jason Miles
14. Colin Garrett
15. Ron Jay
16. Chuck Buchanan, Jr.
17. Mason Diaz
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