Will Rodgers celebrates in victory lane after winning Saturday’s NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Sonoma Raceway. Photo by Robert Reiners/Getty Images for NASCAR
There was never any doubt that Will Rodgers was the driver to beat on road courses in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series.
And he delivered. Again.
The 23-year-old capped off a dominate weekend by winning the Carneros 200 at Sonoma Raceway on Saturday.
The win marks the fourth of Rodgers’ straight NASCAR K&N Pro Series win on a road course, and Saturday’s West victory comes a week after he won the East race at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
Not even a Sonoma field that included five Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers could keep Rodgers from victory lane.
Rodgers was fastest in practice at Sonoma, won the pole position for the second year in a row, and led a race-high 35 laps.
“I knew we would have a great car prepared by Jefferson-Pitts Racing” said Rodgers. “We had a great piece and made very minor adjustments, my crew chief Jeff (Jefferson) definitely had the right ideas in mind and it helped us obviously stay first in practice, get the pole and then here we are in victory lane.”
Rodgers entered the first five-minute break at lap 21 as the race leader over Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regulars William Byron, Daniel Suarez and Aric Almirola. Seven cars chose to stay out, including Almirola, who took over the race lead. With the fastest cars in the field getting shuffled outside of the top five, the excitement picked up.
Rodgers and Suarez began to put on a show as they battled back inside the top five after the restart. It was Suarez who won the race to the front with a pass for the lead over Almirola on lap 39.
By the second and final break at lap 41 the stage was set: Suarez led with Almirola, Rodgers, Erik Jones and Byron right behind.
On the pursuing restart Almirola got the jump around Suarez and back into the lead. The winning pass, however, came on lap 50 when Rodgers dove to the bottom of Almirola entering the hairpin in turn 11. Rodgers never looked back as he drove to victory by 4.420 seconds.
Almirola finished second while Byron settled for third.
Suarez finished fourth, just ahead of Ryan Partridge. Partridge took the championship lead by one point over teammate Derek Kraus, who was eighth.
Jones, Hailie Deegan, Thorn, Cole Keatts and Derek Kraus round out the top 10.
The NASCAR K&N Pro Series West is right back at it on Saturday, June 30 with the Clint Newell Toyota 150 at Douglas County Speedway in Roseburg, Oregon.
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Carneros 200 – June 23, 2018
1. Will Rodgers
2. Aric Almirola
3. William Byron
4. Daniel Suarez
5. Ryan Partridge
6. Erik Jones
7. Hailie Deegan
8. Derek Thorn
9. Cole Keatts
10. Derek Kraus
11. David Mayhew
12. Cole Rouse
13. Tom Klauer
14. Rodd Kneeland
15. Jesse Iwuji
16. Rich DeLong III
17. Kody Vanderwal
18. Jim Inglebright
19. Todd Souza
20. Trevor Huddleston
21. Travis Milburn
22. Carlos Vieira
23. Hollis Thackeray
24. Alex Bowman
25. Takuma Koga
26. Matt Levin
27. Bill Kann
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