Sheldon Creed celebrates in victory lane after winning Friday night’s ARCA Racing Series season finale at Kansas Speedway. Photo: ARCA Media
Sheldon Creed put a period on his ARCA Racing Series championship season with a comeback win in Friday’s ARCA Kansas 150 at Kansas Speedway.
Creed was leading when he was involved in an incident with a lapped car on lap 46. Creed’s car was damaged on the driver’s side, but quick work by crew chief Jeff Stankiewicz and the MDM Motorsports crew kept him on the lead lap and in contention.
Several late race cautions kept the field bunched, and Creed was able to pick up positions on restarts and on the short bursts of green flag racing.
Creed took the lead from defending race winner Michael Self on a lap 86 restart, and held off Harrison Burton after a final restart with a handful of laps remaining.
“The car seemed to drive the same after the crash as it did before,” Creed said. “I don’t know that I can put all of the blame on that lapped car. I was coming up on him pretty fast and I don’t think he knew I was going to be out there. The team did a great job patching it up as quickly as they could.”
Burton fought to second despite an engine problem that kept the RPMs at 5000 while under caution.
“The throttle was sticking and holding the RPMs at 5000 under yellow, and it made it really challenging on restarts,” Burton said.
Self held on for third despite losing a lot of track position in the final laps. Self was nearly collected in a couple of incidents throughout the night but was still a factor for the win late in the going.
“What I saw was just hard racing out there,” Self said. “There were some close calls for us but we managed to make it through and were still up battling for the win. It’s great that we were in a position to win twenty percent of the races we were entered in this year. We’d like to come back and do more of it next year.”
The event was slowed eight times for various incidents, including one that involved series runner-up Zane Smith . He crashed in turn three along with Gus Dean with 22 laps remaining. Smith unofficially finished 17th while Dean was unofficially 18th. Neither driver was injured.
Travis Braden was also involved in a crash in turn one with Joe Graf, Jr. Both were evaluated and released from the infield care center.
Drew Herring made his first series start in nine years and started from the General Tire Pole, but was involved in a spin on lap 64. He was credited with eighth at the finish.
There were seven lead changes among six drivers. The average speed was 90.812 miles per hour, and the time of race was one hour, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds. Creed’s margin of victory was 0.942 seconds.
ARCA Racing Series
Kansas Speedway – Kansas City, KS
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1. Sheldon Creed
2. Harrison Burton
3. Michael Self
4. Riley Herbst
5. Chase Purdy
6. Natalie Decker
7. Tyler Hill
8. Drew Herring
9. Zach Ralston
10. Cole Glasson
11. Eric Caudell
12. Codie Rohrbaugh
13. Will Kimmel
14. Leilani Munter
15. Anthony Alfredo
16. Con Nicolopoulos
17. Zane Smith
18. Gus Dean
19. Kevin Hinckle
20. Travis Braden
21. Joe Graf, Jr.
22. Todd Gilliland
23. L.B. Skaggs
24. Mike Basham
25. Brad Smith
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