Hill Closes K&N Pro East Season With Second Dover Win

Austin Hill scored the win in the NASCAR K&N Pro East season finale Friday at Dover International Speedway. Photo by Getty Images for NASCAR

DOVER, DE – Austin Hill mastered the Monster Mile. Again.

The 20-year-old from Winston, GA, returned to the track where he recorded his first NASCAR K&N Pro Series East win a year ago and put on a dominating display Friday in the Driver Sober 150. Not even a tire issue could keep Hill from becoming the first driver since 1997 to close out the series season with back-to-back wins.

Like South Carolina’s Greenville Pickens Speedway earlier this month, Hill again shared Victory Lane celebration with fellow NASCAR Next driver Ben Rhodes.

The 17-year-old Rhodes, from Louisville, KY, clinched the series title with a race remaining back on Sept. 6 in a race Hill won. Rhodes finished 15th at Dover and officially received the championship trophy from NASCAR President Mike Helton at the Monster Mile. Rhodes had also previously secured the K&N Pro East Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors.

Hill’s No. 22 A&D Welding/Don Rich Ford outdistanced Kaz Grala by 5.136 seconds to take the checkered flag. Hill joined Brett Moffitt as the only series drivers to win twice on the one-mile, high-banked concrete oval.

Hill’s day was nearly ended in a lap 93 incident when he got together with Brennan Newberry in a battle for the lead. Newberry wound up spinning, while Hill was subsequently forced down pit lane with a flat tire. However, Hill was able to stay on the lead lap, came back out 13th, and marched his way back to the front.

He took the lead on lap 120 and pulled away for the victory.

Grala, 15, scored his career best finish. Scott Heckert, Eddie MacDonald and Brodie Kostecki rounded out the top five.

Sergio Pena finished sixth, followed by J.J. Haley, Gray Gaulding, Ryan Gifford and Dylan Presnell.

Rhodes finished with a 60-point margin over Turner-Scott Motorsports teammate Cameron Hayley and 78 over Gaulding. Brandon Jones and Hill rounded out the top five. Rhodes gave Turner-Scott its second straight championship, following Dylan Kwasniewski last season.

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
Dover International Speedway – Dover, DE
Race Results – Sept. 26, 2014

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RACE STATISTICS

Fastest Qualifier: Jesse Little, Time: 23.384 Seconds, Speed: 153.951 mph

Failed to Qualify: (2) Dale Quarterley (#32), John Salemi (#12).

Time of Race: 1 hrs., 38 mins, 31 secs Average Speed: 91.355 mph Margin of Victory: 5.136 Seconds
Caution Flags: Laps 53-58 (#05 Backstretch – FP #26); 70-73 (#15 Backstretch – FP #04); 79-83 (Debris – FP #4); 88-91 (#25 Frontstretch – FP #2); 94-98 (#24 Turn 2 – FP #46).  5 for 24 laps.

Lap Leaders: Jesse Little 1-14, Cameron Hayley 15-67, Austin Hill * 68-95, Ben Rhodes * 96-116, Austin Hill * 117-150.

Total Laps Led: Austin Hill * 62, Cameron Hayley 53, Ben Rhodes * 21, Jesse Little 14.  4 changes involving 4 drivers.

Top 10 Driver Points: Ben Rhodes * 640, Cameron Hayley 580, Gray Gaulding 562, Brandon Jones 551, Austin Hill * 546, Jesse Little 546, Kaz Grala * 542, Scott Heckert 526, Kenzie Ruston 522, Nick Drake * 507

* Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender