Brandon Jones celebrates in victory lane after winning Thursday night’s ARCA Racing Series event at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Photo: ARCA Media
Brandon Jones held off a late-race, spirited charge from Riley Herbst to win the ARCA Racing Series General Tire 150 Thursday night under the lights at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Jones, who hails from Atlanta, Georgia, had a 10-length lead inside of five laps to go when Herbst chopped it down to nothing coming to the white flag. Herbst got to the back bumper of Jones on the last lap but couldn’t find a way around the eventual winner.
Jones was able to use a lapped car to put two lengths in between himself and Herbst at the checkered flag.
“We gave it all we had…battling for the win,” said Jones, who led 32 laps. “Every driver out there was putting it all on the line. This is just incredible. I’ve been to Charlotte so many times, but never been down in that winner’s circle. We came to win it, and that’s what we did.”
Herbst have used one more lap.
“Wish this race was 101 laps,” said Herbst. “This place is awesome…three-wide racing all night. Charlotte’s my new favorite race track. You definitely have to run 100 percent of the time. We had a long-run race car. After five, 10 laps everyone started falling off. We just kept wrapping the bottom and got faster. Can’t thank my Joe Gibbs Racing guys enough. We needed some momentum…we’ll take it to Pocono and try to wax ’em there.”
Sheldon Creed mixed it up with the leaders over the back half, and made a bold three-side move to get to the lead on the last restart with seven laps remaining. Creed, who bounced back from an earlier practice crash, led eight laps overall and finished third.
“We didn’t get a lot of practice…that put us behind the eight-ball,” said Creed. “My guys had to put a new nose on it. We weren’t too fast in the beginning but the car came to me. The guys made some great adjustments and I finally figured out (turns) three and four. Once I figured out where the car liked to run, we got really good. In the end, I just didn’t get the job done…I wanna win.”
Todd Gilliland dominated the first half, leading 60 laps. However, Gilliland’s left-front corner was damaged during the race, and his car began to fade. Despite an ill-handling car in the end, he walked away with the General Tire Pole and a fourth-place finish.
Gilliland, who was also fastest in practice, recorded the fastest lap of the race.
Current championship leader Zane Smith finished fifth.
The race marked the return of ARCA to Charlotte after a 14-year absence. The win for Jones was his fifth career ARCA Racing Series victory. Jones is also entered for the ARCA race at Michigan Int’l Speedway on June 8, where he’s won the last two races.
“Every time I get in an ARCA car we have so much fun,” Jones said. “When the car got too tight, we’d go up to the top to try and free it up. We were all out…as hard as we could go. That three-wide racing got a little harry, but that’s how it should be…racing three-wide for the win. We’re going to go to Michigan and go for the three-peat.”
Quin Houff, Bret Holmes, Will Rodgers, Codie Rohrbaugh and Brandon Lynn completed the top-10.
The ARCA Racing Series is back in action on Friday, June 1 at Pocono Raceway.
ARCA Racing Series
Charlotte Motor Speedway – Concord NC
General Tire 150 – May 24, 2018
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1. Brandon Jones
2. Riley Herbst
3. Sheldon Creed
4. Todd Gilliland
5. Zane Smith
6. Quin Houff
7. Bret Holmes
8. Will Rodgers
9. Codie Rohrbaugh
10. Brandon Lynn
11. Travis Braden
12. Max Tullman
13. Austin Hill
14. Gus Dean
15. Natalie Decker
16. Andy Seuss
17. Brandon Grosso
18. Joseph Graf, Jr.
19. Tom Berte
20. Leilani Munter
21. Michael Self
22. David Sear
23. Zach Ralston
24. Chase Purdy
25. Tyler Dippel
26. Jesse Iwuji
27. Bryan Dauzat
28. Don Thompson
29. Con Nicolopoulos
30. Brad Smith
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