Chandler Smith collected the winner’s hardware with a victory in Sunday’s rain shortened ARCA Menards Series race at Toledo Speedway. Photo: Venturini Motorsports/Twitter
Jasper, Georgia’s Chandler Smith won the rain shortened ARCA Menards Series Sioux Chief PowerPEX 200 at Toledo Speedway on Sunday, leading 140 of the race’s 152 laps.
Rain threatened throughout the day, but the race started on time. Smith started second, alongside Venturini Motorsports teammate Michael Self, who earned the General Tire Pole Award in qualifying on Saturday.
Self would lead the first ten laps but faced pressure from Smith the entire time. Eventually, Smith would dip to the inside and work his way by and drove off to a full straightaway advantage over the battle for second.
Smith could see the rain was coming as the race ran to its ultimate conclusion, and even hoped it would come sooner than later.
“Whenever you’re the leader and you can see rain coming and the race is past halfway you want it to hurry up and get there,” Smith said. “I knew as soon as it started raining it wasn’t going to stop so we needed to get out front and stay out front. That’s what we did. These Venturini Motorsports guys do a great job giving me racecars that can dominate these races. I drive them the same way I drive my late model cars and that’s where we were able to beat them all today. We had more drive off the corners and that’s what it took.”
Ty Gibbs finished second, his third runner-up finish in four career ARCA Menards Series races.
“I don’t know what the record is for most second-place finishes before someone gets their first win,” Gibbs asked, “but I think we’re in the hunt for it. We’re getting a little tired of finishing second at this point. We just ran out of time before the rain came. I think we needed another ten laps and we could have had something for them at the end.”
Christian Eckes finished third, with Self in fourth and Sam Mayer in fifth.
The race was slowed a total of four times by caution flags, two for incidents and two for rain, one of which ultimately ended the race.
The first incident happened on lap 30 involving Joe Graf, Jr. and Hailie Deegan, with both making heavy contact with the foam blocks lining the outside wall in turn three. Graf would finish 17th and Deegan with finish 18th, and last, in her series debut.
The second incident of the day involved the championship points leader going into the race, Travis Braden, who hit the blocks in turn one on lap 79. Braden would finish 13th, falling back to second in the standings 25 points behind Self.
There were two leaders on the day, Self from the pole and Smith, who led from lap 13 through the checkered at lap 152. The race was slowed four times for 23 laps and was ultimately shortened by 48 laps due to rain. Along with the race at Salem Speedway, it’s the second time in six races in 2019 that a race has been shortened by rain. The race took 59 minutes and 22 seconds and was completed at an average speed of 76.811 miles per hour.
The next event on the ARCA Menards Series schedule is the General Tire 150 at Charlotte Motor Speedway coming up on Thursday, May 23.
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ARCA Menards Series
Toledo Speedway – Toledo OH
Sioux Chief PowerPEX 200 – May 19, 2019
Unofficial Race Results
1. Chandler Smith
2. Ty Gibbs
3. Christian Eckes
4. Michael Self
5. Sam Mayer
6. Carson Hocevar
7. Bret Holmes
8. Tanner Gray
9. Tommy Vigh, Jr.
10. Corey Heim
11. Tim Richmond
12. Alex Clubb
13. Travis Braden
14. Rick Clifton
15. Dick Doheny
16. Mike Basham
17. Joe Graf, Jr.
18. Hailie Deegan
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