Austin Theriault scored his third ARCA Racing Series victory of the season Saturday night at Madison International Speedway. Photo: ARCA Media
Austin Theriault didn’t have the best car in the beginning, but his Ken Schrader Racing crew got it right for the most important part.
Theriault, in the No. 52 Federated Auto Parts Toyota, held off a hard charge from Zane Smith in the end to win the Montgomery Ward 200 for the ARCA Racing Series Friday night at Wisconsin’s Madison International Speedway.
Theriault also increased his series championship points lead, added his third win of the season and fourth of his career.
“We don’t always have the fastest car at the beginning, but this team races smart,” said Theriault. “We were good when it counted.”
Theriault hovered in the top-five for most of the race but got the car adjusted to his liking just in time to lead the final 35 laps and fend off whoever took a run at the eventual winner.
“You gotta take what the car gives you. We lost positions in the beginning but we stayed consistent and we didn’t drive over our heads. We kept ourselves in position the whole race and went when we could. Whoever had the track position was going to win this. Really proud of all these guys on this Ken Schrader Racing team…they race really smart.”
Theriault wasn’t the only one with a good handling race car. After fending off Christian Eckes in the closing laps, Theriault then had to deal with Smith who stayed right with Theriault after the final restart inside 10 laps to go. Smith got to Theriault’s rear bumper but fell back two lengths coming to checkered flag as the leaders sliced their way through lapped traffic.
“So close,” said Smith. “I had a lot of fun out there…be just that more fun if we were over there where the 52 is. Hats off to Venturini Motorsports…we were up front all day. I’m just lucky to be a part of the team. Lapped traffic was a handful tonight. We caught the left-front corner in traffic coming to the checkered flag…racing for the win. We could have timed that last lap a little better, but other than that, I think we did just about everything we could do.”
Riley Herbst finished third.
“We were up and down all day,” said Herbst. “We got up to second once, then got shuffled back on a restart. Wish we had 10 more laps…I think we had something for them. As abrasive as this track is, I didn’t think the General Tires were going to hold up, but they held up great all day.”
Shane Lee finished fourth.
“Feels good…finally finished one,” said Lee. “We were just riding around in eighth or ninth, saving our brakes so we’d have good brakes for the end. Overall, I’m happy with how this one ended up.”
Eckes finished fifth, but for a while, inside of 25 laps to go, it looked like he was going to end up way better than that. Eckes caught Theriault in the final laps and was working his rear bumper when the final caution flag stopped his progress. On the restart, Eckes couldn’t get going as well and fell back.
“I think that last caution saved us,” Theriault said. “The 15 (Eckes) caught us and I missed my line a couple times. I’m not sure if we could have held him off. But the caution allowed our tires to cool down and we got going again.”
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ARCA Racing Series
Madison International Speedway – Madison, WI
Montgomery Ward 200 – June 23, 2017
1. Austin Theriault
2. Zane Smith
3. Riley Herbst
4. Shane Lee
5. Christian Eckes
6. Dalton Sargeant
7. Bret Holmes
8. Ryan Repko
9. Gus Dean
10. Tanner Thorson
11. Justin Fontaine
12. A.J. Fike
13. Thomas Praytor
14. Mike Basham
15. Rick Tackman
16. Brad Smith
17. Con Nicolopoulos
18. Eric Caudell
19. Mark Muenier
20. Will Kimmel
21. Dick Doheny
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