Grant Enfinger’s Chevrolet Silverado lastly become a pumpkin on the Phoenix Raceway.
A fifth-place end solely netted Enfinger a fourth-place factors end, ending his Cinderella run within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence championship race.
It was a 12 months for Enfinger and CR7 Motorsports that completely encapsulated the underdog story that everybody likes to root for.
On Friday night time, nonetheless, the No. 9 crew had neither the pace nor the technique to upend the dominant run put forth by eventual race winner and champion Ty Majeski.
Enfinger, together with fellow Championship 4 driver Christian Eckes, pitted with 38 laps to go with the intention to achieve a tire benefit, placing each drivers on offense for the race’s remaining inexperienced flag run.
Whereas Eckes and Enfinger had been capable of make their approach again into the top-five, neither driver had something for Majeski or runner-up finisher Corey Heim.
“I believe we have confirmed to ourselves and our opponents that we will do that, we will compete for wins and contend for championships,” Enfinger stated. “I am actually happy with the group we have had all 12 months, the shopping for in from all people we have had all 12 months. We nonetheless have an extended technique to go from a company (standpoint) to get us to some extent the place me and (crew chief) Jeff, (Stankiewicz) and Sheldon and (crew proprietor) Codie (Rohrbaugh) envision.”
“I am happy with how far we have come. I really feel like we earned out spot right here. On the finish of the day, we simply did not have the pace just like the No. 11 and the No. 98.”
