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[Agent]

McQueen might need to holla at Breidinger

[djp73]

McQueen might need to holla at Breidinger

[djp73]

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NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES RACE RECAP
ECOSAVE 250 | Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval
LATE CHAOS DERAILS McQUEEN’S PODIUM RUN AT THE ROVAL

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A STRONG START, A MID-RACE LULL, AND A PAINFUL LATE SPIN DEFINE McQUEEN’S FIRST ROVAL PLAYOFF BATTLE

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The Round of 8 opened at the always-unpredictable Charlotte Roval, and for Logan McQueen III, Saturday’s EcoSave 250 delivered every kind of challenge the hybrid oval-road course could offer, tight braking zones, unforgiving curbs, aggressive playoff rivals, and one costly run-in with a lapped truck that changed everything.

McQueen rolled off 5th after a smooth, confident qualifying effort, putting the No. 51 Horizon Hobby / Peak Motorsports Chevrolet in a prime early position. In Stage One, McQueen found his rhythm quickly, mixing patience through the infield with aggression on the oval banking. In a wild battle to the line, he edged Gio Ruggiero by inches to claim 3rd-place stage points behind Corey Heim and Ross Chastain.

Stage Two proved trickier. With tire wear mounting and chaos unfolding deeper in the pack, McQueen slipped slightly off the leaders’ pace but held firm inside the top five, crossing the line 5th and adding more valuable playoff points to his total.

Then came the final stage, and with it, the most dramatic segment of McQueen’s afternoon.

Running inside the top four, McQueen found himself in a fierce three-truck duel with Chastain and Ruggiero, the trio swapping the second, third, and fourth positions multiple times as they navigated traffic and jockeyed for every inch of racetrack. With fewer than ten laps remaining, McQueen settled into third and was stalking Chastain, setting up what looked like a run at second place.

Then disaster.

As the leaders approached a pack of slower, lapped trucks, Caleb Costner overshot a braking zone, locked up the corner, and slid directly into the right side of McQueen’s No. 51, tagging the passenger door and spinning McQueen hard into the chicane. The contact dropped him outside the top ten, erasing what had been a podium-caliber run.

But even wounded, McQueen refused to quit.

In the closing laps, he clawed his way forward, overtaking multiple trucks to salvage a 10th-place finish and keep himself above the Championship 4 cut line heading into Talladega.

It wasn’t the finish he deserved.

But it was the fight of a driver determined to go to Phoenix.

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Official Results | EcoSave 250 | Charlotte Roval | Race 22 of 25

Pos	Driver	Manufacturer	Team	Interval
1	Corey Heim	Toyota	TRICON Garage	----
2	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	Niece Motorsports	+17.586
3	Gio Ruggiero	Toyota	TRICON Garage	+26.957
4	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	Spire Motorsports	+27.469
5	Connor Mosack	Chevrolet	Spire Motorsports	+31.090
6	Layne Riggs	Ford	Front Row Motorsports	+33.062
7	Ty Majeski	Ford	ThorSport Racing	+35.100
8	Tyler Ankrum	Toyota	HRE	+39.030
9	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	Spire Motorsports	+44.062
10	Logan McQueen III	Chevrolet	Peak Motorsports	+46.364
11	Ben Rhodes	Ford	ThorSport Racing	+46.831
12	Brandon Jones	Toyota	TRICON Garage	+47.542
13	Andres Perez de Lara	Chevrolet	Spire Motorsports	+48.234
14	Corey LaJoie	Chevrolet	Spire Motorsports	+57.801
15	Chandler Smith	Ford	Front Row Motorsports	+58.503
16	Grant Enfinger	Chevrolet	CR7 Motorsports	+59.148
17	Rajah Caruth	Chevrolet	Spire Motorsports	+1:00.645
18	Matt Crafton	Ford	ThorSport Racing	+1:03.039
19	Jake Garcia	Chevrolet	Spire Motorsports	+1:18.800
20	Stewart Friesen	Toyota	HFR	+1:20.684
21	Tanner Gray	Toyota	TRICON Garage	+1:34.855
22	Timmy Hill	Toyota	Hill Motorsports	+1:35.382
23	Matt Mills	Chevrolet	Niece Motorsports	+1:36.483
24	Dawson Sutton	Chevrolet	Rackley W.A.R.	+1:37.016
25	Kaden Honeycutt	Chevrolet	Niece Motorsports	+1:39.890
26	Spencer Boyd	Chevrolet	FRE Motorsports	+1:46.701
27	Toni Breidinger	Toyota	TRICON Garage	+1 LAP
28	Jack Wood	Chevrolet	BHR	+1 LAP
29	Josh Reaume	Chevrolet	Reaume Brothers Racing	+1 LAP
30	Cody Dennison	Ford	Gilliland Racing	+1 LAP
31	Frankie Muniz	Ford	AM Racing	+1 LAP
32	Luke Baldwin	Ford	ThorSport Racing	+1 LAP
33	Bryan Dauzat	Chevrolet	FDNY Racing	+1 LAP
34	Stephen Mallozzi	Toyota	TRICON Garage	+1 LAP
35	Caleb Costner	Toyota	MHR	+1 LAP
36	Clay Greenfield	Toyota	GK Racing	+1 LAP

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Logan McQueen III — Charlotte Roval Recap

Driver	Start	Finish	Pts
Logan “Lightning” McQueen (#51)	5	10	41

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They Said It

Logan McQueen III: “We had a top-three truck easy. That hit from the 74 just killed us. Still proud we fought back into the top ten.”

Gio Ruggiero: “Me, Ross, Logan, we were going at it all race. If traffic doesn’t get involved, that finish looks a lot different.”

Ross Chastain: “Logan was coming. He always finds a way.”

Alex Ward, Crew Chief: “We’ll regroup. He earned more today than the stat sheet shows.”

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Next Up: Love’s RV Stop 225 | Talladega Superspeedway | Talladega, AL

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NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES SCHEDULE

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Race #	Event Name	Track	Location	Winner	McQueen Result	McQueen Points | Total | Rank
1	Fresh From Florida 250	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona Beach, FL	Chandler Smith	36th	7 | 7 | 33rd
2	Fr8 Racing 208	Atlanta Motor Speedway	Hampton, GA	Kyle Busch	17th	20 | 27 | 28th
3	Ecosave 200	Las Vegas Motor Speedway	Las Vegas, NV	Corey Heim	2nd	51 | 78 | 10th
4	Baptist Health 200	Homestead–Miami Speedway	Homestead, FL	Corey Heim	4th	48 | 126 | 8th
5	Boys and Girls Club of the Blue Ridge 200	Martinsville Speedway	Martinsville, VA	Kyle Busch	10th	31 | 157 | 8th
6	Weather Guard Truck Race	Bristol Motor Speedway	Bristol, TN	Logan McQueen III	1st	60 | 217 | 4th
7	Black’s Tire 200	Rockingham Speedway	Rockingham, NC	Logan McQueen III	1st	55 | 272 | 2nd
8	SpeedyCash.com 250	Texas Motor Speedway	Fort Worth, TX	Ross Chastain	5th	45 | 317 | 2nd
9	Heart of Health Care 200	Kansas Speedway	Kansas City, KS	Corey Heim	4th	53 | 370 | 2nd
10	Window World 250	North Wilkesboro Speedway	Wilkes County, NC	Corey Heim	6th	31 | 401 | 2nd
11	North Carolina Education Lottery 200	Charlotte Motor Speedway	Concord, NC	Logan McQueen	1st	60 | 461 | 2nd
12	Rackley Roofing 200	Nashville Superspeedway	Lebanon, TN	Logan McQueen	1st	55 | 516 | 2nd
13	DQS Solutions & Staffing 250	Michigan International Speedway	Brooklyn, MI	Logan McQueen	1st	60 | 576 | 1st
14	MillerTech Battery 200	Pocono Raceway	Long Pond, PA	Logan McQueen	1st	46 | 622 | 1st
15	LIUNA 150	Lime Rock Park	Lakeville, CT	Corey Heim	2nd	49 | 671 | 1st
16	TSport 200	Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park	Indianapolis, IN	Layne Riggs	2nd	55 | 726 | 1st
17	Mission 176 at The Glen	Watkins Glen International	Watkins Glen, NY	Corey Heim	4th	45 | 771 | 2nd
18	eero 250	Richmond Raceway	Richmond, VA	Logan McQueen	1st	53 | 2,046 | 1st
19	Sober or Slammer 200	Darlington Raceway	Darlington, SC	Ross Chastain	30th	9 | 2,055 | 4th
20	UNOH 250	Bristol Motor Speedway	Bristol, TN	Logan McQueen	1st	60 | 2,115 | 1st
21	EJP 175	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	Loudon, NH	Layne Riggs	3rd	54 | 3,055 | 1st
22	Ecosave 250	Charlotte Motor Speedway (Roval)	Concord, NC	Corey Heim	10th	41 | 3,096 | 2nd
23	Love's RV Stop 225	Talladega Superspeedway	Talladega, AL	—	—	—
24	Slim Jim 200	Martinsville Speedway	Martinsville, VA	—	—	—
25	Truck Series Championship Race	Phoenix Raceway	Avondale, AZ	—	—	—

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NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES TOP 8
Through 22 of 25 Races | Playoffs – Round of 8

Pos	Driver	Points	PO Pts	Wins	Top 5's	Top 10's	Top 20's	Avg Start	Avg Finish	Laps Led	Poles
1	Corey Heim (#11)	3104	51	7	19	22	22	1.7	3.3	318	12
2	Logan McQueen III (#51)	3096	55	8	16	19	20	9.8	6.5	335	4
3	Ross Chastain (#44)	3067	14	2	6	7	7	2.9	3.0	55	0
4	Kyle Busch (#7)	3057	11	2	13	16	16	3.2	4.1	47	2
—— CHAMPIONSHIP 4 CUT LINE ——
5	Layne Riggs (#34)	3050	11	2	15	21	22	3.8	4.5	68	3
6	Ty Majeski (#98)	3039	3	0	8	17	21	6.1	7.7	23	0
7	Tyler Ankrum (#18)	3036	0	0	5	14	21	9.2	9.2	1	0
8	Chandler Smith (#38)	3027	5	1	8	19	22	6.2	7.1	27	0

[Agent]

Damn a 10th place finish. Sucks how it ended

[djp73]

I was heated for sure

[Xixak]

So are you playing as just one driver or like a team? How does this work?

[djp73]

So are you playing as just one driver or like a team? How does this work?

you race as one driver but you control the week to week stuff too like working on the cars/trucks with points allotted each week. you get offered new sponsors and if you meet their goal for the race you can sign with them. you earn money and can spend that on upgraded or replacement parts. you have mechanics that you can upgrade to get more work points to fix the cars. so you're the driver but you control a lot of aspects of the team. like when you're the coach in a sports game i guess.

[Xixak]

So are you playing as just one driver or like a team? How does this work?

you race as one driver but you control the week to week stuff too like working on the cars/trucks with points allotted each week. you get offered new sponsors and if you meet their goal for the race you can sign with them. you earn money and can spend that on upgraded or replacement parts. you have mechanics that you can upgrade to get more work points to fix the cars. so you're the driver but you control a lot of aspects of the team. like when you're the coach in a sports game i guess.

That's pretty dope I'll follow this man.