The ARCA Racing Series came to play at Chicagoland Speedway tonight for the Scott 150. Chase Briscoe who had been dominant all season was looking for his 5th win of the year, and hoped to lock up the Bill France 4-Crown Championship tonight as well.
Before the race started, 9 cars had to go to the rear for in-line time qualifying. Those cars were the 99 of Austin Cindric, 9 of Thomas Praytor, 14-Dustin Knowles, 23-Chris Bailey Jr, 34-Morgen Baird, 11-Ed Pompa, 0-Brad Smith, 6-Josh Williams, and the 1 of Rick Tackman.
Shane Lee on the pole and Chase Briscoe led the field to green for 100 laps of racing. There were problems early as Myatt Snider in the no.22 missed a shift on the start, which jacked everyone up on the start. Briscoe jumped to the lead early and led lap 1, but a caution comes out the next lap for the no.52 of Matt Kurzejewski who had a side window blown out.
Briscoe selected the outside, and Lee was on the inside, as the green came back out on lap 7. Briscoe again was able to get the advantage on Lee. Lee tried to reel in Briscoe on lap 18, but the lead started to stabilize just a tad.
Myatt Snider's night continued to get worse, as he ended up having rear end issues and would go behind the wall. Official reports were he had a right rear drive plate broken. Kurzejewski had more problems too, as his window was missing again.
Shane Lee tracked down Chase Briscoe and took the lead on lap 27, due to Briscoe being stuck behind the lapped car of A.J. Fike. Kurzejewski spun off of turn 4 onto the grass, to bring out a caution on lap 28. Problems occurred on pit road for the 32 of Shane Lee and the 51 of Chad Finley. Both had slow pit stops and lost several positions. Chase Briscoe won the race off pit road, but Austin Cindric stayed out, which ultimately put him at the front.
Restart on lap 34, Cindric and Briscoe led the field into turn 1. Both of the leaders went side-by-side, but Chad Finley made it three wide for the lead. Although, Finley started to drift back, as his left rear tire was loose. Shane Lee took second from Cindric on lap 41. Briscoe the leader tries to check out, but Lee continued to reel in him. Kurzejewski went bad to worse, as he had a broken axel on his car. And the 8 of Brandon Jones was off the pace due to transmission problems.
Strategy began to take place with 32 to go as the 99 of Cindric made a pit stop. As the race seemed to calm down, the 32 of Shane Lee cut a right rear tire down with 28 to go. Lee was running in the second position at the time. This caution shook everything up. Briscoe the leader came down pit road, but over shot his line. ARCA officials made him back up to be in the pit box. Ty Majeski won the race off pit road by taking two tires only.
Majeski and Brent Sherman led the field with 20 to go. Sherman just like Snider spun his tires on the restart, which jacked everybody up. Christopher Bell caught Majeski and took the lead on the backstretch. Briscoe rebounded from his pit stop troubles, and passed Bell for the lead with 15 to go. Majeski who could only hang on at this point, got bumped into John Wes Townley, but Majeski saved his car from any contact with the wall. Problems continued for Majeski, as Cindric bumped him in turns 3 and 4. Majeski got sideways with his car and almost made contact with Cindric, though, Majeski was able to avoid collision with Cindric.
With all the excitement behind the race leader, Chase Briscoe rebounded from his pit road problems to win the SCOTT 150 at Chicagoland Speedway.
This was Briscoe's 5th win of the year, and Cunningham Motorsports 7th win of the season.
With this win, Briscoe was able to capture The Bill France 4-Crown Championship.
The ARCA Racing Series goes to Kentucky Motor Speedway next Saturday night for The Crosley 150. Live on FS2.
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