Elliott scores first NASCAR Camping World Truck win in Canada
Sept. 1, 2013
By Michael Harris
Special to NASCAR Wire Series
BOWMANVILLE, Ontario --
Sunday's inaugural Chevrolet Silverado 250 saw Chase Elliott send race
leader Ty Dillon hard into the tire barriers in the 2.459-mile road
course's final turn and collect
his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory at Canadian
Motorsport Park.
Elliott, son of NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series champion Bill Elliott, won in just his sixth series
start. At age 17 years nine months, the Georgia driver became the
series' youngest winner.
Dillon, who'd last pitted
for fuel on lap 32, had retaken the lead under caution on lap 47 and was
pushing his mileage when the contact with Elliott occurred.
"I felt like the 3 (Dillon)
was sputtering. I felt like he was out of gas of something and got to
his right rear quarter panel and tried to move him out of the way and
unfortunately (I) ended up
putting him in the fence. That's not how I race." Elliott said in a
post-race interview.
Max Papis and Mike Skeen
made considerable contact with one another as they battled for third on
during the final two laps. The rivalry culminated in Skeen and Papis
both spinning out in a cloud
of smoke in the last corner.
Chad Hackenbracht weaved his
way incident to finish an impressive second in running a limited 2013
series schedule for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Miguel Paludo came home fourth as KBM driver Darrell Wallace Jr. was the highest finishing rookie in fifth.
Series championship leader Matt Crafton struggled to a 10th-place finish but retains a 47-point lead over James Buescher.
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