Ty Majeski – No. 66 Road Ranger Toyota Tundra TRD Pro
Phoenix Race Information
Started: 8th
Stage 1: 11th
Stage 2: 5th
Finished: 20th
Laps: 154/154
Laps Led: 0
Status: Running
Driver Points: 4th
Owner Points: 4th
“We wanted to bring a championship home for Duke and Rhonda (Thorson) and everybody at ThorSport. I thought the best opportunity there for us was to try to wiggle the 38 (Zane Smith) a little bit and try to get underneath him and try to set up the race between Ben (Rhodes) and I. I was just trying to be aggressive underneath him and lost it off of (turn) two. All you can ask for is the chance to win the championship with five to go and we had that tonight, and it just didn’t pan out. I’m proud of our season and proud of what we accomplished as a 66 bunch. Joe (Shear, Jr., crew chief) and the team have been great to work with. It just stings to be that close and see it in front of you and just come up a little bit short. We will come back next year and come back stronger.”– Ty Majeski
Phoenix Race Information
Started: 9th
Stage 1: 5th
Stage 2: 6th
Finished: 12th
Laps: 154/154
Laps Led: 0
Status: Running
Driver Points: 9th
Owner Points: 12th
Christian Eckes – No. 98 CMR Construction & Roofing/Curb Records Toyota Tundra TRD Pro
Phoenix Race Information
Started: 7th
Stage 1: 9th
Stage 2: 15th
Finished: 30th
Laps: 151/154
Laps Led: 0
Status: Running
Driver Points: 8th
Owner Points: 9th
Ben Rhodes – No. 99 Kubota Tractor Corporation Toyota Tundra TRD Pro
Phoenix Race Information
Started: 6th
Stage 1: 6th
Stage 2: 10th
Finished: 2nd
Laps: 154/154
Laps Led: 8
Status: Running
Driver Points: 2nd
Owner Points: 2nd
“I liked the fact that my crew chief, Rich Lushes, gives me those opportunities. He’s bold. He makes a lot of crazy pit calls like that, and sometimes they work. We were just on the cusp of making it work. I think if that last restart had come out, we could have held them off and be really happy right now.
But I’m not. So here I am. I tell you, I’m thankful for those calls, I just wish it could have worked out differently. That was just the story of two versus four. I couldn’t get the jump I needed on the green. I just didn’t have the grip with my two tires that the other guys had, and it was just extremely difficult to hold them off.
I even — coming into the checkered flag there, I even tried to drive it in as deep as I could to get to him. And the TV didn’t show it the best, but I just banged the truck off the wall because I wasn’t going to make the corner. I just used the wall to turn me and kind of pulled shades of Ross Chastain, I guess. I didn’t ride it, but I hit it and was able to barely stay in front of the 18.
Gave it all I had, and just didn’t have any more. We needed more pace all day long.” – Ben Rhodes