Wednesday, October 11, 2017

West: Early wreck gives Jason Larker 1st last place finish at Auto Club

Jason Larker picked up the 1st last place finish of his SCRL CatDog Pro Series West career in today's Relocate Here 200 by San Bernardino County at the Auto Club Speedway when his #36 PMC / Health Bridge Imaging Toyota was involved in a multi-car accident after 10 of the 25 laps.

The finish came in his 2nd career series start. 

Coming into the West Series, the Larker family had yet to write their name in the win colum in the SCRL, having gone winless despite several series of trying. With the East and West Series returning, the Larker family decided to only enter in the West with both Steve and Jason competing.

Starting last on the field was the #42 Freightliner of Arizona Chevrolet of Eddie Wycombe and Fox would remain in last for the first lap before giving up last to the #14 Cooks / Holleran's Performance Toyota of Ryan Bowyer who would remain in last for the next two laps before the #26 Gene Price Motorsports / Star Nursery Ford of Laura Delano would drop to last on the third lap, followed by the #54 K&N Air Fillters / MGP Chevrolet of Dexter Black would trail the field on the 4th lap.

Black's stay would last one lap before the #18 Interstate Batteries Toyota of Alejandro Yepez would take over for the 5th and 6th lap before losing last back to Black on the 7th lap, who then lost it to Delano on the 8th and 9th lap before chaos would break out on the Backstretch.

Just like at Phoenix, a multi-car crash would break out causing drivers to get damage including Jason Larker who was running in the Top 20 at the time as Larker would fail to cross the start/finish line and was recorded as the first driver out of the race followed by the #71 iWorld Connect Chevrolet of Hamish McTavish, the #21 Bay Bio Diesel / Rockwell / Golden Gate Meat Chevrolet of Von Kasier and the #6 Sunrise Ford / Lucas Oil / Eibach of Mike Pearson on the next lap.

Rounding out the bottom five was the #07 Colonial Countertops Chevrolet driven by Evan Rudd who lost a lap due to damage recived during a wreck, but was able to finish under power.

SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #36 has finished last in a East Series race as well at Auto Club.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
29) #36-Jason Larker / 10 laps / crash led 1 lap
28) #71-Hamish McTavish / 11 laps / crash
27) #21-Von Kaiser / 11 laps / crash led 1 lap
26) #6-Mike Pearson / 11 laps / crash
25) #07-Evan Rudd / 24 laps / running

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