The finish, which came in Anderson's 34th career series start, was his first of the season, and his first in a truck series race since May 27, 2017 when he was involved in a multi-truck crash after completing none of the 42 laps in the Season 2 Lowe's 250 at the North Wilkesboro Speedway, 14 races ago. With his 3rd last place finish, Anderson is now in a three way tie with Cam Nixey and Riley Spurlytube for the most last place finishes in the truck series.
Entering Season 3 of the truck series, Anderson had already found success in other series as he has three wins to his career with those being a victory in the SCRL Wrangler Jeans Busch Grand National Series(at Richmond), the SCRL Lucas Oil ARCA Racing Series(at Lakewood) and the SCRL IZOD IndyCar Series(at Walt Disney World). However in his thirty three previous truck starts, he had yet to score a win, with a best finish of 3rd at the Miami-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex and the Tucson Raceway Park in Season 2 being his best showing, a finish he repeated again earlier this year at Walt Disney World. In his previous start at Bristol in Season 2, Anderson would survive the wrecks and finished a respectable 16th
On race day, Anderson would roll off the field in the 23rd spot while starting last was the #66 Carlin Burners & Controls Ford of Zaptos Amarrados. By the end of the first lap, the #43 Cummins Engines Dodge of Marcus Saatchi had fallen back to last on the first lap before Amarrados would take it back by lap 3, then the #16 NAPA Brakes Chevrolet of Bafode Sacko would take last on the 5th lap, before Amarrados would take it back again on the 9th lap and would keep it until the 12th when the #8 Cintas Chevrolet of Mani Salado would take last before giving it up to the #90 NHL Ford of Muhammad Zain Abdullah on the 13th lap as he would keep it till the 20th lap when Salado would retake last.
Meanwhile, Anderson was running in the 22nd spot when his truck began to smoke while under a caution period, the driver quickly pulled down to the inside of the track and off the racing surface as he would drive onto pit road and into the garage, his truck officially listed as "out" by the 25th lap, by which point he had taken last on the 21st lap.
39th went to I-70 last-place finisher the #88 PBA Tour Chevrolet of Carter Frisen, who finished 7 laps down after having been involved in multiple cautions. 38th went to the aforementioned #43 of Marcus Saatchi, who was two laps down to the race winner. Rounding out the bottom five in 37th and 36th was the #06 Greenfield Racing Dodge of Tim Randolph and the aforementioned #66 Zaptos Amarrados, both only one lap down behind race winner Al Lagasee.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #86 has finished last in a truck series race as well as at Bristol.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #86-Max Anderson / 21 laps / engine
39) #88-Carter Frisen / 43 laps / running
38) #43-Marcus Saatchi / 48 laps / running
37) #06-Tim Randolph / 49 laps / running
36) #66-Zaptos Amarrados / 49 laps / running
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