Trucks: James Stabilito's off-screen accident leads off weird bottom five at Colorado

James Stabilito picked up the 1st last place finish of his SCRL Rainbow Dash Truck Series career in Tuesday's Colorado 250 By Snap-On Tools at the Colorado National Speedway when his #99 Exide Batteries Ford was involved in a single truck crash after completing 7 of the 25 laps.

The finish came in his 14th career series start. Entering Season three of the truck series, Stabilito was one of many drivers just looking to find any success, having yet really make a name for himself in the SCRL and still looking for that first career win. He would make his truck series debut earlier in the season by finishing a uneventful 20th at Walt Disney World and ever since then his best finish has been a 5th at Loudon.

On race day, Stabilito would roll off the field in the 29th spot while rolling off last was the #13 Key Federal Savings VISA Chevrolet of Simon Fox but by the end of the first lap, the #10 A & G Coal Chevrolet of Macarron Asado would take over last, but his stay would only be for one lap as Evergreen last-place finisher the #7 Lovable Ford of Truttle would take last and would hold it until the 6th lap when the #26 Mittler Brothers Machine & Tool Ford of Derrick Edison would take last. A lap later while under green, Stabilito tried to make it to pit road, reporting of a flat tire, but misjudged and crashed into the pit road wall, his truck fully destroyed and done for the day.

A lap later the aforementioned #10 of Macarron Asado, the #9 Rhino Linings USA Chevrolet of Brian Fox and the #21 Orleans Hotel & Casino Chevrolet of Eli Bright would be ordered by SCRL officals to pull off the track as replays would show those drivers had passed to the inside on the restart, causing them to be disqualified and placed 39th through 37th. Rounding out the bottom five was the #75 Spears Manufacturing Chevrolet of Joshua Rush as his horrible season continued as he was caught up in a Lap 18 crash.

SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #99 has finished last at Colorado.
*This was the first time the #99 has finished last in a truck series race since May 26, 2017 when Rodney Crouch suffered tire problems after completing 11 of the 50 laps of the Season 2 Hanes 250 at the Martinsville Speedway, 19 races ago.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #99-James Stabilito / 7 laps / crash
39) #10-Macarron Asado / 8 laps / disqualified
38) #9-Brian Fox / 8 laps / disqualified
37) #21-Eli Bright / 8 laps / disqualified
36) #75-Joshua Rush / 18 laps / crash