BUSCH: First lap crash gives Chakat Whitelion first career last-place finish in the busch series at Greenville-Pickens; extends all time record for last-place finishes in league history

Chakat Whitelion picked up the 1st last place finish of hir SCRL Wrangler Jeans Busch Grand National Series career in Wednesday's Coca-Cola 200 at the Greenville-Pickens Speedway when hir #5 unsponsored Pontiac was involved in a multi-car crash after 1 of the 20 laps.

The finish came in hir 37th career series start. In the SCRLASTCAR rankings, it's the 1st for car #5 and the 15th for crash. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 11th for car #5 and the 175th for crash.

Entering Season 2 of the Busch Series, Whitelion is one of the most successful drivers in league history, having won four championships in the five year history and currently is tied with Oreius Centaur with the second most wins in league history, 17. However none of those wins have come in the busch series as shi has struggled to find victory lane in 36 previous starts hir best finish is 2nd at Langley Speedway in Season 1. During those five years of racing, Whitelion has also picked up the record for finishing last the most times in all series combined, with 12 with her closest challenger being Bulldog67 who has 11.

Whitelion's season started off slow with hir finishing 16th at Daytona before scoring hir second career runnerup finish at Richmond, backing it up by finishing 4th at Rockingham, 6th at Hickory, having a slump at both Martinsville and North Wilkesboro before getting hir third runner up spot at South Boston one race ago.

On race day, Whitelion would roll off the field in 38th while starting last was the #51 unsponsored Pontiac of Oreius Centaur. As the field circled the half mile track, chaos broke out on the frontstretch as Whitelion ran into the back of South Boston last-place finisher the #1 New Con Leasing Pontiac of Carter Friesen, knocking both drivers out of the race but Whitelion was scored last with Frisen being scored 41st.

40th went to the #01 Zervakis Racing Pontiac of Tony Newman, himself involved in the same wreck but was able to complete two laps before retiring.

The remaining two Bottom Five drivers finished the race under power: 39th went to Hickory last-place finisher the #62 1 Stop Food Store Pontiac of Marcos Yepez, who finishing 3 laps down and 38th went to the #87 Jarvis Racing Chevrolet of Joe Jefferson who finished 2 laps down to race and Joe's brother Jay Jefferson.

SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is the first time the #5 has finished last in a Busch race as well as at Greenville-Pickens.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
42) #5-Chakat Whitelion / 1 lap / crash
41) #1-Carter Friesen / 1 lap / crash
40) #01-Tony Newman / 2 laps / crash
39) #62-Marcos Yepez / 17 laps / running
38) #87-Joe Jefferson / 18 laps / running