CANADA: Broken header causes Carter Joey's hard crash on the first lap at Edmonton

Carter Joey picked up the 2nd last place finish of his SCRL Tim Hortons Canadian Series career in the Season 2 Edmonton 100 at the Edmonton City Centre Airport when his #36 VR Victoriaville Dodge was involved in a single car crash after 1 of the 13 laps.

The finish, which came in his 6th career start, was his first on the circuit since March 13, 2017, the EMCO 200 at the Delaware Speedway when he completed 29 of the 30 laps under power, 2 races ago. In the SCRL Tim Hortons Canadian Series, it's the 2nd for car #36 and the 11th from a crash. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 3rd for the #36 and the 208th from a crash.

After scoring his first last-place finish in the series in his 4th career start at Delaware, Joey got redemption by finishing 9th at Motoplex and was looking to continue that streak in the series second ever race at the 2.256 mile road course. The entry list grew from 27 entries at Motoplex to 33 at Edmonton as the part-time drivers made their return to the series for the first time since Delaware.

Sammy Sabre Jr. on pit road after stalling on track.

On race day, Joey would roll off the field starting 32nd while starting last was the #17 Castrol Edge / Mahindra Tractors Dodge of Carter Friesen, but Friesen wouldn't stay there for long as at the start of the race the #10 Affichage.ca Dodge of Sammy Sabre Jr. stalled at the start, and towed to pit road, and if his team didn't get him back out on track, Sabre Jr. would have gotten his first last-place finish since trailing the field in the SCRL Icebreakers Whelen Series Pentax 200 at the Stafford Motor Speedway when his #10 Bilsom Safety Chevrolet was involved in a multi-car crash after completing 3 of 20 laps.

Sabre's crew was able to get his car back out on track by the time entered Turn 7 and when they entered the final Turn, Carter Joey's car began to start smoking as he swerved to the left to get out of the way of the other drivers as a broken header had caused the throttle to get stuck as he hit the concrete wall head on, bringing out the first caution of the day. Joey was able to climb from his car and walked away with no injuries, but his car was done for the day. As the field rode around the track under caution, the #21 A&W / Bower & Wilkins Dodge of Mitchell Collins began to slow and pulled onto pit road and into his pit stall, as the crew looked under the hood, as they found that they had broken a header as well, and after seeing what happened to Joey, the team retired the car. 31st was the #14 Steel-Craft Door Products Chevrolet of Josh Nixey, who suffered suspension issues and retired from the race just after the field went back to racing.

Rounding out the Bottom Five were drivers who finished on the same lap as the race leaders: 30th was the #10 of Sammy Sabre Jr. and 29th was the #94 Carquest Canada Dodge of Rocco Twyman.

SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #36 has finished last at Edmonton.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
33) #36-Carter Joey / 1 lap / crash
32) #21-Mitchell Collins / 1 lap / header
31) #14-Josh Nixey / 4 laps / suspension
30) #10-Sammy Sabre Jr. / 13 laps / running
29) #94-Rocco Twyman / 13 laps / running