The finish, which came in his 11th career series start, was his first on the circuit since the Vermont 100 at the Devil's Bowl Speedway when he completed all 12 laps under power, 7 races ago. In the SCRL ARCA Midget Series, it's the 2nd for car #21 and the 3rd from a crash. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 21st for the #21 and the 254th from a crash.
After having trailed the field for the first time in his career at Devil's Bowl, John would continue to struggling with a disappointing 15th at Kil-Kare and an even worse 18th place at Indianapolis Speedrome, before finishing 5th at Santa Fe, before struggling once again with a 15 at Columbus. An 11th at Grundy County and a 18th in the last round at Eldora has placed John far down in the championship standings.
In qualifying, Taylor Dent scored his first career series pole with a time of 17.451 seconds with John posting a time of 17.837 seconds, 0.386 seconds behind Dent's pole run, placing John 15th on the grid while starting last was the #90 of Christian Vargas, 0.584 seconds off Dent's pole sitting time.
Vargas's stay in the final spot would be brief as he knocked the #24 of Michael Brown into the final spot by Turn 2 with Brown trailing for the first lap before he knocked the #11 of Keri Benjamin into last by the end of the first lap. Keri's stay in last would for the next three laps as on the 4th lap when the lone caution of the day came out when Keri was spun out by the #19 Servan Sarihan, sending Keri for a spin as John Hunter tried to avoid but slammed into the right side of her car, as well as the #56 of Ethan Walker. Hunter would limp around the track before pulling behind the wall on the next lap, having been scored competing 4 laps, while Walker pulled in the next lap, which is when Hunter officially took the final spot. Despite both cars sitting on pit road, neither car would never make it back out onto the track as the crews worked on both cars to try and be running at the finish, with neither driver making it. Due to finishing last for the second time this season, John is now in a three way tie with Dave Benjamin and Daniel Hunter with four races left to go in the season.
The remaining Bottom Five would be filled by drivers who would finish on the same lap as the race leaders: 18th was the #34 of Conner Thunder, 17th was the aforementioned #19 of Servan Sarihan and 16th was the #24 of Michael Brown.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #21 has finished last at New Egypt.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
20) #21-John Hunter / 4 laps / crash
19) #56-Ethan Walker / 5 laps / crash
18) #34-Conner Thunder / 20 laps / running
17) #19-Servan Sarihan / 20 laps / running
16) #24-Michael Brown / 20 laps / running
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