The finish came in his 9th start. In the SCRL ARCA Sportsman Series, it's the 1st for car #46 and the 6th where the car was still running. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 3rd for the #46 and the 263rd where the vehicle was still running.
Otts was one of several drivers making their SCRL debut by signing up to complete in the SCRL ARCA Sportsman Series, a division created to allow more drivers to compete in a SCRL race while not racing in the top main series. Otts would impress in his first ever race, starting and finishing 8th in the series first ever event at Toledo. A 12th at Mansfield, 13th at Heartland Park, 15th at Lucas Oil would follow before Otts finally got a chance to shine, finishing a career best 3rd at Iowa followed by a 6th in the next round at Rockingham would be followed with a 19th at Winchester and a 11th in the last round at Palm Beach.
Unfortunately, in qualifying Otts would struggle in qualifying losing traction in Turns 1 and 2 nearly spinning out and posting a time of nearly six full seconds off Rocco Twyman's pole winning time that would place Otts in the last spot on the starting grid while Twyman won his third career series pole and second in a row after winning the pole in the last race at the twisting road course of Palm Beach.
Otts would remain in the final spot as the field took the green flag but would get a run going onto the Backstretch as he would knock the #22 Raybestos / Supergard Chevrolet of Erik Sieg into the final spot. Sieg would trail for the first two laps around the half mile track before Sieg would make a move on Lap 3, knocking the #25 Pennzoil / Autolite Chevrolet of Grayson Acevedo into the final spot on Lap 3. Just like with Sieg, Acevedo's stay in last would only be two laps as on Lap 5 he knocked Toledo last-place finisher the #72 Top Choice Lumber Products Chevrolet of Ryan Benjamin into last. Benjamin would be in last for just one lap, knocking Sieg back to last on Lap 6, before being passed again on Lap 7.7
On Lap 9, Otts retook the final spot for the first time before the very next lap he would knock two time last-place finisher the #9 Haas Automation / Food City Toyota of Andrew Olsen into the final spot on Lap 10. Olsen would rebound the next lap by knocking Otts back to last on Lap 11, but Otts again fought back on Lap 12 when he knocked Acevedo back into the final spot. Entering Turn 1, Acevedo had worked his way up a few spots making a three wide move but ran out of room as he ran into the #38 Jani-King Ford of Josephi Krakowski and the #92 Summit Racing Equipment / CompCams Chevrolet of Jacob Britts, causing the three cars to slide up the track with Acevedo spinning out while Otts tried to avoid but misjudged and ran into the back of Acevedo. Both cars would make a pit stop during the caution in a attempt to repair the damage before sending both drivers back out onto the track. Acevedo would rebound slightly by gaining one spot over the final seven laps, while Otts fell to ten seconds behind the race leaders pace and a full two seconds behind Olsen in front of him when the checkered flag waved.
The remaining Bottom Five were: 26th was the #51 Tire Kingdom / Cometic Ford of AJ Jones and 25th was the aforementioned #72 of Ryan Benjamin.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #46 has finished last in the SCRL ARCA Sportsman Series as well at I-70.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
29) #46-Frodomar Otts / 20 laps / running
28) #9-Andrew Olsen / 20 laps / running
27) #25-Grayson Acevedo / 20 laps / running
26) #51-AJ Jones / 20 laps / running
25) #72-Ryan Benjamin / 20 laps / running
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