The finish came in his 14th start. In the SCRL Lucas Oil ARCA Racing Series, it's the 3rd for car #92 and the 25th from a crash. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 4th for the #92 and the 255th from a crash.
Masin was one of several drivers making their debut in the ARCA season's third ever season by signing up to drive for the NTS Motorsports racing team with a goal of having good runs, possibly a win and maybe a top 20 points finish. Masin would qualify 5th in his first career start and would lead 9 of the 20 laps at Daytona but would be shuffled all the way back to 39th by the end of the race. A 26th at Atlanta would be followed by a 38th at Nashville, 35th at Salem, before Masin would survive the chaos at Talladega and finished 18th. A 20th at Charlotte, 15th at Gateway, 14th at Pocono, 15th at Chicagoland before struggling to a 24th at Lucas Oil. Masin would arrive at the 11th race of the season as he would finish a series best 6th at Kentucky. A 16th at Iowa would be followed with Masin's second best finish of the season, a 5th in the last round at DuQuoin.
In qualifying at the two mile track, Masin would struggle in qualifying, while speed wise he posted a 199.032mph (36.175 seconds), it was 0.152 seconds behind Tim Randolph's pole time, placing Masin all the way in the 39th position, the worst starting spot of his career. Starting last however would be the unsponsored #29 Chevrolet of Ray Jones, who just two races earlier had scored his first career SCRL win at Iowa.
As the field took the green flag, drivers already started to make it four wide up front entering Turn 1 before one car backed out of it, but coming into Turn 2, Talladega last-place finisher the #23 Allegiant Air Chevrolet of Jack Lagasee scraped the wall and came back down the track and made contact with the #1 ModSpace Ford of Truttle and would start of a chain reaction as a "Big One" broke out on the Backstretch. With the track being blocked, all the drivers had to either go high or low to try and avoid the crash, with Masin running in the back he hoped the hole would open up by the time he got there, it turned out he was wrong. As he rode behind the #54 Kurzejewski Motorsports Dodge of Arina McShane, Truttle's car spun up the track at the exact moment and destroyed the front end of Masin's car, sending him for his own spin and hitting the outside wall head on before coming to a stop at the entrance of Turn 3. Truttle would limp around to the pits and got minor repairs to his car and would complete two laps before pulling behind the wall, placing 37th. The backstretch was filled with cars destroyed from the wreck, including the unsponsored #17 Roulo Brothers Racing Ford of Marcus Saatchi and the #3 Aluma Aluminum Trailers / AgriGold Chevrolet of Dale Guthire, with all three cars behind scored as having not completed a lap, but Masin was giving the final spot as he was the last car running at the time of the crash.
Rounding out the Bottom Five in 36th place was the #34 Bob Brent's Orchard Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-RAM Chevrolet of Trey Wright, who would be involved in the day's second Big One on Lap 8 as Trey was at the tail end of the crash and got minor damage, only for Jack Lagasee to come along at full speed and hit Wright in the passenger door, sending Wright for a flip in the air before landing on all four wheels. Wright had to be cut from his car and transported to the infield care center before being transported to a local hospital for observation, but was said to be alert and the driver said there was no way he'd be missing the next round at Pocono.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #92 has finished last at Michigan.
*This marked the only the third time the #92 has trailed an ARCA Series race. The most recent time it happened was the Season 2 Barbera's Autoland 150 at the New Jersey Motorsports Park when Aidan Shepherd completed all 8 laps under power; 27 races ago.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #92-Greg Masin / 0 laps / crash
39) #17-Marcus Saatchi / 0 laps / crash
38) #3-Dale Guthire / 0 laps / crash
37) #1-Truttle / 2 laps / crash
36) #34-Trey Wright / 8 laps / crash
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