The finish came in his 13th start. In the SCRL ARCA Sportsman Series, it's the 1st for car #92 and the 1st for camshaft issues. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 5th for the #92 and the 34th for camshaft issues.
Entering the ARCA Series's brand newest division, Britts was one of twelve drivers who was making their SCRL debuts by competing in the ARCA Sportsman Series, with Britts looking to get enough experience to one day compete in higher up SCRL Series. In his SCRL debut, Britts finished a respectable 18th place at Toledo, 18th again in the next round at Mansfield, in the next event Britts would lead six laps around the series first ever road course event at Heartland Park and would finish runner up to Derrick Edison. A 12th place finish at Lucas Oil would be followed up with Britts leading 14 of the event's 25 laps at Iowa and would score his first career win in just his 5th career start. In the next round at Rockingham, Britts would lead 15 of the event's twenty laps but finished runner up to Nitahbk. A 23rd at Winchester, a 16th at Palm Beach, 21st at I-70, 16th at the Milwaukee Mile, 20th at Springfield before finishing 12th in the last round at NJMP.
In qualifying, Britts would struggle just a bit on his lap, putting up a speed of 100.098mph (21.435 seconds), 0.376 seconds off Derrick Edison's pole run, which would be his first of the year. Staring last on race day would be the #26 Jackaroo / Shell Chevrolet of Mark Austin, who would be a full two miles slower behind Edison's pole time and 0.610 seconds behind his lap, giving Austin the first last-place start of the year.
Austin would trail for the first lap around the 0.596 mile short track before making a moving on Lap 2, knocking the #22 Raybestos / Supergard Chevrolet of Erik Sieg into last, but Sieg's stay would only last one lap before he would knock I-70 last-place finisher the #46 Dollar General / Dickies Ford of Frodomar Otts into last on Lap 3. Otts would be in last for only one lap as well, knocking the #16 Motorcraft Quality Parts / WinnDixie Ford of Trevor Collins into last on Lap 4, with Collins knocking the #84 Goulds Pumps / Jani-King Ford of Ryan Rush into last on Lap 5. Rush would also trail for only one circuit before knocking Ryan's brother the #97 John Deere Ford of Joshua Rush into last on Lap 6. Joshua would trail for two circuits before knocking NJMP last-place finisher the #55 IWX Racing / Jesel Chevrolet of Bulldog67 into last on Lap 8.
At this point in the race, Britts had moved up four spots and was running in the 15th spot off Turn 4 when his car began to smoke as he pulled to the inside of the track in a attempt to not get any oil on the track, as he would coast around the track on the apron, as he fell to last entering Turn 1 before coasting back to the pit road before pulling behind the wall. The team would look under the hood and discovered that the camshaft was broken, and with almost half of the race competed, it would take too long to send Britts back out on the track, the car being listed as "out" on Lap 11.
Finishing 28th was the #25 Pennzoil / Autolite Chevrolet of Grayson Acevedo, who was running in the 20th spot with five laps to go when entering Turn 1 the #22 of Erik Sieg lost control entering Turn 2, causing both cars to spin out, sliding up the track and smacking the outside wall. While the spin and contact seemed like minor contact, it was enough that Acevedo would pull behind the wall and retired from the event just five laps from the finish.
As the field was riding around behind the pace car as the officials tried to attempt to end the race under green conditions, two time last-place finisher the #9 Haas Automation / Food City Toyota of Andrew Olsen, who was running in the 9th spot, began to slow as his car started to smoke. Olsen pulled to the pits and then the garage, his car being discovered to have broken a gearbox, and would be retired from the race on the final lap.
The remaining Bottom Five would finish on the same lap as the race leaders: 26th was the aforementioned #55 of Bulldog67 and 25th was the #22 of Erik Sieg.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #92 has finished last in the SCRL ARCA Sportsman Series as well at Nashville.
*This marked the first instance of an ARCA Sportsman Series driver finishing last due to camshaft issues.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
29) #92-Jacob Britts / 8 laps / camshaft
28) #25-Grayson Acevedo / 15 laps / crash
27) #9-Andrew Olsen / 18 laps / gearbox
26) #55-Bulldog67 / 20 laps / running
25) #22-Erik Sieg / 20 laps / running
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