The finish, which came in his 13th career series start, was his first on the circuit since the Louisville 200 at the Louisville Motor Speedway when he completed all 23 laps under power, 5 races ago. In the SCRL ARCA Late Model Series, it's the 2nd for car #15 and the 1st for engine issues. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 10th for the #15 and the 52nd for engine issues.
After having trailed for the first time earlier in the year at Louisville, Joey would rebound with a finish of 3rd at South Boston, 4th at Winchester, 12th at Madison, before finishing 18th in the last round at Mesa Marin, and entered the final race without having scored a single career win in the series to that point.
In qualifying, Georgio Tsutomu would score his second career series pole of the year with a time of 25.570 seconds(96.582 mph), while Joey would struggle around the 0.686 mile short track, posting a time of 26.361, 0.791 seconds behind Tsutomu, which would place him 19th on the starting grid. Starting last on race night was Toledo last-place finisher the #09 Mechanical Services Inc. Pontiac of Jeff Cornils, who posted a time of 30.830 seconds, a full five seconds slower and 16 mph slower after having smacked the backstretch wall on his qualifying lap.
On race night as the field rolled off pit road to begin it's lone pace lap, Joey's car almost instantly started to smoke, as he pulled down to the inside of the track and limped back around as he followed the pace car down pit road, but at the same time he did, the #9 Champion Direct Chevrolet of Tracey Dent also pulled down pit road, reporting of a flat tire. As Joey pulled behind the wall and Tracey made it to her pit stall, the green flag waved for the other 18 drivers. Joey would climb from his car, his season ending in disappointment, his car listed as "out" on the third circuit. Tracey's team was able to put four fresh tires on their car before sending her back out, but having lost a lap. Tracey was hoping that a caution would come out so she could attempt to get her lap back, but it never came and she would be trapped one lap down the entire race, finishing 19th.
The remaining Bottom Five were: 18th was the #29 Bailey's Chevrolet of Richard Torres, 17th was the #24 Lux Enterprises / Pullen Heavy In Chevrolet of Matt McIntyre and 16th was the #48 Spray Paint and Equipment Chevrolet of Shannon Lowe.
In the battle for the SCRLASTCAR Championship, while finishing last for Carter Joey did tie him with Carter Frisen for most last-place finishes and Bottom Five's, Frisen won the tie-breaker by having 10 Bottom Ten finishes compared to Joey's 7, giving Friesen's first ever SCRLASTCAR Championship.
The Season 1 SCRL SCRL ARCA Late Model Series Championship went to Danyal Gitirokh, who had a career season, having entered the season with only one career win, would visit victory lane 4 times in route to win the championship. Gitirokh would not trail a single race in his championship season, scoring a worst finish of 19th at Elko. Congratulations to Gitirokh for having a great year.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #15 has finished last in the SCRL ARCA Late Model Series at Lucas Oil.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
20) #15-Carter Joey / 0 laps / engine
19) #9-Tracey Dent / 19 laps / running
18) #29-Richard Torres / 20 laps / running
17) #24-Matt McIntyre / 20 laps / running
16) #48-Shannon Lowe / 20 laps / running
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