The finish came in hir 1st start. In the SCRL ARCA Sportsman Series, it's the 1st for car #90 and the 12th where the car was still running. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 1st for the #90 and the 276th where the vehicle was still running.
Raindancer is the latest chakat to compete in the SCRL, along with hir sister, Chakat Snowchaser, both drivers competed in the ISCR's JEGS Late Model Series, where Raindancer dominated to win 5 races while Snowchaser won twice, but both had ever competed in a SCRL race. Entering the season finale, Celious Wolf's team entered two extra rides to help Wolf gain his first ever championship, the first time it had ever been done in league history.
In qualifying, Snowchaser would win the pole in hir first attempt, posting a time of 20.087 seconds(112.013 mph) joining a very small list of drivers winning the pole in their first start. Hir sister Raindancer however would struggle around the 0.625 mile short track, posting a time of 20.311, 0.224 seconds behind Snowchaser, which would place hir 19th on the starting grid. Staring last on race day would be the #51 Tire Kingdom / Cometic Ford of AJ Jones, 0.416 seconds behind Snowchaser's pole winning time.
Jones would remain in last for only the first turn before he knocked the #66 Lincoln Welders / Bojangles' Dodge of Daryl Lee into last, before the very next lap Lee would knock the #97 John Deere Ford of Joshua Rush into last on Lap 2. Rush would trail for two laps before knocking Toledo last-place finisher the #72 Top Choice Lumber Products Chevrolet of Ryan Benjamin into last on Lap 4. Benjamin would struggle to keep pace with the drivers in front of him as laps ticked off the season ending race, until with four laps to go, Benjamin finally made his move, knocking the #38 Jani-King Ford of Josephi Krakowski into last on Lap 17. As the field made their way down the backstretch, Raindancer had moved up to 16th spot and was entering Turn 3 when Rockingham last-place finisher the #11 Melling / Menards Chevrolet of Ray Dent went into the corner too hot and ran into Raindancer, sending both cars up the track and smacking the wall, with Raindancer's car turning at such an angle that the caution had to be thrown. The race was never able to finish under green, with Raindancer trailing the field for the final two laps of the race.
The remaining Bottom Five were: 30th was the aforementioned #72 of Ryan Benjamin, 29th was the #38 of Josephi Krakowski, 28th was the #26 Jackaroo / Shell Chevrolet of Mark Austin and 27th was championship contender the #21 of Top Choice Lumper Products / Jackaroo Toyota of Karl-Jong Bensson.
By virtue of Raindancer finishing last, Olsen has won the SCRLASTCAR Championship for Season 1 of the SCRL ARCA Sportsman Series on the strength of having two last-place finishes, at Heartland Park and Iowa. This is the first SCRLASTCAR Championship for Olsen.
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| Season 1 SCRL ARCA Sportsman Champion Celious Wolf |
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #90 has finished last in the SCRL ARCA Sportsman Series as well at North Wilkesboro.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
31) #90-Chakat Raindancer / 20 laps / running
30) #72-Ryan Benjamin / 20 laps / running
29) #38-Josephi Krakowski / 20 laps / running
28) #26-Mark Austin / 20 laps / running
27) #21-Karl-Jong Bensson / 20 laps / running
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