Throwback TRUCK: Matt Johnson becomes the first driver to trail the field in a night race after early rollover at Louisville

Matt Johnson picked up the 2nd last place finish of his SCRL Rainbow Dash Truck Series career in the Season 1 Ford Credit 200 at the Louisville Motor Speedway when his #84 Coca-Cola Classic Ford was involved in a multi-truck crash after 8 of the 23 laps.

The finish, which came in his 8th career series start, was his first on the circuit since the Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic at the Phoenix International Raceway when he fell out with engine problems after completing 23 of the 32 laps, 7 races ago. 

After trailing the field at Phoenix, Johnson finished 8th at Tucson, 26th at Saugus, 8th at Mesa Marin, 17th at Portland, 19th at Evergreen before finishing 6th in the last round at I-70.

On race day, Johnson would roll off starting 20th while starting last was the #23 ASE / American Racing Wheels Ford of Benoit Lothaire-Irvine a position that Irvine would hold for the first six laps until the battle for last quickly ended one lap later. Johnson had fallen back to 25th when he was put into a three wide battle with the #52 AC Delco Chevrolet of Cesar Chavez and the #20 Walker Evans Racing Dodge of Aidan Shepherd, with Shepherd making contact with Chavez, sending him up into Johnson, causing Johnson's truck to roll over two times before landing on all four wheels. Johnson was amazingly able to drive it across the start/finish line and back around to the pits before pulling behind the wall, his night done.

Finishing 35th was the #43 Snapper Power Equipment of Josh Nixey, who lost several laps in the pits due to a mechanical issues that left him at half speed for most of the race, the only other truck to not finish on the lead lap.

The remaining Bottom Five were; 34th was the #29 Winnebago / Mopar Dodge of Dinkdrinker, 33rd was the #8 MJ Soffe Chevrolet of Eli Bright and 32nd was Evergreen last-place finisher the #83 Coffee Critic Chevrolet of Richard Torres.

Johnson would never visit victory lane in the SCRL Rainbow Dash Truck Series, but he would score 5 career wins in other SCRL Series. Decker's best finish in the truck series would be a 6th at I-70 and in the season finale at Phoenix; he would finish 28th in the overall point standings.

SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #84 had finished last at Louisville.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
36) #84-Matt Johnson / 8 laps / crash
35) #43-Josh Nixey / 19 laps / running
34) #29-Dinkdrinker / 23 laps / running
33) #8-Eli Bright / 23 laps / running
32) #83-Richard Torres / 23 laps / running