The finish came in his 1st start. The Shaker Memorial began in 2015 when the dog of this blog's author, Shaker, passed away in 2015, in her honor, a yearly race is held at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, the closest track to where she lived, with drivers completing in a one race showdown to see who is the best. The entry list for the 5th annual, but 6th running of the event, was for the second year in a 42 car field, with Jay Jefferson being the only former winner of this event in the field.
In qualifying, Casey Nanako would score his first career Pole Award in the Shaker Memorial with a time of 26.679 seconds, while Parrish would struggle, posting a time of 26.784 seconds, 0.105 seconds behind Nanako's time, placing him 22nd on the grid. Starting last was the #92 Taco Bell Chevrolet of Chase Harris, 0.251 seconds off Nanako's pole winning time.
With over one hundred twenty thousand people in the stands, the green flag waved with Harris trailing for the first circuit around the 1.540 mile track before knocking the #24 DuPont Chevrolet of Nathan Ormond into last on Lap 2. Just seconds later the event's first caution came out when multi-car crash broke out in Turn 1 when the #20 The Home Depot Chevrolet of Blaise Zebrataur was spun out after contact from the #4 Lucas Oil Products Chevrolet of Frodomar Otts, sending Blaise up the track and starting a chain reaction that would also involve the #18 Interstate Batteries Chevrolet of Jay Jefferson and the #88 UPS Ford of Joshua Rush. Rush would trail for two laps under caution before Jefferson assumed last on the 5th circuit. Jefferson would remain in last until lap 8 when the #07 Jack Daniel's Chevrolet of Christian Russell would be forced to make an unscheduled pit stop for a flat tire and was about to go a lap down when the battle for last ended suddenly.
Otts had been forced to make a pit stop himself to repair damaged he had gotten from the Lap 3 crash and came out of the pits just behind the race leaders but held up the field before chaos broke out on the backstretch, with the #19 Dodge Dealers / UAW Dodge of Sammy Sabre Jr. make contact with the #38 M&M's Ford of Jack Lagasee sending both cars into Otts and taking the #1 Bass Pro Shops / Tracker Chevrolet of Georgio Tsutomu and the #21 Motorcraft Genuine Parts Ford of Trevor Collins with them into the inside wall, hitting it head on where a part of the track did not have safer barriers. The impact of the crash was so powerful that it send Collin's car for a wild flip across the surface of the track and back onto the racing surface and right in front of Parrish, who had no time to react, and hit Collins's car while it was in the air on the passenger door, sending Collins for another ride and into the catch fence before landing on all four wheels. The crash had looked ironicly like the crash Ryan Newman had suffered in the 2020 Daytona 500 in February. Luckly for Collins, it was a virtual car and he was able to climb from his car, shaking, but uninjured. Parrish's and Collins's cars had to be towed back to the garage, their day over with after only 9 laps, while Lagasee would coast around for one circuit before pulling behind the wall on Lap 10.
The Remaining Bottom Five would be filled up on Lap 25 when another massive crash broke out on the frontstretch that sent Jay Jefferson for a wild flip, while the aforementioned #92 of Chase Harris and 38th was the #16 National Guard Ford of Carlos Rodriguez.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This marked the second year in a row the #01 has finished last in the Shaker Memorial; the most recent time it had trailed was in the 4th annual Shaker Memorial event when Pritti Shah was involved in a multi-car crash after 3 of the 33 laps.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
42) #01-Will Parrish / 9 laps / crash
41) #21-Trevor Collins / 9 laps / crash
40) #38-Jack Lagasee / 10 laps / crash
39) #92-Chase Harris / 25 laps / crash
38) #16-Carlos Rodriguez / 25 laps / crash
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