Daniel Bouchard picked up the 2nd last place finish of his SCRL Lucas Oil ARCA Racing Series career in the Season 1 Rattlesnake 150 at the Texas Motor Speedway when his #69 Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery Ford completed all 34 laps under power.
The finish, which came in his 9th career start, was his first on the circuit since the #AllLivesMatter 200 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway when he was involved in a multi-car crash after 3 of the 40 laps, 6 races ago.
After trailing for the first time in his career at Charlotte, the Kimmel Racing team would continue to struggle the next race with Bouchard finishing 39th at Talladega before the team with finally have some momentum with a 11th at Gateway and a 9th at Kentucky. However Bouchard's luck would be brief with him finishing 37th at Pocono and 39th again at Michigan, both victims of big ones in the first two laps.
On race day, Bouchard would roll off 35th while starting last was Daytona last-place finisher the #32 Win-Tron Racing Chevrolet of Dinkdrinker as the racing around the mile and a half track would be intense and action packed, with passing for the lead and position happened nearly every single lap, with all the drivers giving each other space, with no cautions coming out during the event, and by the time the checkered flag waved, Bouchard was trailing the field for the second time in his career.
The remaining Bottom Five were: 40th the #23 Allegiant Air Chevrolet of Cassie Waz, 39th was Michigan last-place finisher the #25 Venturini Motorsports Toyota of Cole Nixey, 38th was the #1 ModSpace Ford of Grayson Acevedo and 37th was the #54 Costy's Energy Services Dodge of Benoit Lothaire-Irvine.
Texas turned out to be the 2nd and final last-place finish of his ARCA career, as his best finish of the season would be a 4th at the Milwaukee Mile, and would finish 36th in the overall point standings. While he would never find victory lane in the ARCA Series, Bouchard would find victory lane in other SCRL Series, having scored 2 career wins.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #69 had finished last at Texas.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
41) #69-Daniel Bouchard / 34 laps / running
40) #23-Cassie Waz / 34 laps / running led 1 lap
39) #25-Cole Nixey / 34 laps / running led 1 lap
38) #1-Grayson Acevedo / 34 laps / running
37) #54-Benoit Lothaire-Irvine / 34 laps / running led 1 lap
John Racer picked up the 1st last place finish of his SCRL Rainbow Dash Truck Series career in the Season 1 Pizza Plus 150 at the Bristol International Raceway when his #25 Budweiser Chevrolet was involved in a multi-truck crash after 1 of the 50 laps.
The finish came in his 9th career series start.
Racer was a young rookie looking to make a name for himself in the SCRL, having signed up to drive for Hendrick Motorsports in their second entry to complete for the championship. Racer impressed by finishing 3rd in his debut at Phoenix, 32nd at Tucson, 5th at Saugus and in just his 4th career start, Racer scored his first career win at Mesa Marin. Racer would finish 2nd in the very next round at Portland, 13th at Evergreen, 30th at I-70 before finishing runner up again at Louisville in the last round.
On race day, Racer would roll off starting in 34th place while starting last was the #87 Burger King Chevrolet of Colin Dryburgh. It wouldn't take long for chaos to break out as the #74 Mesa Marin Raceway Chevrolet of HIPHOPANOUNMOUS and the #58 Wayne Jacks Racing Chevrolet of Bulldog67 made contact in Turn 2, sending Bulldog67 for a spin. Back in the pack, Racer swerved to miss the spinning truck before coming back across the track right in front of the #88 Churchill Motorsports Chevrolet of Luke Rainey, sending Racer into the outside wall headon with enough force it sent Racer's truck for one flip before landing back on all four wheels, with the truck completely destroyed and done for the night.
The remaining Bottom Five would also be knocked out in the same crash; 39th was the #08 Ultra Custom Wheels Ford of Evan Rudd, 38th was the #30 Taylor Togs Dodge of Cole Nixey, 37th was Saugus last-place finisher the #06 Ultra Custom Wheels Ford of Caiden Irene and 36th was Portland last-place finisher the #28 NAPA / United Brake Systems Ford of Jack Decker.
Racer's win at Mesa Marin would be the lone victory of his SCRL career as he would go on to finish 20th in the final point standings.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #25 had finished last in a Truck Series race as well as at Bristol.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #25-John Racer / 1 lap / crash
39) #08-Evan Rudd / 1 lap / crash
38) #30-Cole Nixey / 1 lap / crash
37) #06-Caiden Irene / 3 laps / crash
36) #28-Jack Decker / 3 laps / crash
Keith Stevens picked up the 1st last place finish of his SCRL Wrangler Jeans Busch Grand National Series career in the Season 1 Sportsman 200 at the Dover Downs International Speedway when his unsponsored #88 Pontiac was involved in a multi-car crash after 5 of the 40 laps.
The finish came in his 11th start. Entering Season 1 of the Busch Series, Stevens had found some brief success in the SCRL, having scored one career win, in the SCRL V8 Supercar Series at the Pukekohe Park Raceway road course. Stevens's busch career started off with a 14th at Daytona and the team would continue to struggle with a 32nd at the first Richmond event, 27th at Bristol, 17th at Martinsville, 23rd at Darlington, 19th at Hickory, 24th at South Boston, 40th at Caraway, 25th at the second Richmond event before finishing 32nd in the last round at Langley.
On race day, Stevens would roll off starting 22nd while starting last was Langley last-place finisher the unsponsored #39 Chevrolet of Hank Willis as the first four laps would be run clean before a pileup would break out on the backstretch as cars would come back up the track in front of traffic causing more cars to be involved with Steven having nowhere to go, causing his front end to be caved in and having to be towed back to the garage, his day done after only five laps.
The remaining Bottom Five would also be victims of the Lap 5 crash; 41st was the #07 Grant's Auto Glass Pontiac of Nick Kennedy, 40th was the #05 Wheelers Grocery Chevrolet of Alexander Rowe, 39th was the unsponsored #33 Chevrolet of Jay Barker and finishing 38th was the #99 Washington Freightliner Pontiac of Benoit Lothaire-Irvine, who was able to limp around to complete an extra lap before pulling behind the wall.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #88 had finished last in the Busch Series as well as at Dover.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
42) #88-Keith Stevens / 5 laps / crash
41) #07-Nick Kennedy / 5 laps / crash
40) #05-Alexander Rowe / 5 laps / crash
39) #33-Jay Barker / 5 laps / crash
38) #99-Benoit Lothaire-Irvine / 6 laps / crash led 1 lap
MoNsTer_RcN98 picked up the 2nd last place finish of his ONL NASCAR Legends Series career in the Season 1 World 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway when his #99 Dow Chemicals Dodge completed 39 of the 40 laps under power.
The finish came in his 10th career start, was his first on the circuit when he completed all 20 laps of the Ontario 500 at the Ontario Motor Speedway, 8 races ago.
After trailing the field at Ontario, MoNsTer_RcN98 would show flashes of talent as he picked up a career best 3rd place finish at Atlanta, along with three other top ten finishes and a 5th place at Bristol the race after Atlanta, while finishing 13th in the last race at Darlington as the series visited Charlotte for the longest race of the season.
On race day, MoNsTer would roll off starting in 11th while starting last was Bristol last-place finisher the #06 Warren Fox Dodge of bigdaddy RCN. Much like the other races in Season 1, racing details of the race have been lost while normally the finishing results have been saved, for the longest race of the season however, controversy surrounds the back end of the field as two drivers were scored finishing 17th with no driver been scored 20th. With the results being studied as best as possible, it was decided that MoNsTer_RcN98 was the driver that trailed the field that day, and with results unlikely to be found, it most likely the decision will stand.
Finishing 19th was the aforementioned #06 of bigdaddy RCN and finishing 18th was the #11 Don Wagner Ford of Onuki, both drivers being scored one lap down to the race leaders by the time the Checkered Flag waved.
The Remaining Bottom Five finished on the same lap as the race leaders; 17th was the #98 Jim Robbins Co. Ford of Chris Kyle and finishing 16th was the #4 Mills Plumbing Dodge of Sicarius.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #99 had finished last at Charlotte.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
20) #99-MoNsTer_RcN98 / 39 laps / running
19) #06-bigdaddy RCN / 39 laps / running
18) #11-Onuki / 39 laps / running
17) #98-Chris Kyle / 40 laps / running
16) #4-Sicarius / 40 laps / running
