The finish occurred in his 32nd career series start. In the SCRL Busch Series, it's the 2nd for car #21 and the 30th from a crash. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 25th for the #21 and 276th from a crash.
Entering the third season of the Busch Series, Edison is still trying to make a name for himself in the SCRL, having found victory lane three times in his career, but had yet to really leave his mark in the league. Edison had been one of the drivers to compete in Season 1 of the Busch Series, running all 29 races, but failed to find victory lane, and finished a disappointing 31st in points. Edison would not come back to race in Season 2, but when it came time for the series's third season, Edison would return to Pearson Racing after the team had come to terms of the release of Christian Vargas, with the team choosing to go only part-time effort for this season with a hopes of a full time in Season Four. In his return to the Busch Series, Edison would qualify a impressive 7th at Daytona, and after leading 7 laps, would be shuffled to the back and would finish 13th. With the team choosing to skip Richmond, Edison would next race at the 1.017 mile track, the site of Edison's only Busch race in the series at the track, a 24th.
The entry list for Rockingham would be bumped back up to a full field of 40 cars, as the full time drivers.
In qualifying, rookies Derek Greene for the second race in a row would impress, winning his second pole in a row with a lap time of 22.678 seconds, just one thousandths of a second over Richmond race winner Finn Smith. Edison would struggle some in qualifying, posting a time of 22.687, while only nine thousands of a second slower, it would place Edison in 17th spot. Posting the slowest time in qualifying was the #24 Komfort Koach / Budweiser Ford of Michael Brown, posting a time of 22.699 seconds, only 0.021 seconds behind Greene's pole winning time.
On race day, Brown's stay in last was brief as almost instantly chaos broke out as Edison was spun out by the #87 Domino's Pizza Chevrolet of Dilan Ebrahimian sending Edison head-on into the inside concrete wall, bringing out the first caution. Behind them another crash broke out as the #88 Service Specialties Pontiac of Rohan Marmot was spun out by the #07 Bob Banning Pontiac of Jeff White, blocking the track as the #4 Thurman Enterprises Pontiac of Corrie Scott would get severe damage to the front end of her car as she was forced to make a pit stop to repair damage, trailing for the first two laps before she would knock defending CART Series Champion the #32 Econo Lodge / Budweiser Pontiac of Riley Spurlytube into last on Lap 3, when he too had to make a pit stop to repair damage. When the green flag came back out, Spurlytube was trailing the field when the field ran down the backstretch when the battle for last came to a sudden end.
While battling for 8th, the #23 Miller High Life Oldsmobile of Samet Ozkan made contact with Richmond race winner the #19 West Hartford Tool & Die Pontiac of Finn Smith as Ozkan did an incredible job saving the car from hitting the backstretch wall, but while trying to merge back into traffic, he made contact with Smith again, sending both cars into the outside wall, as well as collecting Daytona race winner the #14 Banner House Handbags Oldsmobile of Christian Russel. Ozkan would hit the wall with such impact that it sent his car into the air and on only two wheels before coming back down, and with the rest of the field running at full speed toward the turn, it was nearly impossible for any driver to avoid the crash, with Edison being one of them, destroying his car.
Edison would be scored as last despite the fact that three other drivers were also involved in the crash and scored as having completed five laps, those being the #0 Hendrick Honda Pontiac of Sebastian LeNoble, the #45 Luck Stone / Dryden Oil Pontiac of Boston Jones and the #48 Williford Prod. Builders Pontiac of Matt McIntyre, as those drivers would be scored 39th through 37th.
Rounding out the Bottom Five were in 36th was the aforementioned #07 of Jeff White, who was barely able to limp his car past the start/finish line before pulling behind the garage, being scored as having completed 6 laps.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is the first time the #21 has finished last in a Busch Series race at Rockingham.
*The only other time the #21 has finished last in a Busch Series was the May 3rd, 2018 Roses Stores 200 at the South Boston Speedway when Christian Vargas was involved in a single-car accident after 16 of 30 laps; 22 races ago.
*This is the first time the #21 has finished last in a Busch Series race at Rockingham.
*The only other time the #21 has finished last in a Busch Series was the May 3rd, 2018 Roses Stores 200 at the South Boston Speedway when Christian Vargas was involved in a single-car accident after 16 of 30 laps; 22 races ago.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
40) #21-Derrick Edison / 5 laps / crash
39) #0-Sebastian LeNoble / 5 laps / crash
38) #45-Boston Jones / 5 laps / crash
37) #48-Matt McIntyre / 5 laps / crash
36) #07-Jeff White / 6 laps / crash
40) #21-Derrick Edison / 5 laps / crash
39) #0-Sebastian LeNoble / 5 laps / crash
38) #45-Boston Jones / 5 laps / crash
37) #48-Matt McIntyre / 5 laps / crash
36) #07-Jeff White / 6 laps / crash
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