Grant Enfinger wins the 2022 Truck Series "TSport" 200 at Lucas Oil Raceway

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    The race for the win came down to the final lap, as we expected from the 2022 NASCAR Truck Series event at Lucas Oil Raceway on Friday, July 29th. Grant Enfinger drove right past regular-season champion Zane Smith on the last lap to claim his first win of the season.

The 2022 "TSport" 200 was quite the race: living up to the classic short track action and the regular chaos from the NASCAR Truck Series. Multiple playoff drivers were involved in some sort of incident.

Polesitter John Hunter Nemechek led the first 62-laps en-route to his Stage 1 win, giving him a playoff point for later.

On the final restart on Lap 206, Zane Smith pinched eventual 10th-place finisher John Hunter Nemechek into the outside wall and took the top spot until Enfinger made the winning pass.

It was Nemechek, though, who sent the race to overtime when he spun race leader Taylor Gray in Turn 3 on Lap 199 of a scheduled 200.

Nemechek insisted the accident was unintentional.

“Sometimes you’re the bug and sometimes you’re the windshield, and tonight we were the bug,” said Nemechek, who led a race-high 75 laps and won the first stage. “I made a mistake early on and spun myself, and we had a restart there at the end on old tires.

“Everybody had fresher tires. I tried driving down in the bottom of (Turn) 3 underneath the 17 (Gray), and I just kept sliding and accidentally got into his left rear. I tried to stay off him. That team has their opinion, I have my opinion, and I’m sure we’ll talk at some point.”

Playoff driver Stewart Friesen finished fourth behind Zane Smith, followed by Corey Heim, Tyler Ankrum and Layne Riggs. Playoff drivers Ty Majeski, Matt Crafton and Nemechek completed the top 10.

Those results left Crafton and 16th-place finisher Christian Eckes seven points below the current cut line. After the third race of the first round, the Playoff field will be trimmed from 10 drivers to eight. Hocevar is eighth in the standings, seven points to the good.

Here are the complete race results from Lucas Oil Raceway:

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