It took four overtimes, but Christian Eckes finally emerged as the winner of Friday night’s NASCAR Truck Series season finale at Phoenix and Ben Rhodes limped home as the 2023 series champion.
It was a difficult race for the Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway as title contenders Corey Heim and Carson Hocevar wrecked each other and Grant Enfinger and Rhodes both suffered damage in separate incidents. Zane Smith went into the first of four overtimes as the leader but was eventually caught up in one of the three restart wrecks.
Garage 1 Toyota 179 +1.429 2:27'34.805 0.532 6 33 5 B. Young's Motorsports 02 Chevrolet 179 +2.205 2:27'35.581 0.020 9 29 9 T. Racing 24 Chevrolet 179 +2.881 2:27'36.257 0.214 9 25 13 A. Racing 22 Ford 179 +4.147 2:27'37.523 0.307 7 21 17 S. Hill Motorsports 56 Toyota 179 +6.619 2:27'39.995 2.071 9 17 21 C.
Halmar Friesen Racing 52 Toyota 175 +4 Laps 2:27'42.808 2 Laps 8 13 25 Z. Spire Motorsports 77 Chevrolet 156 +23 Laps 2:02'25.507 6 Laps 7 9 29 C.
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