With one race remaining and one position yet to be decided in setting the 10-driver NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series championship-eligible field, there\u2019s potential for a lot of action and drama in Saturday afternoon\u2019s Team EJP 175 (1:30 p.m. ET on FS1, NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n
The regular season finale will officially set the Chase field. Only six drivers have fully guaranteed their entry, including points leader, Front Row Motorsports\u2019 Layne Riggs, TRICON Garage\u2019s Kaden Honeycutt, Rigg\u2019s teammate Chandler Smith, McAnally-Hilgemann\u2019s Christian Eckes, TRICON Garage\u2019s Gio Ruggiero and ThorSport Racing\u2019s Ty Majeski.<\/p>\n
CR7 Motorsports\u2019 Grant Enfinger and ThorSport\u2019s Ben Rhodes haven\u2019t officially clinched their positions, but they have enough of a points cushion, it should be a formality.<\/p>\n
McAnally-Hilgemann teammates Daniel Hemric and Tyler Ankrum, however, still need to turn in a good performance to solidify the final Chase spots. Hemric holds a 35-point advantage on 11th place Stewart Friesen and Ankrum is up 20. He and Friesen exchanged the final transfer points position following Richmond when Ankrum finished 11th and Friesen crashed out, suffering a last place 36thplace<\/p>\n
ThorSport\u2019s Jake Garcia is only a single point behind Friesen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be the first guy who blinks at New Hampshire,\u201d Ankrum said after climbing out of his truck following the Richmond race. \u201cPressure was on today. I don\u2019t know exactly what happened to Friesen, whether somebody got into him or it was self-induced. That\u2019s just one of those things where it\u2019s like, just one of those uncontrollable factors. Nothing that\u2019s anybody\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, going to New Hampshire, it\u2019s still a tall hill for everybody to climb,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re all going to have to rise to the top and perform really, really well, and I feel like that the person who doesn\u2019t blink first will be the one to make it to the Chase.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reigning series champion Corey Heim is the defending race winner, claiming pole position and leading a dominating 124 of the 175 laps last year.<\/p>\n
Practice is set for Friday at 4 p.m. ET followed by Kennametal Pole Qualifying at 5:05 p.m. ET \u2013 available on Fox One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With one race remaining and one position yet to be decided in setting the 10-driver NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-865656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}