Friday, March 4
Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 2.5-mile superspeedway
Race: 2 of 23
Event: Victoria’s Voice Foundation 200 (134 laps, 201 miles)
Tanner Gray, No. 15 Ford Performance F-150
Start: 8th
Finish: 6th
Tanner Gray qualified eighth for the Victoria’s Voice Foundation 200 and after 19 laps found himself inside the top-five.
The first caution of the night came out on lap 22 and crew chief Jerry Baxter called the No. 15 down pit road for tires and fuel with no adjustments.
A wreck on the ensuring restart saw Gray skirt to the inside of turn one and escape in third. He would finish Stage 1 there for eight stage points.
The Ford Performance driver restarted Stage 2 from the lead and settled into fourth in the opening laps. On lap 52, he cracked the top-three once again. The yellow was displayed again with five laps to go in the stage and the team decided to stay out and collect a fifth-place finish for six additional stage points.
Gray restarted the final stage in 20th and was up to 14th by the end of the first lap. After a series of yellows, he was up to 11th and would pit from there on lap 90 for tires and fuel.
The No. 15 cracked the top-10 once again with 38 laps remaining and slowly worked his way forward on multiple restarts. When the caution flag waved with three laps to go, Gray was sitting in seventh for the shootout. He restarted on the outside lane and carried momentum to a sixth-place finish at the checkered flag. A disqualification to the second-place finisher moved Gray up to fifth in the final rundown.
The fifth-place run marked Gray’s second consecutive top-five finish to start the 2022 season.
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ON MY REDNECK!
