- Round: NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race No. 9 of 23
- Track Location: Darlington Raceway – Darlington, South Carolina
- Race Name: Buckle Up South Carolina 200
- Broadcast: Friday, May 12th at 7:30 PM ET live on FS1 (TV), MRN (Radio), and Sirius XM NASCAR Channel 90
- Team Entrants:
No. 23 | Grant Enfinger & Jeff Hensley – Champion Power Equipment Chevrolet
No. 24 | Rajah Caruth & Chad Walter – Wendell Scott Foundation Chevrolet
No. 43 | Daniel Dye & Blake Bainbridge – Race To Stop Suicide Chevrolet
Grant Enfinger, No. 23 Champion Power Equipment Chevrolet Silverado RST
Darlington Raceway Stats
- NCTS Starts: 4; Best start: 3rd; Best finish: 3rd (2022); Top 5s: 3; Top 10s: 4; Laps led: 1
2023 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Season Stats
- Starts: 8; Wins: 1 (Kansas I); Best start: 7th; Top 5s: 3; Top 10s: 4; Laps led: 68; Current points position: 5th
- About Champion Power Equipment: Since 2003, Champion Power Equipment has earned a reputation for designing and producing the market’s finest power equipment. From our original headquarters in Santa Fe Springs, California, Champion has expanded its North American footprint to include facilities in Jackson, Tennessee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Toronto Canada. Today, Champion’s product line has expanded to include portable generators, home standby generators, inverter generators, engines, winches and log splitters. With over 2.5 million generators sold in North America, Champion is a market leader in the power equipment field. Visit ChampionPowerEquipment.com for more information.
- Chassis History/Info: Enfinger and the No. 23 team will compete with GMS Racing chassis no. 345 at the track “too tough to tame”. This chassis has been driven three times before, debuting at Richmond Raceway in 2022 as well as competing at Kansas Speedway and Phoenix Raceway later that year. Its three results have all been top-10 worthy, with finishes of fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively.
- Winner Winner: Grant Enfinger and Jeff Hensley were able to break through and score their first victory of the season in the most recent NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway! The triumph was a dominant performance which saw the No. 23 Chevrolet lead a race high of 65 laps en route to his eighth career series win, all coming at different racetracks (Talladega, Las Vegas, Daytona, Atlanta, Richmond, Martinsville, IRP, & now Kansas).
- GMS Ties KHI: Enfinger’s victory at Kansas Speedway solidified GMS Racing’s Team Owner, Maury Gallagher’s 43rd-career Truck Series win, joining elite company. The win now ties the organization with Kevin Harvick Incorporated as the winningest Chevrolet team in series history – quite the historic feat. – From The Drivers Seat: Now that you and your team have a win in the bank, what are some of your most important goals before the playoffs start?
“Our immediate goals for how we approach Darlington don’t necessarily change. However, if there’s a strategy play, we can be more aggressive with our calls and I can drive more aggressively. That mindset can change for some of the other races, but we are focused on getting better as a team and clicking off more wins. The countless hours of hard work that everybody at GMS has put into our Champion Power Equipment Chevy paid off for us last week, but we are always hungry for more and I’m excited to see where we can stack up before the time the playoffs roll around.”
ABOUT GMS RACING:
GMS Racing competes full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series operating the No. 23, No. 24, and No. 43 Chevrolet Silverado RSTs for drivers Grant Enfinger, Rajah Caruth, and Daniel Dye. Since the team was formed in 2012, GMS Racing has won five titles across multiple series, including the 2016 and 2020 NASCAR Truck Series championship, the 2015 ARCA Racing Series championship, as well as the 2019 & 2020 ARCA East championships. GMS has grown to occupy several buildings located in Statesville, N.C. including operations for GMS Fabrication. The GMS Racing campus also houses operations for LEGACY MOTOR CLUB, a team that competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series.
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ON MY REDNECK!
