Friday night's Camping World Truck Series race, the penultimate race of the season, will probably be remembered more for the multiple delays than the actual racing. It started about an hour an a half late due to a power outage in parts of the Phoenix suburbs, including the track. It took a while for the lights between turns 3 and 4 to come back on, but once they did the race was finally able to get started.
However, a couple of seconds before the green flag came out, the Chevrolet of Brandon Jones slowed, causing a chain-reaction crash that collected Bryan Silas, John Wes Townley and German Quiroga. The caution came out as the leaders entered turn 1, making the race's first green flag run just a quarter of a lap long. After a long caution, the race restarted on lap 19, but then there were three more crashes in the next 23 laps, one of which involved top drivers Jeb Burton and Timothy Peters, and another, in which Joey Coulter hit the wall, briefly putting the red flag on lap 43.
After going green for 55 laps following the red flag, there were two more crashes, and then the lights went out again on lap 125. The red flag was thrown again, and shortly afterwards the race was called 24 laps short with Kyle Busch's driver Erik Jones winning the race for the second year in a row. Jones led all but 114 of the 126 laps completed, once again showing the dominance of Kyle Busch's truck team this year. The series championship is now down to defending champion Matt Crafton and Ryan Blaney next week at Homestead.
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