John Wes Townley quite literally stole the win on Saturday evening in the Rhino Auto Linings 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, saving fuel in the final laps and taking the #05 Athenian Motorsports Chevrolet to his much-awaited first Camping World Truck Series win. Townley started the race on the outside pole next to the #88 ThorSport Toyota of Matt Crafton. Besides Townley and Crafton, Crafton's teammates Cameron Hayley (#13) and Johnny Sauter (#98) also led some laps in the race. Hayley had an issue on pit road late, while Sauter spun after contact with the #8 NEMCO Chevrolet of John Hunter Nemechek. Crafton ran out of fuel with a handful of laps left in the 146-lap race, as did the #4 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota driven by Erik Jones. Townley had to continually coast to the checkered flag, but he got it done.
Approaching the start of lap 15, a major wreck occurred when the two Brad Keselowski Fords driven by Tyler Reddick (#19) and Austin Theriault (#29) made contact on the frontstretch. Theriault hit a SAFER barrier-less wall at high speed, and took a while to get out of his truck. He was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where he was announced as conscious and alert. This comes just a week after Eric McClure also suffered a concussion in the Xfinity Series race at Kentucky, and just over seven months after Kyle Busch's hard Xfinity crash at Daytona.
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