Mosack’s Martinsville Outing Ends Up Twisted

Venue: Martinsville Speedway

FINISH: 30th

Start: 17th

Laps Led: 0

NCTS Point Standings Position: 14th

Connor Mosack was poised for another strong outing at Martinsville Speedway until physical racing and an abundance of contact twisted his evening. A hard crash on lap 179 relegated the driver of the No. 81 Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Chevrolet Silverado RST to a 30th-place finish. Despite the box score, Mosack retains the 14th position in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Trucks Series standings with one race remaining in 2025.

Mosack timed in 17th during Friday afternoon’s qualifying session but had set one of the fast paces in practice over 10-plus laps. The opening laps of the evening saw Mosack steadily drive towards the front and advance to 12th by lap 14. A chain reaction stack-up on the lap 29 restart shook up the running order and kicked Mosack back to 18th. Another caution on lap 41 gave crew chief Blake Bainbridge a chance to bring Mosack to pit road to get off sequence from most of the field. After taking four tires, fuel, and adjustments for a tight balance, Mosack ended Stage 1 in 22nd on lap 50.

He inherited the 13th position to restart Stage 2 on lap 62 and ran 13th when the opportunity arose to make the final scheduled pit stop of the evening. Mosack pitted for another batch of tires under a lap 73 caution in order to flip the upcoming stage caution. He restarted 27th and remained patient, running in 21st at the end of Stage 2 on lap 100. Bainbridge stayed the course to keep Mosack on track as the No. 81 driver inherited eighth position for the restart on lap 112.

Mosack remained inside the top-10 until trucks with 27-lap fresher tires began to pressure him. He briefly fell back to 11th, but the team stayed committed to their strategy despite a sequence of cautions. He lined up eighth for a restart on lap 163 and was in position to secure his first top-10 finish on a short track. However, Mosack was backed into the Turn 3 wall after contact by the No. 17 truck on corner entry. His Chevrolet suffered severe damage to the rear and forced Mosack to retire after completing 179 circuits.

Connor Mosack Quote:

“We definitely didn’t need or deserve to have our night end that way. There was a lot of physical racing tonight, but we got hit pretty hard getting into the corner and had no chance to save it. Everyone on our Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Chevrolet did a nice job bringing us a fast truck. We had great speed in practice, was a little too tight for most of the night, but overall, pretty good. It hasn’t been the season we wanted with results, but we’ll go to Phoenix and try to end it on a high note.”