Mosack’s Recovery Gets Cut Short at Texas

Venue: Texas Motor Speedway

FINISH: 22nd

Start: 12th

Laps Led: 0

NCTS Point Standings Position: 20th

Connor Mosack had constructed a promising night, running inside the top-10 at Texas Motor Speedway until late-race contact subverted his effort and relegated him to a 22nd-place finish. The driver of the No. 81 Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Chevrolet Silverado RST sits 20th in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (NCTS) standings after eight events.

Mosack took the green flag from 12th position after persistent rain washed out practice and qualifying on Friday afternoon. Mosack held serve inside the top-15 for the first half of the opening stage, but lost track position after a hair-raising moment on lap 26. While running 23rd during a lap 31 caution, Mosack made his first pit stop of the evening and was scored 25th at the end of Stage 1 on lap 40.

Mosack restarted 24th on lap 48 and methodically displayed his muscle during the second stint. He advanced to 19th before pitting under the caution at lap 64. He restarted 16th and advanced to 13th by the conclusion of Stage 2 on lap 80. During the stage caution, crew chief Blake Bainbridge wisely elected to flip the stage and restart third on lap 89.

When the final segment went green, Mosack’s handling condition swung tight after being loose most of the evening. The tight handling condition hindered Mosack’s ability to maintain touch with the leaders and pitted for four tires from 18th position under green on lap 120. He cycled up to 13th before a caution on lap 146 tightened the field. While Mosack was challenging for a top-10 position with four laps to go, contact on the frontstretch cut his right front tire, resulting in contact with the outside wall in Turn 1 on lap 163. The damage ended his night and resulted in a 22nd-place finish.

Connor Mosack Quote:

“Tough way to end our night. We started off on the free side and got tighter as the night went. After we lost a lap, we got it back and thought we could put our Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Chevrolet in the top-10. We got squeezed on the frontstretch and it just went straight by the time we got to the middle of Turns 1 and 2. Hate that our night ended like that, but we’ll get ready for Kansas next weekend.”