Mosack gained his first collection race a 12 months in the past with Joe Gibbs Racing at Kansas, however Tanner Grey accomplished dominated a lot of Saturday’s race driving for a similar workforce – JGR’s No. 18 Toyota – with which Mosack gained in 2023.
By the point of the halftime break within the 100-lap race, Grey had constructed a greater than 10-second lead on the sector and solely 5 vehicles remained on the lead lap. A warning late within the race gave Mosack an opportunity to line up alongside Grey on a restart and he practically took the lead however briefly fell again.
With 12 laps to go, Mosack was capable of mount one other problem and this time he received round Grey for the lead and held him off by 0.470 seconds to assert the win. It’s the second consecutive collection win for Pinnacle Racing Group, which gained with Connor Zilisch at Dover final weekend.
Connor Mosack, Kansas Speedway Victory Lane
Photograph by: Daylon Barr Pictures
“I used to be a bit of frightened about it,” Mosack, 25, stated of not catching Grey instantly on the ultimate restart. “I felt like that was our shot to clear him and that we would maintain him off if we really cleared him.
“He ran me up in (Turns) 1 and a pair of and did a great job of constructing me slip there. Then I used to be a bit of frightened he would drive away. However we had the momentum down in (Turns) 3 and 4) and I believed perhaps we might nonetheless run with him.
“I’m undecided if he made a mistake however he received fairly excessive, and I received to his spoiler and was capable of clear him.”
Mosack, who raced predominately Late Fashions and within the SCCA Trans Am Sequence till venturing into ARCA and NASCAR competitors in 2021, is operating quite a lot of collection this season, together with Saturday night time’s NASCAR Truck race with Spire Motorsports.
Mosack stated it’s necessary to show his sturdy runs in good gear into victories.
“This implies so much,” the Charlotte native stated. “Final 12 months, operating a number of Xfinity races in profitable gear I undoubtedly made a number of errors making an attempt to study, most likely making an attempt to study sooner than I ought to.
“I feel that’s helped me coming again right down to ARCA. All my begins right here have been in good gear and it’s a great alternative to indicate what we are able to do.”
Dean Thompson completed third, Kris Wright was fourth and Jake Finch rounded out the highest 5.
