NASCAR racing was “positively wild, however I cherished it”

Regardless that Waters bought knocked out of the race after 176 of 200 laps, that didn’t negatively have an effect on his expertise.

“I had a lot enjoyable tonight and all day right this moment. It’s completely totally different racing from what I often do, and I simply wished to study,” he mentioned. “I realized a lot.

“There on the finish, I simply had nowhere to go and knocked the radiator out of it. It’s a disgrace, however I used to be having enjoyable and studying and had some superior battles, too.”

Waters, an 11-time winner in Supercars, bought solely a 20-minute follow session and two laps of qualifying on Friday previous to his first begin however bought off to a great begin.

Waters ran effectively in follow, certified twenty second of 34 vehicles and with groups working various pit methods, he bought as excessive as twelfth by the beginning of the ultimate 100-lap stage.

Whereas the primary half of the race was principally calm and incident-free, the ultimate stage was plagued by six multi-truck wrecks, two of which Waters bought collected in.

The ultimate one got here on lap 178 when a number of vehicles spun off Flip 2 and Waters slammed into the again of Jake Garcia, who was making an attempt to keep away from the accident. The injury to Waters’ No. 66 truck was intensive and he took it proper to the storage.

“I didn’t actually have any expectations. I’ve watched quite a lot of races and knew it was going to be fairly loopy,” Waters, 29, mentioned. Shane (van Gisbergen) and Marcos Ambrose instructed me it was going to be wild on the market and even all of the drivers after I bought right here mentioned the identical factor.

“It was positively wild, however I cherished it. It was quite a lot of enjoyable. Everybody was sort of into one another a bit and the racing is fairly laborious.”

Extra begins to return?

In the course of the TV broadcast, a Fox Sport reporter mentioned Waters’ ThorSport Racing workforce was planning on him driving the truck once more subsequent month at Kansas Speedway.

After the race, Waters mentioned that was not a certainty.

“In the meanwhile, it’s only tonight. I’ve a fairly busy schedule with Supercars, and I simply wished to get by means of tonight and see the place we had been at,” he mentioned.

“We are going to have a look at a calendar and see what we will do from right here.”