Career Best Third Place Finish for Chastain at Bristol!

Ross Chastain took advantage of several late cautions and charged from twentieth to a career best third in the final fifty laps of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 200 Wednesday night at the Bristol Motor Speedway.  Ross qualified fifteenth in the 36-truck field in the afternoon qualifying session with a lap of 15.93 seconds at over 120.43 mph on the high-banked half-mile speedway. At the drop of the green flag Ross made a quick charge toward the top-ten before settling the Melon 1 Toyota into fourteenth where he held ground for the first fifty laps before dropping to sixteenth just before the first caution of the UNOH 200 on lap 83. Every truck took advantage of the first caution for four tires and Sunoco racing gas and through several quick cautions failed to pick-up any track position while trapped deep in heavy traffic on the newly re-surfaced concrete track.Chastain’s near misfortune actually turned into his biggest break of the season when Miguel Paludo got loose and...