Christian Eckes looks to get a 2nd straight playoff win at Kansas Speedway to lock up a spot in the Round of 8.
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series closes out its Round of 10 Playoffs on Friday night with the Kubota Tractor 200 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. With rookie Layne Riggs playing spoiler in the first two weeks of the playoffs, none of the 10 drivers left in the championship chase has clinched a spot in the Round of 8, which opens next week at Talladega. Defending series champion Ben Rhodes is 12 points behind Grant Enfinger and is on the bubble along with Daniel Dye, who is seven points back. Christian Eckes leads the standings by 15 points over Corey Heim and won last fall’s playoff rate at Kansas.
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Race Date: Sept. 27, 2024
Race Time: 8:30 p.m. ET
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Eckes is 95 points ahead of Dye, with Heim (plus-80) in second. Next up in the top eight are Nicholas Sanchez (plus-63), Ty Majeski (plus-58), Rajah Caruth (plus-35), Tyler Ankrum (plus-25), Taylor Gray (plus-23) and Enfinger. Heim was the top playoff finisher last week at Bristol, finishing second behind Riggs.
Eckes won last year’s race, then known as the Kansas Lottery 200, by 0.363 seconds over Gray, taking the lead on the next-to-last lap after a crash between Caruth and Tanner Gray on lap 128 brought out a caution.
The 134-lap race is broken down into two stages of 30 laps each and a final stage covering 74 circuits. The track is a 1.5-mile asphalt tri-oval, leading to a race scheduled for 201 miles. The race debuted in 2020 and returned to the schedule in 2022, with a different winner each year. Besides Eckes, Brett Moffitt (2020) and John Hunter Nemechek (2022) have taken the checkered flag.
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