Jones Turns Up The Heat, Claims General Tire 150 Victory

There was no stopping Brandon Jones on Friday night time at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver turned his second ARCA Menards Sequence start off at America’s Residence for Racing into his next acquire on the 1.5-mile superspeedway, dominating the 2nd 50 % of the Standard Tire 150 en route to a victory by an astounding 8.68 seconds more than Corey Heim.

A championship contender in the NASCAR Xfinity Collection, Jones’ initially foray into ARCA motion this year saw the driver of the No. 81 Tide/Menards/Bounty Toyota lap all but the leading five autos in the subject over 100 circuits close to Charlotte’s 1.5-mile oval.

Rajah Caruth adopted Jones and Heim with a 3rd-area finish. Connor Mosack and Greg Van Alst completed the major five with Daniel Dye sixth, Amber Balcaen seventh and Nick Sanchez eighth.

Tony Cosentino and Sean Corr rounded out the leading 10.

Jones’ victory was his sixth in 26 vocation ARCA begins. He’ll begin fifth in Saturday’s Alsco Uniforms 300 Xfinity Series race, which goes environmentally friendly at 1 p.m. ET.

BRANDON JONES, No. 81 Tide/Menards/Bounty Toyota (Race Winner): “Tonight, I undoubtedly realized all the things I needed to find out heading into (Saturday). That was our key aim. I needed to get a really fantastic examine on the PJ1 they sprayed down.

The crew did a phenomenal job of creating adjustments. I also feel the sun going down performed into our favor. I consider the observe just attained a little more grip. It was definitely a prosperous day, thanks to Menards and Tide for letting me occur down and play. We discovered for (Saturday) and that was most important target.”

 

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