Breakout star Ty Majeski returned to the ARCA Menards Series Friday at Talladega Superspeedway for Chad Bryant Racing.
You’d have to go back to the 2017 season finale at Kansas Speedway to find Ty Majeski in the ARCA results, where he finished second for the now-defunct Cunningham Motorsports team.
However, Chad Bryant took over the reins of that team and it was just like old times for Majeski and the No. 22 crew.
Majeski didn’t miss a beat after a long break in the ARCA Menards Series. He started on the front row in second and ran a great race, staying out of trouble, and came home in the fourth spot.
It will be the first of six races for Majeski and the No. 22 Chad Bryant Racing team, as their next race together is at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May.
“Yeah, it was a real solid day,” Majeski said to FOX Sports 1. “Everyone at Chad Bryant Racing brought me a solid Ford here this week and they worked their tails off this week, pulling a couple of all-nighters to get here. It was exciting to get them a good finish.
“We executed all day. The second to last restart didn’t go our way on the top lane. We didn’t get a push from behind and had to settle for fourth or fifth in line there. That’s where we stayed. The 18 (Riley Herbst) and the 4 (Todd Gilliland) were the two best cars and when the best two cars get out front, it’s hard to compete with them. All in all, a good solid day. We are running for the owner’s championship, so it was a good points day from that standpoint and we will get them at Charlotte.”
Even though Majeski had a great run, he wasn’t sure what he needed to have a shot at the win in the final laps.
“I don’t know,” Majeski said in his FOX Sports 1 interview. “Obviously it helps when you have a bigger pack. I think we only had six or seven cars in that pack, and that makes it tougher to formulate runs. Just need some help from behind to get us on the same page and it also makes it difficult where there’s four or five Toyota’s in the top five, and you’re the only Ford. You know when you’re going to make a move, you’re going to get hung out to dry. All in all, it was a good points day for us.”
