Tanner Gray won the ARCA Menards Series General Tire 150 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Friday evening after rebounding from a flat tire and going a lap down.
He started strong, earning his second career pole and his second at Charlotte, in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. However, on Lap 34 he had to make an unscheduled pit stop due to a flat right-rear tire and went a lap down.
With 20 laps to go, Carson Kvapil had a two-second lead while Gray had methodically made his way back to the lead lap. Gray caught a break after a crash involving Con Nicolopoulos and Mitch Gibson as most of the lead-lap cars pit with 15 laps remaining in the race.
When the race resumed, Gray, who had stayed on the track during the caution and was now in the lead, held off Kvapil and won by a margin of 0.939 seconds.
Andres Perez finished third followed by Will Kimmel in fourth and Lavar Scott in fifth.
“To be able to come here and rebound the way we did is really cool,” Gray said. “We fought a little adversity in the beginning, cutting the right-rear (tire) down and going a lap down. To be able to execute a solid race and finish off those last few laps is really cool.
*Note: Gray finished 18th in Friday night’s Truck Series North Carolina Education Lottery 200.
- Race results:
| Pos. | Car No. | Driver | Sponsor, OEM | Laps | Diff. |
| 1 | 18 | Tanner Gray | JGR Toyota | 100 | – |
| 2 | 82 | Carson Kvapil* | Chevrolet Performace Chevrolet | 100 | 0.939 |
| 3 | 2 | Andres Perez | Max Siegal Inc Chevrolet | 100 | 2.355 |
| 4 | 69 | Will Kimmel | Weddington Custom Homes-Accel Hydraulics | 100 | 5.192 |
| 5 | 6 | Lavar Scott* | Max Siegel Inc Chevrolet | 100 | 5.343 |
| 6 | 55 | Gus Dean | DRIVEN Trackside | 100 | 7.275 |
| 7 | 20 | Dean Thompson | Thompson Pipe Group Toyota | 100 | 7.423 |
| 8 | 33 | Lawless Alan* | Auto Parkit Ford | 100 | 7.817 |
| 9 | 97 | Jason Kitzmiller | A.L.L Construction Chevrolet | 100 | 8.342 |
| 10 | 9 | Sebastian Arias | Brady IFS Chevrolet | 100 | 11.265 |
| 11 | 35 | Greg Van Alst | CB Fabricating Ford | 100 | 11.273 |
| 12 | 25 | Toni Breidinger | Celsius Toyota | 100 | 12.836 |
| 13 | 10 | Cody Dennison* | Timcast.com Toyota | 100 | 16.986 |
| 14 | 73 | Andy Jankowiak | Acacia Energy Toyota | 100 | 27.118 |
| 15 | 22 | Amber Balcaen | ICON Toyota | 99 | 1 Lap |
| 16 | 12 | Ryan Roulette* | Bellator Recruiting Academy/VFW Ford | 98 | 2 Laps |
| 17 | 27 | Tim Richmond | Immigration Law Center Toyota | 98 | 2 Laps |
| 18 | 15 | Kris Wright | FNB Corporation Toyota | 97 | 3 Laps |
| 19 | 88 | A.J. Moyer | Rivers’s Edge Cottages & RV Park/Ampere EV Chevrolet | 96 | 4 Laps |
| 20 | 99 | Michael Maples* | Don Ray Petroleum LLC/Maples Motorsports Chevrolet | 94 | 6 Laps |
| 21 | 57 | Austin McDaniel* | Brother In Law Motorsports Chevrolet | 90 | 10 Laps |
| 22 | 06 | Con Nicolopoulos | Peterson Motorsports Ford | 89 | 11 Laps |
| 23 | 75 | Hunter Deshautelle* | Brother-In-Law Motorsports Chevrolet | 87 | 13 Laps |
| 24 | 31 | Mitch Gibson* | C&S Construction & Cabinet Designs Chevrolet | 79 | 21 Laps |
| 25 | 03 | Alex Clubb | Race Parts Liquidators Ford | 45 | 55 Laps |
| 26 | 48 | Brad Smith | Copraya.com Ford | 36 | 64 Laps |
| 27 | 28 | Connor Mosack* | Chevrolet/Silver Hare Development Chevrolet | 30 | 70 Laps |
| 28 | 32 | Christian Rose | Blue Wolf Cleaners & Degreasers Ford | 28 | 72 Laps |
| 29 | 11 | Jayson Alexander* | Constant Contact Ford | 20 | 80 Laps |
