MADISON, Ill. — Justin Haley won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race Saturday night at Gateway Motorsports Park for his first career victory, pulling away on a wild last restart.
The 19-year-old Haley, from Winamac, Indiana, took the lead when Kyle Busch Motorsports teammates Noah Gragson and Todd Gilliland made contact racing for the lead on a restart with seven laps to go.
Haley then held off GMS Racing teammate Johnny Sauter, a four-time winner season, on the final restart with two laps left, with Brett Moffitt spinning near the front of the field.
Haley won in his 37th series start.
Gilliland was second, followed by Sauter, Myatt Snider, Zane Smith, Chad Finley, Jesse Little, Riley Herbst and Cody Coughlin. Gragson ended up 10th after cutting a tire. He led the first 63 laps of the final stage.
Sauter increased his series lead to 73 points over Gragson.
Pole sitter Grant Enfinger won the first 35-lap stage, and 17-year-old Christian Eckes took the second in his second series start. They each led from start to finish.
Eckes’ race ended soon after the stage victory when Stewart Friesen lost grip, slid up the track and hit Eckes’ Toyota, sending it into the outside wall.
Friesen was on the receiving end about 20 laps later when Sauter drifted up and spun him.
“Didn’t mean to do that. Got loose,” Sauter said on the radio.
The cars were stopped on the track with 41 laps to go to clean up fluid from John Hunter Nemechek‘s Chevrolet. Debris cut an oil line, with Tate Fogleman and Justin Fontaine sliding through the mess and crashing. Nemechek, the Gateway winner last year, was running second.