Every single lap. Christian Eckes led all of the laps the Rackley Roofing 200 to win in dominating fashion at Nashville Superspeedway. Three wins on the season for Eckes in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
Christian Eckes was fantastic all night long. When the 19 team is clicking and firing on all cylinders, it is something to behold. When you talk about dominant wins, it doesn’t get more dominant than what we saw tonight from Eckes.
Right now, it feels like Corey Heim and Eckes are going to go wire-to-wire for this championship. Neither one of them can get the upper hand on the other, really. For tonight, Eckes is on top.
While everyone likes to talk about other drivers when it comes to Cup Series rides in the future, Eckes does not get mentioned nearly enough. He is the real deal.
Quick cautions, Christian Eckes gets the stage
On Lap 1 of the Rackley Roofing 200, we had the first caution flag. Dean Thompson was turned around by Mason Maggio and a few others were caught up in it as well. Just a tough break for a few drivers early on in this one.
It wasn’t long before another caution flag came out. Bret Holmes got into the wall. He had been involved in the first incident as well. Two cautions in the first 10 laps, but things did end up getting better at that point.
Once that second caution was all cleaned up, it was all Christian Eckes. He shot out to the front and didn’t look back. 45 laps in the first stage and Eckes didn’t show weakness on any of them.
Clint Bowyer had a hard time, though.
Stage 2 starts with headaches
How about another caution to stage the second stage? That is exactly what we got when the race returned from caution. It was caused when Chase Purdy failed to fired off quickly. The leaders also waited to go in the restart zone, causing more of a pileup.
Clint Bowyer was a victim of this incident. He slammed into the back of Purdy and took a ton of damage, not to mention lost track position on pit road.
Layne Riggs and Stefan Parsons late in the stage would get into it not once, not twice, but three times. On the third time, Riggs was able to spin Parsons out of his way. The stage ended and Christian Eckes won the stage. Riggs was then held for two laps to start the next stage for reckless driving.
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