Tyler Ankrum, Austin Hill fail to advance to Championship 4
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Where there are winners, there are those who also fall short.
Austin Hill and Tyler Ankrum did not advance to the Championship 4, with their finishes of 13th and 26th respectively in the Lucas Oil 150 Friday (November 8) at ISM Raceway.
“We pretty much sucked,” Ankrum said of his race.
“…That’s all that happened tonight, is that I ran in the back, laps down, and it was too short of a race to gain it back up.”
Ankrum’s season featured his first career Truck Series victory in July at Kentucky Speedway.
Hill, also a first-time winner this season, fell six points short of advancing to compete for his first championship in NASCAR’s third-tier series.
“I feel like I made somewhat of a statement, but I really wanted to bring back a championship, back-to-back,” Hill said. “I feel like I didn’t achieve this year.”
Hill has won three race thus far in 2019 (Daytona, Michigan and Las Vegas II).
The Ford EcoBoost 200, the final race of the season, will be televised on FOX Sports 1 on Friday, November 15 at 8 p.m. ET.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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