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Lap By Lap: NASCAR Home Tracks 150 pres. by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet
CHECKERED FLAG: BRIAN ICKLER WINS THE NASCAR HOME TRACKS 150 PRESENTED BY KEVIN WHITAKER CHEVROLET. IT IS ICKLER'S FOURTH CAREER NASCAR CAMPING WORLD SERIES EAST VICTORY AND HIS SEVENTH CAREER NASCAR CAMPING WORLD SERIES WIN OVERALL. JODY LAVENDER HAD A BEST CAREER FINISH OF SECOND PLACE, FOLLOWED BY EDDIE MACDONALD, JOSH RICHARDS AND BRETT MOFFITT.
Lap 150 -- WHITE FLAG: Brian Ickler out in front by .773 seconds.
Lap 147 -- GREEN: Brian Ickler and Jody Lavender on the front row. Lavender leads at the line, but Ickler into the front into Turn 1.
Lap 145 -- Matt DiBenedetto pulls on pit road as crew attempts to pull fender away from the front tires.
Lap 142 -- CAUTION NO. 9: Eddie MacDonald wobbles off Turn 4, Matt DiBenedetto makes contact and goes around in a solo spin on the front stretch. He is able to drive away and stay on the lead lap.
Lap 142 -- Brian Ickler jumps to the lead again; Eddie MacDonald (inside) battles Jody Lavender for second.
Lap 142 -- GREEN: Brian Ickler and Jody Lavender side-by-side lead the field
Lap 140 -- Ten to go
Lap 136 -- Leaders are: Brian Ickler, Jody Lavender, Eddie MacDonald, Matt DiBenedetto, Brett Moffitt, Josh Richards, Patrick Long, Matt Kobyluck, Alan Tardiff, Steve Park and Jason Patison (last car on lead lap), Dakoda Armstrong (-1), Dustin Delaney (-1), Ryan Truex (-1), Todd Peck (-2), Ryan Duff (-2), and Alex Kennedy (-4).
Lap 135 -- CAUTION NO. 8: Alex Kennedy, Jeff Anton and Matt Kurzejewski pile up in Turn 2. Jason Patison is the beneficiary.
Lap 134 -- Eddie MacDonald gets hung up on the outside and Jody Lavender and Matt DiBenedetto get by.
Lap 133 -- GREEN: Brian Ickler and Eddie MacDonald lead the field to the line. Ickler by a nose at the line.
Lap 132 -- One to go.
Lap 130 -- Leaders are Brian Ickler, Eddie MacDonald, Jody Lavender, Matt DiBenedetto, Brett Moffitt, Josh Richards, Patrick Long, Matt Kobyluck, Alan Tardiff and Steve Park (last car on lead lap).
Lap 128 -- No beneficiary. It would have been Dustin Delaney, but he was involved in the caution. Lead-lap cars of Matt Kobyluck and Steve Park come down pit road.
Lap 127 -- CAUTION NO. 7: Dustin Delaney spins in Turn 3.
Lap 125 -- Jody Lavender and Matt DiBenedetto pull away from Brett Moffitt.
Lap 124 -- Brian Ickler lead up to 1.1 seconds over Eddie MacDoanld, who has nearly a second over Jody Lavender.
Lap 122 -- Matt DiBenedetto pressures Jody Lavender for third.
Lap 120 -- Brian Ickler goes underneath Eddie MacDonald on the backstretch to take the lead back.
Lap 119 -- GREEN: MacDonald to the front.
Lap 118 -- Eddie MacDonald will lead the field to the green, with Brian Ickler on the outside.
Lap 117 -- One to go to green.
Lap 114 -- Lapped cars of Ryan Truex, Ryan Duff, Alex Kennedy and Jason Patison back down pit road.
Lap 112 -- CAUTION No. 6: Kristin Bumbera comes to a stop on front stretch wall. Alan Tardiff is the beneficiary.
Lap 112 -- GREEN: Brian Ickler and Eddie MacDonald side-by-side to the start. Eddie MacDonald gets the jump and takes the lead into Turn 1.
Lap 111 -- One to go to green.
Lap 110 -- Matt Kobyluck comes down pit road.
Lap 109 -- Restart is called off; issues on Jason Patison's car.
Lap 108 -- Leaders with one-to-go to green are Brian Ickler, Eddie MacDonald, Jody Lavender, Matt DiBenedetto, Brett Moffitt, Steve Park, Josh Richards, Patrick Long and Matt Kobyluck (last car on lead lap).
Lap 107 -- Sparks coming off from underneath the car of Eddie MacDonald. A piece of debris comes loose from MacDonald's car in Turn 3.
Lap 106 -- No beneficiary. Ryan Duff would have received it, but was involved in the caution.
Lap 105 -- CAUTION NO. 5: Ryan Duff spins, among the cars caught up are Alex Kennedy, Kristin Bumbera and John Salemi.
Lap 104 -- GREEN: Brian Ickler and Eddie MacDonald restart side-by-side. Ickler by a nose at the line and jumps to the front into Turn 1.
Lap 103 -- One to go
Lap 101 -- Lead lap cars are: Brian Ickler, Eddie MacDonald, Jody Lavender, Brett Moffitt, Matt DiBenedetto, Steve Park, Josh Richards, Patrick Long and Matt Kobyluck.
Lap 99 -- Ryan Truex, Jarit Johnson, John Salemi, Kristin Bumbera, Rich Gould, Jeff Anton, and Alex Kennedy come down pit road.
Lap 98 -- CAUTION NO. 4: Debris brings out the yellow flag; Matt Kobyluck (9th place) is the beneficiary.
Lap 96 -- Brian Ickler makes quick work of Ryan Duff, Jason Patison and Matt Kobyluck.
Lap 93 -- Brian Ickler closes in on a pack of four cars that include Matt Kobyluck, Patrick Long, Jason Patison and Ryan Duff.
Lap 91 -- Brian Ickler laps the 12th-place car of Ryan Truex.
Lap 90 -- Brian Ickler's lead now at 7.4 seconds.
Lap 87 -- Brian Ickler's lead has stretched to 5.8 seconds over Eddie MacDonald, who has shaken the shadow of Brett Moffitt in traffic.
Lap 85 -- Alex Kennedy skating around the outside lane, slows and pulls into the pits.
Lap 83 -- Matt Kobyluck loses two more spots, as Matt DiBenedetto and Josh Richards get by him.
Lap 80 -- Brian Ickler closes in on John Salemi (15th)
Lap 77 -- Matt Kobyluck loses two spots, as Jody Lavender moves up to fourth. Steve Park is fifth and Kobyluck sixth.
Lap 75 -- Brian Ickler finally clears all three.
Lap 73 -- Brian Ickler remains stuck behind the three.
Lap 70 -- Brian Ickler catches the pack of cars that inclueds Kristin Bumbera, Alex Kennedy and Dakoda Armstrong. These are the tail end of the lead-lap cars.
Lap 67 -- Josh Richards runs alone in eighth, with several car lengths back to Ryan Truex, and several more back to the 10th-place car of Patrick Long. Jason Patison sits in 11th, followed by Dustin Delaney, Ryan Duff, Alan Tardiff and John Salemi.
Lap 65 -- Brian Ickler has again caught the tail of the field and begins the lapping process.
Lap 63 -- Matt Kobyluck, in fourth, leads a four-car line that includes Steve Park, Matt DiBenedetto and Jody Lavender.
Lap 62 -- Eddie MacDonald maintains second, while Brett Moffitt again sticks right in his tire tracks.
Lap 60 -- Brian Ickler stretches his lead to 3.597 seconds.
Lap 58 -- Behind Lavender, Josh Richards, Ryan Truex and Patrick Long round out the top 10.
Lap 56 -- Jody Lavender is up to seventh, right behind Matt DiBenedetto.
Lap 54 -- Brian Ickler's lead is quickly back to 2.953 seconds.
Lap 51 -- Matt Kobyluck used the restart to get by Ryan Truex and into third. Steve Park also moved by and is fourth.
Lap 49 -- GREEN: Eddie MacDonald side-by-side with Ickler at the start-finish line, but Brian Ickler surges ahead going into Turn 1
Lap 47 -- Leaders are: Brian Ickler, Eddie MacDonald, Brett Moffitt, Ryan Truex, Matt Kobyluck, Matt Dibenedetto, Steve Park, Patrick Long, Ryan Duff, Jody Lavender, Josh Richards, Dakoda Armstrong, Alan Tardiff, Jason Pattison, Dustin Delaney, John Salemi, Jarit Johnson, Alex Kennedy and Kristin Bumbera (last car on lead lap)
Lap 46 -- Jeff Anton, John Salemi, Jarit Johnson and Alex Kennedy come down pit road. Nineteen cars on the lead lap.
Lap 43 -- CAUTION NO. 3: Scott Bouley comes to a stop along the wall in Turn 2. Kristin Bumbera is the benificiary.
Lap 43 -- Top five remain: Brian Ickler, Eddie MacDonald, Brett Moffitt, Ryan Truex and Matt Kobyluck.
Lap 40 -- Brian Ickler is clear of lapped traffic momentarily, while Eddie MacDonald has put ground on Brett Moffitt as they go past lapped cars.
Lap 38 -- Brian Ickler's lead remains at 3.7 seconds as he passes Jeff Anton and Kristin Bumbera.
Lap 36 -- Scott Bouley is the next to be passed by Brian Ickler.
Lap 34 -- Brian Ickler passes Rich Gould, Matt Kurzewjewski and Todd Peck
Lap 33 -- Brian Ickler has caught the back of the field and is making his way through traffic
Lap 31 -- Brett Moffitt follows Eddie MacDonald closely, as they put ground on fourth-place Ryan Truex
Lap 29 -- Brian Ickler's lead quickly up to 3.467 seconds over Eddie MacDonald.
Lap 25 -- Matt Kobyluck puts pressure on Ryan Truex for fourth.
Lap 24 -- Alan Tardiff, Jason Patison, Jody Lavender and Jeff Anton complete the top 15.
Lap 22 -- Further back in the field, Patrick Long runs alone in eighth. Ryan Duff and Jarit Johnson round out the top 10. Dakoda Armstrong sits in 11th.
Lap 18 -- Brian Ickler out to several car length lead on Eddie MacDonald, who is followed closely by Brett Moffitt. Ryan Truex, Matt Kobyluck, Matt DiBenedetto and Steve Park form the next group.
Lap 16 -- Brian Ickler agains puts ground on second-place. Quickly passes the slowed car of Jonathan Smith on the front stretch.
Lap 14 -- GREEN: Brian Ickler jumps to the lead, Eddie MacDonald follows into second
Lap 13 -- Field given one-to-go
Lap 11 -- Leaders are: Brian Ickler, Brett Moffitt, Eddie MacDonald, Steve Park, Ryan Truex, Matt Kobyluck, Matt DiBenedetto, Patrick Long, Dakoda Armstrong and Ryan Duff.
Lap 10 -- YELLOW NO. 2: Jesus Hernandez scraps the wall in Turn 1 and comes to a stop
Lap 8 -- Brian Ickler's lead out to .077 over Brett Moffitt.
Lap 5 -- Jonathan Smith slows and pulls down pit road.
Lap 3 -- Brian Ickler and Brett Moffitt pull away from Eddie MacDonald in third. Steve Park, Ryan Truex, and Matt Kobyluck get in line behind MacDonald.
Lap 2 -- Matt Kobyluck slips by Matt DiBenedetto for sixth.
Lap 1 -- Brett Moffitt starts stronger this time, but Brian Ickler jumps to the lead on the backstretch.
8:19 p.m. -- Cars get the one-to-go to restart the race.
8:15 p.m. -- Red flag has been lifted after 11 minutes.
8:04 p.m. -- The race is red-flagged with the cars stopped in Turn 3. The race will be restarted with the original lineup, with the cars involved in the caution starting in the back; no laps have been scored.
Lap 1 -- Brett Moffitt doesn't go on the start and stacks up the inside lane briefly. Going into Turn 1, the field stacks up and causes a multi-car pileup. Cars that were included were Josh Richards, John Salemi, Rich Gould, Jody Lavender, Matt Kurzejewski, Tom Hessert, Jesus Hernandez, Jonathan Smith, Dominick Casola, Jason Cochran and Scott Bouley. All cars except for Hessert, whose car stopped in Turn 2.
8:04 p.m. -- Brett Moffitt leads the field to green
8:03 p.m. -- One to go
7:59 p.m. -- Cars have fired up and begun to roll off the grid.
7:55 p.m. -- Invocation and national anthem - sung by rising country star Ryan Casper - has concluded. Drivers strapped in and ready to roll.
6:36 p.m. -- Brett Moffitt is the final car out. After the 12th fastest lap on his first go around, Moffitt nearly loses it off turn 4 but keeps it going straight enough to claim the Coors Light Pole Award. Moffitt's qualifying time was 20.691 (86.994) to knock Ickler to second. Moffitt, 16, is the second youngest driver to win the Coors Light Pole Award in the NASCAR Camping World Series East. Joey Logano was about three months younger when he won the pole for the race at Greenville Pickens in 2007.
6:29 p.m. -- Eddie MacDonald (23rd) posts the second fastest time at 20.937. Top five are now Ickler, MacDonald, Park, Truex and DiBenedetto.
6:20 p.m. -- Brian Ickler, who was fastest in practice, backs it up in qualifying with a lap of 20.709 (86.919) to knock Park off the pole.
6:15 p.m. -- Ryan Truex puts up a time .001 second off Park's provisional pole time.
6:13 p.m. -- Steve Park, out 10th, is the new fast time with a lap of 20.956 (85.894)
6:04 p.m. -- Matt Kobyluck is the third car out and puts it on top of the board with a lap of 21.049 (85.515)
6 p.m. -- Jesus Hernandez's first lap is 21.327 (84.800) for the initial pole position.
6 p.m. -- Qualifying is underway; Jesus Hernandez is first car on the track.
5:50 p.m. -- Ten minutes to the start of qualifying.
3:02 p.m. -- More from practice: Jarit Johnson ran the most laps at 87, while Josh Richards and DiBenedetto each ran 82. Ickler ran 49. DiBenedetto (No. 18), Moffitt (No. 44) and Smith (No. 16) are in cars that have won Coors Light Pole Awards at Greenville Pickens with other drivers.
2:58 p.m. -- Practice has concluded. Brian Ickler remained fastest at 21.244, followed by DiBenedetto's lap of 21.300. Matt Kobyluck (21.303), Brett Moffitt (21.330) and Patrick Long rounded out the top five. Jonathan Smith jumped to sixth with a fast lap late in practice. Jody Lavender, Dakoda Armstrong, Dustin Delaney and Steve Park rounded out the top 10. (CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE PRACTICE TIMES)
1:54 p.m. -- With less than five minutes to go in practice, Brian Ickler bumped Matt DiBenedetto off the top of the charts with a lap of 21.244. DiBenedetto, who has 82 laps run, still sits second with his lap of 21.300.
2:05 p.m. -- Practice has resumed.
1:55 p.m. -- Ten minute break in practice begins. Joe Gibbs Racing's Matt DiBenedetto was the fastest car with a lap of 21.30 seconds, followed by Brett Moffitt at 21.343. DiBenedetto ran 36 laps, and Moffitt 28. Brian Ickler, Matt Kobyluck, and Patrick Long raound out the top five. Josh Richards, 12th fastest, ran the most laps at 47.
1:34 p.m. -- Qualifying record is 20.576 seconds, set by Joey Logano in 2007. Peyton Sellers won the Coors Light Pole Award last year at 20.702.
1 p.m. -- Jason Pattison the first to roll off pit road as NASCAR Camping World Series East practice gets underway.
11:45 a.m. ET -- After a Friday full of rain, the sun is out in full force on Saturday at Greenville Pickens Speedway. Practice for the NASCAR Home Tracks 150 presented by Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet is slated for 1 p.m. Twenty-nine cars are on the grounds, including eight drivers who have registered for the Sunoco Rookie of the Year program.
