Majeski, who was despatched the to rear early within the race on account of an uncontrolled tire penalty, made his manner again to the entrance and pounced on chief William Sawalich on a restart with 20 of 250 laps remaining.
One other warning bunched the sphere to arrange a restart with eight laps to go however as the sphere raced three and four-wide behind him, Majeski cleared for the lead.
He held off Christian Eckes – who had clinched the common season championship earlier within the race – by 0.926 seconds to assert his second win of the 2024 season and fifth of his profession.
“It feels good. We’ve had an important ThorSport truck right here at Richmond for the final two years. Discovered other ways to lose them and we tried to do it once more tonight,” Majeski mentioned. “One other mistake, we actually want to scrub that stuff up earlier than playoff time.
“Duke and Rhoda Thorson gave me an enormous alternative two years in the past and I’ve had the time of my life racing for this workforce. We’re going to attempt to carry one other trophy again residence.”
Taylor Grey completed third, Grant Enfinger was fourth and Layne Riggs fifth.
Saturday night time’s race set the 10-driver playoff area.
Becoming a member of Majeski making the sphere on wins are Eckes, Corey Heim, Nick Sanchez and Rajah Caruth. Making the sphere based mostly on factors are Tyler Ankrum, Enfinger, Taylor Grey, reigning sequence champion Ben Rhodes and Daniel Dye.
Tanner Grey was the primary driver to overlook the sphere, ending 12 factors behind Dye. The primary playoff race is Aug. 25 at The Milwaukee Mile.
Stage 1
Eckes grabbed the lead on a late restart and held off Taylor Grey by 0.435 seconds to take the Stage 1 win. Enfinger was third, Rhodes fourth and Riggs accomplished the highest 5.
Stage 2
Enfinger took the lead on a restart with six laps remaining and held off Eckes by 0.305 seconds to win Stage 2. Dye was third, Riggs fourth and Heim ended up fifth.
On Lap 128, Matt Crafton – who wanted a win to make the playoffs – spun round off Flip 4 and tagged the within retaining wall.
Stage 3
Following the break between Phases 2 and three, solely a handful of lead-lap vehicles elected to pit and Enfinger remained within the lead because the race returned to inexperienced with 101 laps remaining.
A multi-truck wrecked erupted shortly after the restart on the backstretch which knocked out a number of drivers together with Thad Moffitt, Keith McGee and Dean Thompson.
When the observe was lastly cleared of that seven-truck incident and the race resumed, Alan Lawless spun round to put the race again below warning for the sixth time.
Enfinger continued to steer Rhodes and Eckes when the race resumed with 73 laps to go. Connor Jones then stalled on the observe on lap 182 to once more carry out a warning.
With 29 laps remaining, Heim ran down Enfinger to take the lead for the primary time within the race, however the race went again below warning for a spin by Kaden Honeycutt.
Many of the lead-lap vehicles elected to pit for brand spanking new tires with Sawalich the primary off pit highway due to taking solely right-side tires. He led Enfinger – who took 4 tires – on the restart with 20 laps remaining
Majeski rapidly powered to the lead on the restart as Sawalich received handed by a number of vehicles with 4 new tires.
A spin by Connor Zilisch introduced out a warning and arrange one other restart with eight laps to go and Majeski main Enfinger, Riggs and Eckes.
