Majeski ‘Hits A Double’ With Fourth In Bristol Playoff Go

Ty Majeski in action Thursday night at Bristol Motor Speedway. (Scotte Sprinkle/Motorsports Hotspot photo)

BRISTOL, Tenn. – Before Thursday night’s race, defending champion Ty Majeski was asked what his plan was for race two of the Round of 10 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series playoffs.

His answer was, put simply, “to hit a double” with his No. 98 Soda Sense/Curb Records Ford F-150, and be relatively safe going into the elimination race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

After the end of the UNOH 250 presented by Ohio Logistics, it was safe to say Majeski hit a double and then some, nabbing a fourth-place finish at The Last Great Colosseum as chaos befell several of his playoff rivals.

Though he never had race-winning speed, Majeski was no lower than 12th (due to pit strategy) and finished inside the top five in both stages. His average running position of 3.87 was second only to Corey Heim, who led a race-high 122 laps and finished third.

“We just didn’t have the truck to truly compete tonight,” Majeski said. “Honestly, I was just trying to be smart. We were in a pretty good spot. We didn’t need to do something silly and wreck [anyone] and put ourselves in a worse spot than we needed to be. I probably could have been a little bit more aggressive. I was trying to get around the [No.] 41 [Conner Jones] and lap traffic is so tough to understand where they’re going to go sometimes.

“Overall, it was a good night for us. We had a solid Soda Sense Ford F-150. I’m excited to go to New Hampshire next week.”

Asked about the cutoff race in Loudon, the longtime short-track ace tipped that he feels the flat one-mile oval “should be in our wheelhouse.”

He compared Loudon to another flat track in Milwaukee, one he is very familiar with as a Wisconsin native.

With the points he earned Thursday putting him 46 above the elimination line and third overall in the standings, Majeski said he and his team can look to be aggressive in terms of gaining stage points and going for the win to add to their playoff total.

“We’re running pretty good right now. We’ve got a lot of great racetracks coming up for us, so I feel good about where our team is at,” said the Seymour, Wis., driver. “We just needed a little bit more tonight, but we’re going to build on it and keep top-fiving them to death.”

Broadcast coverage of the Team EJP 175 from Loudon, N.H., is slated for Saturday, Sept. 20 at noon ET, live on FS1, the NASCAR Racing Network, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.