It was a troublesome race for the Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway as title contenders Corey Heim and Carson Hocevar wrecked one another and Grant Enfinger and Rhodes each suffered injury in separate incidents.
Zane Smith went into the primary of 4 overtimes because the chief however was ultimately caught up in one of many three restart wrecks.
On the ultimate restart, Eckes bought round chief Chase Purdy and managed to carry off Jake Garcia to earn his fourth victory of the 2023 season and fifth of his profession.
Rhodes held on in opposition to a late cost from Enfinger to hold on to fifth, adequate to assert his second sequence title in three years.
“I can’t even consider it. That is so superior, man,” Rhodes mentioned. “To go 25-plus laps into additional time, are you aware what that looks like? I didn’t suppose we had been going to make it. I believed we had been going to pop a tire and the whole lot that would have gone mistaken would go mistaken.
“Grant nearly bought me. Hats off to him. He ran an important race. I wouldn’t need to race anyone else for the championship. He raced me clear, and I respect the hell out of him for it.”
Purdy ended up third, Jesse Love was fourth and Rhodes fifth.
Finishing the top-10 had been Enfinger, Dean Thompson, Kaden Honeycutt, Tanner Grey and Nick Sanchez.
Stage 1
Ty Majeski led each lap however held off a late cost from Heim by 0.238 seconds to take the Stage 1 win. Smith was third, Rhodes fourth and Sanchez rounded out the highest 5.
Stage 2
Heim edged Smith by 0.465 seconds to assert the Stage 2 win. Majeski was third, Eckes fourth and Kraus rounded out the highest 5.
Early within the stage, Marco Andretti bought into Chris Hacker on the backstretch, which despatched Hacker’s truck up the observe and a tough hit into the Flip 3 wall. Each vehicles had been knocked out of the race.
Stage 3
Following the break between Phases 2 and three, a lot of the lead-lap vehicles with Smith the primary off pit highway. Eckes stayed on the observe and inherited the lead with 51 laps remaining.
Connor Jones slammed into Jake Drew coming into Flip 3 which positioned the race underneath warning and arrange a restart with 41 laps to go and Eckes nonetheless within the lead.
With 30 laps to go, whereas racing for place, Hocevar hit Heim – who was main the championship contenders on the time – and he bought into Stewart Friesen, sending him round.
Severa lead-lap vehicles pit together with Heim, and Sanchez led the sphere to inexperienced when the race resumed with 25 laps to go.
Shortly after Smith grabbed the lead a multi-truck wreck positioned the race underneath warning and it was red-flagged for almost 12 minutes to wash the observe of particles. Smith led Eckes and Rhodes on the restart with 15 laps to go.
With three laps remaining in regulation, Heim – apparently in retaliation for an earlier incident – slid up in entrance of Hocevar and ran him into the wall, which did intensive injury to each vehicles and picked up Taylor Grey as effectively.
The wreck despatched the race right into a two-lap additional time with Smith out entrance adopted by Eckes and the 2 remaining championship contenders – Enfinger and Rhodes.
Kraus wrecked within the additional time and Enfinger acquired some injury within the incident which left Smith main Rhodes heading into the second two-lap additional time.
Smith missed a shift on the restart and bought into Rhodes which triggered one other multi-truck incident. That despatched the race into a 3rd additional time with Eckes within the lead and Rhodes broken and in sixth.
One other wreck on the restart allowed Purdy to maneuver into the lead for the primary time and despatched the race right into a fourth additional time.
| Cla | Driver | # | Producer | Laps | Time | Interval | Pits | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  C. ECKESMcAnally Hilgemann Racing |
19 | Chevrolet | 179 |
2:27’33.376 |
5 | 51 | ||
| 2 |
J. GARCIAMcAnally Hilgemann Racing |
35 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+0.421 2:27’33.797 |
0.421 | 6 | 37 | |
| 3 | C. PURDYKyle Busch Motorsports |
4 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+0.897 2:27’34.273 |
0.476 | 6 | 43 | |
| 4 |
J. LOVETRICON Storage |
1 | Toyota | 179 |
+1.429 2:27’34.805 |
0.532 | 6 | 33 | |
| 5 | B. RHODESThorSport Racing |
99 | Ford | 179 |
+1.866 2:27’35.242 |
0.437 | 5 | 32 | |
| 6 | G. ENFINGERGMS Racing |
23 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+2.172 2:27’35.548 |
0.306 | 7 | 31 | |
| 7 |
D. THOMPSONTRICON Storage |
5 | Toyota | 179 |
+2.185 2:27’35.561 |
0.013 | 6 | 30 | |
| 8 |
Ok. HONEYCUTTYounger’s Motorsports |
02 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+2.205 2:27’35.581 |
0.020 | 9 | 29 | |
| 9 | T. GRAYTRICON Garage |
15 | Toyota | 179 |
+2.363 2:27’35.739 |
0.158 | 7 | 28 | |
| 10 |
N. SANCHEZRev Racing |
2 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+2.584 2:27’35.960 |
0.221 | 10 | 33 | |
| 11 | M. CRAFTONThorSport Racing |
88 | Ford | 179 |
+2.667 2:27’36.043 |
0.083 | 9 | 26 | |
| 12 |
R. CARUTHGMS Racing |
24 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+2.881 2:27’36.257 |
0.214 | 9 | 25 | |
| 13 |
A. LAWLESSNiece Motorsports |
45 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+3.173 2:27’36.549 |
0.292 | 8 | 24 | |
| 14 | T. MAJESKIThorSport Racing |
98 | Ford | 179 |
+3.564 2:27’36.940 |
0.391 | 8 | 41 | |
| 15 | H. DEEGANThorSport Racing |
13 | Ford | 179 |
+3.840 2:27’37.216 |
0.276 | 8 | 22 | |
| 16 |
C. ROSEAM Racing |
22 | Ford | 179 |
+4.147 2:27’37.523 |
0.307 | 7 | 21 | |
| 17 | S. DAVISRoper Racing |
04 | Ford | 179 |
+4.333 2:27’37.709 |
0.186 | 9 | 20 | |
| 18 |
C. HEIMTRICON Storage |
11 | Toyota | 179 |
+4.377 2:27’37.753 |
0.044 | 9 | 19 | |
| 19 |
N. LEITZYounger’s Motorsports |
20 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+4.548 2:27’37.924 |
0.171 | 11 | 18 | |
| 20 |
T. HILLHill Motorsports |
56 | Toyota | 179 |
+6.619 2:27’39.995 |
2.071 | 9 | 17 | |
| 21 |
C. HOWARDCR7 Motorsports |
9 | Chevrolet | 179 |
+12.385 2:27’45.761 |
5.766 | 7 | 16 | |
| 22 | T. ANKRUMHattori Racing Enterprises |
16 | Toyota | 178 |
+1 Lap 2:27’13.926 |
1 Lap | 9 | 15 | |
| 23 |
T. GRAYTRICON Storage |
17 | Toyota | 177 |
+2 Laps 2:27’42.394 |
1 Lap | 7 | 21 | |
| 24 | S. FRIESENHalmar Friesen Racing |
52 | Toyota | 175 |
+4 Laps 2:27’42.808 |
2 Laps | 8 | 13 | |
| 25 |
Z. SMITHEntrance Row Motorsports |
38 | Ford | 172 |
+7 Laps 2:21’25.740 |
3 Laps | 9 | 29 | |
| 26 |
S. HINGORANIHenderson Motorsports |
75 | Chevrolet | 167 |
+12 Laps 2:17’12.101 |
5 Laps | 9 | 11 | |
| 27 |
J. WOODKyle Busch Motorsports |
51 | Chevrolet | 162 |
+17 Laps 2:09’01.740 |
5 Laps | 7 | 10 | |
| 28 | D. KRAUSSpire Motorsports |
77 | Chevrolet | 156 |
+23 Laps 2:02’25.507 |
6 Laps | 7 | 9 | |
| 29 |
C. HOCEVARNiece Motorsports |
42 | Chevrolet | 146 |
+33 Laps 1:51’17.071 |
10 Laps | 5 | 8 | |
| 30 |
S. PARSONSRackley W.A.R. |
25 | Chevrolet | 128 |
+51 Laps 1:37’26.783 |
18 Laps | 5 | 7 | |
| 31 | B. CURREYNiece Motorsports |
41 | Chevrolet | 128 |
+51 Laps 1:37’26.904 |
0.121 | 7 | 6 | |
| 32 |
D. DYEGMS Racing |
43 | Chevrolet | 128 |
+51 Laps 1:37’27.006 |
0.102 | 6 | 5 | |
| 33 |
J. DREWHattori Racing Enterprises |
61 | Toyota | 100 |
+79 Laps 1:13’50.612 |
28 Laps | 4 | 4 | |
| 34 |
C. JONESThorSport Racing |
66 | Ford | 100 |
+79 Laps 1:13’50.770 |
0.158 | 4 | 3 | |
| 35 | M. ANDRETTISpire Motorsports |
7 | Chevrolet | 54 |
+125 Laps 34’57.069 |
46 Laps | 4 | 2 | |
| 36 |
C. HACKEROn Level Motorsports |
30 | Toyota | 53 |
+126 Laps 34’11.377 |
1 Lap | 3 | 1 |
