RACE RECAP – Nashville – Jeffrey Earnhardt / No. 26 ForeverLawn Toyota GR Supra

Jun 27, 2022

JEFFREY EARNHARDT

RACE REPORT

TENNESSEE LOTTERY 250 AT NASHVILLE SUPERSPEEDWAY
NO. 26 FOREVERLAWN TOYOTA GR SUPRA

EVENT INFORMATION

  • Date: June 15, 2022
  • Event: Tennessee Lottery 250 (Round 15 of 33)
  • Location: Nashville Superspeedway
  • Format: 188 Laps (Stages 45 laps / 45 laps / 98 laps)
  • Start/Finish: 11th / 7th 

KEY NOTES

  • Jeffrey Earnhardt made his track debut at Nashville Superspeedway on Saturday in the No. 26 ForeverLawn Toyota GR Supra, bringing home a 7th-place finish in the Tennessee Lottery 250.
  • Earnhardt qualified 11th out of 38 cars, tying Sam Hunt Racing’s third-highest qualifying effort to date.
    • Nemechek qualified 11th at Phoenix earlier this year.
  • Out of 60 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts, Earnhardt’s 7th-place finish is Sam Hunt Racing’s fifth Top-10 in team history.
  • The No. 26 ForeverLawn Toyota GR Supra battled loose handling conditions getting into Turn 3 for the majority of the event, while also working against tight conditions from center to exit.
  • Earnhardt went for a spin after getting loose under the No. 2 of Sheldon Creed during the final stage, but had no damage to the No. 26 ForeverLawn machine. 
    • Earnhardt restarted 20th after that caution and improved 13 positions in 66 laps.
  • In the final laps of the race, Earnhardt was one of the top-five cars on speed. 

QUOTES

Tell us about your weekend from start to finish.
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“Solid weekend for our Sam Hunt Racing #26 Toyota GR Supra. We ran pretty decent in practice…made a lot of changes that we felt were in the right direction. I felt like we made some speed and that we made the right changes that we needed to to be good for the race and qualifying. I felt good about everything. We made a couple of more adjustments, went out for qualifying and was a little bit free, but we still put together a decent qualifying run. We started 11th in the race. We kept adjusting on it all day long and got a little too far out of the box, but Allen [Hart] and all of the guys dialed it back in and got it pretty solid right there. I think we just needed a little more speed to be a race-winning car. I’m really happy for all the guys at Sam Hunt Racing who put together a solid weekend like this. It was really great to have all of the ForeverLawn people come out — they had 70-something people here. It’s awesome to see their support for this program and what we’re doing on the racing side of things. All in all, a good weekend. We’ll take the momentum from this, build on it and go get them in Atlanta.”
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— Jeffrey Earnhardt, Driver of the No. 26 ForeverLawn Toyota GR Supra

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