With the SRX season finale Saturday night at Sharon Speedway and a championship on the line, Marco Andretti was able to battle back from an early race incident to secure the 2022 SRX Series Championship and Chase Elliott held off a late-charging Tony Stewart for the race win. Matt Kenseth finished third followed by Ryan Hunter-Reay and Bobby Labonte to round out the top five.
“To sit there and race on dirt with one of my heroes in Tony Stewart and throw a couple of sliders with him, obviously this is a little different than the open wheel stuff, but knowing how good he is at this stuff and being able to dice it up and race with him. I actually thought he was better than me the run before and then I was able to watch him on the top and finally get a couple of things going there. Congrats to Marco (Andretti). Great crowd. Thanks everybody for coming out tonight. And thanks to the Blaney’s for having me up here.”
Elliott is now two for two in SRX competition adding the win at Sharon Speedway to his 2021 win at the Nashville Fairgrounds.
Ryan Newman finished second in the point standings, two points behind Andretti and Labonte retook third followed by Stewart in fourth. The top four in points were separated by only seven points at the conclusion to the 2022 season.
“The cool thing about this is you get damage, you can still play and stay on the lead lap. I broke my wrist in that last incident, got my thumb caught in the wheel, so painful last couple of laps, but I just wanted to cover and finish right where I needed to finish, and we were able to do that. This thing was pretty robust tonight.”
Official Results
| result | Driver Name | winnings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chase Elliott | n/a |
| 2 | Tony Stewart | n/a |
| 3 | Matt Kenseth | n/a |
| 4 | Ryan Hunter-Reay | n/a |
| 5 | Bobby Labonte | n/a |
| 6 | Greg Biffle | n/a |
| 7 | Ryan Blaney | n/a |
| 8 | Ryan Newman | n/a |
| 9 | Marco Andretti | n/a |
| 10 | Paul Tracy | n/a |
| 11 | Tony Kanaan | n/a |
| 12 | Dave Blaney | n/a |
| 13 | Michael Waltrip | n/a |