Tyler Carpenter and the Race DRT team looked impressive for the opening portions of the first night of the World 100. Unfortunately, it all ended on the opening lap of their Shootout.

Carpenter qualified 6th in Group A. With the invert he started 5th in Shootout #3. On the opening lap, Carpenter hugged the bottom into turn 1 underneath both Ashton Winger and Dale McDowell. Getting into turn 2, Jonathan Davenport dove underneath of him and the two got together exiting the turn.

After the contact, Carpenter moved up the traffic and got hit from behind by Justin Duty.

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Carpenter spoke to StockCarReport.com about what happened. He shared, “Just took the green, went into turn 1, didn’t make it out of turn 2. Me and JD got together and plugged a lot of stuff in the left front suspension, lost the brakes, and just ended our night. Ended our whole weekend really. [Crap] happens.”

While he indicated that his weekend is likely over due to the World 100 points format, he did indicate the team will work to get the car repaired and get back after it, “Yea, we’ll get back out there, but points is a big deal here. We started off sixth quick and then got our feet kicked out from under us.”

“We’re just going to struggle a little bit and see what we can gain,” he concluded.

The Race DRT team shared at the end of the night that the incident “bent the frame, broke the spindle, bent the lower and got a brake caliper. Unfortunately, the provisional went to someone else.”

Nevertheless, the team shared, “VERY happy with this piece Gibbons Motorsprots-Engine Shop put together for us. Hopefully we can bounce back the rest of the weekend.”

Team owner Cody Sommer also shared an update on Friday morning, “We’re very, very happy with the speed we had. Very happy with this “Big One” engine projcect that Gibbons Motorsports put together for us. Also want to shoutout Willy Krup. We went and chassis dyno’d at his place before coming here and it helped us work out a lot of bugs with that before we even got here.”

“Obviously, the night didn’t end like what we wanted, but it started very good. We qualified 6th quick overall. So we were very happy with that. The car has a ton of power and it has speed,” he continued. “What’s kind of unfortunate is 6th quick overall and we felt like we left a lot on the table. With us not racing a lot and working together a lot, we need laps to tune on the car and work with Tyler to get it just perfect and right for him.”

As far as the incident on the opening lap of the Shootout, he said, “Unfortunately, we did get run over in our Shootout. But I will say this, JD was very apologetic to me about that. Everybody knows JD don’t drive like that. So, yeah, you can be mad about. We’re not happy about it, but the reality is he wouldn’t have done that intentionally. We know that. And he was very apologetic. We’ll move past that and just focus on today.”

Night 2 of the World 100 continues tonight, Friday, September 11th with hot laps scheduled to start at 6:00 PM ET and racing action to take place at 7:30 PM.

Similar to Thursday night, after qualifying, there will be six 12 lap Shootouts with the starting order to the top six inverted based on qualifying. The top eight cars from each Shootout race will advance to their respective feature. There will be two provisionals for the two fastest qualifiers who do not advance to the feature from the Shootout races.

On Saturday for the World 100, there will be six 15-lap heat races. The starting positions will be determined by the track’s Every Lap Matters point standings and then will be inverted based on the top point man’s spin of the Wheel of Misfortune. The top three finishers from each heat race will advance to the World 100 feature. Cars finishing 4th through 11th will go to one of two 15-lap B-Features. The top cars from the B-Features will advance to the World 100. The two highest point earnings who do not advance to the World 100 feature through their heat will receive provisionals and start 19th and 20th in the World 100.

The World 100 will pay $100,000 to win and $5,600 to start.

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