Ricky Thornton Jr. broke down his tough night on night 2 of the World Finals where he suffered electrical problems that forced him to pull off during his heat race and continued to plague him during the B-main.

In his heat race, Thornton faded to 5th after starting in third with Tim McCreadie and G.R. Smith getting by him. On lap of 6 of 8 he took it into the infield and then back into the pit area. I spoke with one of his crew members and they believed it was a battery issue after replacing it and they would be good to go for the B-Main.

Unfortunately, the issue persisted during the B-Main and he pulled it back to the pits. Thornton spoke with StockCarReport.com and explained the problems and what they were doing to troubleshoot it.

He said, “I just started third on the start and it didn’t really seem right. It was kind of spitting and sputtering. Ran a couple of laps in the heat and just pulled off. There’s no reason to tear up a perfectly good motor for some electrical or-. Really, we still don’t know.”

“We changed batteries,” he continued. “Different charger, couple of different wires and stuff. Went out for the B-Main, did it right away. Changed a few more things just electrical wise.”

Thornton then shared that it was Jimmy Owens in his car during the feature last night because he had issues with his car as well, “Jimmy [Owens] had a problem with his car so he opted in mine to go out for the feature and we still had problems. So not exactly sure exactly what it is. I think really all we got left is coils, MSD box, a couple of other things like that. So we’ll change those for tomorrow. Hopefully, it’s fixed. The hard part, unfortunately, there’s nowhere to test it to make sure. So I don’t know if we got a dash or just running in the feature tomorrow. So, hopefully, it’s fixed. If not it’ll be a short night for us.”

Thornton’s team shared this morning that they “at the dyno this morning trying to figure out the issues with the late model.”

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