Zack Mitchell and his team expressed their displeasure at what happened on a late race restart of the race making it very clear that they were “taken out.”
On a restart with 12 to go, race leader Wil Herrington went really high in turn 4 and allowed Mitchell to close down the front stretch. As Herrington went to the bottom, Mitchell jumped to the middle and got to the outside of Herrington’s right rear down the back stretch. However, Herrington moved up entering into 3 to take away Mitchell’s line. Mitchell got on the brakes and rolled through the middle.
While all that was happening, Cody Overton sent it into turn 3. He went over Mitchell’s nose and then all the way to the top of the track where he made contact with Herrington’s left side. As they came off turn 4, Herrington’s car turned left into Overton’s right rear. Herrington would spin down the track while Overton was able to drive out of it. Mitchell had nowhere to go with Herrington spinning in front of him and spun himself to avoid a heavy collision. Both Herrington and Mitchell would come to a stop at the inside wall.
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Herrington would call it a night and ended up finishing in 22nd. Mitchell was sent to the rear for being involved in the wreck, but would rally for a 7th place finish. Overton went on to win the race. In his victory lane interview, he addressed the move and subsequent wreck, “I thought I cleared him. He’s got a brake pedal too. I get it. We’re all racing for the same deal. Hate it for him. He can let off too. It is what it is.”
He later added, “I hated the outcome, but I don’t know. It’s just something.”
As for Mitchell, he and his team shared on Facebook, “We started tonight in 8th place position but after an UNFORTUNATE restart we ended tonight at Cochran in P7. We had a fast car and we were contending for the win but unfortunately we got taken out and got sent back. We will be at Swainsboro tomorrow to try again.”
“Thank you to GR and Stacy for everything,” he concluded. “We want to get them one soon!”
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