LONG POND, pa the driver of the # 22 Chevy car restart in three position with seven laps go and takes win away from James Buescher for his first Camping World Truck Series win. Joey finishes race with a 1.224 sec lead over James Buescher.
Coulter charged from third to first at moment after restart on Lap 44 of 50 at the 2.5-mile triangular track, after a caution on Lap 39 which included series leader Timothy Peters, who finished 22nd, 10 laps off the pace. Peters was racing through the Tunnel Turn, got loose beneath another truck and spun into the wall, taking five other cars with him.
"As soon as hes spotter said 'green,' he put the foot to the floor and just let the ECR [Earnhardt Childress Racing Engines] Chevrolet horsepower do the rest," Coulter said. "We needed to make moves quick.
It was new pavement [since last year's Truck race], and it picked the speeds up, but it sure did make it hard to pass.
Third-place finisher and pole-sitter Nelson Piquet Jr. who led 33 laps and brought the field to green for the final time, said restarts are complicated at Pocono, which features the longest straightaway in NASCAR racing at 3,740 feet.
"The last restart was a bit of a problem," Piquet said. "It's so wide. I didn't know if I would defend on my left - Coulter - or if I would try to keep my line with James [Buescher] next to me, and it ended up being three-wide in the first corner.
Matt Crafton and Denny Hamlin finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Ty Dillon, Parker Kligerman, John Wes Townley, Justin Lofton and Ross Chastain completed the top 10.
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