In an unfortunate series of events, tonight marked the end of Rajah Caruth’s Championship 4 dreams. The 23-year-old suffered from contact with fellow playoff driver Kaden Honeycutt at Martinsville Speedway. The Spire Motorsports driver had to settle for a 34th-place finish; the driver was suffering damage at both ends of his No. 71 Chevrolet.

Speaking to Matt Weaver post-race, Caruth said, “Yeah, I think for us we got damaged there on that restart stack when Landon missed the shift and the truck wasn’t driving the same, so I just was trying to do the best with it and uh obviously Kaden slid up but it happens. And uh, it’s side racing on Martinsville, so that that happens, um, this is a bummer; it was me, so it’s part of it. ”

As he was exiting Turn 4 at lap 73, Caruth and Honeycutt made

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