LAS VEGAS: Gander Outdoors Truck Series championship leader Brett Moffitt showed up in Las Vegas this week fresh off back-to-back wins in the series’ previous two Playoff races at Bristol, Tenn. and Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. And while he’s earned the automatic pass to the next round of the Playoffs, he entered Friday night’s first Playoff round finale cautiously optimistic but certainly encouraged by his No. 24 GMS Racing team’s performance.
“It’s huge until next week,’’ Moffitt said of his impressive Playoff start. “It’s a whole new game when we re-start [the second round of the Playoffs]. The only thing we have done is we took a lot of pressure off ourselves after Bristol and capitalized on getting the most playoff points possible at Canada.
“If the roles were reversed and I was fighting for a transfer spot right now I’d be looking at my team in jealousy and say, ‘What do we have to do to run like that?’ But it’s not just of late. It’s all year and everything we’ve done to improve as a race team. We got our trucks better and we got our team to work better as a race team.’’
Moffitt’s results indicate as much. He’s had top-10 finishes in eight of the last nine races, including the four wins. His Playoff victories at Bristol and the Canadian road course both came from the pole position.
“We’ve got to keep getting better and we can’t feel comfortable and keeping pushing as if we were the ones getting cut. I think that’s how you have to look at. Everyone on this team is more motivated to win three races in a row. We’re still in attack mode and want to win.”
Source: Holly Cain | NASCAR Wire Service
