{"id":8006,"date":"2020-04-08T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonmotorsport.com\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2020-04-08T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:04:53","slug":"landon-cassill-preece-iracing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2020\/04\/08\/landon-cassill-preece-iracing\/","title":{"rendered":"Landon Cassill, Ryan Preece win Myrtle Beach Short Track Races"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBCSN Short Track Series had its best night of the week that featured\u00a0Landon Cassill\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Ryan Preece\u00a0<\/strong>as beneficiaries to a strategic pair of races on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The pair advanced to the series championship race on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Landon Cassill, Ryan Preece win Myrtle Beach Short Track Races<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The six-driver field was worried about tire wear at the historic short track from the start of the first of two races.<\/p>\n

So much so, that\u00a0Ryan Preece\u00a0<\/strong>went from first to last-place on the initial lap of the first race.<\/p>\n

He caught a lot of flack for it from his competitors, but Preece was saving his tires to make a push for it later on.<\/p>\n

Preece eventually got the win, and it prompted\u00a0Cassill to look at his tires.<\/p>\n

“I looked at my tread, and still had 80-something percent left on my tread after the first race,” Cassill said. “I knew I could push that down to the 70’s [in the second race] and still be fine.”<\/p>\n

Just 11 laps into the second race of the night, Cassill made a move to take the lead.<\/p>\n

He started pushing his tires and building on his lead throughout the 45-lap event.<\/p>\n

“I just kept driving,” Cassill said. “I think those guys were waiting for [my tires] to just fall off.”<\/p>\n

By the end of the race, Cassill sat almost two seconds ahead of second-place, even with a handful of laps to go. No one was going to catch him.<\/p>\n

So, Cassill and Preece, along with others, advance.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s championship race will consist of 10 drivers combined with the five winners and five select drivers that earned, ‘Peacock Provisionals’ from\u00a0Steve Letarte<\/strong> for their racing this week.<\/p>\n

Championship Race Field<\/strong>
\nWilliam Byron
\nKyle Larson
\nChristopher Bell
\nRyan Preece
\nLandon Cassill
\nKyle Busch
\nDenny Hamlin
\nChase Briscoe
\nParker Kligerman
\nDale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n

The race will be televised by NBCSN and is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NBCSN Short Track Series had its best night of the week that featured\u00a0Landon Cassill\u00a0and\u00a0Ryan Preece\u00a0as beneficiaries to a strategic pair of races on Wednesday. The pair advanced to the series championship race on Thursday. Landon Cassill, Ryan Preece win Myrtle Beach Short Track Races The six-driver field was worried about tire wear at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":8007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1370,7,5],"tags":[52,384,1380,311,388,14,679,1381,1373],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iracing","category-more-racing","category-nascar","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-iracing","tag-landon-cassill","tag-matt-dibenedetto","tag-myatt-snider","tag-nascar","tag-ryan-preece","tag-short-track-series","tag-timmy-hill"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}