NAFIS Recap from Charlotte Roval

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Welcome to Charlotte for the FedEx 99 here at the Roval! We are excited and interested to see how this race is gonna go. Let’s take it down to the pledge and National Anthem.

:us: We honor our fallen soldiers as the National Anthem plays :us:

Let’s get to our key topics as we take the pace laps!

:key: Key Topics :key:

- 120 Laps

- Sunny :sunny:

- Caleb Marinelli on pole!

:white_check_mark: Green Flag :white_check_mark:

Caleb Marinelli will lead the field to the green! He will pull out to a decent lead at the start!

:arrow_left: New Leader - Lap 13 :arrow_left:

Tanor Campos to the lead! Caleb falls back to third!

:arrow_left: New Leader - Lap 35 :arrow_left:

Caleb Marinelli will get the lead back going into turn 2!

:warning: Caution - Lap 37 :warning:

Oh no! Caleb gets a bump by Jay Anthony for the lead! Caleb is around! He’ll save it!

:fuelpump: Pitstops - Lap 38 :fuelpump:

Here’s the race off Pit-Road:

Arfvader Ward

Evan Taddy

Tanor Campos

Jared Holmes

Justin Ricci

:white_check_mark: Restart - Lap 39 :white_check_mark:

Arfvader Ward will lead them to the green! Evan Taddy will try and him on the outside. Tanor Campos 3 wide on the inside! Tanor will take the lead!

:arrow_left: New Leader - Lap 42 :arrow_left:

Arfvader Ward to the lead! Tanor will fall in behind him!

:arrows_counterclockwise: Update - Lap 60 :arrows_counterclockwise:

Top 5:

Arfvader Ward

Tanor Campos

Gavin Grant

Evan Taddy

Justin Ricci

:warning: Caution - Lap 68 :warning:

Oh no! Huge hit for Toad Swag his car is mangled here coming down the backstretch! He will not continue here today.

:fuelpump: Pitstops - Lap 69 :fuelpump:

Here’s the race off pit road:

Tanor Campos

Gavin Grant

Arfvader Ward

Jared Holmes

Don Faulconer

:white_check_mark: Restart - Lap 70 :white_check_mark:

Tanor Leads them back to the green here and will clear Gavin Grant. Arfvader will get around Gavin for 2nd!

:arrow_left: New Leader - Lap 78 :arrow_left:

Gavin Grant will take the lead!

:warning: Caution - Lap 82 :warning:

Greg Servia goes head first into the wall! He will not continue.

:white_check_mark: Restart - Lap 84 :white_check_mark:

Gavin Grant will lead them back to the green! Tanor will five to the inside but Gavin will continue to lead!

:warning: Caution - Lap 91 :warning:

Gummy Snoops spins and hits hard in the rear end!

:white_check_mark: Restart - Lap 93 :white_check_mark:

Gavin leads them back! He will pull away.

:arrows_counterclockwise: Update - Lap 100 :arrows_counterclockwise:

Gavin has a almost 2 second lead going into turn 3.

:dash: Problems - Lap 107 :dash:

Jimbo Jones chances of winning go up in smoke just like his engine.. He will make it to pit road with no caution.

:warning: Caution - Lap 119 :warning:

Ryan Gregory crashes! Caution will come out with 2 laps to go and it looks like it will be a green white checkered finish!

:white_check_mark: 🏳Green White Checkered - Lap 120🏳 :white_check_mark:

Gavin Grant will lead them back to the green! Tanor Campos right on his bumper! Tanor Gives him a nudge down the backstretch! Tanor is side by side with Gavin! Gavin hits him back! Coming around the final turn side by side!

:checkered_flag: Gavin Grant wins at the Charlotte Roval! :checkered_flag:

:radio: Gavin Grant: Hell yeah boys! :radio:

:radio: #54 Crew Chief: That’s how it’s done! :radio:

:radio: Tanor Campos: (Expletive)! :radio:

:radio: #04 Crew Chief: we’ll get em next time. :radio:

:page_with_curl: Race Results: :page_with_curl:

Results:

Gavin Grant

Arfvader Ward

Tanor Campos

Erik Jones

Ravid Dagan

Don Faulconer

MLG Cup Series

Jesse Ravioli

Jared Holmes

Caleb Marinelli

Parker Posey

Justin Ricci

Sammie Elessadil

Ruffles De La Chip

Jason Elliott

Jay Anthony

Joey Logano

Noah Wetzel

Soul Lycan

Jose Roy

William Byron

Elon Solberg

Patrick Jones

Ryan Howell

Evan Taddy

———————————DNF—

Ryan Gregory (Crash)

Jimbo Jones (Blown Engine)

Gummy Snoops (Crash)

Greg Servia (Crash)

Toad Swag (Crash)

🎙Post Race interview’s:🎙

Mike the Mountain Dew Man: Congratulations Gavin you got your first career win tonight at Charlotte for the inaugural Roval race for the NAFIS. How do you feel about this win moving forward in the season?

Gavin Grant: It’s great to get a win, even though I’m leeching it’s a great expierience to get my first NA Touring Series Win. Moving forward in the season, we got nothing to lose and everything to gain. So I’m gonna give everything I have out there on the track and we’re going to get a few more wins by the end of the season.

Mike the Mountain Dew Man: Thanks for your time.

That is our coverage from the FedEx 99 here at the Charlotte Roval. We would like to congratulate Gavin on his first Career win today. Thank for reading! We will see you next time!