Sawalich, who competes in ARCA and NASCAR for Joe Gibbs Racing, grabbed the lead from Xfinity Collection driver Brandon Jones simply earlier than the midway break and led each lap within the second half.
Sawalich and Jones each bought a scare late within the race. Eric Johnson Jr. ran off the monitor in Flip 12 and hit the tire barrier which introduced out a warning that arrange a restart with seven laps remaining.
As the sector entered Flip 4, Jack Wooden was trying to take the sector three-wide and seize the lead, however as an alternative ran off into the within grass and misplaced management.
Wooden’s No. 16 then slid proper throughout the noses of each Sawalich and Jones earlier than ending up in one other grassy runoff.
Sawalich wasn’t slowed by the chaos and held on to beat Jones by 4.510 seconds to earn his second collection win however first win in a inventory automobile on a street course.
The 17-year-old Sawalich now has a pair of ARCA West wins, 5 in ARCA East (and one championship) and 5 wins within the nationwide ARCA Menards Collection.
“We undoubtedly labored on our street course program within the offseason. I labored on myself as a result of I wasn’t that good final 12 months,” Sawalich stated. “We put within the work and bought the win right here in order that feels actually good.
“That provides me a number of confidence going into Sonoma (subsequent weekend) that we’re going to be actually good there. We’ll take a look at out the brand new repave and see the way it goes.”
Isabella Robusto ran down Tyler Reif within the closing laps to take third, Reif was fourth and Giovanni Ruggiero rounded out the highest 5.
