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SEASON IN REVIEW
Marble Falls, Texas driver Clayton Green picked up his second LASTCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship in 2025 and second in a row, scoring two last-place finishes in eleven starts during a twenty-five race season.
Green continued his part-time efforts with the former Reaume Brothers Racing team, rebranded this year as Team Reaume, as one of several up-and-coming drivers in their rotation. One year after his sudden LASTCAR Truck Series contention, there were still lessons to be learned.
Green’s first last-place run of the season came at Bristol on April 10th, where his #22 Badass Workbench Ford was in a tight battle for position when he developed a serious push condition that caused him to lose two laps by Lap 54. Black-flagged for not maintaining minimum speed, he came in for adjustments, then incurred a pit penalty just before the end of Stage 1. The issued continued early in Stage 2, when he was black-flagged a second time and parked for the race. Green’s second last-place finish didn’t come until Charlotte on October 9th, where his black-and-pink #22 Aerial Titans Ford pulled behind the wall with a water leak during the Stage 2 caution. While looking under the hood, the crew discovered a large hole punched in the radiator, which ended their race.
As has been common in recent Truck Series seasons, the LASTCAR championship battle remained wide-open with few drivers scoring more than one last-place finish. Green’s last-place run in Charlotte gave him the lead with just four races to go in the season. His only contender at the time was Jackson Macenko, another of Reaume’s drivers, who had finished last in each of his first two series starts at IRP and the return to Bristol in September. Macenko, too, had been black-flagged for a minimum speed issue at Bristol, his issue the result of a right-rear tire that was going down on the #22 PolyDyn Performance Coatings Ford, but not discovered until after he went to the garage. Macenko returned to the track with fresh tires, only to be told he’d already been parked for running too slow.
The only other two-time last-place finisher of the season was Cleetus McFarland (aka Garrett Mitchell), who finished last in his series debut at Daytona when his #4 Black Rifle Coffee Company Chevrolet snapped loose coming off Turn 4 and hit the inside wall. McFarland joined the battle in the next superspeedway race at Talladega, where this time he was nearly clear of a multi-truck wreck in Turn 2 before he crossed the nose of Cory Roper’s #62 Drydene Toyota, sending his #4 Blues Hog Chevrolet nose-first into the inside wall once again. But both McFarland and Macenko weren’t entered in any other races, leaving ten other drivers in contention to take the LASTCAR Truck Series title from Green in the final race of the season.
As it happened, Green was entered in the season finale at Homestead on November 6th, where he finished 31st in the #22 Royal Vista, Inc. Ford. The last-place finisher was Nick Sanchez, who became just the fourth polesitter in series history to finish last following a driveshaft failure on his #77 Modo Super Gaming App Chevrolet. Since Sanchez wasn’t one of the drivers in contention for the title, Green won by just two bottom-five finishes over both McFarland and Macenko.
OTHER LASTCAR HEADLINES
Like Jackson Macenko, the series debuts of both Dystany Spurlock at Dover on May 15th and Donovan Strauss at North Wilkesboro on July 18th each resulted in a last-place finish. Spurlock’s #69 Foxxtecca Ford crashed after 36 laps while Strauss suffered heat exhaustion after 134 laps, which was listed in the results as “overheating.”
At Atlanta on February 21st, Christian Eckes scored the first last-place finish of his Truck Series career in his 118th series start. This came after he’d already scored two last-place runs in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series.
The 2026 season saw the return of RAM to Truck Series competition, a muti-truck effort at Kaulig Racing. While they didn’t score a win during the year, they only finished last on one occasion, which came in the inaugural race at Naval Base Coronado on June 19, 2026. Corey LaJoie suffered significant damage to the left-rear of his #10 Mopar RAM and was unable to return to the race after 22 laps. It was RAM’s first last-place finish in the series since 2015.
At Phoenix on October 16th, Jackson Lee, son of IndyCar pit reported Kevin Lee, made his oval track debut in a new part-time team for Team Reaume, the #23 Browning Chapman Ford. Lee cut down a tire in the early stages, costing him a few lost laps. In a race slowed by only two cautions, Lee remained in last place for the rest of the night, finishing eight laps down on a night where all 36 starters finished under power.
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
1st) Clayton Green [4 B5s], Jackson Macenko [2 B5s], Cleetus McFarland [2 B5s] (2)
2nd) Luke Baldwin, Spencer Boyd, Cole Butcher, Natalie Decker, Christian Eckes, Conner Jones, Stewart Friesen, Corey LaJoie, Jackson Lee, Ben Maier, Tyler Reif, Ben Rhodes, Nick Sanchez, Wesley Slimp, Chandler Smith, Dystany Spurlock, Donovan Strauss, Dawson Sutton, Kris Wright (1)
