Normally, ending up with another truck atop yours means the race is over for both of you. Keegan Kincaid somehow had it happen twice on the same lap and still walked away with the victory.
In one of the wildest final laps in recent memory, Kincaid and CJ Greaves tangled while fighting for the Forest County Potawatomi Brush Run victory and got stuck. Kyle Chaney swooped in and hoped to capitalize, but ended up mounting his truck on top of Kincaid’s as well as they went past the finish line. With Chaney stuck on his rear, Kincaid crossed the line first to score the win and complete a perfect weekend sweep in bizarre fashion.
Kincaid initially had the edge as he took the white flag, but Greaves’ Pro 4 truck was superior to his Pro 2. After closing the gap entering Turn 4, Greaves made his move on the inside.
However, he slid up into Kincaid in the process and the right front of his truck got locked onto Kincaid’s left front. With Chaney over 22 seconds behind them when the incident occurred, the two frantically gestured at each other as they tried to unhook themselves.
“I knew coming into this that Keegan was going to be the man. I watched the Pro 2 races and he was the man all weekend and I’m like, ‘Man, if he gets out front, we’re going to have our work cut out for us,’” Greaves recalled.
“I got into second and we had a huge gap yet and we didn’t see the laps counting down, so we didn’t know exactly where we were. We just kept pushing hard; Keegan and I were just talking, we were driving, hitting stuff harder than we hit it all weekend, doing everything we could just to try to hold each other off. Coming into the last lap, I threw it in on the bottom down there in the gravel pit and I saw Keegan out there next to me. I’m looking, I can see his front wheel and then all of a sudden, it just sucked it in together.
“We were locked and spinning around and all of a sudden I’m like, ‘Man, we just learned sign language!’ We’re both pointing and Keegan’s pointing this way and doing this and I’m trying to get the shifter going. I thought for a minute we were just going to be done there. Right as we get him apart, I see Keegan back up and here comes Kyle right through the middle. I’m like, ‘Oh boy, here we go.’”
Their attempts to get unstuck damaged Greaves’ transmission and Kincaid to spin and face the wrong way, but the latter was able to reverse out of the jam first. By the time Greaves got moving again, Chaney had caught up to them. Chaney recalled had “backed it down a little bit” when he saw the scene, after which hiis spotter told him, “‘Go, go, go!’, and I’m like, ‘Holy shit!’”
Greaves and Chaney collided while Kincaid tried to get his truck back up to speed. The trio briefly ran three wide until Chaney and Greaves hit each other again, allowing Kincaid to clear them going into the final corner.
Chaney tried a last-ditch pass on the inside, but clipped Kincaid and spun him. Kincaid corrected just enough to stay forward, with Chaney’s push inadvertently dragging both of them across the finish line.
“We came around that turn and I didn’t know where CJ was, but I’m like, ‘I’m not losing this,’” Chaney said. “So I just ran the back of Keegan and pushed him through the finish line.”
The conjoined #4 and #91 came to a stop just feet after the finish, where Chaney was trapped on Kincaid’s truck bed. Kincaid climbed out first and stood atop the #4 to celebrate before Chaney joined him. With their trucks unable to move, they took a golf cart to the podium.
While certainly a strange way to pull it off, Kincaid’s win prevented Greaves from winning the Brush Run for a fourth year in a row. Incidentally, he is also responsible for the last three Pro 2 victories in the event with prior triumphs in 2016 and 2019; otherwise, it had been a Greaves family show with CJ and Johnny.
“I knew CJ was coming fast. I didn’t even know it was going to be the white flag,” Kincaid stated. “I’m like, ‘White flag. Oh man, one more lap and he’s closing.’ I knew I had to run the outside down there. It was nothing intentional, we just kind of came together and our bumper hooked with my tire, his bumper.
“I don’t know how it was, but we had enough time there and we had a conversation at each other. It was good. We were like, ‘Where’s everybody else?’ Here come around the finish line and I’m giving Kyle a piggyback. I don’t even know, I got to sit back and process what just happened.”
Although settling for third, Greaves proclaimed it will “down in history as one of the most exciting Cup races you’re ever going to see.”
Kincaid also swept the Championship Off-Road points races for Pro 2, while Greaves won the Saturday Pro 4 event. Much of Saturday’s racing had been delayed by heavy rain that battered Crandon International Raceway, leading to very muddy conditions.
In the mud, Jordan Bernloehr led flag to flag for his maiden Pro Buggy triumph while Pro Lite came down to the final lap when John Holtger passed Connor Barry in the closing moments.
Forest County Potawatomi Brush Run results
| Finish | Number | Driver | Class | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Keegan Kincaid | Pro 2 | 10 |
| 2 | 91 | Kyle Chaney | Pro 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 33 | CJ Greaves | Pro 4 | 10 |
| 4 | 24X | Bradley Morris | Pro 2 | 10 |
| 5 | 11 | Adrian Cenni | Pro 4 | 10 |
| 6 | 67 | Cory Winner | Pro 2 | 10 |
| 7 | 98 | Patrick Denis | Pro 2 | 9 |
| 8 | 34 | Kyle Greaves | Pro 2 | 8 |
| 9 | 90 | Zac Zakowski | Pro 2 | 8 |
| 10 | 35 | Cole Mamer | Pro 4 | 5 |
| 11 | 65 | Dave Mason Jr. | Pro 2 | 4 |
| 12 | 31 | Jacob Rosales | Pro 2 | 4 |
| 13 | 88 | Mickey Thomas | Pro 4 | 4 |
| 14 | 44 | Jimmy Henderson | Pro 4 | 4 |
| 15 | 5 | Trey Gibbs | Pro 2 | 0 |
Winners
Pro
| Class | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Pro 4 | CJ Greaves | Jimmy Henderson |
| Pro 2 | Keegan Kincaid | Keegan Kincaid |
| Pro Lite | John Holtger | John Holtger |
| Pro SPEC | Wyatt Miller | Chris Van Den Elzen |
| Pro Buggy | Jordan Bernloehr | Michael Meister |
| Pro SxS | Owen VanEperen | Owen VanEperen |
| Pro Stock SxS | Owen VanEperen | Owen VanEperen |
Sportsman
| Class | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Pro Am Turbo SxS | Rick Schroeder | Benjamin Heiting |
| Pro Am SxS | Benjamin Heiting | Benjamin Heiting |
| Super Stock Truck | Nick Byng | Scott Boulanger |
| Stock Truck | Colt Wierzba | Dustin Rogaczewski |
| Sportsman SxS | Code St. Peter | Carson Hill |
| 1600 Single Buggy | Connor Schulz | Connor Schulz |
| 1600 Light Buggy | Connor Schulz | Tom Perryman |
| Mod Kart | Lincoln Mandsager | Lincoln Mandsager |
| Short Course Kart | Brayden Bell | Roman Tullberg |
| Youth SxS | Logan Fritzinger | Logan Fritzinger |
| 570 SxS | Raymond Deininger | Raymond Deininger |
| 170 SxS* | Ashton Dreher | Ashton Dreher |
| 200 SxS* | Grayson Forseth | Axel Dreher |


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