Two weeks ago, we wrote about how Sheldon Creed was either the third or fourth driver with Stadium Super Trucks experience to win multiple times in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series, much like how he was either the first or second Dakar Rally alumnus to achieve the feat.

This stat was so convoluted because it depends on whether you consider Robby Gordon the rightful winner of the 2007 NAPA Auto Parts 200. Gordon himself treats that Montreal day as his victory, but NASCAR officially regards it as Kevin Harvick’s W. The latter means the record books list Gordon as only having one victory in NASCAR’s second division at the 2004 Emerson Radio 250.

If you side with Gordon, Creed is the fourth SST driver and second Dakarian to win multiple times in the O’Buschfinitywide Series. If you side with NASCAR, he’d be the third from SST and the first Dakarian to achieve the feat.

Greg Biffle holds the most wins in the second tier among SST alumni with 20 ahead of Kenny Wallace’s nine. Third place, however, was either a tie between Creed and Gordon or just Creed by himself depending on your faction in the above argument.

Creed’s victory at Bristol Motor Speedway on Friday finally put an end to that debate. Regardless of whether you think Gordon has one or two wins, Creed now has three.

The winningest driver in SST history has been on a tear since the Chase began at Darlington a fortnight prior. He won the postseason opener then finished second last week at Gateway, giving him the points lead over Justin Allgaier going into Bristol. Despite starting second, however, Friday’s race was a relatively uneventful one for Creed as he mostly ran on the borderline of the top ten while Carson Kvapil and Jesse Love led the way.

Eventually, his opportunity arrived when he decided to pit with 15 laps to go. While this dropped him back for the restart and Bristol’s short track status meant he didn’t have much time, the move paid off tremendously. Creed easily sliced his way up to second, weaving by Allgaier as well but running out of time if he wanted to catch William Sawalich. Fortunately, contact between Corey Day and Ryan Sieg sent the latter into the wall to bring out another caution with three laps left.

Creed took the lead from Sawalich on the restart and cruised to his third win of the season (he won at Atlanta earlier in the year). Allgaier ended up in the wall after tangling with Love and had to settle for fourth.

“Just a great call by my crew chief and engineer to put tires on,” said Creed, respectively referring to Jonathan Toney and Cole Ignaszewski. “Great pit stop by my guys to get me out first and be the first one on tires.

“To be honest, I wasn’t really good all night with the balance of our Chevrolet. Hats off to these guys, they just never give up. I just think the restart there, I tried to time the #18 (Sawalich) well. Me being on a lot newer tire, I think it was just easier for me to get going. I got clear and I was trying to watch him up top. Seemed like we had god momentum.”

The win keeps Creed atop the standings by 11 points on Allgaier with six races to go. While it certainly feels good to have multiple wins in the Chase already, he stressed, “I don’t know if it makes us the title favorite. [It’s] a long way to go. I thought we were going to just lose some points tonight but I think winning kind of helps us out with that a bit. I’d like to think we’re the favorite. If not, at least talked about.”

Creed tackled the Dakar Rally for the first and only time in 2016. He, Gordon, and the late John Graham are the only drivers to have raced a Dakar and in the second highest level of stock car racing. Eliseo Salazar and Mattias Ekström’s NASCAR experience were exclusively in the Truck and Cup Series, respectively.

Coincidentally, Bristol hosted SST as the 2022 season finale. Cleetus McFarland, who’s been dabbling in stock cars in recent times, raced a stadium truck at the 2022 Long Beach and Nashville rounds before bringing the series to Tennessee as part of the undercard for the Bristol 1000. Like most races organized by McFarland, he invited several content creators into the field to mix it up with the SST regulars.

The track ran along the banking and through the infield with jumps on the backstretch pit road. Bristol has had dirt before and even hosted Global Rallycross in 2013, but the SST course was solidly pavement.

Gavin Harlien won Race 1 while Robert Stout claimed the second. McFarland scored a third in the latter.

However, Harlien’s father Chris didn’t take too kindly to how the content creators raced the regulars, leading to a post-race confrontation between the older Harlien and Dave “HeavyDSparks” Sparks. Bill Hynes, who was runner-up in the first race, broke them up.

It was SST’s only time racing at Bristol. Creed didn’t race as he was in the midst of his Xfinity Series rookie season.

Food City 300 results

Finish	Start	Number	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Status
1	2	00	Sheldon Creed	Haas Factory Team	Chevrolet	305	Running
2	16	18	William Sawalich	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	305	Running
3	6	19	Brent Crews	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	305	Running
4	9	7	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	305	Running
5	26	17	Corey Day	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	305	Running
6	5	54	Taylor Gray	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	305	Running
7	3	41	Sam Mayer	Haas Factory Team	Chevrolet	305	Running
8	7	99	Parker Retzlaff	Viking Motorsports	Chevrolet	305	Running
9	12	26	Dean Thompson	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	305	Running
10	8	8	Sammy Smith	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	305	Running
11	36	9	Jake Finch	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	305	Running
12	34	24	Harrison Burton	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	305	Running
13	17	44	Brennan Poole	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	305	Running
14	29	51	Jeremy Clements	Jeremy Clements Racing	Chevrolet	305	Running
15	11	20	Brandon Jones	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	305	Running
16	33	87	Nick Sanchez	Peterson Racing Group	Chevrolet	305	Running
17	1	2	Jesse Love	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	305	Running
18	31	42	Logan Bearden	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	304	Running
19	23	32	Andrew Patterson	Jordan Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	303	Running
20	15	28	Kyle Sieg	RSS Racing	Chevrolet	303	Running
21	24	91	Stefan Parsons	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	302	Running
22	20	21	Austin Hill	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	301	Running
23	10	88	Rajah Caruth	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	301	Running
24	4	1	Carson Kvapil	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	301	Running
25	13	27	Jeb Burton	Jordan Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	301	Running
26	18	48	Patrick Staropoli	Big Machine Racing	Chevrolet	299	Running
27	27	02	Ryan Ellis	Young’s Motorsports	Chevrolet	299	Running
28	22	92	Josh Williams	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	299	Running
29	35	53	Carson Ware	Joey Gase Motorsports	Chevrolet	298	Running
30	14	39	Ryan Sieg	RSS Racing	Chevrolet	297	Accident
31	28	07	Josh Bilicki	SS-Green Light Racing	Chevrolet	297	Running
32	19	96	Anthony Alfredo	Viking Motorsports	Chevrolet	290	Running
33	25	0	Garrett Smithley	SS-Green Light Racing	Chevrolet	258	Engine
34	21	31	Blaine Perkins	Jordan Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	230	Running
35	30	55	David Starr	Joey Gase Motorsports	Chevrolet	206	Suspension
36	32	45	Lavar Scott	Alpha Prime Racing	Chevrolet	138	Oil Cooler
37	37	47	Natalie Decker	Mike Harmon Racing	Chevrolet	119	Transmission
38	38	38	J.J. Yeley	RSS Racing	Ford	108	Fuel Pump
DNQ		43	Landon S. Huffman	SPS Racing	Chevrolet

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