Posted on 5/18/2014
•Rookie Gets Career-Best Mark In K&N Pro Series East-West Combo Race NEWTON, Iowa (May 18, 2014) – Nick Drake drove his No. 15 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota to a career-best second-place finish in the Casey’s General Store 150 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East-West combination race at Iowa Speedway on Saturday. The 18-year-old series rookie from Mooresville, N.C., – making his first start on the .875-mile high-banked oval in Newton, Iowa – charged from 11th on the grid and worked his way through the field to take the runner-up spot behind race winner Ben Rhodes. “Once we got to second, I think we were just as good as him,” said Drake, whose previous best series finish came last month at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, where he was third. “We just never got a caution to get the chance to get around him. Starting that far back and starting on the front row, that’s what the race came down to. We used our stuff up to catch the leaders. We needed a caution there at the end to get caught ... read more