Sometimes small and light beats big and fast.
That’s what happened at last weekend’s Mint 400 in the blazing Nevada desert southwest of Las Vegas. Racer Kyle Jergensen was driving a SPEC truck in the Mint, going up against the full Unlimited rigs with roughly twice as much horsepower and twice as much speed.
But, to finish first, first you have to finish.
Jergensen trailed two-time defending race winner Adam Householder’s Unlimited 2WD truck over three of the four 100-mile laps in the desert just east of the California state line. Until the final lap, when Jergensen and the #222 The Beast/Camburg/Magnaflow truck took advantage of a busted tie rod on Householder’s big truck and passed him with 100 miles to go to put his SPEC truck on top of the podium, giving the SPEC class an upset overall win against teams with twice the horsepower…