The Underdog House: Erik Jones, the Rider Who Couldn’t Be Thrown at Texas
It was a good day to be an underdog in the Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday (May 4).
It was a good day to be an underdog in the Wurth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday (May 4).
Jimmie Johnson was finally a race-winning team owner. Then NASCAR officials relegated his driver Erik Jones to second.
Ryan Vargas was last year’s winner.
Jones details re-signing with Legacy and the growing pains of the first year with Toyota.
Jones finally led the way for the underdogs with a 14th-place finish at Pocono.
A fractured vertebra from a Talladega crash will end Jones’ streak of 262 consecutive starts, but he’s at Dover to help his team out.
Briscoe continued on to finish 9th, while Jones finished 7 laps down in 31st.