2017 JAG Metals 350

The 2017 JAG Metals 350 Driving Hurricane Harvey Relief was the 21st stock car race of the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, the fifth race of the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series playoffs, the second race of the Round of 6, and the 19th iteration of the event. The race was held on Friday, November 3, 2017, in Fort Worth, Texas at Texas Motor Speedway, a permanent quad-oval racetrack. The race took the scheduled 147 laps to complete. At race's end, Johnny Sauter, driving for GMS Racing, would control the last 13 laps of the race to win his 16th career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win and his third of the season. To fill out the podium, Austin Cindric of Brad Keselowski Racing and Christopher Bell of Kyle Busch Motorsports would finish second and third, respectively.

Background

Texas Motor Speedway is a speedway located in the northernmost portion of the U.S. city of Fort Worth, Texas – the portion located in Denton County, Texas. The track measures 1.5 miles around and is banked 24 degrees in the turns, and is of the oval design, where the front straightaway juts outward slightly. The track layout is similar to Atlanta Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway. The track is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., the same company that owns Atlanta and Charlotte Motor Speedway, as well as the short-track Bristol Motor Speedway.

Entry list

' denotes rookie driver.

' denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Practice

First practice

The first practice session was held on Thursday, November 2, at 2:00 PM CST. The session would last for 55 minutes. Johnny Sauter of GMS Racing would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 29.529 and an average speed of.

Second and final practice

The final practice session, sometimes known as Happy Hour, was held on Thursday, November 2, at 2:00 PM CST. The session would last for 55 minutes. Grant Enfinger of ThorSport Racing would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 29.146 and an average speed of.

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on Friday, November 3, at 3:00 PM CST. Since Texas Motor Speedway is at least a racetrack, the qualifying system was a single car, single lap, two round system where in the first round, everyone would set a time to determine positions 13–32. Then, the fastest 12 qualifiers would move on to the second round to determine positions 1–12.
Justin Haley of GMS Racing would win the pole, setting a lap of 29.004 and an average speed of in the second round.
No drivers would fail to qualify.

Full qualifying results

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Race results

Stage 1 Laps: 35

Pos.	#	Driver	Team	Make	Pts
1	4	Christopher Bell	Kyle Busch Motorsports	Toyota	10
2	21	Johnny Sauter	GMS Racing	Chevrolet	9
3	19	Austin Cindric '	Brad Keselowski Racing	Ford	8
4	27	Ben Rhodes	ThorSport Racing	Toyota	7
5	8	John Hunter Nemechek	NEMCO Motorsports	Chevrolet	6
6	88	Matt Crafton	ThorSport Racing	Toyota	5
7	92	Regan Smith	RBR Enterprises	Ford	4
8	33	Kaz Grala '	GMS Racing	Chevrolet	3
9	51	Myatt Snider	Kyle Busch Motorsports	Toyota	2
10	18	Noah Gragson '	Kyle Busch Motorsports	Toyota	1

Stage 2 Laps: 35

Pos.	#	Driver	Team	Make	Pts
1	18	Noah Gragson '	Kyle Busch Motorsports	Toyota	10
2	92	Regan Smith	RBR Enterprises	Ford	9
3	4	Christopher Bell	Kyle Busch Motorsports	Toyota	8
4	33	Kaz Grala '	GMS Racing	Chevrolet	7
5	16	Ryan Truex	Hattori Racing Enterprises	Toyota	6
6	27	Ben Rhodes	ThorSport Racing	Toyota	5
7	19	Austin Cindric '	Brad Keselowski Racing	Ford	4
8	88	Matt Crafton	ThorSport Racing	Toyota	3
9	21	Johnny Sauter	GMS Racing	Chevrolet	2
10	8	John Hunter Nemechek	NEMCO Motorsports	Chevrolet	1

Stage 3 ''Laps: 77''

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings

Note: Only the first 8 positions are included for the driver standings.