Tanner Gray in action at Charlotte Motor Speedway. (Danny Hansen/Nigel Kinrade Photography)

By Matthew Blackley, SWN Staff Writer

CONCORD, N.C. (May 24, 2026) – The rain-filled weekend of racing at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway didn’t dampen the spirits of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series powerhouse TRICON Garage, as the team took the checkered flag Sunday with all of their entries in the top 10.

One of the drivers that was part of this accomplishment and needed a bright spot was Tanner Gray, who piloted his No. 15 Black’s Tire Toyota Tundra to an eighth-place finish, his first top 10 of the Truck Series season.

The North Carolina Education Lottery 200 was initially supposed to take place Friday night, but was postponed to Saturday morning due to rain.

More rain on the following day meant that the race was pushed back again to Saturday night, before being called off a third time and finally penciled in for Sunday morning at 10 a.m. ET, 38-and-a-half hours after the originally planned start time.

Gray rolled off Sunday morning from 19th place, the lowest starting TRICON Garage truck in the field. The 27-year-old from Artesia, N.M., was not happy about the precipitation calling off qualifying.

“I feel like this is one of our better race tracks for qualifying, so I was bummed out when it got rained out,” he noted.

It was not a pretty first half of the race for the No. 15 team, riding around outside the top 10 and fighting with the balance for most of the day.

“We fired off – I was too tight, so we tried to come down and make a small adjustment and just kind of got on the other side of it, and really just hopped around on either side of the balance most of the day,” Gray added.

The chaotic weekend started to translate to the track, with a flurry of cautions and a late strategy call from crew chief Jeff Hensley to put on tires setting up Gray for a solid finish.

Gray ultimately made up places on a hectic restart and survived a race-record 11 caution flags to hold on to eighth position when the adverse conditions timer on the race expired at noon ET.

The top 10 finish places Gray 15th in the Truck Series point standings, 29 points behind the Chase cutline with eight races remaining in the regular season.

Gray will attempt to build on his Charlotte finish when the Truck Series takes to the concrete of Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway.

Broadcast coverage of the Allegiance 200 is scheduled for Friday, May 29 at 8 p.m. ET, live on FS1, the NASCAR Racing Network, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.