NASCAR Truck Series at Kansas 2016 Results: Winner, Standings and Reaction

William Byron lost the lead in overtime, but a wreck on the final turn created the opening he needed to steal a victory in the Toyota Tundra 250 on Friday at Kansas Speedway in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

The race saw 11 cautions, with the final one coming with four laps to go. It restarted with one final overtime lap. Johnny Sauter stormed to the front of the pack and looked to be on his way to victory, but Ben Rhodes took out his car coming around Turn 4, giving Byron the clearance to take first place, via Fox Sports 1:

Las Vegas Speedway reacted to the end of the thrilling race:

Sauter was not happy after the race, per Motor Racing Network:

Sauter, who finished the race 16th after the wreck, also used a clown reference to describe Rhodes, per Texas Motor Speedway:

It was a thrilling way for the 18-year-old Byron to earn the first win of his career, capping off a night filled with wrecks and yellow flags that started two laps in. Matt Crafton, who led for 57 laps, finished in second, while Daniel Hemric finished in third.

Position	Driver	Laps Led
1	William Byron	34
2	Matt Crafton	57
3	Daniel Hemric	0
4	Christopher Bell	5
5	Clint Bowyer	0
6	Ryan Truex	0
7	Cole Custer	0
8	Timothy Peters	1
9	Ben Kennedy	0
10	Spencer Gallagher	0

Coming off a career-best 10th-place finish at Martinsville last week, Rico Abreu got off to a rocky start Friday.

The caution flag came out in the second lap after the rear of Abreu's truck collided with the wall, via Fox Sports: NASCAR:

Abreu explained what went wrong, per the Caution Clock:

Abreu's accident led to the first change at the top of the leaderboard. Tyler Reddick moved up from third to first, passing pole-sitter John Wes Townley.

By the time the second caution flag came out on the 44th lap, Reddick's lead over Townley increased to a second-and-a-half. Meanwhile, Townley fell to fourth, and Truck Series points leader John Hunter Nemechek moved up six spots to second place after an efficient stop at pit road.

A third yellow flag soon followed, and it resulted in the biggest wreck of the night. A multicar clutter coming around Turn 3 resulted in Nemechek clipping Townley from the left-rear tire.

Townley inadvertently took out Parker Kligerman, sending the No. 92 Ford head-first into the wall, via Fox Sports: NASCAR:

Kligerman, who came into Friday's race trailing Nemechek by three points for the top spot, was able to get out of his truck and into an ambulance for further evaluation, per Bob Pockrass of ESPN.com:

The general consensus was relief to see Kligerman come out OK:

Reddick's once-significant lead dwindled after the caution. He fell all the way to 14th at one point before clawing up to eighth after the race's fourth caution, which Nemechek was involved in once again with rear-tire trouble.

Sauter and Rhodes became the new leaders, followed by Clint Bowyer. Then, a fifth caution came out after Cole Custer clipped Brandon Brown's right-rear tire.

Brown spun in a full circle but was able to regain his balance, via Fox Sports 1:

Less than five minutes later, the sixth caution took place, with Mike Bliss and Jordan Anderson spinning out, changing the landscape of the leaderboard at the halfway point. Reddick led for 56 laps with 60 to go, but Crafton gained a one-second lead over Byron.

Crafton changed his tires with 42 laps to go and was able to beat out the pace car to retain his lead in the final quarter of the race. But Crafton was almost the victim of another caution 10 laps later and fell to 12th place. The frantic ending gave Crafton a second-place finish.

The cautions toward the end slowed the race down significantly and changed the race's outlook on numerous occasions. As a result, fans witnessed one of the most remarkable finishes of the season.

It was an eventful race that ended with the first victory of Byron's young career. He ran well until the final caution, when Sauter raced to the front of the pack, but Sauter's aggressiveness cost him at the final turn. Had he not gone inside, Sauter could have sealed off Rhodes and the others for a win.

Instead, an 18-year-old rookie was the first to cross the finish line, and the finish will ensure he won't forget this race for a long time.

Post-Race Reaction

Byron was amazed at the chaos that ensued at the end, but he kept his cool and was cautious coming around Turn 4.

"It was crazy the last couple of restarts, and I had the lead there on the green-flag run (before the caution that forced overtime), and I was really just praying for no cautions, but you have to earn it," Byron said, per Reid Spencer of NASCAR.com.

The 18-year-old was still in shock when he took to the podium after the race, seeing how he's only been doing this since he was 14. The win also all but guaranteed him a spot in the Camping World Truck Series Chase, and he couldn't have been happier, per Spencer:

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And my crew chief, Rudy Fugle, really told me about that on all the restarts. He's like, 'This is how you earn it,' so I just can’t thank (sponsor) Liberty University enough. This is a dream come true. I was six years old watching Truck races. Didn't start racing until I was 14, and just to be in a Toyota Tundra like this is amazing.

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Still irate over the finish to the race, Sauter went beyond calling Rhodes a bozo.

"I guess he's just brain-dead," Sauter said, per Spencer. "It's just unfortunate that sometimes you can't race the way you want to."