Sargeant gave a very brief response when approached by SPEED SPORT for comment after the race.

“I don’t really have anything to say; I’m very frustrated with how our night went,” said Sargeant. “This certainly isn’t what we came here for.”

Meanwhile, Todd Gilliland charged back from a lap 68 spin to score a top-five finish and was all smiles after the race, despite missing the playoffs in his rookie season.

After missing four races at the start of the year due to age restrictions, Gilliland overcame a huge deficit to end the regular season 11th in points, just eight tallies behind Snider for ninth place.

That kind of a run up the board was something that Gilliland took pride in.

“To get as close as we did to the playoffs this season, even though we missed some races, really shows what kind of a team we have here at Kyle Busch Motorsports and makes me really excited for the future,” Gilliland told SPEED SPORT. “Tonight was rough. When you spin out like we did there, your pride is crushed. It’s one of the worst things that could happen. Then that one lap (pit road) penalty really put us behind and we just had to rally back and really work the top here.

“Luckily we were able to get around these guys fairly quick. That was a lot of fun. That was the most fun I’ve had in a truck race by far,” he added. “Coming home fifth is a great result for us. We just need to keep clicking off these top-five finishes. We’re getting closer and closer every week and that’s the goal before the season is over, is to get ourselves a win.”

For Crafton, though he’s been searching for speed for much of the year, he isn’t letting his struggles to-date get him down going into the playoffs despite entering them as the lowest-seeded driver.

In fact, he’s using an old lesson learned from a former Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion to keep himself motivated.

“What makes a good race car driver is the ability to forget about last week,” said Crafton. “Kevin Harvick told me that a long time ago, when I drove for him in 2004, and it was one of the best things that he ever taught me. In the past I’d be pissed off and I would carry it into the next race, and I had to learn that at midnight, I had to let it go.

“You’re only as good as your last race, but if you sit there and carry the bad, it’s going to kill you,” Crafton added. “That’s one of the things that‘s helped me a lot. It’s really hard to do and it took me a long time to be able to do that, but you just have to forget about it and move on. We’ve been really up and down in the last month and a half; we’ve had some good runs and we’ve had others that have gone wrong, but I feel very confident in what we’re capable of and we can make a run into this postseason.”

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series playoffs begin on Aug. 26 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.