Published: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 12:16 PM
 By Doug Demmons – The Birmingham News al.com
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Grant Enfinger drives the No. 36 Dodge during practice at Talladega Superspeedway. (The Birmingham News/Michelle Chapman)
 
A good finish at Talladega Superspeedway wasn’t good enough for Grant Enfinger.
The Fairhope driver has had good finishes before at Talladega and wasn’t about to let a chance for a win slip away by being too conservative.
“I wasn’t content with third,” said Enfinger, who made a move to challenge for the lead with three laps to go in Saturday’s 3 Amigos 250 ARCA race.
Enfinger had been the leader on the final restart in the race with less than 10 laps to go but fell back to third. He got too far out in front of the second- and third-place cars when one of them was too slow on the restart.
“I even slowed down because you don’t want to get out too far on the restart,” he said. A single car with no drafting help at Talladega will quickly move backwards.
But Enfinger was able to get back in line in third. With three laps to go and the No. 94 of Brett Hudson pushing him it was time to make a move, he said.
“The 94 was pushing the heck out of me,” he said. “We had a good head of steam and got out (of line) and the 94 just hung us out.”
When Hudson didn’t move out of line with him, Enfinger got freight trained.
“No friends,” is how NASCAR Truck Series veteran Rick Crawford of Mobile described it.
Enfinger, who drove a Dodge for Allgaier Motorsports, said he has no regrets about giving up third and ending up 13th.
“We weren’t going to end up the third car on the bottom without even trying” for the win, he said.
Enfinger gets another shot at it in two weeks when ARCA races at Salem Speedway in Indiana, again with Allgaier Motorsports. Salem is a high-banked, half-mile track.