BRISTOL, Tenn – The final finishing order in Friday night’s Food City 300 at the Bristol (Tenn) Motor Speedway looked a lot like how one at the Daytona International Speedway would look. In a race that saw Kyle Busch, Erik Jones and Joey Logano join the usual suspects of Christopher Bell, Cole Custer, Tyler Reddick and Justin Allgaier in, how in the world did drivers like Jeremy Clements, Gray Gaulding, Timmy Hill and Landon Cassill come away with top 10 finishes?

It was a great night for all four.

Plus, they got some big help when the other heavyweights all encountered problems.

Tyler Reddick came from the back to the front twice en route to the win. Reddick’s No. 2 Chevrolet failed pre qualifying inspection four times. That cost him his car chief as he was ejected. Not only that, Reddick wasn’t allowed to qualify either, so he’d start last in 38th. If that wasn’t enough, he’d have to serve a drive through penalty on the initial start of the race, which instantly put him a lap down. He’d come through the field but spun while battling for the race lead with Justin Allgaier on Lap 81. After the stage break a few laps later, he hit pit road again, this time he was penalized for a safety violation. Back to the rear he’d go but he’d come back through.

Meanwhile, a Lap 36 crash took out Jones and Logano and put Custer and Jones laps down, essentially ending their chances of winning.

Busch, blew an engine at the end of the second stage ending his night early too.

That’s when these four drivers pounced.

Clements, would finish fourth in his No. 51 Chevrolet for his best finish of the season. It was also his second top 10 result of the year with his other coming in a ninth place run last month in Daytona. It was also his third career top five.

But, this finish gives Clements high hopes for next week. See, the series heads to Road America, the site of his upset win in 2017. He finished 11th in each of the last two weeks on road courses too and enters 137 points behind the final playoff spot with four races remaining in the regular season. A win would put him into the playoffs again.

Gray Gaulding could benefit from a win as well. He finished sixth on Friday for his third career top 10 result in the series. He leaves Bristol 97 points behind the cutoff line in 13th and is inching closer to the bubble. But, he doesn’t have much time to close the gap on Ryan Sieg, so solid finishes like this or even a win is needed. But, Gaulding can leave knowing that all his best finishes this year are on historic tracks. He was runner-up in Talladega back in April, eighth at Daytona in July and now sixth in Bristol on Friday.

Timmy Hill finished seventh in his No. 61 Toyota. It was Hill’s best finish of the season as his previous best was 16th in Dover. It was also his best career finish too as his previous best was seven in Daytona twice. The first came in February 2011 and the other July of last year. His only other top 10 came in the July Daytona race in 2011 too.

Then there’s Landon Cassill who rebounded from a pit road penalty early to round out the top 10 in his No. 4 Chevrolet. That was just his second top 10 finish of the season as his other was a ninth place effort in Talladega. Those are his only two top 10 finishes in the series since 2015.