The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported before Sunday’s race that Trucks would not return to the mile-long race track.

“I wanted to win, that’s my thoughts if we don’t come back here,” Majeski said. “I feel like there’s so much desire and hunger for racing in Wisconsin. It’s such a great area for racing fans in general. And I think it’s a huge missed opportunity if NASCAR doesn’t come here. The crowd was fantastic today. There had to have been over 10,000 (people), that’s what it looked like.

“Yeah, I wish we could come back here. I know there’s a lot of business stuff that goes into these decisions behind the scenes that I don’t know about. But for a guy from Wisconsin, a short track racer, I think we need to come back to Wisconsin in some form, whether it’s here, at Road America or somewhere else. Hopefully NASCAR can find a way to continue to do that.”

Majeski was in the top three for most of Sunday’s race, starting on the pole and leading 42 laps before his playoff rival Christian Eckes passed him. He finished fourth in the first stage, but only because he and Eckes pitted while two other trucks stayed out to score stage points.

The ThorSport Racing driver ran second behind Eckes throughout the second stage, but lost that spot to eventual winner Layne Riggs during the stage break on pit road. Majeski restarted in third place, slipped under Eckes and Riggs and took the lead on lap 120 of 175.

“I knew Christian (Eckes) was going to hit rock bottom, he was going to throw a slider on the No. 38 – the same thing he did to me,” Majeski said. “I knew if I could force him into the corner, he was going to throw that slider and as long as I stayed disciplined and turned the truck around, there was a chance I could take advantage of his slider. And that’s what I did.”

“It went exactly as we had planned. I just didn’t have the truck completely under control. Overall, the balance was just too tight today. … We started off tight, and it’s getting tighter as time goes on.”

Three laps later, Riggs caught up with Majeski and passed him.

“I felt like I could have stayed ahead of No. 38 long enough. Clean air is the most important thing here, especially in the long run,” Majeski said. “We didn’t have it and we just didn’t have the balance for it.”

Riggs never looked back and Majeski ended up finishing in second place.

“I closed (the gap) at various points during the last run,” Majeski said. “Just not enough.”

Still, Majeski cemented his position as a force to be reckoned with in the Truck playoffs with his third consecutive top-two finish, leaving Milwaukee 44 points clear of the Round of 10 cut line.

“As bad as it seems to me that we missed it today, we were that close, so it means our trucks are good,” Majeski said. “They have grip, even if we didn’t get the balance right. Yes, I’m pretty proud of that. We’ve put a lot of work into improving our trucks over the last few weeks, during the Olympic break and at this race, and it showed.”