Trucks Category

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Kaz Grala started off the 2017 season with a bang, winning the season-opening race at Daytona to clinch a spot in the playoffs and scoring four top-10 finishes in the first seven races. However, in the next seven races, Grala failed to finish better than 12th and had five finishes of 23rd or worse, making Sunday’s race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park crucial in getting some momentum back on his side with the playoffs drawing nearer. With a road racing background playing to his advantage,Read More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Thursday’s news that Brad Keselowski’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team, Brad Keselowski Racing, would be closing their doors at the end of the 2017 season sent shockwaves through the sport, but on Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway, the 2012 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion noted that he is looking toward the future with the closure of his team. Keselowski had mentioned in the past that he has lost upwards of $1 million a year running the team, but was quick to point outRead More

By Chris Knight, NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn. – Not even a NASCAR overtime could stop Kyle Busch from rallying back from a speeding penalty at the end of Stage 2 to win Wednesday night’s UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Busch, forced to the back of the field under penalty to start the final stage, put on a clinic on a Lap 119 restart and utilized the high line to roar through the field and find himself back in the top-10 by Lap 136. Nearly 30 laps later, Busch foundRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Leaving last Saturday’s LTi Printing 200 at Michigan International Speedway, Darrell Wallace, Jr’s win in his return to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series made headlines throughout NASCAR nation. However, the win is making headlines for a different reason after NASCAR announced the penalties from the weekend. The No. 99 MDM Motorsports team failed post-race inspection and was given a Level 1 penalty due to issues with the bed cover on their Chevrolet. Per NASCAR, “Vent holes at the bed top must be configured forRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor For Darrell Wallace, Jr., the 2017 season has been a rollercoaster of a ride and on Saturday at Michigan International Speedway, Wallace capitalized on his first race back in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series since 2014. Since winning five races in the Truck Series in 2013 and 2014, Wallace had moved onto the NASCAR Xfinity Series with Roush-Fenway Racing starting in 2015, but earlier this season, sponsorship woes forced the team, which had shown success early on, to have to suspend operations after 12Read More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor After limiting the number of races Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers could run in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series this season, NASCAR is taking the limits a step further for the 2018 season, shrinking the number of races Cup drivers can run even more. In 2017, the limits for Cup Series drivers with more than five years’ experience was set at 10 races in the Xfinity Series and seven races in the Truck Series. Next year, the limit dropsRead More

By: Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa. – With his boss out of the race, Christopher Bell filled the void, pulling away to win the Overton’s 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Saturday at Pocono Raceway. Bell overtook John Hunter Nemechek on Lap 54 of 60 at the 2.5-mile triangular track and finished 1.964 seconds ahead of runner-up Ben Rhodes, who passed Nemechek for the second position on Lap 56. One circuit later Ryan Truex Jr. took the third spot from Nemechek, who held on to fourthRead More

By Chris Knight, NASCAR Wire Service ROSSBURG, Ohio – Using a late-race restart 18 laps from the finish and a strategy to ‘go where the others aren’t,’ Matt Crafton muscled past veteran dirt racer Stewart Friesen to win Wednesday night’s fifth annual Eldora Dirt Derby 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Eldora Speedway. Over the last forty laps of the race, Crafton patiently worked his way from the bottom of the top-10 and took advantage of a Lap 127 caution to position himself to challenge a dominant Friesen forRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Driving for the underdog Halmar Friesen Racing team, Stewart Friesen, a dirt racing specialist, had the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Eldora Speedway circled on the calendar as one race that his team could pull off the upset and score his first win. After Wednesday night’s Eldora Dirt Derby, the Truck Series field certainly knew that Friesen was there. Friesen kicked off the day by scoring the pole for the race and then going out and backing it up by winning his qualifyingRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor In a truck that looked like it had been in a demolition derby rather than a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, Christopher Bell made the best out of a bad situation and brought home a top-10 finish for Kyle Busch Motorsports on a night at Eldora that could have ended much worse. With three wins to his record already in 2017, Bell entered the night as one of the favorites to take home his second Golden Shovel trophy on the historic dirt track. StartingRead More