Ford EcoBoost 200 Tag

By Brian Eberly, Contributing Writer HOMESTEAD, Fla. – The first question for Justin Haley during the Championship 4 press conference  for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was regarding the underdog label many have put on the 19-year-old driver, the youngest of the four championship contenders. “It’s going to be the label even when I win it,” Haley said. “And it’s not underdog, it’s dark horse. Yeah, it’s dark horse, and we were the seventh seed going into the playoffs. No one even really had us going into the round of six. ARead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor HOMESTEAD, Fla. – The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will be the first title fight of the weekend to be settled, as the four remaining drivers in the Playoffs will duke it out Friday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway for the right to hoist the championship trophy when the checkered flag falls. Eight drivers started the Playoffs with a berth in the championship race in mind, but half of them fell by the wayside, leaving Noah Gragson, Justin Haley, Brett Moffitt, and Johnny Sauter as the fourRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer A second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship just wasn’t meant to be for Johnny Sauter. Sauter entered the Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with momentum after winning the two races leading up to the season finale. However, Sauter just didn’t have the truck to compete with eventual champion Christopher Bell. Like Bell, Sauter started mid-pack. Bell made quick work of Sauter as the duo fought to catch the other Championship Four drivers. Sauter’s No. 21 ISM Connect Chevrolet Silverado followed Bell’s No. 4Read More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The best thing a driver can do on the day in which they fight for a championship is focus on the race. That is all that Johnny Sauter has to focus on in the Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway as GMS Racing revealed he would return to the No. 21 Chevrolet Silverado in 2018. Sauter joined GMS Racing in 2016 and led the team to their, as well as his own, first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship. In 45 races with the team,Read More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer One more race is all that is left to determine a champion. 22 races into the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season eight series regulars have scored a victory (Christopher Bell five times, Johnny Sauter four times, John Hunter Nemechek twice, Austin Cindric, Ben Rhodes, Noah Gragson, Matt Crafton, and Kaz Grala once). Heading into the 23rd and final race of the season, Bell, Cindric, Crafton, and Sauter are the Championship Four. The last time the Truck Series visited Homestead-Miami Speedway, William Byron earned theRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Johnny Sauter won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship with a third-place finish in Friday night’s Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, leaving race winner William Byron to consider what might have been. As Byron and Tyler Reddick battled for the lead, Sauter passed Championship 4 contender Matt Crafton for third-place on Lap 119 of 134 at the 1.5-mile track. Sauter then pulled away to claim the championship as Crafton faded to seventh in the closing laps. Byron, the polesitter,Read More

By Joey Barnes, Editor-in-Chief HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Christopher Bell put in a gritty performance in the Ford EcoBoost 200, overcoming adversity to get within reach of the NASCAR Camping World Series championship in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but fading late en route to a third place finish in the points standings. The 21-year-old Oklahoma native started eighth, but an ill-handling No. 4 Toyota Tundra put the rookie on the backend of the field and playing catch up to the rest of the Championship 4. Continually flirting with theRead More

By Toby Christie, NASCAR Editor HOMESTEAD, Fla. — For the first 110 laps of Friday night’s Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, it looked like Matt Crafton, who drives the No. 88 Menards Toyota Tundra had his third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship all sewed up. But over the final 24 laps of the season-ending Championship race, the handling went away on Crafton’s race truck. “Really good there at the beginning and then was terrible there on the last run and came up short,” a dejected Crafton summarized following theRead More

By Toby Christie, NASCAR Editor HOMESTEAD, Fla. — It wasn’t any easy night for Daniel Hemric in the Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but the 25-year old scratched, clawed and fought his way to a solid finish to finish out his career with Brad Keselowski Racing. Hemric rolled off from the grid in the 18th position, but in the early stages of the race his truck was absolutely hooked up. Within the first 30 laps of the event, Hemric had climbed inside the top-five. He wouldn’t stay there forRead More