Matt Crafton Tag

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited Kansas Speedway, William Byron took home his first career victory in thrilling fashion. Byron assumed the lead after race leaders Johnny Sauter and Ben Rhodes crashed in overtime. Matt Crafton, Sauter, and Kyle Busch are the only former winners in the Truck Series at Kansas in the field this weekend. There is only one Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regular entered in Friday night’s race, Kyle Busch. NASCAR Xfinity Series regular Ross Chastain is alsoRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga. – Christopher Bell unquestionably had the dominant truck in Saturday’s Active Pest Control 200, but, in the end, the driver of the No. 4 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota Tundra had to work hard for the third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of his career. In the nightcap of a NASCAR doubleheader at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bell held off fellow Tundra driver Matt Crafton in a two-lap shootout to the finish for his first win of the 2017 season. Austin Cindric’s spinRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited Atlanta Motor Speedway, John Hunter Nemechek took home the victory by just 0.305 seconds over Cameron Hayley. Nemechek inherited the lead after William Byron’s engine failed and leaders Daniel Suarez, Matt Crafton, and Christopher Bell were swept up in various incidents. Kyle Busch, Crafton, and Nemechek are the only former winners in the Truck Series at Atlanta in the field this weekend. There are three Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regulars entered in Saturday afternoon’sRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Contributor For many in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series field on Friday night, the season-opening race was met with optimism and hopes of kicking the year off on the right foot as they all had their eyes on the championship prize at the end of the road. But after the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona turned into a wreckfest from beginning to end, drivers throughout the garage leave the World Center of Racing with mangled sheet metal and a hole to dig themselves outRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – In the space of 100 laps, Kaz Grala went from youngest NASCAR national series pole winner at Daytona International Speedway to youngest NASCAR national series race winner at Daytona. What happened between the first green flag and the checkers, however, could fill volumes. Miraculously, Grala slipped through a wild wreck on the backstretch on the final lap of Friday night’s NextEra Energy Resources 250 to win the first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race contested in stages under NASCAR’s newRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Contributor Heading into the 2017 season for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Thorsport Racing will be featuring a revamped driver lineup that will include some familiar faces in the team’s Toyota Tundras and some new ones to the team as well. Two-time Truck Series champion Matt Crafton and second year driver Ben Rhodes will make their return to the Sandusky, Ohio based team in 2017 to pilot the No. 88 and No. 27 trucks, respectively. Crafton scored two wins, eight top-five finishes, 16 top-10 finishes,Read 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 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 Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited Homestead-Miami Speedway, Matt Crafton took home the victory whe he held off a late race run by John Hunter Nemechek to take the win by just 2.942 seconds. At the same time, Erik Jones clinched the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship with a sixth place finish. Jones beat out Tyler Reddick by a mere 15-points Matt Crafton is the only former winner in the field this weekend. Kyle Larson is the only NASCARRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited Phoenix International Raceway, Timothy Peters took home the victory in thrilling fashion. Before Peters took the lead, race leaders Erik Jones, Matt Crafton, and Johnny Sauter were all involved in a late race accident. Once in the lead, Peters held off a late race run by John Hunter Nemechek to take the win by just 0.309 seconds. Timothy Peters is the only former winner in the field this weekend. Daniel Suarez and Mike Harmon areRead More