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By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited Gateway Motorsports Park, Christopher Bell took home the victory in thrilling fashion. Bell beat Ben Rhodes by 0.275 seconds to take the victory. However, the most memorable part of last year’s race might a ‘fight’ between Spencer Gallagher and John Wes Townley. The two drivers came to ‘blows’ after Gallagher made contact with Townley. Townley retaliated, destroying both trucks. The two then fought on track with the field circulating under caution. Bell is the only formerRead More
By: Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service FORT WORTH, Texas – Christopher Bell, a self-described “dirt track kid” from Oklahoma, continued to show he’s pretty good on pavement Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway. Bell edged Chase Briscoe after a side-by-side, closing-laps battle to win the 21st annual winstaronlinegaming.com 400 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Bell, who started 21st in the 28-truck field, won under caution after a white-flag wreck involving Timothy Peters, Austin Self and Johnny Sauter on TMS’ repaved and re-profiled 1.5-mile oval. A 22-year-old native of Norman, Oklahoma,Read More
By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer Entering the WinStarOnlineGaming.com 400k at Texas Motor Speedway, Ryan Truex was coming off his fourth straight Top 10 finishes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. This was also Truex’s second trip to the 1.5-mile speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. In the first practice Truex placed his No. 16 H.E.B. Grocery Store Toyota Tundra 10th on the speed charts for Hattori Racing Enterprises. Crew chief Scott Zipadelli continued to make improvements on the truck as Truex was ninth in the second practice and fifth inRead More
By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited Texas Motor Speedway, Johnny Sauter took home the victory in thrilling fashion. Sauter beat Matt Crafton by 0.836 seconds to take the victory. The only cautions in the race were those for the caution clock. Crafton and Sauter are the only former winner in the Truck Series at Texas in the field this weekend. NASCAR Xfinity Series regular Matt Mills is also entered in the race. Truck Series Championship Christopher Bell, Kaz Grala, Ryan Truex,Read More
By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C. – Kyle Busch never tires of winning, even though he does it more often than anyone else. Busch led 90 of 134 laps in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway and completed a dominating victory in the event, sweeping both early stages of the race and taking the checkered flag .986 seconds ahead of runner-up Johnny Sauter. The win was Busch’s seventh in 11 starts at the 1.5-mile track, his second of the season in threeRead 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 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 Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer Recently, Shigeaki Hattori moved his Hattori Racing Enterprises team to a new race shop. When the move was announced, Hattori stated that his No. 81 Toyota Tundra would compete full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. With the move from a shop next to Germain Racing Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series team to the shop that once housed Rusty Wallace Racing nearing completion, Hattori named the driver of his Toyota Tundra as Ryan Truex. Truex piloted the No. 81 Toyota Tundra in 15 racesRead More
By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The last time the NASCAR Camping World Series visited Texas Motor Speedway, Erik Jones took home the victory. With the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in Michigan this week, there will not be any Cup Series regulars entered in this weekend’s event. Matt Crafton is the only former Texas Motor Speedway winner in the field, having won twice in the past four visits to the track. Truck Series Chase Six races into the 2016 Camping World Truck Series Season, there have been five different winners. OnlyRead More
By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer After four races into the 2016 Camping World Truck Series Season, several drivers have already risen to the top as contenders for the championship. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regular Clint Bowyer joined the field at Kansas, piloting the No. 24 Georgia Boot Chervolet Silverado to a fifth place finish. With 12 races left in the regular season, there is still plenty of time for drivers to make it into the first ever Chase for the Camping World Truck Series Championship. After an exciting, wild, andRead More