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Next Up For The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Is The
North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway On Friday, May 16th Live On SPEED At 7:30pm
Northern Tool + Equipment Team Ready
To Put An End To Early Season Misfortunes
Travis Kvapil Returns To
The Truck Series At Lowe's
England's John Mickel Enters NASCAR
Craftsman Truck Race at Charlotte
Brad Daugherty To Field NASCAR Craftsman Truck Team In 2009
Bill Davis Racing's Truck Stable Still Running Strong
Patriots star Moss forming racing team
Nationwide Insurance to
Partner with Kentucky Speedway
Race Fest to Kick Off NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Weekend in Downtown Mansfield
Will Fike's revelation about drug use prompt NASCAR to take action?
The Damage Done: Aaron Fike's arrest for heroin possession didn't just spin him off NASCAR's career fast track. It also raised a red flag about the league's drug-testing policy.
Former truck racer Fike admits using heroin on race days
Headliners, Tidbits & And Items Of Interest
That Are, "Caught In The Catchfence©"
Mays Meats Steps Up Support Of Key Motorsports Entry In Lowe's Motor Speedway Craftsman Truck Series Race: Mays Meats, a leading meat packer, wholesaler and retailer located in Taylorsville, North Carolina, and a product sponsor of the Key Motorsports NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team, is stepping up its support for next week’s North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte. Mays Meats will serve as an associate sponsor of the #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado that will be driven at LMS by Chad Chaffin.
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Key Motorsports Importing English Truck Racing Ace To Drive Several NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Races: Key Motorsports is going across the Atlantic Ocean to find new talent for its NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series program, and English-born Pickup Truck Racing standout Paul Poulter has signed a development agreement with team owner Curtis W. Key, Sr. for the 2008 season. The 6’ 2”, 225-pound Poulter, who hails from Fetcham Surrey outside of London, tested with Key Motorsports last year and performed well. He will test several times before initiating a three to 7-race program in the #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado later this season beginning with the scheduled race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, WI in June.
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 NFL All-Pro Randy Moss Forms NASCAR Program: Fresh off a record breaking NFL season, New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss announced today the formation of Moss Motorsports, LLC with its intended participation to begin in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
Moss anticipates that the team will debut at some point in the second half of the 2008 season and run selected races through the conclusion of the year. The partial schedule is a prelude to a full-time campaign in 2009. Sponsors and manufacturer alignments will be announced at a later date.
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Todd Bodine To Run Darlington NASCAR Nationwide Race:
Todd Bodine is now third in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series point standings. He and Germain Racing will next take to the track on May 9th at Darlington Raceway with the no. 03 Germain Motor Company Camry in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, followed by more Truck Series action in the Lumber Liquidators Tundra on Friday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway on May 16th.
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Ron Hornaday holds off Sprague to win at Kansas: Ron Hornaday held off Kevin Harvick Inc., teammate Jack Sprauge to win the O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway on Saturday.
Rookie Colin Braun finished third, followed by veterans Johnny Benson Jr. (fourth) and Mike Skinner (fifth). Brendan Gaughan finished sixth, followed by Chad McCumbee (seventh), Scott Speed (eighth), Rick Crawford (ninth) and Ted Musgrave (10th). Hornaday's first victory of the season vaulted him to the top of the point standings. He leads Crawford by 61 points. Previous points leader Kyle Busch dropped to sixth. Busch did not race at Kansas.
A record 12 cautions marred the race.
- NASCAR® Online,
- O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 Race Results,
- Point Standings
- Truck Owner Standings
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Jennifer Jo Cobb Announces Primary
Sponsor for NCTS Debut in Kansas: Jennifer Jo Cobb and Derrike Cope Inc. are pleased to announce Scottsdale-based The Annexus Group will serve as the primary sponsor for the team’s #74 Dodge Ram at this weekend’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) race held at Kansas Speedway. The race will serve as Cobb’s first in the NCTS, but her second with sponsor The Annexus Group on the hood.
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Game Plan Complete: Brandon Whitt To Practice And Qualify; Jon Wood To Drive No. 21 Air Force Ford F-150 Craftsman Truck At Kansas Speedway: A game plan has been put into place for both Wood Brothers race teams. Jon Wood will practice and qualify the Wood Brothers no. 21 Honey Buns Ford Fusion at Talladega Saturday morning. Following qualifying, Jon will catch a waiting plane to Kansas in hopes of making it on time for the 5:00pm CT start of the Craftsman Truck Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 at the Kansas Speedway. The No. 21 Air Force Ford F-150 truck team has secured the driving services of Brandon Whitt to practice and qualify the truck. Brandon is a third-generation race car driver who won the Rookie of the Year title in NASCAR's Southwest Touring division in 2002. Brandon made his Craftsman Truck Series debut in 2003, driving the #38 Chevrolet Silverado for Clean Line Motorsports, a team his father owned.
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Kansas Speedway and University of Kansas Hospital Partner for Cancer Screenings this weekend: Kansas Speedway and the University of Kansas Hospital announced today that they are partnering to offer free head, neck and oral cancer screenings on Saturday, April 26 as part of Kansas Speedway’s race weekend. Screenings will be offered starting at Noon on Saturday outside Gate B and each screening will only take about 15 minutes. The screenings were requested by Bobby Hamilton Racing, who lost their team owner, Bobby Hamilton, last year to head and neck cancer. Hamilton encouraged not only his team and the racing community to get screened but also asked that everyone he came in contact with get screened as well.
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 Phillip McGilton Out Of No. 22 BDR Ride: 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie championship contender Philip McGilton released a statement today that he will no longer drive the No. 22 Bill Davis Racing Toyota Tundra until additional sponsorship can be secured. "It's a very unfortunate situation," explained a disappointed McGilton. "We were running in the top-10 nearly every week, and were a solid twelfth in the point standings, but some sponsorship deals that we were working on fell through and left us without a seat." McGilton hopes that things on the sponsorship side will sort out quickly and allow him to rejoin his teammates in the upcoming months. "One of the biggest let downs for me is not getting to work with my No. 22 guys," said McGilton.
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DGM Racing plans to compete in Kansas truck series race: Mario Gosselin, a well-known driver from ARCA and the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, has bought trucks from now-defunct Spears Motorsports, and his DGM Racing team plans to compete this weekend at Kansas Speedway. The Quebec native, who has two Cup starts and three Busch Series starts in his career, said in a phone interview Saturday that he would also likely run the race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway next month and then put Hooters Pro Cup driver Scotty Crockett behind the wheel at Mansfield, Ohio, during Memorial Day weekend. The team will pick and choose races throughout the season. Gosselin, a two-time Pro Cup Series champion and three-time ARCA race winner, fields an ARCA car for 19-year-old Alli Owens in ARCA but has been itching to drive. Gosselin said he will be the No. 12 with sponsorship from crashedtoys.com for the Kansas race. His brother, Germain, will be his crew chief.
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Key Motorsports Names Lance Hooper As New Crew Chief For Its NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Program Phase: In a bold move to try and improve the performance of his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race trucks and team, owner Curtis W. Key has announced that former driver and now Crew Chief Lance Hooper has been hired to assume that position with the Key Motorsports organization. Hooper succeeds veteran Gary Showalter who had held the Crew Chief’s position at Key Motorsports and the team’s #40 Chevrolet Silverado race trucks since May of last season.
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Jennifer Jo Cobb Goes Truckin’ at Kansas Speedway:
Residing just more than a stone’s throw from the site where Kansas Speedway currently sits, Jennifer Jo Cobb knew from the first shovel of dirt at ground-breaking, and the first wave of the green flag, that she would race there. And race there she has. Cobb’s seat time on the track started in 2002 with her first race in the ARCA RE/MAX Series, advanced to the former NASCAR Busch Series, and this month, she makes her debut into the always hard-charging NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS). But Cobb’s appearance in the NCTS isn’t the only new face at the Kansas race. She’ll be piloting the #74 Dodge Ram of former Daytona 500 winner, Derrike Cope, and his newly-founded NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team.
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Wrapitupcehiclewraps.com To Sponsor Key Motorsports No. 40 Chevrolet In Kansas Speedway NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Event: It will be the #40 WRAPITUPVEHICLEWRAPS.COM Chevrolet Silverado that will roll out onto the Kansas Speedway later this month when the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series resumes its 2008 race schedule with the running of the O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 on Saturday, April 26. Key Motorsports has inked a partnership with the Shawnee, Kansas-based vehicle wraps/large format printing company for the 2008 and 2009 racing seasons that will begin with the Kansas truck event.
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Bill Davis Racing sues sponsor 360 OTC for non-payment: Bill Davis Racing alleges that Rockford-Montgomery Labs has paid only $25,000 of the $14 million it was supposed to pay for sponsorship of the No. 36 Cup entry last season, according to a lawsuit filed April 2 in North Carolina Superior Court in Winston Salem, N.C. RML is the maker of 360 OTC, a line of hangover and headache medicine. The sponsorship was a three-year deal that was scheduled to increase to $14.5 million in 2008 and $15 million in 2009. There was a sponsor’s option for 2010 for $15.5 million. According to the lawsuit, RML also did not pay any of the $3 million it owed as a primary sponsor for the No. 36 truck and $1 million it owed to be primary sponsor for 10 races of the No. 23 truck.
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John Quinn Assumes Crew Chief Role at Wyler Racing:
John Quinn has assumed the role of crew chief at Wyler Racing, effective immediately. George Church had started the season as crew chief for driver Terry Cook but left the team following the Martinsville race to pursue other opportunities. “We wish George nothing but the best. We appreciate all he has done to get us to where we are so far in 2008,” said Wyler Racing team manager Tom Buzze. “There have been a lot of changes at this team since the end of last season and George came in and really helped stabilize things and keep the level of performance there.” Quinn now assumes the crew chief role for the No. 60 Wyler.com Toyota heading into the next series race at Kansas Speedway on April 26.
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No penalties from Martinsville truck incident: NASCAR will not levy penalties against Bill Davis Racing nor Billy Ballew Motorsports for the crews’ shoving match that followed the Kroger 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Saturday at Martinsville Speedway, a NASCAR spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
The BDR crew paid a visit to the pit stall where the Ballew crew was located after Ballew’s Kyle Busch attempted a pass on the inside for
second against BDR’s Johnny Benson on the final lap – a move that was unsuccessful and resulted in Busch’s truck tapping Benson’s and sending both into a spin.
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Lori Hamilton Named National Spokesperson
for Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Week: Lori Hamilton, wife of the late NASCAR racing legend Bobby Hamilton, is urging Americans to get screened for cancer during the 2008 Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week (OHANCAW), April 21-27. The week is highlighted by free screenings at more than 150 medical centers nationwide.
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Ergon Team Continues Growth, Adds Toyota Nameplate:
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of The Year candidate Marc Mitchell continues to impress. In his first year behind the wheel of the Billy Ballew Motorsports’ #15 Ergon truck, Mitchell and the team announce they will race Toyota Tundras for the remainder of the 2008 Craftsman Truck Series season. Prior to Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, the team ran Chevrolet Silverados. The Toyota and Billy Ballew Motorsports combination have already had a very successful start to the 2008 Craftsman Truck Series season. Billy Ballew Motorsports fields the #51 Toyota Tundra for driver Kyle Busch, and has since the beginning of the season. Billy Ballew Motorsports’ has two wins this season with Busch in a Toyota. Toyota has won three events in 2008.
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Red Bull Driver Scott Speed To Drive
No. 24 Bill Davis Racing NCTS Entry: Red Bull Racing Team development driver Scott Speed is going NASCAR trucking in the No. 24 Bill Davis Racing Toyota. Speed will take his direction from veteran NASCAR crew chief Richard "Slugger" Labbe, who coached the careers of Dale Jarrett, Michael Waltrip, and most recently, Jacques Villeneuve. "We're very fortunate to work with a Truck Series team as successful as BDR, and a crew chief of Slugger's credentials," said Jay Frye, Red Bull Racing Team General Manager and Vice President. "They'll both be great assets and resources for Scott through the next phase of his stock car development program."
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 Dennis Setzer takes an emotional Truck victory at Martinsville: For the first time since the late Bobby Hamilton won at Mansfield in 2005, Dennis Setzer took Bobby Hamilton Racing back to Victory Lane. "This win right here is for Bobby Hamilton only -- he is the man!" shouted crew chief Marcus Richmond after Setzer, who had run 173 laps since his final pit stop, crossed the finish line with trucks wrecking in his wake. Hamilton, who posted 10 wins in the Truck Series before his death from cancer on Jan. 7, 2007, claimed his last victory at that same track on May 15, 2005.
- NASCAR® Online,
- Kroger 250 Race Results,
- Point Standings
- Truck Owner Standings
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Mansfield Motorsports Park Emphasizes
Fan Value for NASCAR Craftsman Truck Race: With gas prices continuing to rise and the economy slumping, many race fans have been forced to follow their favorite sport from the couch rather than the grandstand. Mansfield Motorsports Park’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Ohio 250 still offers fans across Ohio a cost-effective avenue for the state’s racing fans to get their big league racing fix. “When we first brought NASCAR back to Ohio in 2004, gas prices were hovering around $1.50 per gallon,” said MMP public relations manager Charles Krall. “Now, gas is nearly $3.30 a gallon. That hurts. A lot of the NASCAR fans in the state have been forced to give up on going to Bristol or Martinsville because the cost to drive has gone from $50 or $60 to $120 or more. That’s before you add tickets, hotel, food, a program and T-shirt. That trip can easily run into a thousand dollars.”
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Virginia's Best Water Stepping Up Key Motorsports Support For The Running Of Next Week's Kroger 200 In Martinsville: Officials of the Wholesome Foods Company here have announced that they will enhance its support of the Key Motorsports NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team for the running of next week’s Kroger 200 at the Martinsville (VA) Speedway. On behalf of its Virginia’s Best Water product line, a long-standing product sponsor of the Mooresville, North Carolina-based race organization, Wholesome Foods will provide additional sponsorship of the Key Motorsports #40 Chevrolet Silverado for the March 29 race in the company’s home state.
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Key Motorsports Embarks On Driver Devleopment Program With 22 Year-Old Dustin Skinner - Champion Mike Skinner's Son: Key Motorsports has established a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver development program for 22-year-old son Dustin Skinner – the youngest son of former NCTS driving champion Mike Skinner. That project entered the action phase recently when the parties tested for two days at New Smyrna Speedway in New Smyrna Beach, Florida – Dustin’s home track. The game plan is to raise enough money from sponsors to continue the testing process and to run Dustin in a maximum of six NCTS races in 2008 beginning with half-mile venues. Upcoming NCTS races at the Mansfield Motorsports Park in Ohio, the Milwaukee Mile; Kentucky Speedway; the O’Reilly Motorsports Park in Indianapolis; the Gateway International Raceway outside of St. Louis, and the Texas Motor Speedway are the target venues.
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The Academy of Motorsports Announces Partnership with Bobby Hamilton Racing: The Academy of Motorsports is pleased to announce a partnership with Bobby Hamilton Racing (BHR). BHR will provide students of The Academy access to an inside look at the intricacies of a NASCAR team including engine building and chassis performance. "We are thrilled to be a part of The Academy," remarks Lori Hamilton of Bobby Hamilton Racing. "The Academy is poised to produce the finest graduates in the motorsports world. These students will have hands-on instruction in all aspects of racing and BHR is pleased to be able to contribute to their education."
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Television Ratings Up For NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series At Atlanta: Television ratings for the Atlanta NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race were up 31 percent according to Nielsen Media Research. Friday night, the race scored a 1.05 (753,000 households), a significant increase over last year’s .80 (565,000 households).
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 Kyle Busch pulls away from Hornaday to win at Atlanta: Kyle Busch pulled away from Ron Hornaday in the final four laps after a restart to win the American Commercial Lines 200 on Friday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The victory was Busch's second in a row this season and second consecutive at Atlanta, the hometown of the No. 51 Toyota owner, Billy Ballew. Busch has made three starts at Atlanta, and won them all. Busch may have pulled away sooner, but showers late in the race brought out two yellow flags and eventually the red with seven laps to go. Hornaday held on to second, followed by Mike Skinner, Matt Crafton and Chad McCumbee, whose fifth-place finish is a career best. Busch, who will run a partial schedule in 2008, leads Todd Bodine by 72 points in the standings. Hornaday is 122 points out of first.
- NASCAR® Online,
- American Commercial Lines 200 Race Results,
- Point Standings
- Truck Owner Standings
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American Commercial Lines "Christenins" Their New Partnership With Kevin Harvick Inc. And Jack Sprague: American Commercial Lines (ACL), a leader in marine transportation, christened their new relationship with three-time Truck Series champion Jack Sprague and Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) on Friday March 7th, at the ACL racing exhibit midway area of the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Sprague joined ACL employees and fans of the No. 2 ACL/RVs.com Chevrolet truck to officially “launch” ACL’s namesake truck in the tradition of maritime heritage. Sprague did the honors of breaking a bottle against the “bow” to bring a blessing of good fortune and safety upon the entire ACL/KHI team and to send the truck off on its voyage for the 2008 season.
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Roush Fenway Racing Announces Driver Line-Up For No. 09 Zaxby’s Ford F-150: Roush Fenway Racing announced today its driver line up for the No. 09 Zaxby’s Ford F-150 for the remainder of the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. Travis Kvapil will pilot the truck for 10 more races, including this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Bobby East will drive in seven races, his first coming at Kansas Speedway on April 26, and John Wes Townley will compete in six races. His truck series debut will be at Mansfield Motorsports Park on May 24.
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