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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race #10 |
Paramount Health Insurance
200
Michigan
International Speedway
Friday, June 18, 2005
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A carburetor problem caused David Reutimann to finish 23rd in the Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at the Milwaukee Mile Friday night. “We ran really strong up until we had problems with the carburetor around Lap 146,” said Reutimann. “We were running fifth when we came down pit road for our second pit stop. When I picked the throttle back up exiting pit road, the truck just wouldn’t go."
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Deborah Renshaw has been on an impressive run the last few weeks in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and she continued that on Saturday but it did not come easy. The Bowling Green, Kentucky native battled the elements as she piloted her No. 8 Easy Care Dodge to a 21st place finish in the running of the Paramount Health Insurance 200 at the Michigan International Speedway.
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Wimmer Racing and Green Light Racing have reached an agreement that will place Chris Wimmer behind the wheel of the No. 07 Chevrolet Silverado Craftsman Truck, for the Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200 at The Milwaukee Mile on Friday, June 24th.
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The No. 22 Tundra team headed to Michigan International Speedway hoping a strong run would help get it back on track. After finishing outside the top 20 the past two weeks, Bill Lester and the Waste Management crew were looking to rebound. Lester felt that MIS was a race track that fit his driving style and was confident that the No. 22 Bill Davis Racing team would get the finish it deserved.
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The No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles team and Johnny Benson took off like a rocket at the start of their racing weekend at Michigan International Speedway. They grabbed a top-five starting position early Saturday morning and were predicted to be one of the stronger contenders in the 10th NASCAR Craftsman truck race of the season, but unfortunately, a lack of grip and a loose right-front tire forced them to accept a top-25 finish instead.
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For NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year candidate Timothy Peters, it truly was a tough day at the office. The Providence, NC native fought an ill-handling truck to no avail in Saturday’s Paramount Health Care 200 at Michigan Speedway and ended up with a 25th place finish. “Today was just a learning experience for all of us,” Peters said following the event. “We just missed the setup. We couldn’t get a handle on the racetrack and it hurt us. The positive aspect of it is that we gained valuable experience at a racetrack that I have never been to before, plus all the guys on this Bailey’s team never gave up and we kept fighting hard all day, but we just did not come away with the finish we wanted at the end."
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Shige Hattori in the No. 9 AISIN/AISIN AW Germain Arnold Racing Toyota Tundra qualified 14th for the running of the Paramount Health Insurance 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway Saturday. Hattori managed to have a consistent run in his first ever Craftsman Truck Series race at the two mile high banked race track finishing 27th.
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Ted Musgrave had his No. 1 Mopar Dodge right where he wanted it heading toward the final lap in Saturday's Paramount 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Michigan International Speedway. He was charging hard from the second-place position on leader Dennis Setzer when mechanical gremlins raised havoc in his engine forcing him to give up the chase. The result was a disappointing 28th-place finish and a relinquishing of the series points lead. (High Sierra Photo)
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Chad Chaffin may have earned the hardest top ten finish of his career on Saturday at the Michigan International Speedway. Chaffin battled early handling issues but his crew remained determined to dial-in their No. 30 Toyota Tundra and they did just that as they came home with a solid seventh place finish in the running of the Paramount Health Insurance 200. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The No. 5 Toyota Tundra team is on fire. In the last three races, the team has earned two top-five finishes, three top-10 finishes and an average start of third. Mike Skinner and his Toyota Tundra team have picked up six spots in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship standings and are only 43 points outside the top-10. Skinner and crew sought to keep their streak of great performances alive at the two-mile Michigan International Speedway. (High Sierra Photo)
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Bobby Hamilton wheeled his Monroe Dodge Superstore Dodge to an impressive third place finish on Saturday afternoon in the Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway. As a result of his fifth top-five finish this season Hamilton regained the points lead by five points over new second-place Dennis Setzer. The Tennessee native qualified for the 100-lap event in 31st position, but didn’t waste any time at all working his way to the front. By lap 10 he was already up to the 12th spot. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Glynn Motorsports NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Clay Rogers looked to continue his early NCTS success at the Michigan International Speedway Saturday afternoon. In recent starts, the Glynn Motorsports team has shown strong signs of great success and Rogers believed the MIS race would be no different. Unfortunately for the Mooresville, NC based team, success didn't come in the fashion it was expected. Rogers finished in 25th position in his second start for the Glynn Motorsports Dodge team.
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Dennis Setzer and his Eric Phillips-led Morgan Dollar Motorsports team had a plan for Saturday’s Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway. From lap one of the first practice on Friday, they knew that the No. 46 Chevrolet Z71 Silverado was fast. “We were fast right off the truck,” said Setzer. “Which gave our team a little advantage during practice." (High Sierra Photo)
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Dennis Setzer took the lead on lap 82 and held on the rest of the way to take his first victory of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season in the Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway. Setzer was assured victory when second-place runner Ted Musgrave blew an engine coming out of turn two following a lap 98 restart. With the win, Setzer moves into a dead heat with Bobby Hamilton, who finished fourth, for the points lead. Based upon the NASCAR rule book, Hamilton would be the point leader based upon more wins to this point of the season.
The late race dash to the checkered was set up when Ron Hornaday and Steve Park
made contact coming out of turn two, sending Park into the wall down the
backstretch and into the path of Bobby Labonte. Both drivers were unhurt in the
accident, but eliminated from the event while running in the top-10. While there
were seven cautions during the event, most were for single car spins or debris.
The only other accident with any contact this afternoon involved Ricky Craven,
who made contact with the turn four wall on lap 75.
Kyle Busch started from the pole and darted out to an early lead, and at times
stretched to a full second advantage over a scintillating battle for second
between outside front row starter Mike Skinner, Rick Crawford, Johnny Benson,
and others. Once the cautions started bunching the field, Busch's advantage
evaporated. There were 17 lead changes among 14 drivers, with Setzer's 18 laps
in front being the most anyone would lead all day.
Busch followed Setzer across the line to come home second in front of Hamilton,
Harvick and Skinner the top-5. Crawford came home sixth with Chaffin
unofficially seventh, Bodine eighth, David Reutimann ninth and last week's
winner Jack Sprague in tenth.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series moves on to The Milwaukee Mile for the next
event on the schedule on Friday night, June 24.
(High Sierra Photo)
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ThorSport Racing came to Michigan International Speedway with the highest of hopes for the team’s 200th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, but early mechanical problems sidelined Tracy Hines in the No. 13 ThorSport Racing/David Zoriki Motorsports Chevrolet, and an ill-timed late-race caution saddled Matt Crafton in the No. 88 Menards Chevrolet with a 22nd-place finish. Hines started the event in 25th and had held steady in the early laps. However, a trail of smoke on lap 17 signified something had gone wrong, sending Hines to the garage early. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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For Dennis Setzer’s rivals, it was a case of “Where did he come from?” Setzer, qualifying 10th and running as far back as 14th, charged to the front when it counted and held off pole qualifier Kyle Busch to win Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Paramount Health 200 before an estimated crowd of more than 60,000 at Michigan International Speedway. Setzer was the last of 13 different drivers to lead the 200-mile race, taking the point from 2004 series champion Bobby Hamilton at lap 82. The veteran then was challenged by Busch, Ted Musgrave and Kevin Harvick – none of whom could catch Setzer’s Morgan-Dollar Motorsports Chevrolet. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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“Our truck was best on real long runs. We knew we didn't have a shot at the pole, but I knew we were going to be good on really long runs,” he said. “The (early) cautions didn't quite fall in our favor. When the caution flew on lap 66, I told Dennis we were in the catbird seat then because the No. 15 (pole qualifier Kyle Busch) and a couple others could really go on new tires but we were just so much better than them on long runs.”
- Eric Phillips, Crew Chief for the No. 46 Chevrolet and driver Dennis Setzer
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The No. 59 Melling Engine Parts Dodge captured a respectable 17th place finish at Michigan Speedway in the Paramount Healthcare 200 on Saturday, ending three weeks of frustration for the team and driver Robert Pressley. After struggling in both practice sessions and having to take a provisional to start the event, the run itself was a welcome change for the weekend.
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“Not much I could do,” Whitt grimaced. “I just went into three and suddenly the #99 swerved up the track and slowed in front of us. We’re carrying so much speed through these turns that I just didn’t have anywhere to go. It’s a shame, because we were going to have a pretty good finish. It’s like several other times this year, where we’ve been near the end and have a problem to keep us from a top 10.”
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Robert Huffman left Michigan International Speedway with a hard-fought 19th-place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event on Saturday. “It was tough race for us,” said Huffman, who started ninth. “We started off pretty good, but the truck got so loose that I about crashed a few times in Turns 3 and 4. I eventually spun out without hitting anything. It was everything I could do to hang on to it.”
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A solid performance by Ken Schrader was derailed due to a right front flat tire on the No. 11 Toyota Tundra in the closing laps of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Michigan International Speedway. Schrader finished 29th in the Paramount Health Insurance 200. “We were moving forward when we had a flat tire with about 11 laps left in the race,” said Schrader. “We might have had a top-10 finish if that didn’t happen."
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Steve Park and the Orleans Racing team traveled to the Irish Hills of Michigan for this week's Craftsman Truck Series event but a truckload of leprechauns wouldn't have been enough to ward off the bad luck that befell them with less than ten laps to go.
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Although Batman was featured on Ricky Craven’s No. 99 Ford F-150 at Michigan International Speedway, the superhero could not protect him from an accident late in the race that took him out of contention. Craven’s lap 76 accident resulted in a 33rd-place finish.
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“The truck ran great and we were able to come away with another top-10 finish,” said Reutimann. “We were free at the beginning. The guys kept working on it and made it better. This was a new truck that we had never even tested. We only took it to the wind tunnel. By far, it was the best truck I’ve had at a big track.” After starting seventh, Reutimann pitted on Lap 19 under caution for adjustments and fuel without taking tires. As the field cycled, Reutimann was shown in fifth position for the restart at Lap 22. (Nate Mecha/High Sierra Photo)
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Although a 15th-place finish is not what Todd Kluever had hoped for when he arrived at Michigan International Speedway, it was enough to gain a position in the point standings and capture another rookie-of-the-race award. (High Sierra Photo)
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Brendan Gaughan must have picked up a four-leaf clover in the Irish Hills of Michigan because midway through the Paramount Health Insurance 200 he caught the lucky break that kept him from becoming an also ran in the tenth race of the 2005 season. (High Sierra Photo)
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Jimmy Spencer drove the No. 2 Team ASE/Ultra Wheels Dodge to a 14th-place finish in Saturday’s Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway. Spencer started 27th, but used pit strategy and a fast truck to race his way through the pack, and eventually took the lead at the halfway point, a lead he would hold for 13 laps. However, a jack bolt that backed off affected the handling of Spencer’s truck, taking him out of the top-5 and relegating him to 14th at the end. (High Sierra Photo)
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Dennis Setzer saved his best for last while, at the same time, it couldn't have been any worse for Ted Musgrave today in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway.
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“Our team kept with it all day. This Germain/Arnold team is the hardest working bunch I’ve ever seen. Last night, we knew my truck was pretty good, but then today we felt we had fallen behind in our adjustments. We weren’t good this morning (in qualifying) and when the race started we were ‘junk.’ We fell back early in the race. They kept making adjustments and we really came to life with about 20 laps left. From then on out -- until the end -- it was just a matter of picking and choosing my passes. If you jumped out of line here you’d lose 10 spots -- just like at Daytona. I did that early in the race when I went down low to ‘test the waters.’ I never went low again unless I thought I had the move and could complete the pass."
- Chad Chaffin, No. 30 Toyota
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"The Z71 Chevrolet Silverado was so fast in the center of the corner. We knew yesterday that the truck fast in the final practice. The way we got our RCR motor going down the straightaway was just awesome. You have to get in the draft, the draft is really important here if you don't pick the right spot. We had great truck all day today and I'm so proud of Eric (Phillips, crew chief) and all these guys on this team. They work so hard all week trying to make this deal better. The pit stops - I can't tell you how far we've come at Morgan-Dollar Motorsports in the last couple of years. We've moved our operation to Statesville (North Carolina) and brought on a second team with Bobby Labonte driving the All Star truck, which has paid big dividends for us. I'm happy for Chevrolet here - this is the first race Chevrolet has won here in Michigan (in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series). Our old buddy here Jack Sprague won last week so it's been great for Chevrolet's this season."
- Dennis Setzer, No. 46 Chevrolet
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Kyle Busch put the No. 15 ditech.com Silverado on the pole for today's Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway. This is the first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series pole for the Las Vegas, NV native. At just over 20 years old, he is the youngest driver to win poles in two of NASCAR's three major divisions. Busch won his first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup pole at 19 years of age. "Coming out here for only our third try in the Billy Ballew ditech.com Silverado and get our first pole is just cool. It is a lot of fun to go out there and race with those guys." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Dennis Setzer took the lead on lap 82 and held on the rest of the way to take his first victory of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season in the Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway. Setzer was assured victory when second-place runner Ted Musgrave blew an engine coming out of turn two following a lap 98 restart. With the win, Setzer moves into a dead heat with Bobby Hamilton, who finished fourth, for the points lead. Based upon the NASCAR rule book, Hamilton would be the point leader based upon more wins to this point of the season.
(High Sierra Photo)
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Kyle Busch continued his NASCAR hot streak by picking up his first career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series pole on Saturday morning at Michigan International Speedway. Busch broke Jason Leffler's two-year-old track record with a lap of 39.645 seconds/181.612 miles per hour. Leffler's mark was 40.441 seconds/178.037 miles per hour. Busch also becomes the series' youngest ever pole winner, displacing his older brother Kurt, and now has won a pole in all three national touring NASCAR series. Busch, who has won the last two consecutive NCTS events in which he has been entered, will line up inside fellow front row starter Mike Skinner. Skinner's 39.701 second/181.356 mile per hour lap looked to be a lock for the pole before Busch went out and laid claim to the top spot. Skinner's lap is all the more impressive since he did it in a backup truck after demolishing his primary ride in a practice crash on Friday. Rick Crawford again followed home Skinner in qualifying to place third, good for inside the second row. Crawford started outside the front row last week with Skinner on the pole. (High Sierra Photo)
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“I’m awfully stiff and I have a little bit of a headache, but that’s to be expected when you have an accident like we did yesterday. It’s pretty hard on the body, but we’re going to be okay. We have the truck in the race, and hopefully we’ll get the Cup car in the race. We’ll try to turn the start of a bad weekend into a good weekend.”
- Mike Skinner, No. 5 Toyota
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"We are pretty good and I am happy with it. I have run pretty good here in a Busch car and our Cup car is pretty good today as well. I think we need to get it to turn a little bit better on the long runs. We build it a little tight. We were running good in practice and we came in and saw a little blistering on our right rear. I think once the track gets a little rubber down on it and as long as it doesn't rain tonight, I think we will be ok tomorrow."
- Kyle Busch, No. 15 Chevrolet
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"Kelly? Kelly? Are you ready?" Can you hear it? The Irish Hills that surround the 2-mile D-shaped oval of Michigan International Speedway are calling her name. The Sutton Motorsports team is itching to get back in the top 30 points position this weekend. Kelly and the team feel like the truck they have built for Michigan is good enough to qualify well and get a good run this weekend. One of the goals is to break the race start record that Tammy Jo Kirk set for female drivers back in 1998.
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NASCAR NEXTEL Cup drivers Bobby Labonte and Kevin Harvick, along with two other Cup regulars, will be competing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Paramount Health Insurance 200 on Saturday, June 18. In addition, Kyle Busch and Ken Schrader will also compete in the truck event on Saturday. In all, an impressive 18 drivers with NEXTEL Cup experience will be competing in the Paramount Health Insurance 200 on Saturday.
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Jaylene Leibow has been a fan of NASCAR for many years and watches nearly every race on television with her husband and three kids at their Urbandale, Iowa, home. Unlike all of her previous races watched on television at home, Leibow will get an unbelievable racing experience this weekend at Michigan International Speedway as she was selected the winner of the “Begin the Batman Begins 400” promotion, which will give her the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to drop the green flag and start the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Batman Begins 400 race on Sunday, June 19 at MIS.
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Ted Musgrave has been the bridesmaid at Michigan International Speedway in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competition for two years running. As the No. 1 Ultra Motorsports team rolls into Mopar's home state for the Paramount Health Insurance 200, Musgrave has his sights set on ending this year's event with a trip to victory lane. "Everyone wants to win at Michigan," Musgrave said. "It's kind of like when we run at Charlotte. Michigan is the home base for most of the major manufacturers that compete in racing, which kind of gives the event a hometown feeling." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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“Even in the Nextel Cup cars I had good runs going at Michigan last year in some of that old Kodak stuff. We were giving our crew chief Rambo Liberati a bad time because he’s only been here a couple of weeks and all of a sudden he gets this string of races where I won Texas four times in a row, the last time I was at Michigan I had a 20 second lead and the last time I was at Milwaukee I won. So he’s not sleeping very well at night because something’s not right here." -Brendan Gaughan (Ronda Greer Photo)
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"I love going to Michigan. It’s actually the home state for a lot of the race team manufacturers, so a lot of pressure is put on the manufacturers to run good there. Our Dodge team is a team that’s capable of running up front and we feel we can actually go back there and win the race."
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"I enjoy racing at Michigan International Speedway. I finished 12th last year in my first visit to the track. It reminds me of California and we had a pretty good run going there at the beginning of the year before we got caught up in a wreck. What I like most about Michigan is you can run wide open and you it has so many grooves. It is a wide track. You can run 3 or 4 wide all day long if you wanted to."
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“I am really excited to go to Michigan International Speedway. We have had two strong runs in a row, and I feel like our program is getting better. My guys are doing a phenomenal job on pit road, and we are knocking on the door. We are so close to winning one of these things; I just want to get it done."
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“I am really looking forward to going back to MIS. They have finished all the new renovations, and I am looking forward to seeing the finished product. It is our second race in a Toyota at Michigan. This was the first race last year that I ran for Bill Davis Racing, and Greg Ely and all the guys at Bill Davis Racing have given me such great equipment."
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“Michigan is kind of like a homecoming for me. My sister and her family are there, and I love getting to spend some time with them. It is home of the ‘Big Three’ manufacturers, and it would be terrific to put on a great show with our Toyota Tundra. We are taking my favorite truck to MIS. It has performed very well so far this year."
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Michigan International Speedway (MIS) will be Cook’s 200th-career start in the NCTS. Another top-10 finish for the Power Stroke Diesel by International race team could have been a win. Cook battled for the lead several times until lap 50 when a piece of debris landed on the nose of the race truck.
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For most race teams, the event at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway is considered the team’s home track where all the family and friends come to the track. This is certainly not the case for Brad Keselowski and his K Automotive Motorsports team. With their Lake Orion, Michigan race shop only two hours from the gates of the Michigan International Speedway, the team is close to home for the 21-year olds first start at his two-mile, home speedway. (High Sierra Photo)
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For the second week in a row, Chad is coming off a disappointing finish after coming home 23rd last week at the Texas Motor Speedway. "Michigan is a track that I have had pretty good success at in the Craftsman Truck Series. It is a wide fast track that requires a lot of horsepower and a good aero package on your truck. TRD gives us awesome horsepower for our Tundra and our aero package has proven to be good on these speedway tracks."
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Fans who purchase pit passes for this weekend’s race activities at Michigan International Speedway will be in for a special treat. MIS has developed a new area for its pit pass customers to enjoy, with Chevrolet bringing in Mercury Nashville recording artist Julie Roberts to perform a concert and add to the excitement for the Batman Begins 400 weekend.
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Returning to Michigan International Speedway for the third time in his career, David Reutimann is enjoying his recent success at Dover International Speedway (fifth-place) and Texas Motor Speedway (tenth-place) after a tough start to the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. “Top-five and top-10 finishes are what we’ve been looking for all season,” said Reutimann. “We haven’t been running badly, but we haven’t been finishing well. Dover was a turning point for us. I think we are starting to put things together. We are starting to get the finishes we’ve been looking for. We’ll keep building on our recent success to continue our efforts to finish in the top-five and top-10. That will help us all the way across the board and improve our position in the points standings.”
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“I tested in Michigan with the IRL but raced there in the Indy Lights Series in 1997 and 1998. I know it is a fast track with a lot of room to race. I’m looking forward to going up there in the No. 9 Germain/Arnold Racing Toyota Tundra for a solid run.”
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“I really like racing in Michigan, it’s fast and wide - where you can run four wide. You can run high, low or in the middle. It reminds me of Daytona somewhat because of the drafting. The aerodynamics of the truck is important just like it is in Daytona. You need some horsepower under the hood and a good handling race truck. Dave McCarty and the guys at the shop give me the right truck in my Chevy Silverado every week. We’ve been off to a slow start but have been consistent with some good top-10 finishes, but I’m ready to put the No .75 Spears Manufacturing Chevrolet Silverado in victory lane. Michigan is great racing from start to finish and this weekend will be fun for the competitors and the fans.”
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The first half of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season has been challenging for Robert Huffman. This weekend Huffman expects better results in his No. 12 Toyota Tundra at Michigan International Speedway since collecting a top-10 finish there last year. “Last year was the first time that I had ever been to Michigan,” said Huffman, who finished in ninth-place. “Michigan was a place where qualifying was rained out. We had to start in the rear of the field. We had a really good truck and we were able to race our way into the top-10."
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"Michigan will be the biggest track that I have raced on yet. We got our feet wet at Martinsville, a short track, then we moved up to the bigger tracks like Gateway, Charlotte, Dover and Texas. I am really looking forward to going there and running at a track that is two miles in length. We just need to get some more good finishes like we did at Dover. I am learning more and more every time we go out and it is good to go to tracks like Michigan that I haven't seen yet because it gives me a chance to learn something new. Hopefully running Michigan will help me prepare for Daytona next February. I am looking forward to mixing it up at Michigan. It is a big wide fast racetrack with plenty of room to race. "
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"I remember the first time I ever saw Michigan International Speedway. I was a tow truck driver and I got a call in Tennessee to come tow a tour bus that had turned over in Michigan about 10 miles from the track. They waited on me for hours until I drove up there and I hooked up the bus and decided instead of driving straight home, I would run by the race track and check it out. When I got there I talked to a security guard on duty and he let me walk out on the track. I stood there in the turn and looked out at the track and was like wow. I dreamed that day of getting the chance to drive there, but didn't realize it would ever be a reality."
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Michigan has always been one of the tracks that I’ve done really well on in all of the series that I’ve raced. I almost got a Cup victory in 2000, and I closed the deal here in 2002 and that was a great win, one of my most memorable because we had such a dominant truck that day. It’s just great racing here, the turns are wide and there’s plenty of grooves to choose from. Hopefully, we’ll turn our luck around here this weekend.” -Robert Pressley, No. 59 Dodge. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bob Keselowski knows he should have gone south years ago. It would have been good for business, which in his case is NASCAR Craftsman Truck racing.
Most teams in the closely fought series are based in North Carolina or Tennessee, with a few in Ohio, Missouri and Nevada. But family came first with Keselowski, and he had no intention of leaving his mother, Roberta, who is 83 and lives in Troy, or his family-operated race shop in Lake Orion.
"It gets pretty difficult running NASCAR in Michigan," said Keselowski, 54, an ARCA veteran and former Craftsman Truck driver. "I looked at some buildings in the South, but I just had a hard time leaving. I've been in the Detroit area all my life. My mother lives a mile from me."
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“I was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in 1988 when I was only 16 years old,” explained Sutton. “Like many people, I was devastated. But, through prayer and support from family and friends, I realized my diagnosis didn’t have to stand in the way of a racing career. I want to change the face of MS and encourage others with MS to realize their dreams.”
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"Michigan is a great track for me. They have tremendous fans and it is always enjoyable racing there. The track is very smooth and wide, which makes for great passing. The trucks put on a great show at Michigan. After watching the tape of last year's race I'm quite excited about racing there in the truck. In addition to that, we'll have Batman helping us here this weekend. We're running a special 'Batman Begins' paint scheme to promote the premier of the movie. My son is quite excited about meeting Batman. Hopefully Batman can give us some tips about how he gets the Batmobile as fast as it is.
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Deborah is coming off her second straight top-20 finish after coming home 18th last week at the Texas Motor Speedway. “Michigan is one of my favorite areas in the country and I went to college about two hours from the track. I raced at the track for the first time last season and was able to finish on the lead lap and gain some solid experience. It is a fast and wide track that requires a strong truck and my guys do a great job of preparing strong trucks each week." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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“A 200-mile event seems to have less fuel strategy involved than the Cup race. Of course, I’m sure that has a lot to do with the fact we run half the distance. There’s nothing conservative about how the trucks will run here. All of our races are sprints, not marathons, and that’s fine with me. You have to really stand on the gas when the green flag falls, especially at Michigan, which is a fast track to begin with.
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"I've never raced at Michigan before, but I'm really looking forward to it. We had a fourth-place finish at California back in February and I know the two tracks are very similar. I hope we can run as well at MIS as we did
at California. Michigan doesn't seem like the type of track that will be tough to figure out, you just need to bring a good truck with a lot of horsepower."
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“It feels great to win again and not have any drama like we've been having. We've been struggling, been getting run over. Maybe this is the turnaround. "We didn't have any misfortune all night. We didn't have a scratch on the truck. The guys gave me a really good stop the last time we came in. That gave us some good track position and the truck really came to me. We were really good on long runs and I think a lot of the guys we had to race tonight were not as good as we were on the longer runs. I feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off my shoulders."
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"We had a really good run going in Michigan last year until we got shuffled back after the last yellow. We salvaged a top-ten finish but our Chevrolet Silverado was capable of a better finish. We want to better our finish this year and feel like we have all the pieces in place to get it done at Michigan."
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There's no place like home and no one knows that better than Circle Bar Truck Corral Racing team members Kevin 'Cowboy' Starland and Bobby Clark. Starland and Clark, both natives of Michigan, return this weekend to the Great Lake State to compete in the Paramount Health Insurance 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway.
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ThorSport Racing will reach an exclusive milestone in the Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday. When the green flag drops over the team's two trucks, the No. 13 ThorSport Racing Chevrolet driven by Tracy Hines and the No. 88 Menards Chevrolet driven by Matt Crafton, it will mark the 200th time the team has participated in a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Only five other Truck Series teams have reached that milestone: Ultra Motorsports, K-Automotive, Spears Motorsports, Circle Bar Racing, and Roush Racing. (TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Terry Cook (No. 10 Power Stroke Diesel by International Ford) and his team chose the right time to hit their stride. Cook, on a three-race string of top-10 finishes and eighth in championship standings, will make his 200th NASCAR Craftsman Truck start in Saturday’s Paramount Health Insurance 200. The Sylvania, Ohio native made his competitive debut in nearby Toledo and considers Michigan his home track. Cook is just the third series driver to reach the 200-race plateau following Rick Crawford (No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford) and Jack Sprague (No. 16 Chevy Trucks Chevrolet). (High Sierra Photo)
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Chevrolet Team Silverado drivers Dennis Setzer, Jack Sprague, David Starr and Ron Hornaday will kick off the upcoming Michigan International Speedway (MIS) race weekend Thursday, June 16, with a visit to the Ft. Wayne (Indiana) GM Silverado Assembly Plant. The drivers will meet and sign autographs for as many of the plant’s 2,500 plus employees and then be treated to a behind-the-scenes tour of the complete Silverado assembly line.
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In the most recent NCTS race at Texas Motor Speedway (June 10), three Toyota Tundras finished in the top-10. Johnny Benson, driver of the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra, crossed the finish line second behind race winner Jack Sprague. Mike Skinner, driver of the No. 5 Bill Davis Racing Tundra, started from the pole and led the race three times for 116 laps en route to a fourth-place finish. David Reutimann, recorded the other top-10 for Toyota when he crossed the finish line 10th in his No. 17 NTN Bearings Tundra.
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Jimmy Kite was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the June 10 Chex 400K at Texas Motor Speedway. Kite placed 24th and took top rookie honors for the first time this season. Todd Kluever maintains a comfortable lead over Sean Murphy in the Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the June 18 Paramount Health Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway. Kluever leads Peters by 46 points (112-66).
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Texas Native Looking for Second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Win -
Bobby Labonte will drive the No. 47 Chevrolet Silverado at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in the Paramount Heath Insurance 200. The June 18, 2005, race will be the 2000 NASCAR Cup Series champion’s third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) race of the season. In his two previous starts, Labonte finished second in March at Atlanta Motor Speedway and captured his first NCTS victory at Martinsville in April. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The official entry list for the Paramount Health Insurance 200, the 10th race of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
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Paramount Health Insurance 200 - Michigan International Speedway
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Event Schedule
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Darrell Waltrip Motorsports and Toyota announced today that Ken Schrader will pilot the No. 11 Federated Auto Parts Toyota Tundra in the upcoming NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) race at Michigan International Speedway.
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Ricky Craven will have an extra crew member on his team for the Craftsman Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway on June 18. Although he will not be wearing a firesuit, he will be dressed for action with his own cape. Batman will be supporting Craven and the No. 99 Superchips team throughout the weekend at Michigan. "I am really looking forward to racing the 'Batman Begins' truck at Michigan and hopefully having him there will give us a little extra help,"Craven said. "My son is pretty excited about it too and plans to be there to meet one of his favorite super heroes." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Paramount Health Care, the largest health provider based in northwest Ohio, will sponsor the Paramount Health Insurance 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway, officials at both companies announced today. The Paramount Health Insurance 200 will take place on June 18, a day prior to the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Batman Begins 400 race on June 19.
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