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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race #13 |
Built Ford Tough 225
Kentucky
Speedway, Sparta, KY
Saturday, July 9, 2005
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“I think Nashville is an awesome facility. I cannot wait to get my Toyota Tundra back on the track. Not only is it a great place for side by side racing, but also Toyota Tundra is the official truck of the speedway, which makes it an extra special place for the Toyota teams. I love guitars, and they give you a Gibson guitar if you win, so I have a lot of extra incentive."
-Mike Skinner
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John Andretti returns to the seat of the Billy Ballew Motorsports entry this weekend for the running of the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway. This Saturday’s race will be the fourth time Andretti has piloted the No. 15 Chevrolet in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competition. Also returning to the No. 15 will be the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, who sponsored the Billy Ballew Motorsports team at the race in Memphis a couple races ago.
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Todd Bodine will have many firsts in the Craftsman Truck Series this season and driving the No. 30 Allman Brothers Band Toyota Tundra at the Nashville Superspeedway will be another. Bodine has had five previous starts at the track in the NASCAR Busch Series.
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“Nashville is a fun track to race on. I will be making my eighth career start at the track this weekend so I have a lot of confidence heading into Saturday afternoon. The track has really come along away from when it was first built. I remember the first time I drove around the track it was super slick. The track has done an awesome job working with the surface and taking out some of the bumps that caused problems in the beginning."
-Chase Montgomery
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Todd Kluever was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the July 9 Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Kluever finished 12th and took top rookie honors for the fourth consecutive race. Kluever maintains a comfortable lead over Shige Hattori in the Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the July 23 O’Reilly 200 at Memphis (Tenn.) Motorsports Park. Kluever leads Hattori by 84 points (167-83).
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Starting sixth for Saturday night’s race was nothing new to Brandon Whitt and the #38 McMillin Homes/Cure Autism Now Toyota crew. In fact, Whitt had qualified sixth or better twice before in 2005. But, finishing sixth in the Kentucky 225 definitely was something new for Whitt and Red Horse Racing. The start was a bit shaky for the #38 Toyota Tundra team - in the early stages his truck broke loose getting down into the turn, but Whitt managed to save it from catastrophe and began working his way back towards the front. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Brad Keselowski continued the forward motion in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points this weekend at the Kentucky Speedway as he earned an 18th place finish in Saturday’s Built Ford Tough 225. While Keselowski remains in the 21st position in driver points, he was able to earn five bonus points by leading a lap as well as move within three points of the 20th position and within 15 points of the 19th position. The K Automotive team, who celebrated their 250th start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on Saturday, moved up to the 23rd position in the series owner points. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The No. 5 Toyota Tundra earned its fourth top-five finish in five weeks under the lights at Kentucky Speedway Saturday. Mike Skinner’s fourth-place finish propelled him into the eighth position in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship standings. The team is gaining on the leader and is only 132 points out of third place. In the last six weeks, the team has picked up seven spots in the standings on the strength of four top-five finishes and five top-10 finishes. (High Sierra Photo)
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Johnny Benson and the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles (TCUV) Tundra team knew they needed a strong run in Kentucky to keep them in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship hunt. In the last three races, Benson’s best finish was 24th, and the team fell out of the top 10 in points for the first time this season. The team was at small disadvantage because Benson had never competed at Kentucky Speedway in a truck. When the green flag was displayed to the field, Benson held his own. He moved to 10th within the first 10 laps and told his crew the truck handled a little tight, but he felt it would improve as the race progressed. (High Sierra Photo)
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For the Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race team, tire gremlins once again struck at Kentucky Speedway. After dominating the race and leading more than half the race laps, Cook seemed destined to win; it was his to lose. However, with four laps to go and leading the race by a comfortable margin, Cook had a right-front tire blow, sending the nine-year series veteran into the Turn 2 wall. The incident would bring out the final caution flag of the evening as Cook dragged a heavily-damaged truck to pit road and out of the race. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Matt Crafton piloted the ThorSport Racing No. 88 Menards Chevrolet to a seventh-place finish in the Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Truck Series race Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway. Crafton qualified a strong eighth earlier in the afternoon and kept his truck up front and away from all of the on-track mischief throughout the night to pick up his fifth top-10 finish of the 2005 season. “We had a real good truck tonight,” Crafton said. “I think we were a little better than seventh at the end, but we didn’t get the track position we needed." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Tracy Hines continues to build positive momentum in the No. 13 ThorSport Racing/David Zoriki Chevrolet as he racked up his second consecutive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series top-20 finish in the Built Ford Tough 225 at the Kentucky Speedway. Hines qualified 21st for the event and ran among the top-20 all night long, fighting back from an unscheduled trip through the backstretch grass, before bring his truck home 20th at the finish.
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Jimmy Spencer drove the No. 2 Team ASE/Ultra Wheels Dodge to an eleventh-place finish in the Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday night. Spencer, who started 12th, was able to stay out of the numerous incidents that plagued the middle stages of the event to pick up another solid finish that keeps him sixth in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship standings. Spencer, who had never raced at the mile and a half Kentucky Speedway previously, quickly picked up positions on the start, moving to ninth by lap 10. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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In racing, at times it is just as important to be lucky as it is to be good – just ask NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Chad Chaffin. On Saturday night at the Kentucky Speedway, Chaffin got some bad luck when his No. 60 Huntington Bank Toyota Tundra was caught up in an early race incident that ended his night early. The end result was a disappointing 33rd finish for Chaffin and his Wyler Racing team in the running of the Built Ford Tough 225.
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Bill Lester and his Waste Management crew came entered Kentucky Speedway with a truckload of confidence. After a career-best fifth-place finish the week before at Kansas Speedway, the team was looking for a strong performance from its Tundra Saturday night under the lights.
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TJ Bell dodged all of the wrecks to finish a solid 16th in the Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Kentucky Speedway this past Saturday night.
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Blake Feese arrived at Kentucky Speedway, with goals of completing the 225-mile NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race and recording a top-15 finish for Billy Ballew Motorsports. Feese achieved both of his goals by running every lap and finishing in the 15th position in the No. 15 ditech.com Chevrolet Silverado.
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It seems as if there is nothing worse than not feeling your best when you know you have a job to do. Deborah Renshaw found that out all to well as she suffered from a stomach virus this week as the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series visited the popular Kentucky Speedway. Regardless, Deborah steered her No. 8 CallSource DODGE to a solid 19th place finish in the running of the Built Ford Tough 225 in her home state.
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David Reutimann collected his third top-five finish of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season in the No. 17 NTN Bearings Toyota Tundra with a third-place finish at Kentucky Speedway Saturday night. “We unloaded good and we ran strong,” said Reutimann, who also finished third at Kansas Speedway last week. “We thought we had a shot at winning the race. Then, we had a lug nut fall off the right front that cost us valuable track position with about 46 laps to go. It’s unfortunate. I feel like we could’ve won the race, but we ran out of time.” (High Sierra Photo)
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Shige Hattori brought home a solid run in the No. 9 AISIN/AISIN AW Germain Racing Toyota Tundra Saturday at Kentucky Speedway in the Built Ford Tough 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Hattori maintained consistency throughout the race and started and finished in the 24th place position.
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BHR Driver Chase Montgomery was in the wrong place at the wrong time in the early laps of the Built Ford Tough 225. Montgomery was making his way through the field after a pit stop when Bobby Hamilton and Boris Said tangled in front of him. He drove the No. 18 TracRac Dodge down low to miss the wreck, but didn’t anticipate the two trucks! coming back down the track. In the end the multi-truck pile up resulted in a severely mangled truck. Montgomery was forced to retire from the event in 34th position.
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The No. 59 Edy’s Ice Cream Dodge put together another solid night for their 2005 part-time primary sponsor by finishing 17th in the Built Ford Tough 225 Saturday evening. Driver Robert Pressley avoided several accidents which unfolded in front of him all night and managed to stay on the lead lap with a couple of nifty occurrences on two separate occasions. After a major turnaround in the final practice session, the team prepped the No. 59 Edy’s Dodge for the evening’s event to handle as the track tightened up. (High Sierra Photo)
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Dennis Setzer received a gift after race leader Terry Cook crashed with less than five laps to go to win the Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Saturday at the Kentucky Speedway.
Setzer picked up the lead on lap 147 and held off Todd Bodine on a green-white-checkered finish to pick up his third win of the 2005 season. Cook looked to have the race locked up in the late stages, stretching his lead to well over two seconds with 10 laps remaining. The lead started to shrink, however, as his right front started going soft. Finally, on lap 146 Cook's right front went down and he made hard contact with the turn two wall, handing the lead over to Setzer. Cook was credited with 25th after leading the most laps of the evening. Bodine, who won last week in Kansas, finished second, just ahead of David Reutimann, Mike Skinner and Ted Musgrave. Brandon Whitt picked up his career-best finish with a sixth, followed by Matt Crafton, Steve Park, Johnny Benson, and David Starr.
The race went green from the start, with pole sitter Bill Lester leading the first lap and then handing it over to his teammate Mike Skinner. Skinner would lead until lap 34 when Jack Sprague took over the top spot. Sprague would lead for nine laps before Lady Luck again frowned on the three-time champion. Sprague had a right front tire go down while leading, sending him hard into the turn two wall and out of the race. Sprague was credited with 36th position.
On the restart, Boris Said - who was substituting for Rick Crawford, who was injured in a qualifying crash - had a tire go down and he slid up the track into defending winner Bobby Hamilton. The ensuing accident collected Chase Montgomery, Brendan Gaughan, and Chad Chaffin. Other drivers involved in incidents include Robert Huffman, who spun twice, Tracy Hines, and T.J. Bell. (High Sierra Photo)
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Todd Bodine brought the No. 30 Allman Brothers Band Toyota Tundra to a solid second place finish at Kentucky Speedway in the Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race. In just his second race back in the cockpit of the Germain Racing Toyota, Bodine backed up his winning performance at Kansas Speedway just one week ago. Starting from the 11th position on the grid, Bodine never dropped out of the top-10 during the scheduled 150 lap/225 mile race. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Kentucky Speedway was a huge disappointment for Rick Crawford. The Mobile, AL native had a devastating crash while qualifying his No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford F-150 which forced him to miss the event. He was uninjured. "The Circle Bar Racing team gave me a total package and we were trying to get it done," said Crawford. "I was on the edge for qualifying, where you need to be to have a great lap, and like Kevin Starland (crew chief) said it would have been a great lap if we had made it through one and two. (High Sierra Photo)
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year candidate Timothy Peters had high hopes going into Saturday night’s Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Unfortunately for Peters and his No. 4 Bailey’s Dodge team, those hopes were dashed by an ill-handling race truck and a series of unfortunate events. The ultimate consequence was a less than satisfying 28th place finish after a hard fought evening at the 1.5 mile oval.
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Ricky Craven did not have the night he was hoping for at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday. The Superchips team took the same truck they ran at Kansas last week, but still could not get it dialed-in well enough for a top-10 finish.
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As the Craftsman Truck Series heads into the second half of the season, Steve Park and the No. 62 Orleans Racing team looked to Kentucky Speedway as the perfect place to reverse their fortunes. Thanks to an eighth-place finish, they were able to do just that. Park’s finish is even more impressive considering a number one draw forced him to qualify during the hottest part of the day and that translated into a 25th place starting position. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bobby Hamilton was a victim of circumstance in the early laps of the Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway, but his Bailey’s Racing Team never gave up. As the crew members from the No. 18 Dodge of BHR teammate Chase Montgomery pitched in to help, the combined crews pieced the virtually destroyed truck back together enough to salvage a 31st place finish. “My guys worked really hard getting this truck put back together,” Hamilton said. “It showed great sportsmanship amongst them. (High Sierra Photo)
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It looked as though Todd Kluever was going to be the driver to beat at Kentucky Speedway this weekend, but a late-race restart cost him a possible top five. Instead he was forced to accept a 12th-place finish. Kluever was fast in both practice sessions on Friday and Saturday, and qualified second with a speed of 177.585 mph. The truck was a quite loose early in the race and Kluever dropped back as far as 10th place by lap 35. The first caution of the race came on lap 46 when race-leader Jack Sprague hit the wall. (High Sierra Photo)
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Dennis Setzer felt Terry Cook’s pain after the latter driver – winless since August 2002 – crashed out of the lead with five laps left in Saturday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. But Setzer, a winner for the third time in the past four races, made no excuses for being in the right place to claim an $83,000 victory before an announced crowd of 40,196. “I feel bad for Terry Cook. He took a vicious hit over there,” said Setzer of Cook’s backstretch accident. “He had the truck I wasn’t going to catch there at the end.” Setzer, who beat Kansas winner Todd Bodine by .249-second – about two truck lengths – in a green-white-checker finish, was quick to add that he and his Morgan-Dollar Motorsports Chevrolet team were deserving of the win. “We were in the right place at the right time but we had to out-run 34 other trucks to be where we were … to take advantage of the opportunity,” said Setzer, who started 18th in the 36-truck field. “I will take one by luck (because) we have lost some by luck.” (High Sierra Photo)
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It’s only mid-season but history says the odds of winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship have shifted in Dennis Setzer’s favor. Three of the past five champions – Greg Biffle, Mike Bliss and Bobby Hamilton – have worn the crown after a victory at Kentucky Speedway. (High Sierra Photo)
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Brendan Gaughan was riding along minding his own business under the lights at Kentucky Speedway when, for probably the first time in his career, the high line turned out to be the wrong place to be. Gaughan started the 150-lap race 14th on the starting grid and was biding his time when the two trucks running right in front of him made contact and swept down to the apron where they collected Chase Montgomery.
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How does it feel to get your best career finish?
“It’s definitely a good feeling. We’ve been looking for that momentum to kick us forward and into the top-10. Tonight, we finished where we were running -- which is what we needed. We’ve had some good runs this year, but we just haven’t pu together the good finishes. Now we’re headed to a couple of short tracks-- which is where this team is strong. We’re really looking forward to the next couple of races."
- Brandon Whitt
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Rick Crawford, driver of the No. 14 Ford, was involved in an incident on the race track during this afternoon’s qualifying session for the Built Ford Tough 225. Crawford, who had made 210 consecutive Craftsman Truck Series starts, was awake and alert following the turn-two incident, but was taken to a local hospital for further evaluation. Boris Said, who was scheduled to be part of the Speed Channel broadcast, piloted the No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral F-150 in tonight’s race.
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Dennis Setzer took the No. 46 Chevrolet Z71 Silverado to victory lane for the third time in 2005 at Kentucky Speedway. It is the 15th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win for the 45 year-old veteran from Newton, NC.
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Dennis Setzer received a gift after race leader Terry Cook crashed with less than five laps to go to win the Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Saturday at the Kentucky Speedway. Setzer picked up the lead on lap 147 and held off Todd Bodine on a green-white-checkered finish to pick up his third win of the 2005 season. Cook looked to have the race locked up in the late stages, stretching his lead to well over two seconds with 10 laps remaining. The lead started to shrink, however, as his right front started going soft. Finally, on lap 146 Cook's right front went down and he made hard contact with the turn two wall, handing the lead over to Setzer. Cook was credited with 25th after leading the most laps of the evening. (High Sierra Photo)
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Bill Lester picked up his second consecutive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Bud Pole Award with a track record lap Saturday afternoon at the Kentucky Speedway. Lester ran a quick lap 30.313 seconds, which is 178.141 miles per hour around the mile and a half D-shaped oval. Lester becomes the first driver to score consecutive poles in 2005 as he led 32 other drivers below Jon Wood's previous record speed. Wood's old standard was 31.832 seconds/169.641 mph, set in July, 2003. As was the case last week, Todd Kluever qualified outside the front row. Kluever was quick throughout practice and qualifying and backed it up with a strong 30.408 second/177.585 mph run to line up outside the front row. Rounding out the top five starters are last week's third-place finisher David Reutimann, three-time series champion Jack Sprague, and Lester's Bill Davis Racing teammate Mike Skinner.
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Brian Keselowski scored the best day of his young ARCA Re/Max Series career today at the Kentucky Speedway with both a career best qualifying effort as well as a career best finish.
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"A couple years ago, all of us at Morgan Dollar Motorsports started to focus on improving our program on the big tracks and I guess we did that but now we haven’t won a short track in a while. It is funny how it goes around. It is hard to say how it goes. I am pretty proud of these guys to be able to produce what I need to get me comfortable on these big tracks. It you have a good truck; it is really easy to run good at those places. We always have good Silverados. I guess the thing I was looking for was a comfort zone of some kind. We did that at Michigan, we have done it at Texas a few times. They are great places to run if you have the Right Truck there.” --
Dennis Setzer
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Bill Lester carried the momentum from a strong finish last week in Kansas with him to the Kentucky Speedway as he topped the charts in Friday afternoon's first practice session for the Built Ford Tough 225. Lester, driving the Bill Davis Racing No. 22 Toyota is fresh off his first career top-five finish last week, and backed it up as he turned a quick lap of 175.615 miles per hour which makes him a strong favorite when the series rolls off for Bud Pole Qualifying tomorrow afternoon. Last week's runner-up finisher found himself in a similar position following the conclusion of the practice session here this evening. Todd Kluever's team was shaken up when Roush Racing sent crew chief John Monsam, as well as several other key team members, to Ricky Craven's crew. Conversely, Craven's crew chief Mike Beam moved over to work with Kluever, and the change has immediately paid dividends. Both Roush trucks were in the top-10, with Kluever just behind Lester on the time sheet, and Craven ending the day in tenth. (High Sierra Photo)
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Kentucky is a good race track. Last year in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series we had a spring give up on us and struggled. We ran well in practice, and qualified in the top-10, but did not have the finish that we desereved. It is a great race track, just a perfect place to go race. I always look forward to racing at Kentucky.
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“Kentucky is going to be interesting because I have not been there with the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. I ran in the Busch Series race there last year for Matt Kenseth and ran pretty well, so I am excited to go back with Bill Davis Racing and the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra. It should be good. The track is great. You can run two-wide, and it is very raceable." -Johnny Benson
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”Kentucky is going to be another fun night race. I really like the place. It is fairly similar to Kansas, where I had a career best finish. The thing about Kentucky is when you hit turn three, you feel as if you are off camber because there is so little banking. I enjoy the place and am looking for another strong run." -Bill Lester
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Hendrick Motorsports Driver Blake Feese to Pilot No. 15 Chevy at Kentucky Speedway - In the ever-changing seat of the No. 15 Chevy Silverado, Billy Ballew Motorsports welcomes yet another talented driver to their team. Hendrick Motorsports driver Blake Feese will fill the role as driver for the No. 15 ditech.com Chevy in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Built Ford Tough 225 Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway. Billy Ballew Motorsports is also pleased to have ditech.com return as their sponsor for the race weekend. (BlakeFeese.com Photo)
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Looking to make Round 13 of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series a lucky one, David Starr and the Spears Motorsports crew head for Kentucky Speedway and the Built Tough Ford 225, Saturday evening, July 9.
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K Automotive Will Celebrate 250th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Start at Kentucky Speedway: One of the fixed entities in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series since the first season of competition in 1995 has been the No. 29 truck of K Automotive Motorsports. This weekend that family-owned and operated race team will make their 250th start in the series at the Kentucky Speedway. K Automotive started in the series with the first event in February of 1995 at the Phoenix International Raceway where Bob Keselowski piloted his No. 29 to a 22nd place finish. Since that first race ten years ago, K Automotive has become one of the winningest teams in the series earning ten victories to date by drivers, Bob Keselowski, Dennis Setzer and Terry Cook.
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About the Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International Driver, Terry Cook . . .
“I was very fortunate to watch my Ford Excursion roll off the assembly line last year not too far from Kentucky Speedway. This is definitely Ford country so it’s only fitting that we have a Ford in Victory Lane. Every three out of four Ford super duty pick-up trucks that come off the assembly line are Power Stroke diesel trucks so I think it’s time we put a Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race truck into Victory Lane.”
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This will be the sixth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) race at Kentucky Speedway. There will be nine Toyota Tundras in the field at the 1.5-mile Kentucky oval -- the 13th NCTS race of the 2005 season. In the most recent NCTS race at Kansas Speedway (July 2), Todd Bodine guided the No. 30 Allman Brothers Band Tundra to Toyota’s first win of the 2005 NCTS season, as well as the manufacturer’s fifth overall win in the series. Bodine started 10th and led the race three times for a total of 81 laps en route to the checkered flag -- and his third career NCTS victory.
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"I am totally amazed that these guys have been able to put this team together in such a short amount of time and still go to the race track the last two weeks and field a truck. I have been around this sport just about my entire life and I have never seen something like this happen. TRD has been a big help in making all of this happen but we still had to do some of the things such as purchasing hauler, equipment, uniforms, etc…. In the midst of doing all of this stuff we did manage to go to Milwaukee and Kansas and come home with two solid top-20 finishes."
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Although Chevrolet Silverado hasn’t posted a victory at Kentucky Speedway since 2002 with Mike Bliss driving for the same No. 16 Xpress Motorsports Silverado team that now fields Jack Sprague, it has been a great track that has produced strong finishes for Chevrolet in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competition. Since the series began racing at the 1.5 mile oval just south of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2000, Silverado drivers have captured one victory, three second-place finishes, three third-place finishes, three fourth-place finishes and two fifth-place finishes. The Bowtie brand has won the pole twice in the five-year NCTS history at the track.
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This is Jimmy Spencer’s first visit in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series to Kentucky Speedway; his 19th career NCTS start.
Have you had a chance to test at Kentucky?
“Yea, I think I tested once or twice there in a Nextel Cup car. I have a confidence in all the tracks because of Gene Nead and our new Crew Chief, Dan Glauz, we got a good bunch of guys working on this team, so I know that when I go to the racetrack, my truck’s pretty close.” Said Spencer “It’s a matter of me going out and driving it, feeling it out and telling my crew what we need to do. I don’t think Ultra’s had bad problems at any racetrack.” -Jimmy Spencer (Ronda Greer Photo)
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“We had a pretty wild finish at Kentucky last year with Bobby Hamilton. I know it had to shock him as much as it shocked me. He was the class of the field all night but he just must not have gotten his tires cleaned off when we had that next to the last restart and he was wobbling in the corner. I got a good run on the outside and he came up to protect the spot so I dove down and got underneath him and I got in the lead.
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The Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Kentucky Speedway will mark the return of driver TJ Bell to the series. Bell, who competed in 12 NCTS events in 2003, will serve a fill-in role for regular Glynn Motorsports No. 65 drivers Regan Smith and Clay Rogers. Additionally, Bell will compete in the WLWT Channel 5-150 ARCA REMAX Series race on Friday night at Kentucky Speedway.
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This will be Todd Bodine’s first start at the Kentucky Speedway in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series but he has made two previous starts at the track in the NASCAR Busch Series. In 2002, Todd Bodine decided to stay and finish the rain delayed NASCAR Busch Series event at the Kentucky Speedway - instead of traveling to Michigan for the Winston Cup race the following day (he had his brother Geoffrey fill in for him in Michigan). Bodine’s decision to stay in Sparta, Kentucky turned out to be the right one as the race ended up having one of the most memorable finishes at the Kentucky Speedway. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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With a 10th place finish at Kansas Speedway on July 2, Rick Crawford scored his 100th top-10 finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The amazing feat was reached in his 210th series start. "We almost have a 50% top-10 finish record," said Crawford. "I don't pay much attention to it though because I want wins, but it's good. If I keep racking up top-10's, maybe we can get back in the top-10 in the points and bring the Circle Bar Truck Corral Racing team where it needs to be."
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Kentucky is my home state and it is special that the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has a race in the state. We always have a lot of friends and family come to Kentucky and root us on and that means a lot. We are also having a big sponsor outing this time around and that will be pretty neat as it kind of ties in with my dad’s car dealerships. Hopefully we can put on a good show for everyone in attendance cheering for us and I think there will be plenty of them this week.”
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This will be Shige Hattori’s first start at the Kentucky Speedway in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series but he has made one previous start at the track in the Indy Racing League. “I’m looking forward to getting back behind the wheel of the No. 9 Toyota Tundra at the Kentucky Speedway this weekend.
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When the No. 6 GM Goodwrench team sat down at the end of last year to discuss the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, there was one goal and expectation that everyone agreed on. 2005 was the perfect year for Kevin Harvick Inc., to win their first championship and Ron Hornaday his third. With the 13th race of the season approaching this weekend in Sparta, Ky., the team remains completely dedicated to attaining that goal. (High Sierra Photo)
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The Friday, July 8, track schedule at the speedway now includes a 90-minute NASCAR Camping World Truck Series practice session. Our race weekend opens at 4:30 p.m., on Friday with ARCA RE/MAX Series qualifying. The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will begin practice 6:00 p.m., and ARCA RE/MAX Series “Channel 5 150” prerace ceremonies will follow at 7:40 p.m. The green flag drops for “The Channel 5 150” at 8:10 p.m.
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“I just want to get back behind the wheel because it is tough on a competitor to sit out for a couple of races like I have and watch someone else behind the wheel. I certainly understand the situation and I have been right there helping Chris Fontaine in any way that I can, but I just want to race. That is the competitor in me. It will be great to get back this weekend, get behind the wheel and go racing. Hopefully we can have the type of run we had at Dover. We have been pretty competitive most places we’ve been and we should be competitive this weekend.” -Timothy Peters (Ronda Greer Photo)
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"I think everybody likes this track a lot-I'm no different. It is like a bigger version of Richmond, but it also has some similar characteristics to Kansas which is why we're bringing the same truck chassis back this week. It was good to lead a few laps last week, but a shame that we had a mechanical issue. I think the crew has it all worked out this week and we'll be good." -Robert Pressley
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Robert Huffman returns to Kentucky Speedway where he delivered Toyota’s first-ever NASCAR victory four years ago in what was then called the Goody's Dash Series.
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Fresh off a season-best third-place finish at Kansas Speedway, David Reutimann tries to tap into the top-10 in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings this weekend at Kentucky Speedway.
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Bill Lester and the U.S. Army team wanted nothing more than to bring home a solid finish on Independence Day weekend for all the troops around the world that fight for our freedom. Lester accomplished his task with an outstanding weekend at Kansas Speedway. He captured the pole on Friday and claimed his career-first top-five finish on Saturday. Lester was the 18th driver to qualify, and the No. 22 Tundra team thought it was at a disadvantage with the early draw because there was so much heat still in the track. Lester’s first lap of 31.044 seconds put him on the pole and set a new track record. (High Sierra Photo)
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Kentucky Speedway will host a major milestone in NASCAR history Saturday when Bill Lester (No. 22 Toyota) becomes the first African American competitor to win $1 million during his career in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Lester, 44, has won $993,586 in 90 series starts dating to the 1999 season. He needs only to take the green flag to become the series’ 27th driver to reach the $1 million mark. The Oakland, Calif. driver, who currently resides in suburban Atlanta, comes off a career-best performance in last week’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway. Lester won the Bud Pole, his second in the series, and finished fifth. (High Sierra Photo)
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The official entry list for the Built Ford Tough 225, the 13th race of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
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Todd Kluever was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the July 2 O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway. Kluever finished second, his best career Craftsman Truck Series finish. He logged his second consecutive top-10 finish and fourth of the season. He led the race once for two laps, the only first-year driver to lead a lap in the event.
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"I've been looking forward to racing at Kentucky ever since the checkered flag fell at Kansas. We had such a great run at Kansas and had a real shot to win the race. We decided to take the same truck, which is my favorite (chassis 36). It will be a lot of work for Mike Beam the guys to turn it around in time since it will have to be repainted to World Financial Group's colors, but since we finished second I don't think anyone at the shop will complain."
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"I think Kentucky should be a good race for us. We took a new truck to Kansas and learned what worked and what didn't, so by taking the same truck back to Kentucky this weekend I think we go into the race with a much better understanding of what will make it competitive. John Monsam and the guys are working very had at the shop to turn this truck around for Kentucky and I think the decision will pay off."
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For the third consecutive week Bobby Hamilton Racing will partner with TracRac, Inc., manufacturer of professional grade cargo equipment systems for pickup trucks, truck caps and vans, as the primary sponsor on the No. 18 Dodge piloted by Chase Montgomery.
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Defending Race Champ: “It’s a pretty cool deal to win there. I love that race track. I’m not going to do a back flip if I win it again, but we’ll try to make a good race out of it. It’s going to be a very good race track for Toyota. That race track is going to provide one of the best races when the Craftsman Truck Series comes back up there that we’ve seen since we’ve been in business, guaranteed.”
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Stuntman, Movie Director and Race Driver Eric Norris will once again be behind the wheel of the #07 Pavestone Chevrolet Silverado, fielded by Green Light Racing. Norris will compete on the 1.5 mile Kentucky Speedway for the running of “The Built Ford Tough 225” Presented by The Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers on Saturday July 9th in Sparta, KY. This will be Norris’s second NCTS start this season and his first time racing on the Kentucky track.
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Built Ford Tough 225 - Kentucky Speedway
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Event Schedule
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