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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race #15 |
Power Stroke Diesel 200
Indianapolis
Raceway Park, Indianapolis , IN
Friday, August 5, 2005
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When hours of rain cancelled scheduled practice and qualifying for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Indianapolis Raceway Park, there was a look of apprehension on the face of 21-year old Aric Almirola. The second-year driver from Joe Gibbs Racing’s diversity racing team prepared to make his second attempt at qualifying the No. 47 Home Depot Silverado fielded by Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, but the only laps Almirola had around the very tricky short track were from a one-day test session the previous week that was also interrupted by rain. (High Sierra Photo)
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Deborah Renshaw knew that the Craftsman Truck Series race on Friday night at the Indianapolis Raceway Park would be a tough short track battle and it lived up to her expectations. Renshaw was tested all night as she drove her No. 8 EasyCare DODGE to a 27th place finish in the running of the Power Stroke Diesel 200.
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Defending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Bobby Hamilton overcame a tight chassis condition on his No. 04 Bailey’s Dodge and an early scrape with the turn four wall to post a solid 13th place finish in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park on Friday night. Hamilton maintained his third place position in the race for the 2005 NCTS championship and closed to within two scant points of 2nd place Ted Musgrave.
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie of the year candidate Timothy Peters was left singing the familiar refrain, “If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all,” after Friday night’s Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Peters cut a tire on his No. 4 Bailey’s Dodge just 13 laps into the event forcing him to come down pit road for left side tires and placing three laps down to the leaders.
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BHR Driver Chase Montgomery went to school Friday night during the running of the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Montgomery started the event in 30th place after qualifying was washed out due to rain and the field was set by NASCAR Camping World Truck Series owner’s points. He overcame a tight condition and became more accustomed to the many grooves of the short track to bring the No. 18 Dodge home in 21st position. It is Montgomery’s ninth top 25 finish of the season.
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Tim Fedewa made an impressive debut behind the wheel of the No. 65 Glynn Motorsports Dodge during the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park this past Friday night. Fedewa, a veteran of the NASCAR Busch Series, was making only his second career NCTS start. The Holt, MI native ran as high as third during the race, eventually finishing 20th in the event.
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Chad Chaffin and his Wyler Racing team left Indianapolis Raceway Park pleased with their performance on Friday night despite not achieving the desired finish. While Chaffin piloted his No. 60 Toyota Tundra out to the lead for various laps late, a green flag pit stop put Chad back into the field and he came home with a 21st place finish in the running of the Power Stroke Diesel 200.
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The No. 5 team headed to IRP with a boost of confidence. The team knew driver Mike Skinner knew how to get his Tundra around the short track. In his first two events at the .686-mile track Mike Skinner went to Victory Lane leading every lap. The No. 5 Bill Davis Racing team has been working overtime on its short-track program and knew this would be a gauge of how they were doing.
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Friday night at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP), Bill Lester and his No. 22 Crown Royal Toyota Tundra team took a gamble and it paid off, coming away from IRP with a top-20 finish still holding on to their top-20 position in the championship standings.
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The No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles team headed to Indianapolis Raceway Park under the guidance of new crew chief, Rick Ren. The team unloaded their Tundra, but did not see track time for over six hours due to weather.
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Dennis Setzer put on a performance reminiscent of his win earlier this season at Milwaukee and dominated to pick up fourth win of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 Friday night at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Setzer led from the pole and only gave up the lead during a mid-race round of green flag pit stop to pick up his 16th career NCTS win.
Setzer led the majority of the laps, but he was forced to race first Jimmy Spencer and then Todd Kluever in a heated stretch of green flag racing between the fourth and fifth caution flags of the evening. Spencer stayed out trying to stretch his tires to the end, but Setzer quickly caught and passed Spencer with new rubber on with 20 laps to go. But that was not all she wrote for Setzer, and he then had to fight off a hard challenge from leading rookie contender Kluever.
Kluever dipped to the inside several times and ran alongside Setzer, and was even with Setzer going down the backstretch when the final caution of the night waved when Kelly Sutton spun down the backstretch with 13 laps remaining..
Ron Hornaday and Spencer had a hard battle for third that resulted in Hornaday taking the spot and Spencer sliding into the turn one wall. The two had a discussion on pit road following the race, but Spencer left with a smile after recording his third top-5 finish of the season. Spencer did drop back to fifth late in the going after Matt Crafton swept past to take over fourth to record his best finish of the season.
Setzer continues to put a stranglehold on the championship as several of his main contenders in the standings had a frustrating night. Ted Musgrave had a long evening fighting handling difficulties and finished 14th, while Bobby Hamilton was also off the pace tonight and came home just one spot better in 13th.
Rick Crawford finish sixth, with Robert Pressley fighting Brendan Gaughan to the line for seventh. Jack Sprague recovered from two pit road speeding violations under the green flag pit stop sequence to finish ninth, and rookie Aric Almirola rounded out the top-10. (High Sierra Photo)
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The Power Stroke Diesel 200 event at Indianapolis Raceway Park marked the final Edy's Ice Cream sponsored ride in 2005 for HT Motorsports, of which spanned a six-race stretch this summer. Driver Robert Pressley finished a season-best seventh place to send them out in style. It was the second top-ten of the season for the team, with the first coming at Gateway International Raceway back in May. "This was a real good night for us and for the Edy's folks," said Pressley, after climbing from his truck. (High Sierra Photo)
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Brendan Gaughan’s eighth place finish at Indianapolis Raceway Park will look pretty good in the year end summary but if he could have done one thing different, he would have made his green flag pit stop just one lap sooner. If he had, he may just have celebrated his first victory of the season. Rain earlier in the day cancelled the first two practice sessions and forced NASCAR to set the starting grid according to the rulebook and that meant an 19th place starting position for his No. 77 Jasper Engines Dodge. (High Sierra Photo)
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Late race contact ended Todd Bodine’s chances of a top-10 finish Friday night in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at the Indianapolis Raceway Park. The Germain Racing Toyota Tundra truck struggled from the start of the 200 lap event after rain played havoc with practice and qualifying schedules for the one-day NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event.
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A light rain washed out qualifying for the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) and relegated a fast Circle Bar Truck Corral F-150 to a 17th starting position. A short practice session gave crew chief Kevin "Cowboy" Starland and driver Rick Crawford enough time to dial in their Ford and to know they had a good race truck. From the drop of the green flag Crawford picked his way through traffic working into the top 10. (Team PR Photo)
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John Andretti would probably rather forget his most recent trip back home to Indianapolis. Andretti made his third start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) in the Billy Ballew Motorsports-entry Friday night. Contact with the turn three wall on lap 23 ended the night for Andretti and the No. 15 Stoops Freightliner/Pedigo Chevrolet/Associated Builders and Contractors team which resulted in a 36th place finish.
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Matt Crafton raced the ThorSport Racing No. 88 Menards Chevrolet to fourth place in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 NASCAR Truck Series race at Indianapolis Raceway Park on Friday night. Crafton, who lined up tenth for the race after qualifying was washed out and the field was set by the series’ rulebook, stayed in the top-10 all night long and used a lightning fast green flag pit stop to jump into the top-5. When a late-race caution fell with less than 30 laps to go, Crafton picked up the free pass to rejoin the lead lap and locked himself into his second top-5 finish of 2005. (High Sierra Photo)
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Todd Kluever came within 0.418 seconds of winning his first career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race Friday night at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Kluever challenged Dennis Setzer for the lead in the final laps of the race, but came up just a little short and finished second. Kluever started the race in 16th place based on owner’s points since qualifying was rained out earlier in the day. The No. 50 Shell Rotella® T Ford F150 was pretty good all night and it did not take Kluever long to work his way to the front of the field. He cracked the top 10 by lap 46, and was up to fifth place by lap 82. (High Sierra Photo)
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Dennis Setzer posted his fourth victory of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season Friday night as he held off a determined Todd Kluever at the finish of the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Setzer, who started on the pole by virtue of leading the series point standings after inclement weather washed away qualifying, led three times for 177 laps around the .686-mile paved oval. Setzer, driving the Chevrolet Silverado Chevrolet, held a nine-second lead when the race’s fourth caution closed the field on the 171st lap. The 45-year-old Newton, N.C. driver pitted for fresh tires and gave up track position to Jimmy Spencer but regained the lead at lap 182. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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David Reutimann is now sixth in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings after finishing 11th in the No. 17 NTN Bearings Toyota Tundra at Indianapolis Raceway Park Friday night.
“We’ll take 11th for the way the night was looking,” said Reutimann. “We salvaged a decent finish out of a night that was really looking horrible for us."
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Attempting to make a pit stop under green flag conditions, Park’s truck slowed at the entrance to pit road and then stalled outright. With no caution flag to help his plight, Park lost 11 laps awaiting rescue. When the checkers flew Park was given credit for a 30th place finish.
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“We pitted and started at the tail and we knew we had to go. The truck went anywhere I needed it to go and we just started picking them off. With about 80 laps to go they told me we were starting to push some smoke out of the pipes and it started to lay down a little. We came in and looked at it and there was some sort of oil leak. It was a shame because we had a truck that could have raced into the top-10.”
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“We didn’t really get a chance to figure out how our truck was going to be for the night before we had some contact that hurt the right front. The guys worked hard to reset the tow and get the truck handling, but that’s pretty hard to do when you beat up the front end of a truck up as bad as we did ours. We were all hoping we’d get to put on a better show tonight, but instead we got to face some situations and work them out as a team, and we did great.”
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Jimmy Spencer wheeled the No. 2 Team ASE/Ultra Wheels Dodge to a hard-fought fifth-place finish in Friday night’s Power Stroke Diesel 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Spencer started the event from the sixth position after rain washed out qualifying – setting the starting field by Owner points. Spencer would keep his truck among the Top-5 all night long. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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“It was a real long night. We just weren’t any good at all -- all night long. The guys just kept plugging away, never giving up, and we made the truck better. I think we got to the point where we just couldn’t adjust it any more. We didn’t give up and we just kept going at it. We decided that we’d only lose a couple positions if we pitted near the end (lap 189) and put on new tires and we moved back up there and finished 11th. We salvaged a pretty decent finish out of a night that was looking horrible.
-David Reutimann
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“Starting 17th, where we started, the Circle Bar guys worked hard and it was a fun truck to drive tonight. Mr. Mitchell told me Monday in our meeting that this week in IRP - he’s fond of this place because he raced over at The Brickyard with his Indy car - and he told me that this weekend in Indy needs to be a confidence builder for the team. We brought one of our finest trucks here and worked hard on it that hour of practice we had for racing only. For it to be able to race different places on the race track to pass, it did its job all night long."
-Rick Crawford
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“Our Chevrolet Silverado was really good all night but my guys helped me win this thing with some awesome pit stops. My hat is off to Eric (Phillips, crew chief) and the guys. If I was losing a little on the track, they gave it back to me on pit stops. I just had a great truck under me all night. We worked really hard tonight in that short one-hour practice we had late this afternoon. I am just so proud of this entire Team Silverado effort. “I am kind of nervous about the championship thing right now, I am not sure what to do. We have to keep focusing on each race as they come.
-Dennis Setzer
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“It was a really good day for the Shell Rotella T Ford. Mike Beam and the crew have been with me for four weeks and we’ve been running in the top-five. That last caution killed us. I was trying really hard. I thought we were going to have it there. That last caution was really the death of us. I was a little bit too tight there at the end. I thought tonight was going to be the night. I’m pretty disappointed it’s not. We’ve been running pretty well so hopefully it will come soon. “I think the 46 probably got his tires real hot trying to pass the 2 and I just kind of came flying through there so it didn’t take me as long.”
-Todd Kluever
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Dennis Setzer put on a performance reminiscent of his win earlier this season at Milwaukee and dominated to pick up fourth win of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 Friday night at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Setzer led from the pole and only gave up the lead during a mid-race round of green flag pit stop to pick up his 16th career NCTS win. Setzer led the majority of the laps, but he was forced to race first Jimmy Spencer and then Todd Kluever in a heated stretch of green flag racing between the fourth and fifth caution flags of the evening. Spencer stayed out trying to stretch his tires to the end, but Setzer quickly caught and passed Spencer with new rubber on with 20 laps to go. But that was not all she wrote for Setzer, and he then had to fight off a hard challenge from leading rookie contender Kluever. Kluever dipped to the inside several times and ran alongside Setzer, and was even with Setzer going down the backstretch when the final caution of the night waved when Kelly Sutton spun down the backstretch with 13 laps remaining. (High Sierra Photo)
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As a result of weather forcing cancellation of all on-track activities at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday for NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series, Dennis Setzer, current NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points leader will practice the No. 33 James Dean Chevrolet for Tony Stewart Saturday at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Setzer will climb in the cockpit of the Kevin Harvick, Inc. owned car to assist the team with setup for Saturday night's NASCAR Busch Series Kroger 200 while Stewart is at IMS practicing and qualifying his No. 20 Home Depot Chevrolet for Sunday's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. Setzer is the driver of the No. 46 Chevrolet Silverado fielded by Morgan Dollar Motorsports.
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"We are pretty good. We had a chance to work on a few things to see how the truck would react. I am very comfortable in the Chevy Trucks Silverado. This is one of my favorite tracks and it would be a great place to get our team back in victory lane"
- Ron Hornaday
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Although rain foiled Casey Kingsland's attempt to run the No. 91 Speed Zone Energy Drink Dodge Ram in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park tonight, August 5 th, 2005, TommyRaz Motorsports is pleased with the outpouring of support for Nevada Child Seekers and the interest in bringing missing child Alexander "Chino" Laurel home safely. The two-year old boy is missing from Nevada and is believed to be heading towards Illinois.
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A persistent light rain throughout the afternoon has washed out Bud Pole Qualifying for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Power Stroke Diesel 200 at the Indianapolis Raceway Park. The field has been set by the NCTS rule book, which puts current point leader Dennis Setzer on the pole. Setzer, who also started from the pole here in 1998, will line up alongside Ted Musgrave, with Bobby Hamilton, John Andretti, and 1997 winner Ron Hornaday rounding out the top-5 starters. Jimmy Spencer will line up sixth, with Ricky Craven, David Reutimann, 2002 winner Terry Cook, and Matt Crafton rounding out the top-10. (High Sierra Photo)
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Qualifying for tonight's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Power Stroke 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park has been canceled due to inclement weather and the field set by the Rule Book. Championship leader Dennis Setzer and No. 2-ranked Ted Musgrave will line up on the front row of the 36-truck field with 2004 series champion Bobby Hamilton, John Andretti and Ron Hornaday Jr. filling out the top five.
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Brad Keselowski will be making his first career start at the half-mile battleground of Indianapolis Raceway Park on Friday evening in the PowerStroke Diesel 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event. While Keselowski is new to the IRP short track from a racers perspective, he is certainly not new to the track when it comes to team success.
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Many folks might not realize it but Indianapolis Raceway Park is one of the cornerstones to Steve Park’s illustrious NASCAR career. Not only is IRP a place where Park got to shine before a ravenous race crowd but it is also a link to commonality to the Orleans Racing team when he made a start here in 1995 with Walker Evans Racing. Of course the Evans Family and the Gaughan family have shared many war stories together in off-road racing, and is the team that gave teammate Brendan Gaughan his start on his well-known career. (High Sierra Photo)
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After two consecutive seventh-place finishes, Matt Crafton heads to Indianapolis Raceway Park riding a wave of momentum which he hopes carries over to yet another top-10 finish for the ThorSport Racing No. 88 Menards Chevrolet.
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For many of the competitors in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, it takes them three weeks in the middle of the busiest stretch of the season to run in three races. For Tracy Hines, he'll take the green flag three times in three successive nights during the Kroger Speedfest at Indianapolis Raceway Park.
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Gaughan and the Jasper Engines team are on a roll and come to Indianapolis fresh from a third place finish in the last Craftsman Truck event, which was run at Memphis Motorsports Park two weeks ago. And what better place than Indiana, home of sponsor Jasper Engines and Transmissions, to make the final statement that the team is back with a visit to victory lane at IRP?
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Last year at this time Johnny Sauter put on a helmet and a pair of goggles, strapped into his Chevy Silverado truck at Indianapolis Raceway Park and came within one lap of winning the NASCAR Truck Series event. Sauter finished second that night in a truck he and his Edge Performance team fielded as a one-off venture simply because IRP is Sauter's favorite race track. This year Sauter is back. He's got the same truck, same team and a new-look neon red Menards and Energizer battery-sponsored effort hoping to claim that last lap as the leader. (Team PR Photo)
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Defending USAC National Midget Car Series champion Bobby East is scheduled to make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut this weekend at Indianapolis Raceway Park in the Power Stroke Diesel 200. East, the 20-year-old son of legendary USAC team owner and car builder Bob East, will pilot a third Roush Racing entry as part of Ford Racing's driver development program. Jeff Campey, a former Roush Racing truck series crew chief, will call the shots this weekend for East and the No. 33 F-150. (John Mahoney Photo)
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This will be the 11th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) race at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP). There will be eight Toyota Tundras in the field at the Indianapolis short track -- the 15th NCTS race of the 2005 season. Chad Chaffin captured the checkered flag in last year’s race at IRP to register the second NCTS win of his career. “IRP is my type of race track and our strong runs there in the past demonstrate that,” says Chaffin. “The track reminds me of my days of racing at the old Nashville Fairgrounds where I cut my teeth and learned so much about this sport." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Billy Ballew Motorsports is pleased to announce the addition of three local supporters for this Friday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP). Stoops Freightliner, Pedigo Chevrolet and the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) have agreed to jump on board the No. 15 Chevrolet Silverado in support of their driver John Andretti.
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Deborah On Indianapolis Raceway Park: “IRP is one of the most entertaining races of the season for the fans and it is big for the fact of it being a support race for the Brickyard. This will be only my second start at the tricky confines of IRP so it will be important for me and this team to get some quality laps in practice early on Friday.
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It's the opportunity Jack Bailey IV has dreamed about since he first slipped on a racing helmet 12 years ago. When the flag flies to begin the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Power Stroke Diesel 200 Friday at Indianapolis Raceway Park, the Stafford County native will get a chance to showcase his talent on a stage much larger--literally and figuratively--than the Old Dominion Speedway bullring he's called home for the last two seasons. Bailey, 22, will drive the Green Light Racing No. 07 Ford owned by Bobby Dotter and Gene Christensen in his Truck series debut. (Team PR Photo)
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year contender Timothy Peters received somewhat of an early Christmas present this week when he was tabbed to replace Chris Fontaine as the driver of the No. 4 Bailey's Dodge for this Friday's Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Peters has competed in 8 NCTS events this year highlighted by an impressive 6th place finish at Dover in only his fourth career start. "I am excited about going to IRP this weekend," said Peters, "IRP is the one track I really wanted to drive on this season, but it was not on my schedule." (High Sierra Photo)
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Bill Davis Racing announced today Rick Ren is assuming the crew chief duties for the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles (TCUV) Tundra in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, starting this weekend at Indianapolis Raceway Park.
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Billy Ballew has appointed John Andretti as driver of the No. 15 Billy Ballew Motorsports entry for the next two NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) and Nashville Superspeedway to be held Friday, August 5 and Saturday, August 13, respectively. Andretti has competed in the No. 15 Chevrolet in two events already this season and racked up top-10 finishes in both races held at Kansas Speedway and Memphis Motorsports Park. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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“It’s been a long road, but we are ready to take the next step,” said Michael Faulk, the young native Floridian from Gainesville, FL. From his early career in the World Karting Association at the age of 14, then to Super-Late Model racing in the southeast and currently competing for the Miller Lite Rookie of the Year Award in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, Michael’s life has always evolved around making it to the NASCAR ranks, and now with the help of Michael and Michelle Burton, that goal has become a reality.
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Filled with renewed determination and motivation, David Starr and the Spears Motorsports crew are primed for a good run when Round 15 of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series thunders into action, Friday, August 5 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. "Our 5th place finish at Memphis the week before last was definitely a shot in the arm," says Starr. "Dave McCarty and everyone on the team had been working overtime to get us out of our slump and it sure looks like they did it." (High Sierra Photo)
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SS Racing announced today that they will enter Short track legend Butch Miller in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park on August 5th. He will pilot the #20 ASI LIMITED Chevrolet Silverado in an alliance with Green Light Racing. Miller will be making his 113th Craftsman Truck Series start, where he’s compiled 1win, 23 top fives, and 51 top tens. This will be SS Racing’s 3rd event in 2005, with the best finish being a top ten at Mansfield. (SS Racing PR Photo)
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“I’ve run at IRP a couple of times. I ran there back in 1995 with Kurt Roehrig in his truck and finished second, and we had a couple of good runs there in the Busch car. We struggled a bit last year in the truck. Hopefully, when we go back there, we’ve learned enough to be a positive, and we can have a good run.
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“I am looking forward to getting back behind the wheel of the #32 WINFUEL Chevy this weekend, especially since we are racing at IRP. The WINFUEL team has given me fast, competitive cars each of the three times that I’ve driven for them this season, but we seem to have had our share of bad luck. Hopefully this weekend we can put it all together and take the WINFUEL Chevy to Victory Lane.”
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Darrell Waltrip Motorsports announced today Mike Wallace will drive the No. 12 Toyota Tundra NASCAR Camping World Truck Series entry at Indianapolis Raceway Park Friday night. “I appreciate the opportunity to drive for Darrell Waltrip Motorsports,” said Wallace. “It’s kind of a historic weekend for me. I’m also driving for Rusty Wallace in his RWI car on Saturday night. I’m driving for two past NASCAR champions at IRP. I’ve got a full weekend with the truck race Friday night, the Busch race Saturday night and then the Brickyard on Sunday. Hopefully, we’ll have success in all three." (High Sierra Photo)
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Aric Almirola will make his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start in the No. 47 Home Depot Silverado at the upcoming Power Stroke Diesel 200 on August 5, 2005 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Almirola made a successful debut in the Morgan-Dollar Motorsports fielded truck at Memphis Motorsports Park on July 23rd. He worked his way through the field until contact late in the race sidelined the 21-year old driver.
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"We got to test here a week ago in the Busch car and we really learned a lot of valuable information that will help us in the truck race. I love these short tracks because they're so much fun to drive. This is our last Edy's [Ice Cream] race of the year on the truck side of things and they're gonna have a lot of people here so we really want to do well for them."
-Robert Pressley
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TommyRaz Motorsports will field entries in both the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Power Stroke Diesel 200 on August 5 th, 2005 and the NASCAR Busch Series Kroger 200, Benefiting Riley Hospital for Children on August 6th, 2005 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Twenty-year-old hot shoe Casey Kingsland from Las Vegas, will pilot No. 91 SpeedZone Energy Drink Dodge Ram and Wayne Edwards from Shepherdsville, KY will pilot the No. 91 SpeedZone Energy Drink Dodge Intrepid.
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“Going to IRP reminds me of the racing I grew up around. It takes me back to the days at the old Nashville Fairgrounds. It is a one-day show so you have to unload and get down to business. The schedule does not allow us much free time so you must be on top of your game. I expect us to be fast off the trailer."
-Chase Montgomery
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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) has produced some of the most exciting races with thrilling finishes in the series 10-year history. The 0.686-mile virtually flat oval just east of Indianapolis has been on the NCTS since the inaugural 1995 season. IRP is a challenging track that plays favorably to veteran drivers. It is a difficult to pass and if a driver gets out of the preferred line, they can lose several positions in one set of corners. Having a truck that handles and gets good drive off the corners is critical. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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After winning the pole and leading 121 laps during last year’s NASCAR Busch Series event at Indianapolis Raceway Park, Johnny Sauter returns to the track with Team Yellow Racing and a fond familiarity with the .686-mile oval. Sauter will pilot the No. 1 Dodge, carrying a Miccosukee paint scheme, in the Kroger 200 on Saturday night. In addition to his NBS racing, Sauter will run the No. 43 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.
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“We have been working on some chassis stuff for my trucks and ended up building a cup car. We tested it in Indy and ran pretty fast with it. When I got it back home, I had the guys tear it down to see why we were so fast. It surprised me, but made me aware that my teams can compete. It’s our first in-house car. We built it ourselves; we bought the chassis from PPI (Motorsports) and then put on our front and rear clips. We have a very good truck organization, but I’m smart enough to know that experience is what counts, and running a Cup team week in and week out is huge."
-Bobby Hamilton
(Ronda Greer Photo)
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Chris Fontaine will make his fourth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway on July 2nd. The 23 year-old Lakeland, Florida native will pilot the No. 4 Bobby Hamilton Racing Dodge driven previously this year by Casey Atwood and Timothy Peters.
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Mike Skinner (No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota) personified the word “domination” at Indianapolis Raceway Park in 1995 and ‘96. Skinner led all 350 laps in winning the first two NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events held at the .686-mile oval. But memories, no matter how sweet, are exactly that. Skinner, among five former IRP winners entered in Friday night’s Power Stroke Diesel 200, hasn’t scored a victory in the season-and-a-half he’s spent at Bill Davis Racing. Maybe this will be the week; maybe not. “I think IRP fits my driving style. I love short tracks,” said Skinner. “I feel like I am a better short-track racer I do not think our program is where it needs to be to capitalize on them.” (Ronda Greer Photo)
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After three top-five finishes in a row, David Reutimann is only 15 points out of fifth-place in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings leading into the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park Friday night.
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In eight previous starts at Indianapolis Raceway Park Sprague has captured one pole, two wins and four top-five finishes. His victories were 1998 and 2001 with the pole being won in 2004.
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10 YEARS TOUGH
The 1998 schedule of 25 races saw NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competitors competing twice during the same week on two occasions. The July 30 Power Stroke Diesel 200 was run on Thursday night followed by an event at New Hampshire International Speedway on Sunday, Aug. 2. Teams did another “double” in September – on Thursday night at Richmond International Raceway and Sunday afternoon at Memphis Motorsports Park.
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“IRP is my type of race track and our strong runs there in the past show that. It reminds me of my days of racing at the old Nashville Fairgrounds where I really cut my teeth and learned so much about this sport. Last year the win at IRP on the last lap was a dramatic and big win for me. We had an awesome truck there all day as we were strong in practice and qualifying as well as there at the end of the race."
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The official entry list for the Power Stroke Diesel 200, the 15th race of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
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Glynn Motorsports announced today the hiring of veteran driver Tim Fedewa to drive the No. 65 Glynn Motorsports NCTS DODGE. Fedewa's first start for Glynn Motorsports will be the Power Stroke Diesel 200 presented by Ford and International this Friday night at Indianapolis Raceway Park. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images for NASCAR)
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"I think this will be a great race for us. We're taking the same truck that ran really well at Memphis two weeks ago. We came back from two laps down to finish 10th at Memphis, so imagine what we could have done if we hadn't pitted under green and lost those two laps." -Todd Kluever
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"IRP is a tough little track. I haven't raced there since 1994, but I'm sure it has not changed too much. I've run three races there in a Busch car and finished in the top 10 twice. I've always enjoyed racing there and it's a great race for the fans. We're taking chassis 27 which is a truck we haven't raced yet this year. We had hoped to be able to take our Memphis truck to IRP as well, but that truck didn't fare too well at Memphis.
-Ricky Craven
(Ronda Greer Photo)
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Defending USAC National Midget Car Series champion Bobby East will make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 this Friday night at Indianapolis Raceway Park. East, a member of Ford Racing’s driver development program, will drive a truck prepped for Ford Racing by Roush Racing. (John Mahoney Photo)
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Brandon Whitt and the #38 McMillin Homes/Cure Autism Now Toyota Tundra team head to the .686-mile Indianapolis (Ind.) Raceway Park, for Friday’s Power Stroke Diesel 200; the 15th race in the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Although this will be Todd Bodine’s first start driving the No. 30 Allman Brothers Band Toyota Tundra at IRP he has had 9 previous starts at the track in the NASCAR Busch Series.
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Todd Kluever was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the July 23 O’Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Memphis (Tenn.) Motorsports Park. Kluever grabbed a 10th-place finish, his third top 10 in the last four races and fifth of the season. Kluever took top rookie honors for the fifth consecutive race and ninth time in 14 races in 2005.
Did you know?
The most Raybestos® Rookies to win a race in a single season is THREE in 1997: Kenny Irwin, Tony Raines and Randy Tolsma. (High Sierra Photo)
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“I love short tracks, there’s nothing neater than running at a short track and ‘Getting It On’. Indianapolis Raceway Park has always been a good place for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. I am looking forward to running good in the No. 2 Team ASE/Ultra Wheels Dodge at IRP.”
- Jimmy Spencer
(Ronda Greer Photo)
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The main office of Indianapolis Raceway Park was struck by lightning on Tuesday. At this time phone, Internet and e-mail access is down. IRP is working to correct this problem. If you need tickets please call 1-800-884-6472 or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.
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Jack Bailey, NASCAR Dodge Late Model Series standout is headed to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Bailey will make his debut August 5, 2005 at Indianapolis Raceway Park in the Power Stroke Diesel 200, and will be driving the #07 Green Light Racing Ford for owners Bobby Dotter and Gene Christensen
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Power Stroke Diesel 200 - Indianapolis Raceway Park
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Event Schedule
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