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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race #20 |
Las Vegas 350
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Las Vegas, Nevada
Saturday, September 24, 2005
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Jack Bailey hit it big in Las Vegas, finishing 17th in the Las Vegas 350. Bailey got his first top 20 finish during his fourth start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Bailey drove the #08 CENTURY 21 Team /Bedslide.com truck for Green Light Racing and owners Bobby Dotter and Gene Christensen. After the top 20 finish, Bailey said, "The truck was fast by its self. The handling was horrible in traffic, because of the body that was on the truck, and I fought an "aero push" all night.
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NASCAR Busch Series veteran Tim Fedewa wheeled the No. 65 Glynn Motorsports Dodge Ram truck to a 10th place finish in the Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday night. Fedewa, who ran as high as 4th, survived contact on the last lap with driver Mike Skinner to bring the No. 65 Dodge home with a second straight top 10 finish. (High Sierra Photo)
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Robert Richardson has certainly had a busy couple of weeks behind the wheel of race vehicles. Last week started with an open test session at the Talladega Superspeedway in preparation for this weekend's Food World 300 and the week ended with Richardson making his career-first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Ted Musgrave notched a second-place finish in the Las Vegas 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Nevada last Saturday, surrendering the lead and the win after a last-lap pass by Todd Bodine. Musgrave now trails NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points leader Dennis Setzer by only five points with five races remaining in the 2005 NCTS season. (Steve Keller/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Robert Pressley, driving the No. 59 Harris Trucking Dodge, finished 24th in the Las Vegas 350K at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. The truck never did perform up to expectations, but the crew never gave up the strategy game of trying to get in the top-10 running order.
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In the city accustomed to rolling the dice BHR Driver Chase Montgomery and Crew Chief Kip McCord took a gamble on a track bar adjustment halfway through the Las Vegas 350K at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That gamble proved to be the right move for the No. 18 RoadLoans Dodge, Montgomery was able to pass several trucks in the closing laps to bring home a 19th place finish. It was the team's 13th top 25 finish of the season. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The city that never sleeps offered up some excitement for Chad Chaffin and his No. 60 Toyota Tundra. A wild ride through the grass and across the finish line capped off an eventful 16th place finish for Chaffin in the running of the Las Vegas 350 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night.
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Billy Ballew Motorsports returned to Las Vegas Motor Speedway this past weekend for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race with hopes of repeating their 2004 victory. However, luck wasn't on their side this time around and the No. 15 ditech.com Chevrolet with driver David Gilliland finished in 22nd position. Gilliland, who was making his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut, was BBM’s eighth driver this season.
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Smooth, steady, and consistent describe the Las Vegas weekend for Brandon Whitt and the #38 Red Horse Racing Tundra team. A much need change of pace for the team who have endured a rough month of August and September with unfortunate events ruining promising finishes. As the green flag flew Whitt settled into his rhythm, picking off several spots in the early on and working his way up to the sixth position. (High Sierra Photo)
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When the BHR team decided to go back to the basics before racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and change the nose on Bobby Hamilton's No. 04 Bailey's/Stratosphere Dodge, it proved to be the right choice. On the final green-white-checkered flag finish Hamilton wheeled his Dodge on the outside and inside passing three trucks in one corner to finish the Las Vegas 350 in the fifth position. (Steve Keller / TruckSeries.com Photo)
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The strong finish in Las Vegas would move the Circle Bar team into the points lead for Ford teams and up a spot in the overall points standings. Rick Crawford on his day, "Cowboy (Starland) and the guys worked hard all day long and it paid off at the end. I wish we had a few more laps, because I think we could have overtaken a few more. This was another solid run for us and with the momentum we've created I wish we were racing next week." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Although she fought handling issues throughout the entire race, Deborah Renshaw persevered and brought the No. 8 Heritage Dodge home to a solid 25th place finish in the Las Vegas 350 Saturday night at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway after starting in the 33rd position on the grid. The one-day event was the 20th race of the 25-event 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Mike Skinner and the No. 5 Toyota Tundra team went to Las Vegas knowing they could not make any mistakes if they wanted to still be in the championship hunt. The team had a strong showing at the mile-and-a- half speedway in 2004, sitting on the pole and finishing sixth, but wanted to improve on their finish by five spots in Saturday night's event. Skinner has excelled at tracks like Las Vegas all year and the team felt as if they had a shot for another top-five performance under the lights Saturday. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bill Lester was looking forward to getting his New Page Toyota on the track in Las Vegas. The 22 team needed a strong run to get their team back on track and were all looking forward to getting back to an intermediate-size track. Lester has two poles this season at the one-and-a-half mile configurations and really has run strong on these tracks all year.
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The No 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra team headed to Las Vegas Motor Speedway trying to put the disappointing weekend at New Hampshire behind them. The team was confident they were bringing a truck to the flat mile-and-a-half track that would compete for the win. In Johnny Benson’s only start in Las Vegas he had a top-five result.
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What a weekend for Todd Bodine and the No. 30 Germain Motor Co. Toyota Tundra Team, as they got the monkey off their back by winning a thrilling green-white-checkered flag finish Saturday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The No. 30 Germain Motor Co. Tundra was stout all weekend long. The race weekend could not have started off any better for Bodine as he posted the second fastest time of 33.206/162.621 mph in Saturday morning's practice session. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Tracy Hines started the ThorSport Racing No. 13 David Zoriki Inc. Chevrolet 21st in the Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Saturday night, and with a couple of quick passes for position looked to have a truck that could race into the top-10 for the second time in three races. However, Hines was snakebit by Lady Luck once again when the left rear tire delaminated, sending the carcass of the tire flying across the track and sending Hines sliding out of control at the start-finish line and slamming hard into the frontstretch wall.
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Matt Crafton drove the ThorSport Racing No. 88 Menards/SealBest Chevrolet to an 11th-place finish in the Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Truck Series race Saturday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Crafton started 18th, and quickly bolted to his trademark outside groove and picked up several spots on the start. A fast truck and consistent pit stops gave Crafton a chance to pick up another top-10 finish, but a late race caution and a shuffle in the pack on the restart left Crafton with no where to go and left him just short of his 9th top-10 finish of the season.
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Jimmy Spencer qualified sixth and had a strong truck in the early stages of the Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night, but a persistent engine miss forced Spencer to reduce his pace before eventually sidelining him just short of the finish. Spencer drove the No. 2 Team ASE/Ultra Wheels Dodge into the top-5 before the baffling engine problem struck, leaving Spencer 31st at the finish.
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Joey Miller overcame an early race accident to finish 15th in his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday night. "We knew we had a pretty good truck, but we had to take it easy for a few laps to feel everything out," said Miller. "If we could've avoided being involved in an accident early on, we would've finished even better." While trying to avoid an accident ahead of him, Miller's No. 12 Toyota Tundra was struck from behind on Lap 2.
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Todd Bodine dominated all night long, but needed to make a last lap pass of championship contender Ted Musgrave to take the win in the Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Musgave had powered to the lead just moments before the fifth and final caution came out on lap 145 to send the race into overtime.
Musgrave led handily on the first of the two laps to conclude the race, but Bodine had a strong run off turn two on the final lap and powered around on the outside to take his second win of the season. Musgrave finished second and closed the points gap on leader Dennis Setzer. Musgrave led his first laps since June, and kept his truck in the top-5 for the entire evening. With the second place finish, combined with Setzer's 14th place finish, Musgrave now cuts the points lead to just 5 points heading into Martinsville.
Jack Sprague slapped the wall coming the white flag to set up a fantastic battle for the third position, which was won by David Starr at the stripe by a bumper. Sprague was fourth at the line, with defending series champion Bobby Hamilton making a strong recovery after two races of sour luck to pick up fifth.
Pole sitter Mike Skinner led early, but faded to a sixth place finish, with last week's winner Rick Crawford finishing in seventh. Raybestos Rookie of the Year leader Todd Kluever finished eighth, Brandon Whitt was ninth, and Tim Fedewa was 10th. Fedewa was fifth on the final restart, but a nudge from behind sent him out of the groove and back into the pack on the last two laps.
The race was red flagged for six minutes on lap 4 when Tracy Hines had a left rear tire fail and it sent him on a wild spin down the front stretch. Hines pounded the front stretch wall and rookie Joey Miller and Brendan Gaughan were caught up in the ensuing stack up. Gaughan eventually retired with a broken valve spring, while Miller was able to continue.
The race went green for the next 63 laps before Chad Chaffin went for a slide in turn two. That allowed the leaders to come back to the pits, just a handful of laps after the completion of green flag pit stops. Steve Park led on the restart, but Bodine quickly moved back to the front to resume his relentless charge. Kelly Sutton and Bill Lester were also involved in single truck incidents in turns one and two; Sutton spun to the low side of turn two while Lester had a right front tire go soft and made contact with the turn two wall.
The series is off until October 22 when they head to Martinsville Speedway for the Kroger 200. (High Sierra Photo)
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David Reutimann finished 12th in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday night. "I'm disappointed that we finished 12th," said Reutimann. "The longer we raced, the looser and looser the truck got. Finally, it got to the point where it was hung out. It was just too loose, which made it really hard to drive." (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Todd Bodine's last lap pass kept Ted Musgrave from taking over the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship lead but the battle with five races remaining matches the closest in series history. Dennis Setzer holds a five point lead, the same margin by which Jack Sprague headed Ron Hornaday Jr. at the same point of the 1998 season. Hornaday wound up winning his second title by three points, the closest margin in history.(High Sierra Photo)
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Todd Kluever was hoping to hit the jackpot Saturday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. After working on the No. 50 World Financial Group Ford F-150 throughout the race to improve the handling, the team earned their eighth top 10 finish of the season with an eighth-place finish. Although it was not the jackpot, it was a solid finish for the team. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Defeated a year ago at Las Vegas Motor Speedway by a relatively inexperienced driver, Todd Bodine wasn't about to let a veteran spoil the party. Bodine finished second to Shane Hmiel last season, losing the lead on the next to final lap of the Las Vegas 350. The New York native, at the wheel of the race's most dominant truck, saw déjà vu all over again on Saturday night when a persistent Ted Musgrave wrested away the lead on what was supposed to be the 145th of 146 laps around the 1.5-mile superspeedway. This time, however, things played out in Bodine's favor. A few seconds after Musgrave executed a Turn 2 pass, and several seconds before the white flag was to signal the final lap, Steve Park's engine failure and accident put the track under caution for the fifth time. (High Sierra Photo)
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Brendan Gaughan loves nothing more than racing in his beloved hometown of Las Vegas but unfortunately for the Jasper Engines and Transmissions team they got caught in the middle of someone else’s mess and their night was over almost before it began.
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After a 12th place finish at New Hampshire International Speedway, Steve Park was fired up to get to Las Vegas Motor Speedway and hand Orleans Racing the kind of performance they really deserve in their own backyard. But all the determination in the world couldn't overcome the hand he was dealt in the 20th race of the season.
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Robert Pressley, driving the No. 59 Harris Trucking Dodge, finished 24th in the Las Vegas 350K at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. The truck never did perform up to expectations, but the crew never gave up the strategy game of trying to get in the top-10 running order.
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"We got better and some trucks got worse. Actually, long runs didn't hurt us. We were the best finishing Ford and that's something we're shooting for every week. I'm glad that the entire Circle Bar Corral guys stayed behind it tonight. We started 15th and battled up to seventh, so it was a pretty good night." -
Rick Crawford
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We were pretty tight but Dave (McCarty, crew chief) and the guys made some adjustments and we got pretty good there at the end. We had loosened the truck up for qualifying and that was the right thing for us to do. We probably could have loosened it a little more and been good in the race but we would have sacrificed something there for the race. But I am pretty happy how we ran and finished tonight.
-David Starr
(Steve Keller/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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This is Toyota's second season -- and 45th race -- in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS). A Toyota has captured the checkered flag 10 times in 45 NCTS races since the beginning of the 2004 season. Todd Bodine's win tonight at Las Vegas in the No. 30 Germain Racing Tundra is Toyota's sixth victory of the 2005 season. This marks Bodine's second NCTS win this year driving the No. 30 Tundra, and his fourth NCTS victory since he began running full-time in the series last year at Richmond. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Todd Bodine dominated all night long, but needed to make a last lap pass of championship contender Ted Musgrave to take the win in the Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Musgave had powered to the lead just moments before the fifth and final caution came out on lap 145 to send the race into overtime. Musgrave led handily on the first of the two laps to conclude the race, but Bodine had a strong run off turn two on the final lap and powered around on the outside to take his second win of the season. Musgrave finished second and closed the points gap on leader Dennis Setzer. Musgrave led his first laps since June, and kept his truck in the top-5 for the entire evening. With the second place finish, combined with Setzer's 14th place finish, Musgrave now cuts the points lead to just 5 points heading into Martinsville. (High Sierra Photo)
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"I am pretty happy with our qualifying effort for tonight's race. Starting in the top-10 is critical in any NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race because the competition is so tough out there, it is important to get track position as early as possible. Dave McCarty (crew chief) and the guys have a good setup to start the race. We got our first-ever win here; this would be a good place to get our Spears Manufacturing Chevy team back to victory lane."
-David Starr
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"We haven't quite got our Chevy Trucks Silverado where we need to be for the race tonight. Near the end of the second practice, we started to get to the point where we will have the right setup to adjust on as the race unfolds. We weren't where we wanted to be with our qualifying run either but I know my guys and they will change a few things so we can go out and get decent starting spot." -
Jack Sprague
(Ronda Greer Photo)
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Mike Skinner continued his dominance of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Pole Qualifying by qualifying on the top spot for a series leading sixth time during time trials for the Las Vegas 350 Saturday evening at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Skinner narrowly edged out his Bill Davis Racing teammate Bill Lester as Toyota swept the top four starting positions for tonight's 146-lapper. Skinner's quick lap was 32.676 seconds/165.258 mph, just off the record pace he set on the way to the pole here last season. Skinner was just 0.012 of a second off his record pace, but it was just enough to keep Lester outside the front row. Lester, who won the pole earlier in back to back races at Kansas and Kentucky, turned a fast lap of 32.690 to claim his fourth front row starting position of 2005. (High Sierra Photo)
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Las Vegas Motor Speedway will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2006 with a return engagement by the first major NASCAR series to compete at LVMS. Speedway officials announced Saturday that the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will return to the 1.5-mile superspeedway on Sept. 23, 2006. The Truck Series was the first major NASCAR-sanctioned series to race at LVMS. Jack Sprague won the inaugural event on Nov. 3, 1996.
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Saturday evening's Double Down In The Desert doubleheader featuring the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and Champ Car World Series is guaranteed to end with a bang - literally - as a giant fireworks show will immediately follow the Hurricane Relief 400. "Our guests will want to be sure to stay until the end of the show as we promise to present the biggest fireworks show Las Vegas has seen, short of its annual New Year's celebration," said Chris Powell, LVMS' general manager.
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Steve Park comes to Vegas as one of the favorites in this weekend’s Las Vegas 350. Park, driving the Orleans Racing Dodge, finished third in this event in 2004 --- and is racing for the team that dominated this race in 2003. Park will run a brand new Dodge in this event, No. 17, which ran very fast laps during a test session two weeks ago.
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Armed with a brand new truck hometown favorite, Brendan Gaughan, is ready for action this week in Las Vegas. Given that this is Gaughan’s hometown he’s spent the week leading into the Las Vegas 350 playing host to fans and fellow NASCAR Camping World Truck Series teams. The extra activity is no sweat for Gaughan as he loves to show off his local digs to visitors from across the country.
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“I am very excited about having RoadLoans and the Stratosphere Hotel & Casino logos on the truck this weekend. RoadLoans has agreed to be the primary sponsor of the No. 18 Dodge for five races including this weekend’s race in Las Vegas."
-Chase Montgomery
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Not only will this weekend mark the first for Brad Keselowski to race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but it will also mark the first time the 21-year old will be able to have some fun in the casinos that have made Las Vegas. While Keselowski is focused on a solid run on the mile and a half speedway, he knows that racing on yet another track for the first time is always a gamble.
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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) this weekend with the Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race team. The second-year team is looking to deliver a memorable birthday wish to Truck Owner, Greg Pollex: career-win No. 1 in the NCTS. Pollex, the 2000 NASCAR Busch Series championship-winning owner is celebrating his birthday today and would love nothing better than to see his truck team in Victory Lane.
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"I love going to Las Vegas," says Starr with a twinkle in his eye. "Not only do I really like the track, but the whole city is exciting, almost magical. It is definitely a fun place. The track also has an extra special meaning to me as it is where I scored my first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Victory and where I earned my first NASCAR West Series win."
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Jack Bailey is cleared for Las Vegas to make his fourth start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on September 24, 2005 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the Las Vegas 350. This will be Bailey's first time in the seat of the #08 Chevy for crew chief Scott Neal and owners Bobby Dotter and Gene Christensen.
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Robert Richardson has been keeping busy with starts in the NASCAR Southeast Series and ARCA RE/MAX Series this season. He has also made an occasional Super Late Model start in his home state of Texas. But what Richardson has in store for this weekend is by far the biggest thing that he's done in his racing career to date.
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This week’s race truck for Las Vegas Motor Speedway is Chassis No. 5-59. Mike Skinner and the No. 5 team are taking the truck that led the most laps and finished fourth at Nashville Superspeedway.
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Benson will drive his Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra on Saturday night, then return to Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday to participate in a Richard Petty Driving Experience. Benson will take a group of Toyota dealers on the ride of their life around the 1.5-mile oval in a two-seat stock car.
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This week’s race truck for Las Vegas Motor Speedway is Chassis No. 22-61. Bill Lester’s last race in truck No. 61 was at Nashville Superspeedway, where he crossed the finish line in the seventh position. Truck No. 61 also won the pole at Kansas Speedway earlier in 2005.
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Mechanical problems plagued David Reutimann in two of the last three NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events. Entering Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Reutimann’s determined to recover from a 33rd-place finish at New Hampshire International Speedway last Saturday.
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Todd has one NCTS start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which was in 2004. Todd started in the 9 th position and finished 2nd. Todd has 3 starts, 799 of 801 laps completed (99.8%), 61 laps led in his NASCAR Nextel Cup Series career at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. His best NASCAR Nextel Cup Series career finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was fifth in 2001 and his best career start was a pole in 2002.
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Coming off a thrilling win at the Sylvania 200 in New Hampshire, Rick Crawford and his Circle Bar Team are looking to repeat this weekend in Las Vegas. The 2005 season has been hard on the Circle Bar Team, but fresh from a win in New Hampshire the 1.5 mile tri-oval could be the best bet for the team to keep their momentum going for the final 6 races of the 2005 season. Vegas has been good to Crawford, with the team posting 6 top 15 finishes in 7 starts. The Ford F-150 the team will use in the Las Vegas 350 is chassis # CB-16. It has been raced 3 times before in 2005, Nashville, Texas, and Michigan and has qualified in the top 5 each time out.
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"We didn't have the best day in Las Vegas last year but I am confident that the BHR2 team has the truck ready to go. Las Vegas is very similar to Kentucky - you need a lot of downforce in the truck and a lot of horsepower under the hood. Arrington Engines has given us some great power all season and I'm sure we are ready to go for the challenges at Las Vegas. We had a solid run last week in New Hampshire and we plan on keeping that momentum going in Vegas."
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Las Vegas Motor Speedway is a favorite venue for NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Eric Norris. From clinching his 2002 Nascar Grand National West Series Championship to earning 4 Top 10 finishes, Las Vegas has been the site of many big moments in Norris’ racing career. While Norris has a lot of experience at Las Vegas in the NASCAR Busch and West series, Saturday will mark his Craftsman Truck Series debut at the 1.5-mile track.
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"Las Vegas is a great place for us to keep these strong runs going and better our finish of last week. The track in Vegas is a fantastic 1.5-mile oval that rivals no other tracks of its kind. It is wide with many grooves and provides for great passing opportunities. We have really had to play the track position game at the tracks here lately because it is so hard to pass at places like Loudon and Richmond. But if your truck is better than the guy in front of you in Vegas there is plenty of room to get around them. We have been strong right off the trailer of late and I know the guys on this Wyler Racing team will provide me with the same thing again this week. A win in Las Vegas would be a cool and fun thing for all of us and that is what we are shooting for.”
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It doesn't take much to get Brendan Gaughan (No. 77 Jasper Engines & Transmissions Dodge) excited. But this week, the Las Vegas native is really excited. Gaughan and teammate Steve Park (No. 62 Orleans Dodge) comprise the home team in Saturday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Las Vegas 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. To say that the 2003 race winner is pumped up is an understatement. "We don't even need to do a press release for the Orleans team this week. It speaks for itself," said Gaughan. "In 2003, we had almost 70,000 people show up for the race and we went out there and got the pole and spanked the field. Last year, Steve had a good run (finishing third). This is the race we mark every year and say this is THE race. If we win Vegas we all get to keep our jobs and everybody is happy." (Steve Keller/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Rick Crawford, driver of the No. 14 Ford F-150, overcame numerous obstacles this season to capture his first truck series victory of 2005 last weekend in New Hampshire. From an end-over-end back flip in the season-opener at Daytona to a qualifying incident at Kentucky that ended his consecutive start streak at 210, the Mobile, Ala., native never gave up hope that things would turn around for his Circle Bar race team. (Steve Keller/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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"Luck" is the word that is synonymous with the city of Las Vegas and the state of Nevada and is applied in a variety of connotations in stories surrounding the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) annual visit to Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS). But Dennis Setzer, current NCTS points leader, knows that the "luck" he and his No. 46 Morgan-Dollar Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado team is going to be the result of preparation meeting opportunity. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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This will be the ninth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. There will be eight Tundras in the field at Las Vegas -- the 20th NCTS race of the 2005 NCTS season. In the most recent NCTS race at New Hampshire International Speedway (Sept. 17), Toyota driver Chad Chaffin recorded the best finish among Tundra drivers when he crossed the finish line ninth. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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“The Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International Ford was awesome last year. Fresh tires were huge. We came in and did a track bar and an air pressure adjustment and then this truck turned into a rocket. We just fought the balance of the truck and fortunately dodged a couple of bullets when people spun in front of us. The last run we put fresh tires on and we thought we were going to be all right but on the restart I had to jump on the brakes to avoid hitting the 14 truck and lost a bunch of track time. Had we not lost that track time we would have easily finished in the top five.”
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Malik Ibrahim will enter a new chapter in his remarkable motorsports and automotive career when he introduces his Maverick Motorsports team to NASCAR. Ibrahim brings tremendous motorsports business experience, youthful entrepreneurial skills, and worldwide diversity to the largest spectator sport in the United States. Ibrahim and his Maverick Motorsports team will make their debut into the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) with the No. 24 Chevrolet this weekend at the Las Vegas 350 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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This is Jimmy Spencer’s first visit in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series to Las Vegas Motor Speedway and his 26th career NCTS start. Spencer is FOURTH in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship Point Standings, 30 points behind third-place Ron Hornaday, 233 points behind leader Dennis Setzer.
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"Las Vegas has been a great place for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series to race over the years. Everyone loves to go to Las Vegas because its such a great city, and the facility at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is first class. The track itself is one of the flatter mile-and-a-half tracks that we visit. Its got plenty of racing room all the way around with a wide racing surface. You want your truck to rotate well in the corners and get out of the corners. If you can exit the corner good and throttle up quicker, its going to give you an advantage down the straightaways."
-Dennis Setzer
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Billy Ballew Motorsports returns to Las Vegas Motor Speedway where the team captured the coveted victory in 2004. It was the first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win for Billy Ballew Motorsports who has since captured two more victories with Kyle Busch piloting the No. 15 ditech.com Chevrolet Silverado. Busch is unable to compete in this weekend’s event due to his NASCAR NEXTEL Cup obligations, but recommended good friend David Gilliland to team owner Billy Ballew.
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The No. 59 HT Motorsports Dodge heads into Las Vegas Motor Speedway following an 14th place finish at New Hampshire International Raceway one week ago. In two Craftsman Truck Series starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Pressley has two top-15 finishes and one top-10 finish. Both of his qualifying efforts were top-15 as well.
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The No. 99 Superchips team will be taking chassis #41 to Las Vegas. Craven has previously raced that truck at Nashville, Michigan, Texas and Charlotte. Craven has seven Nextel Cup starts at Las Vegas.
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Kluever will drive the No. 50 World Financial Group Ford F-150 at Las Vegas. This will be the 12th of 15 races World Financial Group will be the primary sponsor on the truck. The No. 50 team will be taking chassis #36 to Las Vegas. This is Kluever's favorite truck. It last raced at Nashville where Kluever finished fifth.
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The trek to Las Vegas is full of memories and opportunities for driver Eric Norris and the Green Light Racing #07 Pavestone Chevrolet. Norris is committed to showing the team's strength this Saturday night in the Las Vegas 350. Norris won his 2002 Grand National West title at the Vegas track. Even though Norris is not in the hunt for a Championship this season, it is crystal clear he wants to run up front and win. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Sprague and Gaughan are joined in this week’s entry by Musgrave (2001) and David Starr (No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Chevrolet, 2002). Three of eight races and two of the last three have been won from the Bud Pole. This week’s Craftsman Win from the Pole Bonus is $12,000. Brandon Whitt (No. 38 Red Horse Racing Toyota) was the award’s last winner on July 23 at Memphis Motorsports Park. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Brandon Whitt and the #38 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra team head to the 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway this week for Saturday's Las Vegas 350; the 20th race of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Sprague holds the majority of the NCTS records at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. His two wins, three second-place, six top-five finishes, six top-10 finishes and three poles in seven previous NCTS starts are all Series' records. He has never started out of the top-ten and has led the most NCTS laps and miles - 298 and 447 respectively. He's also led most races (five), won most money ($317,165) and completed most laps/miles (919/1,378.5).
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Todd Kluever was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the September 17 Sylvania 200 at New Hampshire International Speedway. Kluever finished 28th and took top rookie honors for the 13th time this season. Kluever maintains a comfortable lead over Timothy Peters in the Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the September 24 Las Vegas 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He leads Peters by 79 points (219-140).
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The official entry list for the Las Vegas 350, the 20th race of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Darrell Waltrip Motorsports announces that Joey Miller will drive the No. 12 Toyota Tundra in the Las Vegas 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday evening. Miller, a 20-year-old from Lakeville (Minn.), makes his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut fresh off his fourth ARCA RE/MAX win this season with second-place locked up in the points standings. "It really is a dream come true to be able to make my very first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start with a top team," said Miller. (High Sierra Photo)
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Driver Eric Norris is slated for a multitude of Las Vegas appearances and autograph sessions, prior to his competing in the “Las Vegas 350” on Saturday Sept 24th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Burney Lamar has signed with NASCAR Nextel Cup star Kevin Harvick as a developmental driver and the two laid out a two-year plan. But a sudden rise to prominence has accelerated Lamar’s career path. The 25-year old driver was expected to spend most of this season competing in NASCAR’s Southwest and West divisions with the possibility of running some Truck races on short tracks such as Martinsville and Memphis. That all changed when he won in his second career
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start driving for Harvick. (John Bisci/LVMS.COM Photo)
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Las Vegas 350 - Las Vegas Motor Speedway
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Event Schedule
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Coming off a solid run in his first ever career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at Kansas Speedway, two-time Autozone Elite Division Northwest Series Champion Kevin Hamlin has again been selected by Green Light Racing to run at Las Vegas on September 24th. Hamlin ran for Green Light in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway on July 2nd, and was able to notch a top 25 finish in his first start.
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