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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race #23 |
Silverado 350K
Texas Motor Speedway
Fort Worth, TX
Friday, November 4, 2005
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Nineteen-year-old Justin Allgaier has had a tough learning curve while competing with Missouri-based MB Motorsports for his first foray into the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series but the young driver feels as though progress was made during his limited time in the seat of the #63 Mittler Bros. Machine & Tool/Dave Port Truck Sales Ford F-150. "It's been tough," stated the young driver. (High Sierra Photo)
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When Kelly “Girl” Sutton was just a little girl, her mom asked her what she wanted to do when she grew up. Her immediate response was to help people, and be a race car driver. Little did either one of them know the twists or turns that lay ahead ultimately would help Sutton achieve both goals.
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Todd Bodine returned to familiar ground as he took his No. 30 Germain Motor Co./Racers Edge/Toyota Tundra to victory lane this past Friday by winning the Silverado 350 at Texas Motor Speedway in typical Todd Bodine fashion. He grabbed his seconded consecutive fall checkered flag in front of an estimated crowd of 70,000 at Texas Motor Speedway by passing pole sitter Mike Skinner with 23-laps to go. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Kyle Busch's goal of making it back-to-back victories in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series came up a bit short on Friday night in the Silverado 350K at Texas Motor Speedway. Busch, piloting the No. 15 ditech.com/National Land Liquidations Chevrolet for Billy Ballew Motorsports, finished in the third position after leading 26 laps. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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RoadLoans Driver Chase Montgomery over came a penalty on pit road that forced him a lap down halfway through the 147-lap event to finish 19th in the Silverado 350 at Texas Motor Speedway. It was Montgomery's ninth top-20 finish of the season. "That is the best truck I have had the entire season," said Montgomery. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Todd Bodine pulled off his third win of the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and his second consecutive win in the Silverado 350 on Friday night. Bodine went to the front after second-place Kyle Busch scrubbed the wall late in the race and then he blasted past leader Mike Skinner with 22 laps remaining. Pole sitter Skinner was able to hold on for the runner-up position while Busch held off home state favorite David Starr for third. David Reutimann rounded out the top five finishers.
Neither of the contenders for the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship were factors throughout the race. Ted Musgrave finished 14th and picked up a handful of points on second place Dennis Setzer after Setzer's 18th-place finish. Musgrave unofficially leads the points by 61 points heading into the penultimate round of the season next weekend in Phoenix.
Skinner was the dominant driver in the early stages and pulled out to a one-second lead at times, but Bodine also immediately flexed the muscles of his No. 30 Germain Racing Toyota. While he didn't take the lead for the first time until lap 125, Bodine moved into the top five very early on and never dropped out the remainder of the race.
Jack Sprague's third start with the Wyler Racing team was the charm as he picked up his first top ten finish with them as he crossed the stripe in sixth. Ron Hornaday was seventh, with Rick Crawford in eighth, defending series champion Bobby Hamilton was ninth with Todd Kluever rounding out the top ten.
Terry Cook looked to be a factor for the win after starting third and staying up front for much of the night. Cook lost the handle in the middle stages of the race and faded outside of the top twenty before coming in for tires on the last caution flag with 10 laps remaining. Cook was able to charge from 22nd on the restart to 12th at the finish.
The race was very clean without any major incidents. Jack Bailey tagged the turn two wall on lap 2 to bring out the first caution. Justin Allgaier spun across the start-finish line, Aric Almirola slid into the inside wall on the backstretch, and Regan Smith spun exiting turn two and backed it in before smacking the inside backstretch wall. None of the drivers involved in the incidents were injured.
(High Sierra Photo)
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Robert Richardson took to the Texas Motor Speedway for only his second career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start Friday night in the Silverado 350k only 45 minutes from his hometown of McKinney, Texas. Richardson was one of 11 drivers forced to qualify their way into the field of 36 trucks for the event.
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Jimmy Spencer's late-race charge to the front was derailed when an engine miss in the closing laps of the Silverado 350 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race forced the No. 2 Team ASE/Ultra Wheels Dodge to fall off the pace, and relegating Spencer to 24th at the checkered flag. Spencer started 25th, but was challenging for a top-10 position after a long green flag run when the gremlins struck.
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Deborah Renshaw and the BHR2 team delivered another solid performance Friday night with a 20th place finish in the Silverado 350K at the Texas Motor Speedway. The run was the sixth top-20 for Renshaw in the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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Robert Pressley, driving the No. 59 Harris Trucking Dodge, managed a 26th place finish at Texas Motor Speedway during the running of the Chevy Silverado 350K. The team put together a valiant effort, though the problems that have plagued the team on the 1.5-mile tracks were once again present.
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The Silverado 350 was a bewildering race for the No. 22 Crown Royal Toyota Tundra team at Texas Motor Speedway. The team pictured the evening starting off with a loose-handling truck that would probably evolve into a slightly tighter machine by race end, but the truck actually did just the opposite and eventually landed Bill Lester and crew in 11th place by the end of the night. (High Sierra Photo)
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Mike Skinner and the No. 5 Toyota Tundra team occupied the spotlight more than once during the weekend of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series racing at Texas Motor Speedway. Friday night, it looked like Skinner and crew were going to end the race exactly where they had started it, in first place, until another Toyota competitor managed to slide by the No. 5 Bill Davis Racing Tundra with less than 25 circuits remaining in the 147-lap competition. (High Sierra Photo)
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The 2005 season was supposed to mark Brendan Gaughan's successful drive for five Texas Motor Speedway victories. Instead it will go down in the record books as the season when Gaughan failed to post a top 25 finish at one of his favored places to race. In June, electrical problems dashed Gaughan's hopes and relegated him to a 27th place finish. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Todd Kluever battled a tight truck and a head cold to claim his 11th top-10 finish of the season at Texas Motor Speedway Friday night. He finished 10th and closed-in on the top 10 in the point standings. Kluever started the race in fifth place after turning a lap of 182.420 mph in qualifying Thursday night. "It was a decent run," Kluever said. "We just could never get the truck free enough to turn. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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David Reutimann's No. 17 NTN Bearings Toyota Tundra crossed the finish line in fifth-place in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at Texas Motor Speedway Friday night. "The truck felt like it was good the whole race," said Reutimann. "It just needed to be better at various points. It wasn't far off. When you're running wide open as fast as you are, you only have to be off a little bit to make it tough to pass." (High Sierra Photo)
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Matt Crafton came from the back of the pack in the ThorSport Racing No. 88 Menards/SealBest Chevrolet on Friday night after a post-qualifying engine change, but having the entire field in his windshield didn't bother him as he methodically picked up position after position until he was within the top ten with 15 laps to go before a caution flag allowed drivers on fresher tires to line up on his tailgate.
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Jimmy Spencer's late-race charge to the front was derailed when an engine miss in the closing laps of the Silverado 350 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race forced the No. 2 Team ASE/Ultra Wheels Dodge to fall off the pace, and relegating Spencer to 24th at the checkered flag. Spencer started 25th, but was challenging for a top-10 position after a long green flag run when the gremlins struck.
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Tracy Hines finished a disappointing 35th in the Silverado 350 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday after engine failure sent the ThorSport Racing No. 13 David Zoriki Inc. Chevrolet to the garage just 22 laps into the 147-lap race.
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Jack Sprague headed into the Lone Star state this past weekend looking to repeat his victory earlier this season at the 1.5-mile facility. He left without that second win but did accomplish steering his No. 60 Wyler Racing Toyota to a sixth place finish. "We really struggled all weekend with the handling on our Tundra but we hung tough as a team and come out of here with a solid finish," said Sprague. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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After 22 of 25 races, the race for the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship is still as unclear as the day the season started in the cold of February. The only thing that seems for certain is the field has been whittled down to two: current point leader Ted Musgrave and Dennis Setzer. Musgrave, who won earlier this season at Gateway, took over the top spot after Setzer, a four-time winner in 2005, was caught in a slump through the months of September and October. (High Sierra Photo)
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A driver always thinks his mount can be a little faster or more dominant. Not Todd Bodine after winning Friday night's Silverado 350 at Texas Motor Speedway. "How can you go much faster than wide open?" asked Bodine, who hung around the top four throughout the race before passing Bud Pole starter Mike Skinner with 23 laps remaining. "Our truck was that good. I can't think of any way we could have made it any better." (High Sierra Photo)
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The battle for
10th-place
– and a spot on-stage at the Dec. 11 champion’s banquet in Orlando – is closest in series history with just 96 points separating eighth (
Jimmy Spencer
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Todd Kluever
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Consider this:
The No. 10 position has changed hands 14 times in the season’s first 23 races.
Matt Crafton
is the current “bubble” driver with a 10-point advantage over Martinsville winner
Ricky Craven
. “We want to (finish) a top-10 team because we have a top-10 team,” said Crafton. “Running good in the last two races and finishing there will be a good help for momentum for next year.” Twenty-one different drivers have ranked among the top 10 at some point during the 2005 season.
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Todd Bodine's NCTS win this evening is his third victory this season, and the fifth of his career. Bodine's most recent win came in the NCTS race at Las Vegas (Sept. 24) earlier this year. Along with Todd Bodine, three other Tundra drivers have registered wins this season. Toyota drivers Mike Skinner (Richmond and Bristol), David Reutimann (Nashville) and Brandon Whitt (Memphis) have all crossed the finish line first in Tundras this year. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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We brought one of our Robertson chassis tonight and we just can't get where we need to be on these things. Its the same truck we ran at Atlanta last week and it wasn't much better. The last few races we just can't get competitive and I don't know what the problem is. "My Chevrolet Silverado started out pretty good, but got real loose, kind of a snap loose there after about fifteen to twenty laps. I just couldn't throttle up in the center of the corner and had no grip or sidebite. -
Dennis Setzer
(Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Kluever finished 10th, his 11th top-10 of the season and took Raybestos® Rookie of the Race honors for the 17th time in 23 races. Kluever becomes the first Raybestos® Rookie to score a top-10 in the fall race at Texas since Carl Edwards in 2003. "I'm happy with it, I guess. Our bad days now are 10th-place instead of the 25th and 30th-place finishes that we had in the beginning of the season."
-Todd Kluever
(Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Todd Bodine pulled off his third win of the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and his second consecutive win in the Silverado 350 on Friday night. Bodine went to the front after second-place Kyle Busch scrubbed the wall late in the race and then he blasted past leader Mike Skinner with 22 laps remaining. Pole sitter Skinner was able to hold on for the runner-up position while Busch held off home state favorite David Starr for third. David Reutimann rounded out the top five finishers. Neither of the contenders for the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship were factors throughout the race. Ted Musgrave finished 14th and picked up a handful of points on second place Dennis Setzer after Setzer's 18th-place finish. Musgrave unofficially leads the points by 61 points heading into the penultimate round of the season next weekend in Phoenix. (High Sierra Photo)
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"I'm not sure where that came from, but we rolled off the trailer and we were extremely fast right off the trailer in practice today. We have unbelievable horsepower under the hood this weekend. This is the newest generation Yates-Roush truck engine, and it has an unbelievable amount of horsepower. We knew we had a great truck and we felt good about it, and we made a lot of changes after practice going into qualifying.
-Terry Cook, Qualified Third
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You guys were a little faster than you were in practice today out there tonight. What adjustments did you make?
"You know, the race track gets cooler at night and gets a lot of grip. We did what we needed to do for our race trim. There were just some minor things that we needed to change. From practice today we did some things to give the truck some better turn-ability off the corners."
-Kyle Busch, Qualified Fourth
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A Toyota Tundra has started on the pole 11 times this season. Mike Skinner has now registered seven pole positions. In addition to his pole tonight at Texas, Skinner has started first at Atlanta, Las Vegas, Nashville, Texas, Charlotte and California. Other Tundra drivers who have started on the pole are Bill Lester (Kentucky and Kansas), Brandon Whitt (Memphis) and David Reutimann (Bristol).
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Todd Kluever will start fifth in Friday night's Silverado 350K at Texas, his third top-five start of the season. Kluever maintains a comfortable lead over Timothy Peters in the Raybestos Rookie standings entering the Silverado 350K. He leads Peters by 73 points (239-166). Kluever owns the best finish and best start by a Raybestos Rookie in the Craftsman Truck Series this season. (High Sierra Photo)
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Mike Skinner won his third consecutive Bud Pole Award at Texas Motor Speedway on Thursday night by turning a lap of 29.574 seconds/182.593 miles per hour in qualifying for the Silverado 350. With the run Skinner now extends his season-long pole lead by nabbing his seventh on the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. Skinner held off his Bill Davis Racing teammate Bill Lester by just seven one-thousandths of a second to pick up the pole and give BDR a front row sweep. Skinner had a potential engine problem in the final practice but his crew worked under the hood for a long time during the three hour beak between practice and qualifying and it was determined the engine did not need to be changed.
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Any problems in the truck during practice this afternoon?
"No. This is my old trusty-truck, my favorite truck. It was good to get back in it. We were just a little off but I've come to learn over the last couple of weeks that as long as I'm patient and telling my guys what it needs, Mike Beam and Hal Ralston, and all the guys will get it figured out. And they sure did. Our World Financial Group Ford is getting better and better every time I drive it. I think we'll have a good race truck."
-Todd Kluever
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Joe Gibbs Racing/Reggie White Drive for Diversity driver Aric Almirola is competing in his fourth NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race behind the wheel of the No. 47 FedEx Express Silverado fielded by Morgan-Dollar Motorsports. The Home Depot, Interstate Batteries and Joe Gibbs Performance Motor Oil are serving as associate partners.
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In Brendan Gaughan's five starts here he's taken four wins and one 27th place finish to give the Las Vegas native an impressive 6.2 place average finish record. The hopes are to continue to buttress that record, and improve upon it in this week's Silverado 350K. After Gaughan swept four races over the 2002 to 2003 seasons he was voted into the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame. (High Sierra Photo)
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Kyle Busch and the No. 15 Billy Ballew Motorsports team look to repeat their victory from last week at Atlanta Motor Speedway this Friday night at the Texas Motor Speedway. Should Busch pick up the win in the Silverado 350K it will be the second time this season the team has captured NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victories back-to-back, with other wins coming at Lowe's Motor Speedway and Dover International Speedway. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Hoping for that well-known home court advantage, David Starr and the Spears Motorsports team ready themselves for Round 23 of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Friday, November 4th at Texas Motor Speedway.
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“This will be my first time running at Texas. It’s very exciting for me. I like the challenge of a new speedway, especially a super-speedway. Having Todd (a past winner) as a teammate at this track has been a big help.
-Justin Hobgood
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Todd Bodine has two NCTS starts at Texas Motor Speedway. Todd’s first race in the NCTS at Texas came in 2004 when Todd drove the No. 30 Arnold Development Companies Toyota Tundra to victory lane in his first Craftsman Truck Series Race at TMS. He started 22nd and finished 1st.
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While Robert Richardson is certainly new to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series as he attempts to make only his second career series start, he is no stranger to the Texas Motor Speedway. Richardson, a native and resident of nearby McKinney, Texas got his start in auto racing at Lil’ Texas Motor Speedway where he earned the Lone Star Championship behind the wheel of a Legends car just four years ago.
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Special paint schemes showcasing new performance equipment will be featured on the Chevrolet Silverado race trucks driven by Dennis Setzer and Mike Bliss.
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Scott Lynch is preparing to make his first ever start here at Texas Motor Speedway in this week’s Craftsman Truck Series event. The start comes a week after his maiden voyage at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where he finished 25th.
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After finishing 10th in his second NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start, Joey Miller heads to Texas Motor Speedway determined to deliver the No. 12 Toyota Tundra team's first top-five finish this season. "I feel like we can definitely do it," said Miller. "We started out at Las Vegas with a 15th-place finish. We went to Atlanta Motor Speedway and finished 10th. We're working our way up each weekend." (Steve Keller/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Deborah will be making her 36th career start in the Craftsman Truck Series this week at the Texas Motor Speedway. Deborah will be racing the truck nicknamed “Butters” this weekend. This truck was raced last weekend in Atlanta and is also the truck that Deborah steered to her career best qualifying effort of 8th earlier this year in Nashville.
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Cook is one of only two drivers to have competed in all previous 14 NCTS races at TMS. Cook finished seventh in June 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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With three races remaining on the schedule, David Reutimann’s focused on reentering the top-10 in points starting with Texas Motor Speedway this Friday evening. Mechanical failures in the last two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series events have relegated Reutimann to 14th in the points standings.
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Chevrolet Team Silverado comes to Texas Motor Speedway for the Silverado 350K riding high on momentum after clinching its sixth NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series manufacturers championship when the checkered flag flew for Kyle Busch at Atlanta Motor Speedway. As the 11th NCTS season is just three races from conclusion, Chevrolet Silverado has collected 10 victories in 22 races thus far this season on the way to capturing the manufacturers title. (High Sierra Photo)
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What Motivates You:
“Failure motivates me. I don’t mean like wrecking in a truck race, or an IROC race, that is not something that I consider failure. I am more talking about failure to make a race. Such as when John Mickel qualified as the highest BHR Dodge and didn’t make the race in Atlanta. He is such a nice guy and we look forward to working with him again in Texas."
-Bobby Hamilton
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Coming off their third straight top-10 finish, Brandon Whitt and the No. 38 DW Boogity Grill/Red Horse Racing Tundra team head to the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway for Friday night’s Texas 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. The team’s eighth-place finish at Atlanta, similar to Texas, bodes well. Whitt finished 15th in the June Texas race.
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England’s John Mikel will take the wheel of the No. 4 dsi nexdox Dodge for next Friday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Mikel will be making his inaugural NCTS start but it will not be his first race in the United States. He won the world’s Legends Car title at Sears Point and has run two ASA events, Charlotte and Atlanta, with lead lap finishes in both.
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For the second consecutive week, Steve Park will join forces with Bill Davis Racing to race the No. 67 South Padre Island Toyota Tundra. This will be the second time Park has raced for Davis, as well as Toyota. Park was released earlier this month from Orleans Racing due to uncertainty about the team's 2006 racing program and intentions to give Park the time he needed to explore opportunities for next year. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Skinner has won the pole in his past two consecutive starts at Texas Motor Speedway. Last fall, Skinner captured the pole position in his first race under the Bill Davis Racing umbrella. Since then, he has added five poles to his credit. Skinner and the No.5 Toyota Tundra team hold the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series track qualifying record at Texas Motor Speedway.
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“We are looking forward to Texas because second is the worst we have been there in the trucks. I would like to go there and win the race. If we can run as competitive as we have in the two races I have run there, we definitely have a shot."
-Johnny Benson
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In seven starts at Texas Motor Speedway, Lester has only started out of the top 10 twice. He has qualified in the top five in his three starts for Bill Davis Racing. For the second consecutive week, Lester will have another teammate, driver Steve Park. Park piloted the No. 67 Bill Davis Racing Tundra last weekend in Atlanta and brought his truck home in the 34th position.
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Dennis Setzer scored the first superspeedway win for Dodge at TMS in 1999. Setzer has won twice at the track – including the spring event in 2004. "Texas has been a good track for me over the years. I have two wins there and really love the track and the facility. The second Texas race is always very important to the championship because of when it is. Texas has been for a long time, one of the final races of the year."
-Dennis Setzer
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MIKE BLISS:
“I am so disappointed about how our race ended up in Atlanta. We had a good truck. So I am hoping to run more than one race of the Texas race. Both this Xpress Motorsports team and myself need to get a very good qualifying run and race finish under our belts. We just need some good luck to get us headed in the right direction."
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Statistics don't always tell the whole story and for that reason Dennis Setzer in the No. 46 Chevrolet Z71 Silverado Chevrolet feels optimistic this week about gaining ground in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship race. On paper, point leader Ted Musgrave, driver of the No. 1 Mopar Dodge looks like a heavy favorite to win Friday's Silverado 350 at Texas Motor Speedway. Musgrave, who leads Setzer by 51 points with three races remaining, is a front-runner whenever the series visits 1.5-mile TMS. He's tied first in series races led (six) and fourth among laps led (191) at TMS. Conversely, Setzer has led four races and just 71 laps there. The scoreboard, however, shows something else when it comes to taking the checkered flag: Setzer has two wins. Musgrave, despite his dominance, has yet to visit Victory Lane. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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For the second week in a row, Mark McFarland will look to make his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start of 2005. He failed to qualify on time for last week’s event at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. He will pilot the No. 08 Chevrolet Vortec Max Engines Silverado from the Green Light Racing stable.
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“Texas is a fast race track. Its reminds me of Atlanta and Lowes Motor Speedway, but has a distinctive attitude. Texas is a 1.5–mile quad-oval track and is known for it’s extreme speeds. I experienced it first hand when we were there in June. I was turned right into the wall and felt the force as I hit. I had a mild concussion and spent the last half of the race in the hospital going through tests. Thankfully everything was good, but it killed our truck."
-Chase Montgomery
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NASCAR has changed the starting time of Sunday's inaugural Dickies 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race to 2:50 p.m. local Central Time, 40 minutes later than originally announced.
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Tracy Hines will drive a second Glynn Motorsports NASCAR Busch Series entry this Saturday in the O'Reilly Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway. Hines, a veteran of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, will be making his first start for Glynn Motorsports behind the wheel of the No. 92 Glynn Motorsports Dodge Charger. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced the Tyson Fun Walk NASCAR On Track for Charity fundraising event will take place Saturday, Nov. 5 at Texas Motor Speedway. The charity walk will begin one hour after the O’Reilly Challenge NASCAR Busch Series race on Nov. 5. (2 p.m. on TNT).
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Sutton returns to TMS with the same truck she piloted to a career-best 15th place finish earlier this year in Charlotte, and is looking to become the first female NCTS driver to crack the Top-10. It’s been a record-breaking season for Sutton, eclipsing the record for career earnings by a woman in the NCTS (Dover 6/4), and setting a new mark for races run by a woman in the series with her 33rd start at Kansas (7/2), which currently stands at 39 going into the race this weekend in Texas.
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Although only one of the team’s nine Texas Motor Speedway victories has come in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Roush Racing is hands-down the most successful at TMS. Greg Biffle won the spring truck race in 2000 en route to a record, million dollar championship season, Jack Roush’s first as a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team owner.
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This will be the 16th NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) race at Texas Motor Speedway. There will be 10 Tundras in the field at Texas, the 23nd race of the 2005 NCTS season. In the most recent NCTS race at Atlanta Motor Speedway (Oct. 29), five Toyota drivers recorded top-10 finishes. Todd Bodine finished second in the No. 30 Germain Racing Tundra and Johnny Benson was third in the No. 23 Bill Davis Racing Tundra. (High Sierra Photo)
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Who's Your Daddy energy drink to sponsor No. 65 truck for Texas event. Tim Fedewa will be driving the No. 65 Who's Your Daddy Dodge Ram truck in the Silverado 350 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at Texas Motor Speedway this Friday night.
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Jimmy Spencer on returning to Texas:
“I’ve learned that these trucks take a much different set-up than the cars – I am so prone to driving the cars; the trucks are just a lot different handling - you have to try to carry a tremendous amount of momentum with the trucks. We had a terrible time at Texas in the spring - I mean terrible - Dover, too."
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2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Bobby Hamilton has rejoined forces with TECH-NET Professional Auto Service and the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics. Hamilton will drive a uniquely designed No. 04 TECH-NET/Law Enforcement Torch Run Dodge created to help raise awareness and funding for the Special Olympics. (Team PR Photo)
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Kluever will drive the No. 50 World Financial Group Ford F-150 at Texas. This will be the 14th of 15 races World Financial Group will be the primary sponsor on the truck. This will be Kluever's second start at Texas. It was announced last week that Kluever will take over the No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion in the Nextel Cup Series in 2007 when Mark Martin retires. He will compete full time in the Busch Series in 2006.
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