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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race #25 |
Ford 200
Homestead-Miami Speedway
Miami, FL
Friday, November 18, 2005
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Robert Richardson made his third career attempt and third career start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Saturday morning at the Homestead-Miami Speedway during the running of the final event of the 2005 season, the Ford 200. Richardson once again jumped behind the wheel of the same Billy Ballew Motorsports-prepared Chevrolet Silverado in hopes of making his third and final start of the 2005 season.
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Red Horse Racing and Brandon Whitt capped off their strong year with one more terrific qualifying effort. Starting fourth, a spin and a mechanical issue washed away Whitt’s hopes of a season finale victory, but not the fact that the team had, overall, a solid performance in the Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway to finish the season.
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Mopar's Ted Musgrave has come agonizingly close in his quest for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship, never finishing worse than third in the final NCTS points standings. His frustration ended in the rain-delayed Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida on Saturday, as Musgrave claimed his first NCTS title and gave Mopar its first series championship. Musgrave started the race in the eighth spot with a 58-point lead in the title chase over the second-place Dennis Setzer. He took no chances in his No. 1 Ultra Motorsports Mopar Dodge Ram, shadowing Setzer for much of the race and finishing 19th, one spot behind Setzer. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Jimmy Spencer closed out the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season with a 14th-place finish in the Ford Championship 200 Saturday morning at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Spencer started the No. 2 Team ASE/Ultra Wheels Dodge from the 19th position, and moved into the top ten within the first 40 laps of the 134-lap sprint.
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Bill Lester and his No. 22 SunTrust Tundra team showed the rest of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series garage they are a team to watch for in 2006. Lester matched his fifth-place career best finish at the season finale race in Homestead, Fla. With the strong run, Lester picked one spot in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings placing Lester 17th at the end of the 2005 season. (High Sierra Photo)
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The No. 23 Aaron's Dream Machine team went to South Florida to the season finale at Miami-Homestead Speedway with one goal in mind, to get the No. 23 Tundra back into the top 10 in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points. The team was 22 points out of 10th with one event left on the 2005 schedule and knew it would have to have another strong run to take the step up. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The final race of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season was a bit of a roller coaster ride for Mike Skinner and his No. 5 Toyota Tundra team at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The team worked to brush off an early-race setback to go on and maintain a top-10 run the majority of the competition.
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Ted Musgrave wasn't leaving anything to chance at Homestead-Miami Speedway. When you're sitting on a comfortable lead, well, you sit on it. With a 58-point advantage over Dennis Setzer, Musgrave considered Saturday morning's weather-delayed Ford 200 was a two-way race. His strategy was simple: keep Setzer in sight, which he did to perfection. Setzer finished 18th while Musgrave accepted 19th.
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Todd Bodine dominated last Saturday Ford 200, to take home his third consecutive victory and fifth of the 2005 season. Inclement weather moved the Ford 200 from Friday to Saturday morning, but a little rain could did not stop the red hot Bodine from winning the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Bodine's win in the Ford 200 at Miami-Homestead Speedway earned him his sixth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory in 40 races. (High Sierra Photo)
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Jack Sprague and his Wyler Racing team ended the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season on a high note with solid momentum built up for the 2006 campaign. In the rain delayed season finale, Sprague steered his No. 60 Toyota Tundra to a strong second place finish at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in the running of the Ford 200.
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Deborah Renshaw, in the No. 8 Heritage Dodge, ended the 2005 season at the Homestead-Miami Speedway with a 25th place finish in the Ford 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series finale. Renshaw and the Shawn Parker led team chased the handling of the truck in practice and the difficulty continued through qualifying. Despite the hard work and best efforts of the BHR2 team, the 32nd starting position was where Renshaw qualified for the 134 lap event.
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Scott Lynch saw a golden opportunity to showcase his driving talents when he joined the Orleans Racing team with five races to go in the 2005 season, and he made the most out of it. With all eyes on the two drivers battling for the championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Lynch avoided all trouble and brought the No. 62 Dodge home with a 17th place finish, one lap behind the leaders.
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Brendan Gaughan and the Jasper Engines & Transmissions team desperately wanted to add a notch to the win column at Homestead Miami Speedway but their gamble on pit strategy didn’t quite pay off the way they would have liked it to.
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RoadLoans Driver Chase Montgomery overcame handling issues at the start of the Ford 200, which was postponed Friday night till Saturday morning due to rain, to finish 23rd in the final race of the season at Homestead Speedway. It was Montgomery’s 16th top-25 finish of the season.
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Though the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series took an extra day to complete, the HT Motorsports team finished up the year with a 24th place finish in the season finale Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Intermittent rain postponed the Friday night "Under the Lights" race and the teams returned to the track at the crack of dawn for an 8:30 a.m. start on Saturday.
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Time ran out for Todd Bodine, who fashioned a record-matching, third consecutive victory in Saturday morning's weather-delayed Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. And that was just fine for Ted Musgrave, who wrapped up the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship with a 19th-place finish in the season-concluding event. Bodine's mathematical title hopes ended with the drop of the green flag but that didn't keep the 41-year-old New Yorker from putting an exclamation point on a late-season charge during which the Germain Motor Company Toyota team went to Victory Lane in four of the last six races and five times overall. He ended the year third in the standings behind Musgrave and Dennis Setzer. Musgrave edged Setzer by 55 points with Bodine just 70 back after trailing by 488 in early August. (High Sierra Photo)
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Todd Bodine continued his torrid late season hot streak with his fifth victory of 2005 and third consecutive win by taking the checkered flag in the Ford 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race Saturday morning at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Bodine, in the Germain Racing Toyota, started ninth and quickly made his way to the front, taking the lead for the first time on lap 38 and then retaking the lead for the second and final time after the field cycled through green flag pit stops on lap 117. With the win, Bodine becomes the leading race winner in the series in 2005. Bodine had the dominant truck throughout the 134-lap race, but was forced to hold off a stiff challenge from Jack Sprague and Johnny Benson on a five-lap dash to the checkered. Sprague ran second in the Jeff Wyler Toyota throughout the middle stages of the race, but did not seem to have enough steam to run with Bodine on the long run. The short dash to the checkered was just what he needed to make a run on the lead, but he never could pull alongside. Sprague held off a hard charging Johnny Benson to finish second.
Benson finished third in the Aarons Rents Toyota for the third time in the past four races. Benson also worked the bottom groove in the final laps, but could not maintain the momentum coming off the sweeping corners. With the finish, Benson was able to move into the top ten in final series point standings. His third-place run also gace Toyota a sweep of the top three positions.
Mike Bliss finished fourth in the Chevy Trucks Chevy, while Bill Lester capped his season with a great top five finish in the SunTrust Toyota.
Kyle Busch came on strong on the final restart to run up to sixth at the checkered, while Raybestos Rookie of the Year Todd Kluever finished seventh. Mark Martin made his return to the series after a nine-year layoff and finished eighth in the Stonebridge Life Insurance Ford, Ron Hornaday was ninth in the GM Goodwrench Chevy, and Matt Crafton rounded out the top ten in the Menards Chevy.
The race was delayed by just over 12 hours after rain postponed the event from Friday evening. It got off to a slow start after Justin Hobgood spun and crashed in turn four on the first lap. Hobgood repeated his performance with an identical spin on lap 40 and he was narrowly missed by Mike Skinner as he slid down the speedway. Chris Wimmer and Robert Richardson were also involved in an accident on lap 52.
The race officially ended under caution as Joey Miller, David Starr, Jimmy Spencer, and Terry Cook got together coming off turn two on the final lap. Cook slid out of control after getting tapped from behind and pounded the inside wall. None of the drivers involved in any of the accidents were injured.
There were 9 lead changes among 9 drivers. There were seven caution flags for 24 laps and Bodine averaged 119.940 miles per hour on the way to victory.
The 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season is now concluded and will resume next February in Daytona.
(High Sierra Photo)
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After leading his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, Joey Miller finished 13th in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. On the last lap of the 134-lap event, the 20-year-old from Lakeville (Minn.) was involved in a last lap multi-truck accident.
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Pole-sitter David Reutimann led 21 laps during the 134-lap NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event before a problem with his clutch ruined his chances for a victory in the No. 17 NTN Bearings Toyota Tundra at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Reutimann finished 36th.
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Todd Kluever finished the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season with his 12th top-10 finish of the year at Homestead. Kluever drove his No. 50 World Financial Group Ford F-150 to a seventh-place finish in the rain-delayed Ford 200. The team felt prepared for a morning race since they had a good practice early in the morning on Friday. Within the first few laps, Kluever told the team the truck was really free. (High Sierra Photo)
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Ricky Craven went to Homestead-Miami Speedway hoping his final race of the season would end with a strong finish, but it did not work out the way he and the No. 99 Superchips team wanted. Craven struggled with the handling throughout the race and ended up with a 21st-place finish.
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ThorSport Racing Collects First Top-10 Points Finish
Matt Crafton closed the season with his tenth top ten finish of the 2005 season, driving the ThorSport Racing No. 88 Menards Chevrolet to a tenth-place finish in the season ending Ford Championship 200 NASCAR Truck Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Saturday morning. (High Sierra Photo)
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"For the last couple of races, the best thing we were going to do when we came out with a 63-point lead at one time is just keep Dennis (Setzer) around you. If you race him and you're within a truck or two (he) can't gain enough positions or points to get you. It was a different type of strategy toward the end of the season. It's kinda tough running that way. I'd rather be out front racing with Todd (race winner Bodine).
-Ted Musgrave
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"I had a lot of fun running the truck series again. I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today. We kinda know what we need to work on next year and the next race maybe we'll improve on it. I certainly see where we can improve."
-Mark Martin, No. 33 Ford, Finished 8th
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For the third consecutive year, Dennis Setzer and the No. 46 Morgan-Dollar Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado team brought home the runner-up spot in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship standings. Setzer and company rolled into Homestead-Miami Speedway 58 points behind 2005 championship winner Ted Musgrave (No. 1 Mopar Dodge). (High Sierra Photo)
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Todd Bodine continued his torrid late season hot streak with his fifth victory of 2005 and third consecutive win by taking the checkered flag in the Ford 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race Saturday morning at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Bodine, in the Germain Racing Toyota, started ninth and quickly made his way to the front, taking the lead for the first time on lap 38 and then retaking the lead for the second and final time after the field cycled through green flag pit stops on lap 117. With the win, Bodine becomes the leading race winner in the series in 2005. Bodine had the dominant truck throughout the 134-lap race, but was forced to hold off a stiff challenge from Jack Sprague and Johnny Benson on a five-lap dash to the checkered. Sprague ran second in the Jeff Wyler Toyota throughout the middle stages of the race, but did not seem to have enough steam to run with Bodine on the long run. The short dash to the checkered was just what he needed to make a run on the lead, but he never could pull alongside. Sprague held off a hard charging Johnny Benson to finish second.
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Today's win at Homestead-Miami Speedway was Todd Bodine's fifth NCTS win of the season. 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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Todd Kluever in the No. 50 World Financial Group Ford Finished Seventh and Clinched Raybestos Rookie of The Year Honors at Homestead. Kluever becomes the fourth driver from Roush Racing to win Raybestos Rookie of the Year honors in the Craftsman Truck Series. The others: Greg Biffle (1998), Kurt Busch (2000) and Carl Edwards (2003). (High Sierra Photo)
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The Women’s Auxiliary of Motorsports, Inc. (WAM) held it First Annual WAM Derby Duck Race this morning at the Homestead-Miami Speedway infield lake. Nearly 9,500 ducks were dumped into the infield lake and raced across to the finish line. The first ten ducks that entered the trap represented ten “Lucky Duck” winners. Fans were given an opportunity to adopt ducks at the WAM trackside display or through the WAM website throughout the 2005 season.
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Brad Keselowski has completed a great accomplishment for a 21-year old, at the conclusion of Friday evening’s Ford 200 he will have successfully completed his first full NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Heading for the warm sunny shores of Florida and Homestead Miami Speedway for the running of the Ford 200 on November 18, David Starr and the Spears Motorsports crew are planning to end this year's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season on a definite high note.
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“We’ve always wanted to be in the top 10 week-in and week-out. This year we’ve excelled at the flat tracks like Martinsville and have been pretty sporty on the mile-and-a-half tracks like Charlotte and Kentucky. We’re ending the season here at Homestead and bringing the same truck we ran with at Texas."
-Terry Cook
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Chris Wimmer will do double duty this weekend at Miami / Homestead Speedway when he pilots the Green Light Racing Chevrolet Silverado in the Ford 200 on Friday evening and the Keith Coleman Racing entry in the NASCAR Busch Series Ford 300 on Saturday afternoon.
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Ted Musgrave has been a bridesmaid for several years when it comes to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship. A runner-up finish and two back-to-back third place series finishes have been among the highlights of his career. As the No. 1 Mopar Dodge Ram Ultra Motorsports team heads to Homestead-Miami Speedway for this Friday's championship showdown, Musgrave has his sights set on winning his first long-awaited series title. "Winning the title would be great, but we've got our feet on the ground too," Musgrave said. "Everyone has been focused on making sure all the little details are in order. We've been going over everything as closely as possible. It's a pretty cool, relaxed atmosphere right now. I've told the guys, we're going to give it our best shot, but the world won't stop turning if we don't win. Even if we don't win the championship, the sun will come up on Saturday. We've just got to stay focused on what we need to do." (High Sierra Photo)
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They're bringing their best truck to Homestead-Miami Speedway for the running of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event on Friday night. And if all goes well, Kyle Busch and Billy Ballew Motorsports will end their season in victory lane, a place they have already visited three times together this year. Billy Ballew Motorsports is also aiming to complete the season in the top-five in owners points despite the team’s utilization of eight different drivers this year.
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”I’ve always been a team player and Jim Smith (Ultra Motorsports Team Owner) hired me to be part of a team, and I am part of that team - I’ll do what I can to help my team win the Championship - Teddy (Musgrave) is part of that team. He’s leading the points now and Jimmy Smith has been very good for Teddy and I; he’s been good for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series."
-Jimmy Spencer
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Tim Fedewa will be behind the wheel of the No. 65 Who's Your Daddy Dodge Ram truck for the Ford 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Homestead Miami Speedway on Friday night. Fedewa, who finished 13th last week at Phoenix International Raceway, wants to carry some PIR momentum into the season finale.
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Joey Miller enters Homestead-Miami Speedway for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season finale with one top-10 and two top-15 finishes in four starts. “Joey's done a good job for us,” said Darrell Waltrip. “He's stayed out of trouble, recorded respectable finishes and brought home the No. 12 Toyota Tundra in one piece. I’m pleased with his efforts.”
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Todd Bodine is teaming up with NFL Hall of Fame quarterback and NASCAR Busch Series co-owner of the No. 34 Dollar General/Chevy Monte Carlo, Jim Kelly in Homestead this weekend. They are working to help raise awareness of Krabbe Disease through Kelly's 'Hunter's Hope Foundation' at this weekends NASCAR season final at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Skinner will compete in both Friday’s Ford 200 in his No. 5 Toyota Tundra and Sunday’s NASCAR Nextel Cup Series finale in the No. 37 car. This will be the fourth consecutive week Skinner has driven the No. 37 car in NASCAR’s top division in. The No. 5 team has locked up the award for most laps led this season with 862 circuits at the head of the field.
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A year ago at Homestead-Miami Speedway, David Reutimann was the top-finishing Toyota driver with a fourth-place result in the No. 17 Darrell Waltrip Motorsports Tundra. Reutimann also captured the pole in record fashion (171.255 MPH/31.532 seconds) at the 2004 season-finale in Miami. "Homestead is a great facility and it's pretty close to home," says David Reutimann, a Zephyrhills, Fla.-native.
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This week’s race truck for Homestead-Miami Speedway is Chassis No. 23-73. Truck No. 23-73 was raced at Atlanta Motor Speedway three weeks ago, where it crossed the finish line in the third position. His two third-place finishes in the last three races have moved Benson and his No. 23 Bill Davis Racing team closer to the top 10 in championship points. Benson sits only 22 points out of the top 10 with one race remaining.
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This week's race truck for Homestead-Miami Speedway is Chassis No. 22-61. Truck No. 61 set the track record at Kansas Speedway on Fourth of July weekend 2005. It was last raced at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in September. Bill Lester was running in the top 10 when the right-front tire blew, relegating him to a 32nd-place finish.
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“Homestead is another one of those tracks that I have had some good success at – but the win has just somehow always slipped away from me. The track is completely different than when the series first started racing there about ten years ago. It is a fast and wide track but you seem to loose grip a lot there which makes the handling of your truck fall off."
-Jack Sprague
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Last season, David Reutimann ended his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie year on a high note with a fourth-place finish in the No. 17 NTN Bearings Toyota Tundra at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Reutimann expects similar results this time around in the season finale on Friday.
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With the 2005 NASCAR season coming to a close, Jack Bailey’s final preparation to compete in the NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Series for the 2006 season comes down to one more race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season winds down this Friday evening with the 25th and final race of the year, and two drivers are looking to leave the mile and a half oval as the champion. Ted Musgrave enters the race with a 58 point advantage over second-place driver Dennis Setzer, meaning Musgrave can finish as low as tenth if Setzer wins and still pick up his first series title. Musgrave's team has come on hard over the course of the second half of the season. After falling 227 points behind Setzer following the race at Indianapolis Raceway Park in August, Musgrave's team put their heads down and started reeling off solid top five finishes. Meanwhile, Setzer and his team fought a streak of bad racing luck over the same streak that turned his fortunes for the worse. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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"I am pretty confident going into the last race of the year. I think that I have halfway met my expectations for the year. We have had some bumps in the road but the little ones we have are to be expected considering that I am rookie driver."
-Timothy Peters
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Erin Crocker will head to Homestead-Miami Speedway for her 1.5-mile track debut this weekend, ready for her second NASCAR Truck Series start. Crocker became just the eighth female driver to start a NASCAR Truck Series event when she made her Series debut, starting 22nd at Phoenix last week.
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The Tennessee native will be making his third career start on the 1.5-mile oval Friday. He finished 21st in last year’s event. He also competed in a NASCAR Busch series race there in 2003. “I really like racing at Homestead and I love the sunny weather. You can run right next to the yellow line. It has progressive banking, which allows you to run a lane up from the yellow line. The top groove has not come in yet, but it will the more we race on the track."
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Deborah will be making her second career start at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. “Homestead is a great track. – It’s really smooth which makes it fast. The track has multiple grooves giving you ample room to pass.
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This weekend Todd Kluever will head to Homestead-Miami Speedway with two goals, to finish in the top 10 in the point standings and to win the race. He's been very close to both, but this is his final chance to make them happen.
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"We were pretty happy with our run at Phoenix, I feel like I am getting back in the swing of truck series. It is just amazing how much the trucks and the competition has changed and grown since 2002. The last time I ran Homestead was for this team when we won the championship."
-Mike Bliss
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Three Silverado drivers currently occupy spots in the top-10 in the championship standings with Setzer. Ron Hornaday, No. 6 GM Goodwrench Silverado is fourth in the standings. David Starr, No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Silverado is seventh and Matt Crafton, No. 88 Menards Silverado is ninth in the order. Two-time NCTS champion Ron Hornaday has one win, three top-five and five top-10 finishes in five previous NCTS starts at Homestead. (High Sierra Photo)
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Dennis Setzer comes into the Ford 200 just 58 points out of the overall championship lead. Setzer has finished 2nd in the championship the past two years coming up 9 points short in 2003, and 46 points short in 2004. Setzer and his #46 Silverado team know that anything can happen in the final race of the year with the point race this close. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship goes down to the wire for the 10th time in 11 seasons this Friday and the only thing certain is that the Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway will produce a first-time champion. No. 1 Team MOPAR Dodge driver Ted Musgrave, who's never finished worse than third in the points in four fulltime seasons, carries a 58-point lead into the 25th race of the 2005 season. Rival Dennis Setzer in the No. 46 Chevrolet Z71 Silverado Chevrolet also has been here before - and likewise has come up empty. Setzer finished second to Travis Kvapil in 2005 and a year ago to Bobby Hamilton, No. 04 Bailey's Dodge. (High Sierra Photo)
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Last week in Phoenix Justin Hobgood finished up the Chevy Silverado 150 with a top-20 finish. Justin's solid performance in Phoenix helped renew his confidence for this weeks upcoming race in Homestead. This will be Justin's first time racing at the 1.5-mile oval of Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Richardson Knows Qualifying is Key at Homestead NCTS Event: Robert Richardson will make his most challenging NCTS attempt this weekend at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in preparation for his third career NCTS start. Richardson, who has never taken a lap around the 1.5-milie speedway, must qualify for the event on his time, but feels like he has the best equipment possible under him in order to take on this challenge.
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Todd Bodine has been on a roll lately, capturing his second consecutive win in Phoenix last week, giving him his fourth win of the 2005 season. Todd will try to keep his winning streak alive as he heads into the Craftsman Truck Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway this Friday night. If he can pull off the win, it would be Todd's third straight and his fifth win of the season.
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In two previous Craftsman Truck Series starts at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Robert Pressley has one top-five finish. "We had such a great run going last week at Phoenix that I'm looking forward to coming here this weekend. I hate that the year is coming to a close because I feel like [crew chief] Kevin and I are really starting to click with these setups-we're starting to get that consistent competitiveness."
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Todd Kluever was the Raybestos® Rookie of the Race in the November 11 Chevy Silverado 150 at Phoenix International Raceway. Kluever finished 12th and took Raybestos® Rookie of the Race honors for the 17th time in 23 races. Kluever maintains a comfortable lead over Timothy Peters in the Raybestos® Rookie standings entering the Nov. 18 Ford 200. (High Sierra Photo)
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Last year Hamilton finished a safe 16th position in the Ford 200 on the 1.5-mile oval, exactly what he needed to do to clinch the 2004 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship. In 2003 Hamilton won the Ford 200 in Homestead.
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Craven has five starts at Homestead with four in Nextel Cup and one in the Busch Series. "We're down to our last race and this whole team is determined to end the season on a good note. We had some bad luck in Phoenix last weekend with engine trouble. I can't complain about the engines because they have been great all year."
-Ricky Craven
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Kluever will officially clinch the Raybestos Rookie-of-the-Year award this weekend at Homestead. This will be Kluever's first start at Homestead, although he did test there last month.
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No team has been a stronger qualifier the past couple of months than the Red Horse Racing team of driver Brandon Whitt, and the #38 DW Boogity Grill Tundra. They will carry that streak to Homestead-Miami Speedway this week for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series finale, Friday night at the 1.5-mile track.
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Musgrave and Setzer probably are pleased to see time run out for Todd Bodine (No. 30 Germain Motor Company Toyota), whose Phoenix victory was his second in a row and third in the past five races. Bodine, with nine top-three finishes in 14 starts since rejoining the Germain team on June 18, closed within 157 points of Musgrave. Mathematics, however, are on the leader's side: Bodine will be eliminated when Musgrave takes the green flag. (High Sierra Photo)
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Mark Martin (No. 33 Roush Racing Ford) hasn’t turned a wheel in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series since winning the Sept. 28, 1996 event at the old North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway. He makes his return this week with NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series crew chief Pat Tryson calling the shots. “This is really where my heart’s been throughout the summer. Through the musical chairs of the Cup Series, it sort of put me in the position of postponing a fulltime schedule until ’07 but I’m still committed to running Homestead and six or seven races next year to get this team refined for ’07,” said Martin.
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The official entry list for the Ford 200, the 25th race of the 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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The Econo Lodge® Hotel is a prime location for the upcoming race in Homestead, located only 5 miles from the speedway, and offering bus and truck parking for its guests. Rooms offer cable TV, and iron/ironing board. There is a wide variety of restaurants and cocktail lounges in the surrounding area. Guests of this Florida City hotel are invited to enjoy superior amenities like the free continental breakfast, free coffee in the lobby and outdoor pool.
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Ford RaceFest takes over the streets of downtown Ft. Lauderdale at Las Olas Riverfront on Thursday, Nov. 17 from Noon - 11p.m. This free-to-the-public street festival, presented by Homestead-Miami Speedway, features Ford NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver autograph sessions, a live performance by nationally renowned recording artists Seven Mary Three, NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series trophy on display, NASCAR showcars, interactive racing displays, Official NASCAR souvenirs, food and beverage, and much more.
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David Reutimann wasn't happy with his NTN Bearings Toyota off the trailer, but he was happy when it counted as he drove to his second consecutive Bud Pole at Homestead-Miami Speedway in qualifying for tonight's Ford Championship 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Reutimann, from nearby Zephyrhills, Florida, won the pole with a lap of 31.193 seconds/173.116 miles per hour to break his own year-old track record. Reutimann will line up alongside fellow Toyota driver Bill Lester who earned the outside front row spot with a lap of 31.273 seconds/172.673 miles per hour in the SunTrust Toyota. The Toyota charge to sweep the front row was not the end of it as Tundras swept the top seven positions in qualifying and earned eight of the first ten starting positions.
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SPEED Channel will elevate its coverage of the final event in the NASCAR Chase for the NEXTEL Cup with a week’s worth of at-track and off-site programming from South Florida, culminating with a four-hour live pre-race package Nov. 20 beginning at 11 a.m.
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Ford 200 - Homestead-Miami Speedway
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Event Schedule
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Despite some damage to Homestead-Miami Speedway due to the effects of Hurricane Wilma, Ford Championship Weekend remains on schedule. The season-finales for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck Series will be held as scheduled at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18-20.
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The on-track schedule for the 2005 Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, featuring the championship finales for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck Series, November 18-20, has been set. The three races are scheduled to be held for the first time in a "prime-time", championship atmosphere under the new, state-of-the-art lighting system currently being installed at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The dates and times for Ford Championship Weekend are tentative and subject to change.
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