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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race #6 |
Quaker Steak & Lube 200
Lowe's Motor Speedway
Charlotte, North Carolina
Friday, May 19, 2006
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Another solid performance for Ted Musgrave and his No. 9 Team ASE Germain Motor Company Toyota Tundra Team as they took home a fourth place finish in Friday's Quaker Steak & Lube 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Musgrave started Friday's race in the 15th spot, but he didn't stay there long as he worked his way up through the field to 10th by lap-60.
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"Rowdy Busch in Victory Lane tonight!" That's what Kyle Busch exclaimed when exiting the No. 51 National Land Liquidations/Manheim Auto Auctions Chevrolet Friday night in Victory Lane. Busch captured the Quaker Steak & Lube 200 for his second year in a row for Billy Ballew Motorsports. The sixth race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season was Busch's first for the year. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Kyle Krisiloff drove his No. 15 ditech.com/Krud Kutter Chevrolet from the 34th starting position to capture 17th place in the Quaker Steak & Lube 200 last Friday night at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. The finish was Krisiloff’s third top-20 finish of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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"Some people hit the setup just right and some missed it. We had a great truck. I had a good setup and I felt comfortable and fast all night long. My hat's off to Cowboy and the whole crew for setting it up. It ran good since we tested it at Chicago last week and it ran good since we landed here. It's a brand-new truck, so it's now got one under its belt, but it deserved a better finish than that."
-Rick Crawford
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TONIGHT!
Bobby Labonte Joins Craftsman for a Cure Event -
More NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series drivers have committed to be part of the 'Craftsman For a Cure' on Tuesday, May 23 at NASCAR SpeedPark in Concord, N.C. Tickets are on sale now. Kasey Kahne, Brian Vickers and former NEXTEL Cup champion Kurt Busch have been added to the driver lineup which already includes a variety of drivers from the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck Series. Vickers will host a private dinner meeting with 20 fans, while Kahne and Busch will race with fans on the go-kart tracks. Kahne will also sign autographs for the fans. (Schedules are at the bottom).
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Matt Crafton charged to an 8th place finish in the No. 88 Menards/Energizer Chevrolet in the Quaker Steak & Lube 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Friday, and into the top 10 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series standings for the first time this season. Crafton secured his fourth consecutive top 10 finish at the 1.5 mile superspeedway, the longest active streak among NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series drivers. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Before their electrifying performance during Saturday nights NEXTEL All Star event, the famed Red Hot Chili Peppers made a trip to the Roush Racing NEXTEL Cup shops in Concord, N.C. The four band members, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, and Chad Smith, took a quick tour through the Roush shops with hosts Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards then it was outside to perform their first ever pit stop with the assistance of the No. 16 Ameriquest Busch team.
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Although Dennis Setzer headed to Lowe's Motor Speedway for the sixth race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) 25-race season looking to take a trip to victory lane, the hard work he and the team put forth got the No. 85 Shell ROTELLA T Silverado a very solid seventh place finish. Equally as important, Setzer is continuing his methodical climb in the standings, now sitting eighth in the order. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Kraig Kinser brought the No. 46 CENTRIX Auto Finance Silverado home in 19th position Friday night in the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) at Lowe's Motor Speedway (LMS). It is the second consecutive top-20 finish for the Raybestos Rookie candidate competing in just his sixth NCTS career event.
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Bobby East started 27th in the Quaker Steak & Lube 200 in his State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford F-150 at the Lowe's Motor Speedway Friday night and finished 24th. "We didn't need to look at the final rundown to call Friday night's race a success. We knew the race at Lowe's would be difficult. Not only is it a fast racetrack, but it has new asphalt.
- Bobby East
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The pressure to qualify on time for a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver can sometimes be more than one can handle; but that didn’t prove to be true for Rookie of the Year candidate, Boston Reid. In only their second race together, Reid and newly appointed crew chief, Mark Nelson made vigorous changes to their No. 25 Red Rocks Café truck following their final practice; and it paid off in huge dividends.
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Todd Bodine raced to an impressive third place finish despite having to overcome a loose race truck early on in Friday's Quaker Steak & Lube 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. It was not a typical weekend for Bodine, as his No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota Tundra started in the 26th spot. "We had a pretty good night," said Todd Bodine. "We basically started out last." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Ted Musgrave and his No. 9 Team ASE Toyota team continued their streak of strong performances to start the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with a fourth-place finish in the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 Friday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Musgrave now has six finishes of fourth or better to start the season, and sits second in the championship standings behind his Germain Racing teammate Todd Bodine. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Busch Goes Back to Back in Charlotte
05-19-2006 | Charles Krall, Trackside Editor
Kyle Busch is a big fan of the movie Days of Thunder, so much so that he painted his No. 51 National Land Liquidators Chevrolet to look just like the car of his favorite character, Rowdy Burns. Rowdy Busch came back to the scene of his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win and backed it up with his second straight win in the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Busch, who was forced to a backup truck after a crash in a test session on Thursday, started from the 20th position and charged virtually unimpeded through the field and was in the top ten within the first 25 laps. Busch took the lead for the first time on lap 37 and made a shambles of the field from then on, only losing the lead on pit stops. "I can't thank Billy Ballew enough for letting me come and race his truck," Busch said in victory lane. "We had a tire go down in the test yesterday and lost our primary truck. The guys worked hard to get this truck as good as the primary was." We scuffed the side of this one in the test yesterday too, and they took that setup right out of it and put in the one from the primary and it really worked well." Busch said he had no problems at all working his way through the field.
For the second consecutive year, Busch beat Terry Cook's No. 10 Power Stroke Diesel Ford to the stripe. Cook's team made a gutsy call to take just right side tires on his final pit stop, and it paid off as track position allowed him to race with the leader the rest of the way.
(High Sierra Photo)
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David Starr would have liked nothing more than to get a win at Charlotte. Drivers agree that Charlotte has become the Mecca of racing. "I would rather win at Charlotte than to win at Daytona" Starr said before the race Friday night. Unfortunately victory lane would not be the final destination of the No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota.
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Erik Darnell brought his No. 99 Woolrich Ford F-150 home in the tenth position on Friday night, rebounding from a 33rd place starting position to score his third top-10 finish of the 2006 season. Darnell was forced to miss most of the allotted practice on Friday after making contact with the outside wall in the first practice session. "We had a really good truck tonight, all things considered," said Darnell." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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David Ragan fell victim to an unfortunate early incident on Friday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway by getting tangled up in a wreck on lap four. Trying to avoid the incident, Ragan brushed the outside wall with his No. 50 Ford, resulting in suspension damage that would plague his Ford F-150 for the rest of the evening.
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Spins, Tires And Distributor Problems Make For A Long Night
- Jack Sprague hasn’t had good luck at Charlotte in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races since his return to the Series in 2004. Unfortunately, that string of bad luck didn’t change during Friday night’s Quaker Steak & Lube 200.
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Getting back to business after several weekends without racing, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series headed to Lowe’s Motor Speedway for the running of the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 Friday evening. Johnny Benson and the Toyota Certified Used Vehicles team struggled a bit in the first practice session of the day, but stepped up when it counted, qualifying in the sixth position and finishing 12th.
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Aric Almirola and the No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Silverado team were fast in practice for the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway (LMS) and when the green flag dropped, they were fast in the race as well. Almirola scored his second consecutive top-10 in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series competition Friday night with a ninth-place run to the checkered flag. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Orleans Racing kicked off the nine-race summer stretch with a hard earned top-15 finish at Lowe’s Motor Speedway that once again saw them ranked as best in class when the checkers fell. Like his fellow competitors, Brendan Gaughan was faced with the challenge of handling a new harder Goodyear tire on a new racing surface. It was a combination that proved to be treacherous for many but not so for Gaughan who guided his brand new Dodge through the 134-lap event and emerged without a scratch.
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A cut right front tire in the early stages of Friday night’s Quaker Steak and Lube 200 relegated NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series competitor Bobby Hamilton Jr. to a 21st place finish. Hamilton Jr.’s Fastenal Dodge was forced to make a green flag pit stop on lap 12 for two right side tires putting him almost two laps down.
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Mike Skinner led three times for 38 laps to win the WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race Award in the Quaker Steak and Lube 200. Skinner started from the pole but dropped out with engine problems after completing 115 laps. He was credited with a 33rd-place finish. Skinner is tied with Todd Bodine for the lead in the WIX Filters Lap Leader standings in the Craftsman Truck Series.
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Mix a brand-new asphalt surface with a Goodyear Wrangler tire hard enough to figuratively produce sparks and what do you get? A lot of slipping and sliding but - ironically - the cleanest NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race of the four run at Lowe's Motor Speedway. A couple of trucks wound up in the wall, more from close racing than anything to do with tires and grip. (High Sierra Photo)
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The truck number was different but everything else stayed the same. Kyle Busch, who became the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series' youngest winner at age 20 in 2005, returned to Lowe's Motor Speedway Friday night and this time put an exclamation point on his second winning performance in the Quaker Steak & Lube 200. Busch, whose Billy Ballew-owned and Richie Wauters crewed National Land Liquidations Chevrolet wore the No. 51 instead of Ballew's familiar No. 15, spotted the 36-truck field a 20th-place start. Qualifying was just a warm-up for the Las Vegas competitor. Before a crowd estimated at 45,000, Busch sped through the field to overhaul Budweiser Pole winner Mike Skinner on the 37th lap around the 1.5-mile superspeedway then easily left his rivals in the rear view mirror. He wound up leading 96 of the 134 laps. (High Sierra Photo)
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After two strong test sessions in the last 10 days, Mike Skinner and the No. 5 Toyota Tundra team were excited to return to Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Skinner felt like he had a strong truck from the time they unloaded and knew if they had any sort of luck the team would have a strong showing at the newly paved racetrack.
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Dodge Motorsports driver Timothy Peters made the most of a tough situation in Friday night’s Quaker Steak and Lube 200 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Peters suffered a cut right front tire during an early morning practice session which forced his Dodge hard into the wall and required him to go to his backup Dodge Motorsports Dodge.
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Dodge Motorsports driver Scott Lagasse Jr. had a rough night in his first showing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. On lap 110 he was attempting to move over to allow lead lap trucks to pass when he hit the wall bending the right front fender. Over the next five laps the fender rubbed against the tire and on lap 115 the tire let go sending Lagasse Jr. into the fence in turn four
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Kyle Busch scored his second consecutive NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory in the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway behind the wheel of a Chevy Silverado. It was the first victory of 2006 for the Bowtie brand in the highly competive NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Five Chevy Silverado drivers scored top-10 finishes in tonight's 134 lap/200 mile race, the sixth event of the 25-race 2006 season.
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Aric Almirola in the No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Chevrolet was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race at Lowe's Motor Speedway -
"We didn't have a very good truck at all, to tell you the truth. We were a lot better in practice. We just got way, way too tight tonight. The Spears Chevy was pretty good, just not good enough to run how we needed to. In practice I thought we had a truck that was capable of winning the race."
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"I don't know what to say. The Ford Power Stroke Diesel by Int'l crew built us a new race truck and we debuted here. Last year we built a new race truck and debuted it here, and finished second behind Kyle Busch. It's two years in a row that he's won and it's two years in a row that we've finished second. Just a great effort by the entire team. Goodyear brought a tire here that was extremely hard. It chattered pretty much the entire race.
-Terry Cook
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"In the beginning, I had some patience on some lapped trucks, I had all the patience I could take to get around them. My Tundra was pretty decent. We got tight on the long runs. At the end there, I was running hard with Terry (Cook). I was a little faster than him, and slipped in turns one and two, and slipped and got up high and lost some ground. With five laps to go I wans't going to make it up."
-Todd Bodine
(Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Kyle Busch is a big fan of the movie Days of Thunder, so much so that he painted his No. 51 National Land Liquidators Chevrolet to look just like the car of his favorite character, Rowdy Burns. Rowdy Busch came back to the scene of his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win and backed it up with his second straight win in the Quaker Steak and Lube 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Busch, who was forced to a backup truck after a crash in a test session on Thursday, started from the 20th position and charged virtually unimpeded through the field and was in the top ten within the first 25 laps. Busch took the lead for the first time on lap 37 and made a shambles of the field from then on, only losing the lead on pit stops. "I can't thank Billy Ballew enough for letting me come and race his truck," Busch said in victory lane. "We had a tire go down in the test yesterday and lost our primary truck. The guys worked hard to get this truck as good as the primary was." (High Sierra Photo)
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Following a script that unfortunately has become all too familiar this racing season, the Key Motorsports Chevrolet once again generated a time fast enough to qualify for Friday night’s Quaker Steak & Lube 200, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte but still failed to make the race.
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"My guys have worked so hard all weekend and I am very happy with my Silverado crew for what they have done. With the new track surface, the new tires and all the support from Chevrolet, this is just awesome. I tried so hard the second lap, that is put us where we are but it was a great lap and a great weekend so far and for a good cause, Cystic Fibrosis. I am happy to have them on the side of our Silverado."
- Ron Hornaday
(Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Mike Skinner will start from the pole for tonight's Quaker Steak and Lube 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race after barely nipping a surprising Erin Crocker for the top spot. Skinner's No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota turned a quick lap of 30.104, which translates to 179.378 miles per hour around the freshly repaved Lowe's Motor Speedway. Skinner won the pole last year with a much quicker 29.500 second lap, but that was on a much softer compound tire. Skinner will start inside the front row with Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate Erin Crocker on the outside. Crocker's No. 98 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge turned a lap of 30.170 seconds/178.986 miles per hour, making her the highest starting female ever in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The previous best start by a female was third back in 1997 by Tammy Jo Kirk at Portland. (Jenna Wolford/High Sierra Photo)
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"I am really, really excited about tonight, I think we have a shot to win tonight. I have never experienced this before, so I am pretty excited about this. I love this race track, this is a cool place, and it would be awesome to run well here, in front of the hometown people. I moved here two years ago, and have made a lot of good friends here, and I am excited about racing in front of them."
-Aric Almirola
(Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series competitors took to the newly repaved Lowe's Motor Speedway on Thursday for an open test session prior to Friday night's Quaker Steak & Lube 200. Terry Cook, who finished second in last year's event, shared his thoughts on the track surface and the importance of open test sessions given NASCAR's rules that limit testing. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series owner, Rick Woodard announced on Thursday that locally famous restaurant, Red Rocks Café will sponsor his No. 25 Woodard Racing Dodge Ram for the Quaker Steak & Lube 200 on Friday.
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It's been an up-and-down season for J.R. Patton and Foristell, Mo.-based NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) team, MB Motorsports. Both driver and team are more than capable of being competitive, qualifying has been an issue this season. The most recent bump in the road for Patton and the America's Most Wanted/Dave Porter Truck Sales Ford was qualifying being rained out at Gateway International Raceway, MB Motorsports home track.
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David Reutimann is one of four Toyota Tundra drivers occupying the top-five positions in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points standings leading into this weekend's Quaker Steak & Lube 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. "Granted we've only had five races and you can't judge how your season will go from just a few races, but I'm really happy with everything my guys have done," said Reutimann. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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SpeedFreaks' glossary will be in effect as the leaders of the Free Motorsports World are grabbin' gears with some of the biggest names in their respective series. That's right, nowhere else will you get all this and a side order of mashed potato pie than from the Lucas Oil Pits in Las Vegas!
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NASCAR fans, start your celebrations! Today is NASCAR Day, the sport’s largest annual charity event, and fans across the country are celebrating NASCAR and donating to a great cause at the same time. For only a five dollar donation, fans receive a commemorative NASCAR Day pin, and are encouraged to wear it to work today with pride. Will Ferrell, the 2006 Official Spokesman for NASCAR Day, will be celebrating as well. “Happy NASCAR Day!” said an enthusiastic Ferrell. “I’ll be wearing my NASCAR Day pin today with pride.”
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You have raced at the "old" Lowe's Motor Speedway; how different does the surface feel?
"Smooth, that is for sure. We started out with a green track and then everyone is loose, until the rubber gets built up, then everyone is tight, so we just got tighter and tighter. The tire is extremely hard, pretty ridiculous actually, but what do you do."
-Mike Bliss, No. 16 IWX Silverado, 2nd in morning practice session
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Quaker Steak & Lube, title sponsor of the Quaker Steak & Lube 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, and the "Official Wing of Lowe's Motor Speedway", will sponsor Kyle Busch in the #51 Billy Ballew Motorsports Craftsman Truck Series entry at Lowe's Motor Speedway. "This is a great opportunity for us to be associated with Quaker Steak & Lube seeing as we are the defending race winners," said Busch. (Team PR Photo)
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On his way to Charlotte, NC Brendan Gaughan visited his favorite track, Texas Motor Speedway. Gaughan’s visit had him sharing "driving tips" with 16 PGA golf pros. The program, "Drive For Show", had Gaughan giving driving tips to the golfers, and the golfers tried to give their driving tips to the four-time TMS winner. The event was lots of fun for all involved, however Gaughan left TMS still needing a great deal of work with his golf game.
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The familiar Xpress Red will adorn the No. 16 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series entry again this week for the Prime-Time Friday night Quaker Steak & Lube 200 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. TKO Graphix www.tkographix.com will again be an associate this event after taking a “One-Event Primary Sponsor” role at Gateway International Speedway’s last event where Mike Bliss and crew finished 9th.
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Joey Miller makes his first attempt at Lowe’s Motor Speedway as the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series returns to action in preparation for a nine week stretch. “This will be my first time racing there,” said Miller. “I attended the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series test there a few weeks ago and watched Michael (Waltrip) test the 55 NAPA car and Bill (Elliott) test the 00 Burger King car."
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Con-way Freight employees and customers will have a unique opportunity to spend time with Jack Sprague, the driver of the No. 60 Con-way Freight Toyota Tundra, away from the race track during Charlotte Speedweeks.
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series point's leader, Todd Bodine is looking to get two wins in a row as he and his No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota Tundra Team head to the 1.5-mile quad-oval of Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, NC for Friday's Quaker Steak & Lube 200. Bodine is the man to beat when it comes to 1.5-mile race tracks. He currently has the most wins (six) at 1.5-mile tracks in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Ted Musgrave and his No. 9 Team ASE Germain Toyota Tundra Team head to the newly paved 1.5-mile quad oval of Lowe's Motor Speedway for the Quaker Steak & Lube 200. Musgrave, who has been Mr. Consistency this season, with five top-five finishes in the first five races, is coming off back to back second place finishes at Martinsville and Gateway and is in the hunt for win number one this season. (Team ASE Photo)
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Twenty year old Kyle Krisiloff hopes to kick off the nine week stretch of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule this weekend at Lowe's Motor Speedway by having a good run in the Quaker Steak and Lube 200. Krisiloff has good reason to be excited heading into this Friday night's race, as his team, Billy Ballew Motorsports, is the defending champions of the race. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Earnhardt... Charlotte... the words pack a punch as powerful as any in the NASCAR lexicon, and they'll come together this weekend as Kerry Earnhardt (No. 13 ThorSport Racing Chevy) visits Lowe's Motor Speedway for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Quaker Steak & Lube 200 on Friday evening. "Charlotte is a really special place in the history of NASCAR, and I think any driver gets an extra adrenaline rush when they race here," said Earnhardt. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Team Chevy Silverado returns to action under the bright lights of Lowe's Motor Speedway (LMS) on the heels of a promising three-day test at Chicagoland Speedway. The 134-lap Quaker Steak and Lube 200 is the first of a nine-race stretch for the Bowtie drivers in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS). "We had a great test at Chicagoland Speedway last week," said Dayne Pierantoni, GM Racing Silverado program manager. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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When the green flag flies over the starting field of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Quaker Steak and Lube 200 on Friday night, May 19, Roush Racing will take ownership of the longest running consecutive start streak. Roush has been involved in the series since its inception in 1995, and also holds the record for series victories. "The Craftsman Truck Series has been great for us at Roush Racing," said team owner Jack Roush. (High Sierra Photo)
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Lumber Liquidators, primary sponsor for Craftsman Truck Series points leader Todd Bodine, announced today that television viewers of Friday's Quaker State & Lube 200 will have the opportunity to receive a 5% discount on hardwood flooring. Todd Bodine's #30 Tundra will feature a camera installed in the cab that will clearly show a promotional code to viewers of the race, which will be televised on SPEED at 8:30 PM EST. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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When you think NASCAR, you think Earnhardt, when you think great food, you think Pork. Charlotte will enjoy the perfect combination of the two when Kerry Earnhardt and his #13 Pork Racing/Chevy Silverado come to town for the Craftsman Truck Series race on Friday, May 19th. But not all of the action is going to be on the track, thanks to America’s Pork Producers who will be Earnhardt’s primary sponsor for the Lowe’s race.
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Few, if any of the press conferences or promotional events surrounding the two weeks of NASCAR action at Lowes Motor Speedway, had the historical significance of a small ceremony held just off Little Rock Road in Charlotte Wednesday morning. The event - the dedication of a North Carolina State Historical Marker - highlighted the running of the first NASCAR "Strictly Stock" race held on Sunday, June 19, 1949 at the now long forgotten Charlotte Speedway. (Close Finishes Photo)
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Brevak Racing will be making their way to Lowe’s Motor Speedway, in the heart of NASCAR country this weekend, for the running of the Quaker Steak and Lube 200. This will be the second attempt on the series schedule for Brevak Racing after making their way to St. Louis only to be turned away by scattering rains that canceled the weekend’s qualifying round.
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AutoMotion, a new full-service auto body/paint/decal/wrapping outsourcing solution for race teams, has announced a one-race associate sponsorship with Key Motorsports for the Quaker Steak & Lube 200, NASCSR Craftsman Truck Series race Friday night at the Lowe¡¦s Motor Speedway in Charlotte.
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The only drawback to Bobby East's fast start on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is the schedule. With only three races on the docket since March 17, East wishes he could get his Edy's Dibs/State Fair Corn Dogs Ford F-150 on the track more often.
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Robert Richardson along with the rest of the 41-truck entry list is looking forward to their first laps around the Lowe’s Motor Speedway since the re-surfacing project took place at the 1.5-mile speedway. With several NASCAR Nextel Cup Series teams testing at the speedway over the past several weeks and speeds topping the 200mph mark, Richardson is cautiously excited about his first laps at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
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Kyle Busch made history last May when he became the NASCAR Craftsman Truck | |
