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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race #7 |
City of Mansfield 250
Mansfield Motorsports Speedway
Mansfield, Ohio
Saturday, May 27, 2006
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Although starting from the pole and leading the first 117 laps, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series point's leader, Todd Bodine finished Saturday's City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway with a surprising 15 th place finish.
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The No. 22 team headed to Mansfield Motorsports Speedway knowing it needed a strong run to return to the top 20 in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points. Crew chief Doug Wolcott and the rest of the No. 22 team had spent countless hours preparing a truck for the .5-mile track in hopes of leaving Ohio with a good finish.
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A solid pit strategy and a fast truck earned the No. 23 Toyota Tundra team another top-five run at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. Johnny Benson participated in a NASCAR test session Thursday at the .5-mile track, and knew right away his No. 23 team would be a threat for the win Saturday afternoon. Benson thought the truck would be strong on long green flag runs. (High Sierra Photo)
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Mike Skinner and the No. 5 team headed to Mansfield Motorsports Speedway seeking an opportunity to turn their luck around. The team’s finishes have not been indicative of its runs so far this season, and it seemed a little luck would be needed for the team to get the finishes it deserved. The No. 5 team hoped the .5-mile oval in Ohio would play host to the team’s turnaround.
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Yellow flags plagued the City of Mansfield 250 on Saturday, but this didn’t throw of Stacey Johnson and the No. 33 trucks game plan. Stacey Johnson picked the proper times to come in and lead Ron Hornaday to a victory, earning himself Crew Chief of the Race honors. Three judges; including Charles Krall with TruckSeries.com, Robbie Reiser, and a WypAll® Wipers rep. decided that Johnson’s performance was worthy of Crew Chief of the Race accolades.
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Dodge Motorsports driver Timothy Peters made a major move in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series owners standings by posting a hard fought 11th place finish in the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway on Saturday afternoon. Peters climbed from 32nd to 24th in the NCTS owners points, it was the team's second top-15 finish of the season. (High Sierra Photo)
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Kraig Kinser was getting a good rhythm going as the last 100 laps of the City of Mansfield 250 were clicking down, round seven of the 25-race NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) 2006 schedule. He was passing competitors in his No. 46 CENTRIX Auto Finance Silverado and racing for position despite losing a lap as a result of a flat tire and a spin to miss another truck slowing on the track.
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Aric Almirola and the No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Silverado team looked to be on their way to another solid top-10 run in the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. But, the rough and tumble action of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) on the short track took Almirola out of contention for another top-10 finish.
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Ron Hornaday Jr. desperately wanted to win on Saturday, but not for the obvious reason. A year ago Hornaday jumped a late restart handing the victory to Bobby Hamilton. The California native wasn't looking for vindication. "In racing, nobody owes you anything," said Hornaday. Instead, Hornaday was racing in memory of Kevin Harvick Inc. employee Amy Mischler, 21 and rising NASCAR AutoZone Grand National Division, West Series star Spencer Clark, 18. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The City of Mansfield 250 gave the Circle Bar Truck Corral Team a chance to returns to its short track racing roots. This would be the NASCAR Craftsman Truck series 3rd trip to the half mile Mansfield Motorsports Speedway and the first two outings proved the track to be an exciting truck racing venue. NASCAR gave the teams an extra day of testing to work out a new tire compound being used for the first time. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Rookie driver Ryan Moore, 22, who made his debut in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series last weekend at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway for Key Motorsports, has been tapped to replace Chad Chaffin in the team’s #40 Chevrolet Silverado race truck for at least one more race.
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Dennis Setzer powered his No. 85 E85 FlexFuel Silverado to seventh place in the finishing order of the City of Mansfield 250 for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Mansfield. His solid run moved him to seventh in the NCTS driver point standings. "It was a decent run in our Silverado at Mansfield," said Setzer. "We always want to be competing for the win, but you just couldn't pass out there." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Ron Hornaday Jr. finished the deal at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway Saturday, winning the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series City of Mansfield 250 a year after a restart penalty cost him a victory in the $472,421 event. Hornaday, who benefited from pit strategy that gave his Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet the lead at mid-race, held off persistent challenges from fellow veterans Jack Sprague and David Starr to collect his record-extending 28th series victory. Hornaday, a few weeks shy of his 48th birthday, last won in March 2005 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He averaged 62.999 mph as a series record 18 caution periods consumed 85 of 250 laps around the .5-mile oval. Hornaday, who led the final 131 laps before a crowd estimated at 22,500 after 2005 series champion Ted Musgrave pitted his Toyota for fuel, won $50,250. He edged Sprague by .961 second - about two truck lengths. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Ted Musgrave's streak of top-four finishes came to a disappointing end when the defending series champion registered a 16th-place finish in the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota in the City of Mansfield 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Saturday afternoon at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway.
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Dodge driver Scott Lagasse Jr. was in route to his best finish of the season when once again a cut tire late in the race ruined his day. Lagasse Jr. was running in the 13th place with 46 laps to go when he realized he had a flat tire forcing the Hemi Dodge to pit under green flag conditions.
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Matt Crafton rolled to his fourth top 10 finish in the last five races with a sixth place at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. Crafton persevered despite a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series record 18 cautions on the half-mile bullring. "The guys gave me another good truck to drive today," Crafton said. "I believe we'd have been as strong as anyone out there on long runs, but we didn't get a chance to show it with all the cautions." (High Sierra Photo)
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Mansfield Motorsports Speedway is Jack Sprague's kind of track. Sprague scored his second consecutive second-place finish at the Ohio short track on Saturday afternoon in the No. 60 Con-way Freight Toyota. "I didn't think that the Con-way Freight Toyota was going to be quite as good as it ended up being today," Sprague said. "Today was a good race and a good finish for us, and we really needed that." (High Sierra Photo)
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Rookie Ryan Moore’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut in the #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway this past weekend was short circuited by some electrical problems that plagued the team all weekend.
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Brendan Gaughan just won’t be happy until he pulls his No. 77 Orleans Racing Dodge into Victory Lane, but all things considered he felt nothing but fortunate to get out of Mansfield Motorsports Speedway with a top 20 finish.
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David Starr once again proved his short track prowess as the driver of the No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota scored a third-place finish at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway on Saturday afternoon. The third-place finish was Starr's second top-five on a short track this season. "We really had a good truck tonight, but this is just a tough track to pass on," Starr said after the race. "We got close to Jack Sprague, and we had a good race going between the two of us." (High Sierra Photo)
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series competitor Bobby Hamilton Jr. overcame a temperamental racetrack, an ill handling race truck and a record number of caution flags to post an 18th place finish in the City Of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway on Saturday afternoon.
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David Reutimann recorded his sixth top-10 finish of the season at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in the No. 17 Team Tundra Racing Toyota. The Florida native started fourth and finished ninth in the 250-lap event maintaining third-place in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) points standings. "We had a good day in the points and we were able to walk away with another top-10 finish," said Reutimann. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Joey Miller earned his career-best finish when he placed fifth in his No. 12 Curb Records Toyota Tundra at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway Saturday afternoon. "It feels really good to finish in the top-five," said Miller. "Since qualifying was rained out on Friday, NASCAR set the field by owner's points and we started pretty far back. We were playing catch up from the beginning and trying to stay out of trouble." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Hornaday Finds Vindication at Mansfield
Charles Krall, TrackSide Editor
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Race winner Ron Hornaday waves the checkered flag after taking his first win of the season. (Jenna Wolford/High Sierra Photo)
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Last year, Ron Hornaday left Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in a state of frustration. After dominating the race here last year, a late-race penalty for jumping a restart left him mired back in the pack and out of contention to win. Upon returning in 2006, Hornaday, driving Kevin Harvick's No. 33 Chevrolet, leaves vindicated after picking up his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series record 28th-career victory in the City of Mansfield 250.
Hornaday looked to have his work cut out for him early on as the Germain Racing teammates Todd Bodine and Ted Musgrave made a shambles of the field. Bodine started from the pole by virtue of his current standing in the series owner's points, and led the first 117 laps of the event with ease. However, the longer Bodine and Musgrave stayed out, the larger Hornaday loomed in their mirror. Hornaday pitted on lap 44, and his truck came to life and he quickly chased down the lead duo. Finally, under the eighth caution of the day - of a series record 18 which consumed 85 laps - Bodine and then Musgrave peeled off to pit road, handing the lead over to Hornaday.
"It's been an emotional week," Hornaday said. "We lost Ann, a girl who works in our office. She lost her life and we don't really know why. And T.J. Clark and his family lost their son Spencer. It's just been an emotional week. That's partly what that burnout was all about, I wanted to get a few minutes to get my emotions under control. But I am a competitive person, and (Kevin) Harvick always says he is the king of burnouts, and I wanted to show him I could go all the way around the track lighting them up. I guess that shows you how hard the tires are here that we went all that way and only blew out the right front."
There were a series record 18 caution flags, breaking the record set in April at Martinsville. The 85 caution laps held the average speed to just 62.999 miles per hour. Virtually every truck in the field showed battle scars of short track competition, and although many were involved in incidents there were only a couple that involved heavy wall contact. Aric Almirola got together with Mike Skinner on lap 163 that sent him hard into the inside wall on the frontstretch. Skinner was again involved in another incident, this time on the backstetch with Bobby East that sent East hard into the outside wall in turn three. Skinner and East were involved in a lap-long bumping grudge match that culminated in the accident.
Bodine and Musgrave each earned their worst finishes of the the 2006 season, finishing 15th and 16th respectively. Bodine continues to lead the championship standings by 20 over Musgrave. Reutimann is third, Starr fourth, Benson fifth, Sprague sixth, Setzer seventh, Crafton eighth, Terry Cook ninth, and Bliss tenth.
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Team Australia’s Marcos Ambrose earned the best result of his short NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career in round seven at the Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in Ohio today. Ambrose finished 23rd and on the lead lap in a race that was littered with a record 18 caution periods on the challenging 0.5-mile short track.
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Erik Darnell was able to avoid trouble and bring home a 13th place finish in the City of Mansfield 250 on Saturday. Darnell started the event in the 11th position after the field was set by 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series owner points.
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Last year, Ron Hornaday left Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in a state of frustration. After dominating the race here last year, a late-race penalty for jumping a restart left him mired back in the pack and out of contention to win. Upon returning in 2006, Hornaday, driving Kevin Harvick's No. 33 Chevrolet, leaves vindicated after picking up his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series record 28th-career victory in the City of Mansfield 250. Hornaday looked to have his work cut out for him early on as the Germain Racing teammates Todd Bodine and Ted Musgrave made a shambles of the field. Bodine started from the pole by virtue of his current standing in the series owner's points, and led the first 117 laps of the event with ease. However, the longer Bodine and Musgrave stayed out, the larger Hornaday loomed in their mirror. (High Sierra Photo)
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Ron Hornaday, No. 33 Kevin Harvick, Inc. Silverado, scored his first victory of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season at the City of Mansfield 250. The win was the second consecutive NCTS victory for Team Chevy Silverado. Silverado drivers captured four of the top-10 finishing positions. Matt Crafton was sixth followed by Dennis Setzer in seventh, and Mike Bliss in eighth. (High Sierra Photo)
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"It wasn't bad out there. My Tundra was really good, it was a lot better than I anticipated it would be. It got hot and slippery - and that's what I needed. Ron (Hornaday) was pretty good. I needed long runs to get him, I was really, really good on long runs. For some reason, Mike (Skinner) got up in the way there at the end. It was a good day for us. I didn't anticipate having a truck that was that good."
-Jack Sprague
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The Lap Summary Report for the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, the seventh race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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The unofficial Owner Points after the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, the seventh race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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Were you surprised by the record number of caution flags today?
"That's typical short-track racing for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. You saw a lot of one-groove racing for a long time and the only time the Circle Bar Truck Corral F-150 could pass, it caught people by mistake. We were best in class with a 12th-place finish, but it wasn't what we were looking for.
-Rick Crawford
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The unofficial Driver Points after the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, the seventh race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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The unofficial results for the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, the seventh race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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Ron Hornaday finished what he started last year and went to victory lane in the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway.Hornaday led 131 laps on his way to 28th career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory.Hornaday held off Jack Sprague, David Starr, Johnny Benson, and Joey Miller.There were a series record 18 cautions throughout the day, but no serious incident on the afternoon. TruckSeries.com will have a full report shortly... (High Sierra Photo)
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WHILE Team Australia’s Marcos Ambrose had plenty of success driving in the rain during his V8 Supercar career in which he won two championships for Ford, he has never been a big fan of the activity. Running in the rain is something he no longer has to think about because it simply cannot be done on the oval circuits on which he now races his Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards Ford F-150 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
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By virtue of their standing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series owners points, Germain Racing teammates Todd Bodine and Ted Musgrave will share the front row for tomorrow's City of Mansfield 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. The lineup was determined by the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series rule book after heavy rains left the track flooded, and persistent streams of water across turn three and the backstretch would not allow drying efforts to get started. Bodine will start from the pole position in the No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota, with Musgrave alongside in the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota. (High Sierra Photo)
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Roush Racing announced a change in its driver lineup for the No. 6 Ford F-150 late last night with Auggie Vidovich taking the wheel in place of David Ragan. Afternoon rain showers in the Mansfield, Ohio, area forced the cancellation of today's qualifying activities. The field for tomorrow's event was set by the NASCAR rulebook, and with 38 competitors vying for 36 starting positions, Michel Jourdain's truck series debut has been postponed. (High Sierra Photo)
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With every member of his family focused on "The Great American Race" this weekend, Kyle Krisiloff heads a little further east to race in Mansfield, Ohio. Krisiloff, grandson of Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner, Mari George, rarely misses a running of the Indianapolis 500. However, his own racing schedule has created a slight detour. Krisiloff plans to be in Mansfield, Ohio this weekend for the City of Mansfield 250. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Roush Racing announced late Thursday evening that Auggie Vidovich, III will drive for Roush Racing in the No. 6 Scotts Miracle-Gro Ford F-150 for the City of Mansfield 250 at the Mansfield Motorsports Speedway on Saturday. "I'm really excited to have this opportunity," said Vidovich. "Jack Roush called and asked if I would drive the No. 6 Scotts Ford this weekend at Mansfield. It's a great opportunity, and I'm thankful to be able to do it. I hope we can pull off a good finish on Saturday." Vidovich, who has three career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series starts, will replace David Ragan for the weekend's race at Mansfield. His career best finish came at Portland in 1999, where he finished 22nd. (High Sierra Photo)
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Robert Richardson capitalized on his first visit to the half-mile short track of Mansfield Motorsports Speedway today running 121 laps of practice during today’s open test session at the speedway. Richardson and his R3 team started the four-hour session with a conservative set-up underneath the No. 1 WinYourMortgage.com Dodge Ram causing what would later become a push for Richardson in the center of the corner.
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"Team Manager Danny Gill has talked to me about the race track a lot and of course Bobby Hamilton Racing has won there as recently as last year. I know that the groove starts in the middle to the high side and by the end of the race it is down on the bottom. Danny also told me about a couple of tracks that we have run that are similar to Mansfield. We also have four hours of practice time on the first day." (High Sierra Photo)
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It is back to short track action in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) for Aric Almirola and the No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Silverado team.
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Looking to top his best finish of the season at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, Joey Miller recalls his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series short track experience in April. “We ran good at Martinsville, but we’re aiming for better results at Mansfield,” said Miller. “We ran as high as third and finished just outside the top-15 at Martinsville. Our best finish this season is 13th and it’s our goal to top that this weekend.”
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David Reutimann enters Mansfield Motorsports Speedway with a hold on third-place in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points standings after his fifth top-10 finish of the season in the most recent event. “When you can’t win, you go after single digit finishes and that’s what we did at Lowe’s Motor Speedway last week,” said Reutimann, who finished sixth in the event.
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Ted Musgrave and his No. 9 Team ASE Germain Toyota Tundra Team are ready for some short track racing as they head to the .44-mile oval of Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in Mansfield, OH for the City of Mansfield 250. Musgrave knows that Mansfield is a special place for Germain Racing and is looking for another strong finish as he has not finished out of the top-four so far in 2006. (High Sierra Photo)
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Todd Bodine and his No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota Tundra team will be heading to a bit of a homecoming at The City of Mansfield 250, as Germain Racing's hometown of Columbus, OH is only a couple of hours from Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. "Mansfield is a tough short track and you have to drive a smart race there or you will find yourself in trouble early on in the race. We need another strong finish - which will help our points lead," commented Bodine.
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Kraig Kinser likes the routine of racing every weekend in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He is looking forward to the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. After a solid run at Lowe's Motor Speedway, the Raybestos rookie wants to build on the momentum and rhythm his No. 46 CENTRIX Auto Finance Silverado team is developing. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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"Mansfield is just a little bull ring. You drive the higher side of the race track versus the lower side because of the progressive banking. It's just a rooting, gouging place. It's a lot of fun. And if the truck is set up good, you can really race at Mansfield. I'm really looking forward to getting back to Mansfield. I have a win and a second-place finish there, so I'm pretty confident going into the race."
-Jack Sprague
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For most on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, the Mansfield Motorsports Speedway is a daunting place. The half-mile raceway, which will host Saturday night's City of Mansfield 250, has a rugged reputation on both drivers and trucks. For Bobby East, driver of the State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford F-150, it's the kind of speedway he likes most. (High Sierra Photo)
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David Starr has two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series starts at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. Starr has finished ninth in both races at the Ohio track. "I'm really looking forward to going back to another short track, especially Mansfield. This Red Horse Racing team got our first win on a short track at Martinsville earlier this season, and that taught us a lot," commented Starr. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Driver of No. 85 E85 FlexFuel Silverado Touts Benefits of Ethanol Alternative Fuel -
"We are proud to be a part of the GM E85 FlexFuel program," said Setzer. " It is a compliment to the professionalism of our entire Morgan-Dollar Motorsports organization to partner with GM and Chevrolet on this program. It is important to the future of our country and our sport." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race team and driver Terry Cook are relishing in their best season in three years with ppc Racing. Three top-10 finishes in the first six races have positioned Cook and the team to fifth in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) driver and owner points standings. The Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race team tested Truck No. 10-01 at Ace Speedway in Elon, N.C. last Monday to prepare for this weekend's race. (High Sierra Photo)
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Timothy Peters will be making his first Mansfield Motorsports Speedway start this weekend. Peters served as a crew member at Mansfield for the No. 4 Bobby Hamilton Racing Dodge in 2005. Peters will be driving the BHR chassis “Rocket” this weekend at Mansfield. The chassis ran at Charlotte, Kentucky, Memphis, IRP, Nashville, Bristol, Richmond, Las Vegas, Martinsville, Atlanta and Homestead with Peters behind the wheel in 2005.
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"It's a neat little track. It will be fun to go race there again because right now the Dodges are at a disadvantage - a marked disadvantage on the big tracks and at the short tracks we're not. So it's time to go out there and try to show that the Orleans Racing team aerowise might not be good but with the Dodge horsepower and good old-fashioned chassis engineering we're going to go out there and try to win."
-Brendan Gaughan
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"There are characteristics of Mansfield that remind me of other tracks that we go to. You go down into the corner and your truck is always tight in the center, and then you try to get forward bite coming off the corner. We have the same problem at Martinsville and a lot of the other short tracks that we go to in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. What I love about Mansfield is that they treat us so well."
-Mike Skinner
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"Depending on the part of the country you are in weather can be an issue and last year at Mansfield we were hit by a tornado. Most of us were not at the track but it tore down some hospitality tents and a huge section of grandstand seating. The track did a tremendous job getting some temporary stands in there for the fans, which shows the kind of facility it is."
-Johnny Benson
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"We really need to have a good run in order to get our season back on track. We have such great trucks every week at the race track and have nothing to show for it. My team is working extra hard to make sure that we bring competitive Tundras to the track every week and I know that we are going to get it going. I hope that Mansfield is the start of number of races where we finish where we deserve."
-Bill Lester
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Scott Lagasse, Jr. will be making his first-career start at Mansfield this weekend. Lagasse will be driving the BHR chassis "Butthead" this weekend at Mansfield. It will be "Butthead's" 2nd start this season. The Mansfield 250 will mark Lagasse's 5th NCTS career start.
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As a rookie in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Marcos Ambrose is used to being under the microscope. But when he's at the Mansfield Motorsports Speedway for this Saturday's City of Mansfield 250, he will be under the watchful eye of an entire nation.
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Welcome Aboard Red Rock’s Café - After last weekend’s 16th place finish with Red Rock’s Café aboard the No. 25 Woodard Racing Dodge, co-owners John Love and Ron Herbert decided to continue their relationship with Woodard Racing into this weekend’s event in Mansfield.
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The City of Mansfield 250 will be the third Craftsman Truck Series event at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway. There will be nine Toyota Tundras in the field at the Ohio half-mile oval. A year ago at Mansfield, Todd Bodine was the top finishing Toyota with a 16th-place finish. Jack Sprague, who began driving the No. 60 Con-Way Tundra at the end of last season, captured the checkered flag in the Truck Series debut at Mansfield in 2004. (High Sierra Photo)
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Momentum is on the side of Team Chevy Silverado as they head for the City of Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway (MMS). Having five Silverado drivers score top-10 finishes including Kyle Busch's win last weekend at Charlotte, teams are ready to get in to the swing of racing nine consecutive weekends. With his solid fifth-place finish at Charlotte under his belt, Ron Hornaday is ready to go back and pick up where he left off last year at Mansfield. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, host to Saturday's City of Mansfield 250, might be termed a "throwback" half-mile track. And that would be a compliment. More than 11 years ago, when the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debuted, more than half the schedule - 14 of 20 races - was contested on tracks measuring .375-mile to .686-mile in length. Saturday's 250-lap, 125-mile race likely will play to a packed house thanks to constant action on the half-mile track. "For a driver, it is more like the old days of racing at home," said Timothy Peters (No. 4 Dodge Motorsports Dodge), a three-time champion at South Boston Speedway in southern Virginia that hosted a trio of NASCAR Craftsman Truck races between 2001 and 2003. "You can hang out with the fans instead of being separated from them like we are at so many tracks. (High Sierra Photo)
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Kerry Earnhardt fell a lap down midway through the Quaker Steak & Lube 200 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte on Friday, but Earnhardt fought back to finish on the lead lap and in 20th place in the No. 13 National Pork Board Chevrolet Silverado.
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Aric Almirola was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the May 19 Quaker Steak and Lube 200. Almirola finished ninth, his second top-10 of the season, and took top Raybestos Rookie honors for the second time in 2006. Erik Darnell finished 10th at Lowe's Motor Speedway, his third top-10 finish this season. Darnell leads Almirola by 12 points in the Raybestos Rookie standings entering the City of Mansfield 250.
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The official entry list for the
City of Mansfield 250
at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, the seventh race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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