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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race
#13 | Built Ford Tough 225
presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers
Kentucky
Speedway
Sparta, Kentucky
Saturday, July 8, 2006
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Kevin Grubb hasn't been in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck since 1997, but his performance this past weekend at Kentucky Speedway doesn't show that the time away was a setback. His return to the series produced a 21st place finish for the No. 15 Woodard Pools Chevrolet team of Billy Ballew Motorsports. Although the team's finish wasn't what they were hoping for, Grubb gives the team optimism as he ran in the top-15 a majority of the race. (High Sierra Photo)
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion, Ted Musgrave had a smile on his face when he got out of his No. 9 Team ASE Germain Toyota Tundra after finishing sixth in Saturday's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Musgrave's Tundra was pretty stout all weekend long as he started Saturday night's race in the 12th spot and worked his way up to a strong top-10 finish.
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points leader, Todd Bodine took home a 10th place finish in Saturday's Built Ford Tough 225 after he worked his magic with an ill handling race truck. Bodine and his No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota Tundra crew worked all race long to take away a notable top 10 finish.
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Bobby East started 13th last Saturday in the Built Ford Tough 225 in his State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford F-150 at the Kentucky Speedway. He finished 34th. "We had a great truck and I made a rookie mistake. It's all part of the learning process, I guess. It's one of those things that remind you you're in your first year of driving trucks in NASCAR."
-Bobby East
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Marcos Ambrose started on the pole, led a career-best 49 laps and finished 19th at the Built Ford Tough 225 Saturday at the Kentucky Speedway. "To get a pole, I've always been a pretty strong qualifier and I really don't know why. It scares me a little. It's just great for the guys and great for the team. I've got so many people to thank for getting me over here." -Marcos Ambrose
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One of the hottest teams in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series rolled into Sparta, Kentucky for the Built Ford Tough 225 looking to continue their Jeffersonian climb through the Truck Series standings. Circle Bar Math, 2 (Finish in Kansas) +2 (Finish in Kentucky) + 2 more owners points, would equal 4th place in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Standings. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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After two days of challenges, Kraig Kinser and his Randy Goss-led No. 46 CENTRIX Auto Finance team were looking forward to the start of the 150-lap race at Kentucky Speedway and to posting a solid finish. However, the pre-race optimism was dashed before the first lap was completed by the Raybestos Rookie driver.
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With just 22 laps remaining, Dennis Setzer and the No. 85 E85 FlexFuel Silverado team were on their way to a solid run Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway. But, with racing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) being rough and tough, their gritty effort was foiled when contact with another competitor sent the No. 85 sliding down the track in turn two on lap 129 of the 150-lap race.
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The No. 5 team headed to Kentucky Speedway with something to prove. The team has had four straight weeks of strong runs and wanted to cap it off with a victory. The crew brought the same truck which has captured the pole in three of the last four races and finished second at the Texas Motor Speedway in June.
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The No. 23 Bill Davis Racing Toyota Tundra team was in the Bluegrass state over the weekend hoping to bite into the point lead Todd Bodine had over the rest of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series field. Benson and the 23 team have been on a roll over the past eight weeks compiling seven top-10 finishes, including back-to-back wins.
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The No. 22 team headed back to Kentucky Speedway, where in 2005 the team captured the pole position. The guys felt like they had a shot at another strong performance during the running of Saturday’s 250-lap event and with a special paint scheme on the side of their No. 22 Rally’s Toyota Tundra the crew wanted to have a strong showing.
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Hornaday Wins 29th Career Truck Series Race
in Kentucky
Charles Krall, Trackside Editor
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Ron Hornaday
waves the checkered flag as he
climbs from his truck in victory
lane.
(High Sierra Photo)
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Ron Hornaday drove the No. 33 Kevin
Harvick Inc. Chevrolet to victory in
Saturday night's Built Ford Tough 225 at
Kentucky Speedway. Hornaday started 22nd on
the night, avoided trouble when leader Mike
Skinner was involved in a turn two crash
with lapped traffic, and held off a
determined Rick Crawford to take his second
victory of 2006. Hornaday's previous victory
came at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in
May. For Crawford, he picks up his second
consecutive runner-up finish in Tom
Mitchell's No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral
Ford, and it comes at the track which jumped
up and bit him last season. For
Gaughan, his third place finish in the No.
77 Orleans Racing Dodge was his best finish
since a third-place run at Memphis last
summer.
The race was slowed by eight cautions for
33 laps, holding the average speed to just
118.110 miles per hour. The race got off to
a slow start when Kraig Kinser had trouble
in turn one on lap 2, collecting Justin
Allgaier and Wayne Edwards in the process.
Edwards was able to continue but brought out
the second caution of the night when he
crashed on his own in turn two on lap 23.
Bobby East crashed in turn three on lap 29,
while solo spins by Chad Chaffin and then
Michel Jourdain on laps 59 and 123 also
brought out the caution. After the Skinner
and Setzer incident on lap 130, the final
caution was caused by a slide through the
frontstretch grass by Brad Keselowski on lap
139. All drivers involved in incidents were
seen and released at the track's infield
care center
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Dennis Setzer has NEVER finished outside the top-5 in seven (7) starts at Memphis Motorsports Park in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Memphis Motorsports Park was the site of the first-ever win for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (2001). Setzer's average finish is 3.71 at Memphis Motorsports Park.
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Bobby Hamilton Jr. and his Fastenal Racing team battled with a field of 35 other competitors and with the chassis of his own Dodge Ram in Saturday night’s Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Kentucky Speedway. After wrestling with his own 3,400 pound beast for nearly two hours, Hamilton Jr. recorded a 24th place finish.
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Ted Musgrave drove the Germain Racing No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to sixth place in Saturday's Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Kentucky Speedway. Musgrave started 12th and was a factor all night long while claiming his eighth top ten finish of the 2006 season. "The Team ASE Toyota was good all night long," Musgrave said. "Tom Ackerman and the guys gave me a great truck and we were competitive all night long." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Brendan Gaughan and Orleans Racing let the good times roll all the way from Kansas City to Kentucky Speedway where they scored their second top five finish in as many races. "I don't want to say we're back yet because I've said that before and it didn't come true," said Gaughan who climbed up one spot in the point standings to 13th. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Suffering an engine failure for the first time this season in his #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet, Ryan Moore saw his solid run at Kentucky Speedway come to an early end Saturday night in the Built Ford Tough 225, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race.
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Ron Hornaday is the second driver to count multiple wins in six seasons. He and fellow NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Jack Sprague now share the record. Hornaday started 22nd surpassing Dennis Setzer's 18th-place on the grid as Kentucky Speedway's winner from deepest in the field. In fact, the top three of Hornaday, Crawford and Gaughan came from 22nd, 23rd and 20th respectively. (High Sierra Photo)
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With the season's second victory squarely in the crosshairs, Ron Hornaday Jr. was up on the wheel and digging. And Mike Skinner couldn't do anything either to derail his longtime rival's charge or keep his Toyota Tundra off Kentucky Speedway's outside wall. Lap 129 turned out to be the pivotal moment in Saturday night's Built Ford Tough 225 following the race's sixth caution that had interrupted green flag pit stops. Skinner a few laps earlier had inherited the lead from Johnny Benson, one of three drivers who were yet to pit for service before caution appeared. But when Benson, Brendan Gaughan and Erik Darnell hit pit road, their stops allowed eight drivers to regain the tail of the lead lap and take the green flag ahead of Skinner. Caught in a maelstrom of side-by-side racing, Skinner found himself boxed in the middle lane off the 1.5-mile speedway's second turn. Hornaday raced past on the inside and disturbed Skinner's aero package enough to send the Toyota up the track and into defending race winner Dennis Setzer. (High Sierra Photo)
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Each week, David Starr and the Red Horse Racing Team get better on an off the race track. For a team learning a new driver, Starr says that it's all part of the learning process. A major part of the learning process for Starr has been Red Horse Racing's 1.5-mile track program, which was the challenge for the team at Kentucky Speedway for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Built Ford Tough 225. (Matt Eisenmenger/High Sierra Photo)
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Jack Sprague and the No. 60 Con-way Freight Toyota team had one goal going to Kentucky Speedway – to put the No. 60 into Victory Lane for the first time at the home track for co-owners Jeff and David Wyler. Unfortunately, an ill-handling truck would prevent Sprague from making a run for the team’s first victory.
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Timothy Peters was excited heading into the start of the Built Ford Tough 225. His Dodge Racing team posted fast laps in practice and qualified 9th Saturday afternoon for the night’s events. All his excitement went out the window not long into the 150 lap event when Peters realized he had a beast on his hands.
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David Ragan came to Kentucky on the heels of a sixth place finish in Kansas last weekend looking for more of the same success. It was the best finish of the up-and-coming driver's career, and his second top 10 finish in the last three races behind the wheel of the No. 6 Scotts Ford F-150. "I felt like we had the truck to win," said Ragan. "The Scotts Ford F-150 was really awesome on long runs, just like it has been the last few weeks." (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Erik Darnell and the No. 99 Roush Racing team used pit strategy and a little luck to score their fourth top 10 finish of 2006 at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday night. Darnell started the Built Ford Tough 225 in the sixth position, behind teammates David Ragan and Michel Jourdain, Jr. The race would hardly get underway before a wreck involving three trucks put the field under caution on just the first lap.
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Marcos Ambrose and Team Australia have had yet another huge day in their short history in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at the Kentucky Speedway in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky today. After qualifying on pole and leading the first 33 laps of the race, Ambrose finished in 19th place in the Aussie Vineyards No. 20 Ford F-150 truck. Ambrose led the most laps of any driver in the race with 49 laps led, earning 10 bonus points.
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Two-time NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion Ron Hornaday, Jr., wound his way through a 38-truck field from the 22nd starting spot and picked up his first Kentucky Speedway win tonight in the "Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers" in front of a crowd of 21,889. (High Sierra Photo)
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Ron Hornaday drove the No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet to victory in Saturday night's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Hornaday started 22nd on the night, avoided trouble when leader Mike Skinner was involved in a turn two crash with lapped traffic, and held off a determined Rick Crawford to take his second victory of 2006. Hornaday's previous victory came at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway in May. "I saw Rick and Brendan on my back bumper and I was surprised," Hornaday said. "I had it on the floor the entire time those final laps - I never lifted it once - and those guys were still catching me. I thought we still had 10 laps to go because I never saw the flagman give the five to go signal so I was pretty relieved to see the white flag. Rick and Brendan got to racing for second, and I was hoping Johnny Benson would get in there and make it a three way race too." (High Sierra Photo)
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Ron Hornaday, Jr., No. 33 Kevin Harvick, Inc. Silverado, scored his second victory of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) and the third for Chevy Silverado at Kentucky Speedway. The two-time NCTS champion's victory was the 29th of his career, all behind the wheel of a Silverado race truck. Hornaday took the lead for the final time on lap 129 and took the checkered flag with a .586 second margin of victory. (High Sierra Photo)
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"It's very, very stratifying. We came here to race. We brought a good truck, the best in the fleet for Circle Bar Truck Corral for this Built Ford Tough 225. The Cincinnati Ford dealers put a lot of effort into this race. I think the fans saw a great race tonight. Our guys were must awesome. They did a good job in the pits getting us from 23rd to second. I enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun out here." -
Rick Crawford
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The unofficial driver points following the
Built Ford Tough 225
at Kentucky Speedway, the thirteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season.
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The unofficial results of the
Built Ford Tough 225
at Kentucky Speedway, the thirteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season.
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“It wasn’t too bad. It started off real good. Then on that one restart, someone running second or third brake-checked everybody, and everyone ran into each other. It knocked our nose off and it really killed our Tundra. I’m not going to complain though because we finished fourth, but that ruined any chances we had of winning."
-Johnny Benson
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Ron Hornaday picked up his 29th career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win in Sarturday's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Hornaday took over the lead after leader Mike Skinner was taken out in a late race crash in lapped traffic, and led the final 20 laps to take his second win of the 2006 season. Rick Crawford was second for the second consecutive week, followed by Brendan Gaughan, Johnny Benson, and David Ragan. TruckSeries.com will have a complete report, including TrackSideLive! post-race coverage to follow. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Marcos Ambrose, driver of the No. 20 Ford F-150, claimed his first career Craftsman Truck Series Bud Pole this afternoon in qualifying for tonight's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Ambrose, a two-time Australian V8 Supercar champion and native of Tasmania, claimed the pole in his 10th series start. (High Sierra Photo)
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Australian Marcos Ambrose took his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series pole award at Kentucky Speedway today with a quick 176.992-mph (30.552 seconds) lap and will lead a 36-truck field to the green flag for the "Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers" at 8:15 p.m. The rookie driver will lead a group of five Ford drivers in the top six positions on the starting grid. (Randy Porter/High Sierra Photo)
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"We found some speed in our Silverado during the second practice yesterday so I was hoping we could keep there today. I was going for the pole but at the same time, I didn't want to crash and wreck such a good truck so I really worked on being smooth and we ended up picking up a little more on our second lap. Our team needs a good finish tonight." -
Kerry Earnhardt
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Australian rookie Marcos Ambrose scored his first career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series pole in qualifying for tonight's Built Ford tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Ambrose turned a lap of 30.522 seconds/176.922 miles per hour in the No. 20 Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards Ford to give the Blue Oval the pole position for the second time in 2006. Ford's other pole was scored by Mark Martin in the season opener at Daytona. Ambrose went out late and bumped David Reutimann off the top spot. Reutimann's lap of 30.579 seconds/176.592 miles per hour was good enough for the outside front row starting position in the No. 17 Team Tundra Toyota. Kerry Earnhardt was the fastest in yesterday's final practice session, and backed that performance up with a strong qualifying run in the No. 13 ThorSport Racing Chevrolet. Earnhardt will grid third after a lap of 30.657 seconds/176.142 miles per hour, his best start of the season and best start since winning the pole at Daytona in 2005. (Randy Porter/High Sierra Photo)
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Rookie Brad Coleman came from one lap down to win the WLWT Channel 5-150 under the lights Friday night at Kentucky Speedway, claiming his first ARCA RE/MAX Series victory in his sixth series start. "We definitely had a great car," said Coleman. "I can't thank my team enough. I don't think my team wanted to get worried--they didn't tell me I was a lap down. It was a lot of fun moving back up to the front. I love going through traffic and weaving back and forth through cars. At points, it was pretty scary though."
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Marcos Ambrose has again showed his speed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series by driving the No. 20 Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards Ford F-150 Truck to fifth fastest in today’s final practice for the Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.
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Top Speed Increases 2.635 mph in Evening Session -
Kerry Earnhardt raised the speed bar for 38 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series competitors at Kentucky Speedway this evening by turning a top lap of 177.421 mph (30.436 seconds) in the final practice session for tomorrow's "Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers." (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Thirty-eight NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series drivers opened their bids for the 2006 "Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers" title this afternoon with a one-hour-and-fifteen-minute practice session at Kentucky Speedway. Veteran Ford F-150 driver Rick Crawford (No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford) posted the fastest lap of the session at 174.786 mph. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Fresh off of his victory last week at Kansas Speedway that ended a 94-race winless streak, Terry Cook is looking to carry that winning momentum into this weekend's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Cook, led the closing stages of last year's Built Ford Tough 225 until a blown tire ended his bid for victory six laps from the conclusion. (High Sierra Photo)
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Terry Cook and the No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race team are still celebrating their victory from Kansas Speedway last week. The team relished their victory over dinner Saturday night and reported back to work Monday to make final preparations for this week’s race at Kentucky Speedway.
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The Kentucky 225 event will offer driver Brendan Gaughan a pair of watershed moments in life. The first is that when he rolls off the grid for this weekend’s Kentucky 225 he’ll be starting in his 100th career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event. The other landmark will be that the Kentucky 225 will mark Gaughan’s last race as a 30 year old as on July 10th Gaughan will roll the meter over one more time when he turns 31.
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Driver points leader, Todd Bodine is hoping he can pick up his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career win at Kentucky Speedway as he and his No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota Tundra team get ready for this Saturday's Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, KY.
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It's off to another mile-and-a-half race track for 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion, Ted Musgrave who is ready to break his string of bad luck with a top-five finish in this Saturday's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, KY.
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Justin Allgaier rolls the dice as he heads to the Kentucky Speedway for his second ARCA RE/MAX Series race of the season for Friday nights Channel 5-150. Allgaier will also be playing his hand at attempting to qualify for the Built Ford Tough 225 presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event slated for Saturday evening.
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The competition in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series has increased year by year and now race by race, forcing manufacturers and teams to continually keep up. When you are a rookie coming into a series, the ideals are large but when the reality of competition comes through – you can see those ideals disappear.
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Billy Ballew, owner of Billy Ballew Motorsports, announced that 20-year-old Indianapolis native Kyle Krisiloff will no longer drive the No. 15 Chevrolet Silverado in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Kevin Grubb will take over the No. 15 for this weekend's race at Kentucky Speedway, as well as next week's event at Memphis Motorsports Park. Billy Ballew Motorsports is currently 24th in the owners' points standings. (High Sierra Photo)
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“I’ve been to Kentucky in an ARCA car, so I feel fairly comfortable there. I’m hoping we can do better this weekend than we did in Kansas. The guys have been working really hard all week trying to get our intermediate program better. I like Kentucky a lot; it’s another mile and a half track where I feel confident in my ability to drive the truck."
-Boston Reid
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Dennis Setzer, No. 85 E85 FlexFuel Silverado, is the defending NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) race winner at Kentucky Speedway and hold the NCTS record for most top-five finishes. Mike Bliss, No. 16 IWX Motor Freight Silverado, won the NCTS race in 2002.
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This will be the seventh NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) race at Kentucky Speedway. There will be nine Toyota Tundras in the field at the one-and-a-half-mile Kentucky oval, the 13th Craftsman Truck Series race of the 2006 season. In the most recent race of the 2006 NCTS season at Kansas Speedway (July 1), five Toyotas finished among the top-10.
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June was a very busy month for JC Stout, the only NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Driver headquartered in the Northeast. Stout, 22, was spotted with former champions of both racing and football, local elementary students, Miss New York State pageant contestant Kristan Lettiere, as well as Hunter’s Hope families from around the world throughout the month.
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“Kentucky Speedway is awesome. The groove is so smooth and wide, that you can put your truck anywhere on the race track. You can run high. You can run low. You can run side by side – and it really makes for some exciting racing. The fans really get their money’s worth when they come to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Kentucky Speedway."
-David Starr
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Jack Sprague has four career starts at Kansas Speedway in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. In four starts, Sprague has scored one pole and three top-five finishes. “Kentucky Speedway is a great race track. It is smooth and wide and there is plenty of room to pass no matter where you are on the race track.”
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“I love Kentucky. I love the racetrack, and the people there are great. We had a left front spring collapse last week, which put us out of contention for the win. Obviously, I thought it was a tire issue, but after further investigation, we found that it a spring had collapsed in the left front of my Tundra. The only other place I have ever had that happen was Kentucky."
-Mike Skinner
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"To be good in Kentucky, you have to be able to get through turns three and four. Turns one and two seem to be easy, but getting into three is tough and getting off four properly is critical in order to have a good lap. If you can get that done, you are going to have a decent day. "
-Johnny Benson
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“Kentucky is a great race track. It is another 1.5-mile track with a lot of speed. You need to be able to run on the bottom to be fast. We had a great truck last week in Kansas and were running in the top 10 when we were caught up in someone else’s mess. We have had this black cloud hovering over us this year, and I hope we can shake it this weekend and get out of Kentucky with a solid finish." -
Bill Lester
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“Kentucky is another track on the schedule that is brand-new to me. I am going to be looking at some tapes and playing some video games to get a feel for the track. Of course, the real part will come in on Friday, when I will make my first laps around the race track."
-Kraig Kinser
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"Kentucky has really come into its own over the past couple of years. It takes a new speedway a few years to age and weather to become a good race track and Kentucky Speedway has become a great race track. There is plenty of room for side-by-side racing and under the lights the visibility is excellent.
-Dennis Setzer
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Barry Dodson has more than 35 years of NASCAR business experience. Rookie driver Ryan Moore has a little more than three. Yet the Key Motorsports’ crew chief says he has learned almost as much from the Scarborough, Maine charger as Moore might have learned from Dodson. It has made for a unique and fairly successful combination after just 11 weeks.
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Marcos Ambrose was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the July 1 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway. Ambrose finished third, his best effort in nine career starts. He took top rookie honors for the first time this season and scored the best finish by a Raybestos Rookie in 2006. Erik Darnell leads the Raybestos Rookie standings by 11 points (102-91) over Chad McCumbee. (High Sierra Photo)
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Bobby East said there's not much more his Wood Brothers/JTG Racing team can do to improve in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. His State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford F-150 is fast every week. His crew is just as fast on pit road. Race strategy is flawless. All that's missing is a little luck.
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HT Motorsports announced that Chad Chaffin would climb into the drivers’ seat of the No. 59 Harris Trucking Ford beginning with the July 8th race in Kentucky. Chaffin has competed in the Craftsman Trucks Series since 2000; with 83 starts he has 2 wins and 14 top 5 finishes.
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Fresh from capturing the attention of the NASCAR community last weekend with a third place finish in Kansas, Team Australia NASCAR Truck driver Marcos Ambrose has stated that it is consistency that is his next goal. The two-time Australian V8 Supercar Champion will face a track similar to Kansas this weekend for his 10th NASCAR start at the Kentucky Speedway in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.
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"Danny Rollins, who has worked with Bobby Hamilton Sr. en route to the 2004 NCTS championship and has since taken the reigns with Hamilton Jr. in the No. 18 Fastenal Dodge this season, came into the shop on Monday and made the decision to resign. After further review of this decision and several meetings to restructure key people we realized it will serve in the best interest of all involved."
-Bobby Hamilton
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Timothy Peters will be making his second career Kentucky start this weekend. He finished 28th in last year’s NCTS event. Peters will be driving the Bobby Hamilton Racing chassis “Demon” this weekend at The Kentucky Speedway. Last week’s 9th qualifying effort at The Kansas Speedway was Peters’ first top-10 starting position of the 2006 season.
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Defending winner Setzer excels in Bluegrass state. Dennis Setzer leads all drivers with a finishing average of 5.7. Setzer is the only driver to have completed all 904 laps run since the 2001 series debut at Kentucky Speedway. He’s also won a healthy share of the $3.72 million paid over the six races - $216,440. This week’s posted awards of $746,240 makes the Built Ford Tough 225 the second richest race on the schedule.
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