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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race
#14 | O'Reilly 200
Memphis
Motorsports Park
Memphis, Tennessee
Saturday, July 15, 2006
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The O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park marks the second straight weekend Brad Keselowski has substituted as the driver of the 02 Sutton Motorsports Chevrolet. Driving for the recovering Kelly Sutton, Keselowski earned a career high 7th place qualifying position en route to a 16th place finish in the O'Reilly 200, managing to run in the top-10 for more than half the race. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Kevin Grubb drove his No. 15 Spondivits Chevrolet for Billy Ballew Motorsports to a 14th place finish this past Saturday night at Memphis Motorsports Park. Making his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start in 2006, Grubb battled a tight condition for a majority of the race while running in the top-10, but fell back at the conclusion of the O’Reilly 200 to finish in 14th position.
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Bobby East started 17th last Saturday in the Built Ford Tough 225 in his State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford F-150 at the Memphis Motorsports Park. He finished 21st. East's next race will be the Power Stroke Diesel 200 Presented by Ford an International at the O'Reilly Raceway Park on Aug. 4.
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Last Saturday's O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park concluded the longest stretch of the season for NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competitors - nine races on consecutive weekends. Todd Bodine (No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota) headed the standings when the grind began at Lowe's Motor Speedway and he's still the leader. Bodine, whose lead bulged to as many as 178 points, leads 2004 Raybestos Rookie of the Year David Reutimann (No. 17 Team Tundra Toyota) by 117 as teams spend the remainder of July prepping for the Aug. 4 Power Stroke Diesel 200 by Ford and International at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Bodine's Germain Racing team, which also fields the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota driven by 2005 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Ted Musgrave, has been solid through the season's first half, but has shown in recent weeks that even the best can have an "off night." (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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The Red Horse Racing Team returned to Memphis Motorsports Park this weekend as the defending winners of the O’Reilly 200. Knowing that the No. 11 team had visited victory lane the previous season gave driver David Starr a shot of confidence at the Tennessee short track. “It’s good to go to a race track where you know the team has won before,” Starr said before the race. “It gives the team a little bit more confidence.”
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The NASCAR Busch Series has not visited Martinsville (Va.) Speedway since 1994, but this weekend’s event will be the 34th time that the Series has visited the half-mile paper clip shaped track. NASCAR Busch Series teams will have an open test session on Thursday, July 20, before the teams return to the track on Friday for two practice sessions.
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Kerry Earnhardt drove the National Pork Board Chevrolet to a 28th place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series O’Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park on Saturday evening. The race was Earnhardt’s first in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Memphis. Earnhardt started the race in 30th position. He fought handling issues on the No. 13 much of the evening, but managed to avoid serious trouble.
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Sprague Breaks 29 Race Drought in
Memphis
Charles Krall, TrackSide Editor
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With fireworks in the
background race
winner Jack Sprague celebrates.
(Nate Mecha/High Sierra Photo)
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Jack Sprague had been winless in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for 29
races dating back to June 2005 when he went to the Winner's Circle at Texas
Motor Speedway. That streak finally came to an end for the three-time series
champion after Sprague capitalized on Dennis Setzer's misfortunes to win the
O'Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park.
Matt Crafton stayed near the front all night long, bringing the No. 88
Menards Chevrolet home in third, tying his season best set earlier this
season at Martinsville. Crafton didn't want the last caution flag as he was
quickly closing on the top two. Ron Hornaday, who won last week at
Kentucky, picked up the fourth spot after an early race scrape that left
second-place point man Johnny Benson's truck wounded.
Mike Bliss was fifth in the No. 16 Xpress Motorsports Chevrolet was
fifth, ahead of sixth-place David Ragan in the No. 6 Scott's Ford, David
Reutimann in the No. 17 Team Tundra Toyota, Terry Cook in the No. 10 Ford
Power Stroke Diesel by International Ford, Mike Skinner in the No. 5 Toyota
Tundra Toyota, and Setzer. Point leader Todd Bodine was 15th, while
Benson was a season-worst 32nd and three laps off the pace at the finish.
There were seven cautions for 30 laps, and Sprague averaged 88.367 miles
per hour en route to victory. The only significant incidents on the night
were Aric Almirola's turn one crash on lap 198 which set up the
green-white-checkered finish, and Erin Crocker and Chad Chaffin's crash in
turn four coming to the checkered flag. There were no injuries in any of the
incidents throughout the day.
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Mike Skinner and the No. 5 Toyota Tundra team arrived in the home of the blues with one mission: to finish the race in the top 10. Memphis Motorsports Park was one of three tracks on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series circuit on which the 1995 Champion had not posted a top-10 finish, and the team was determined to narrow that list to only two tracks.
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Johnny Benson and the No. 23 Bill Davis Racing Toyota Tundra team went to Memphis knowing they needed to survive in order to remain within striking distance of Todd Bodine, who sits atop the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings. Memphis Motorsports Park is another place at which someone else’s mistake can cause great headaches.
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Bill Lester and the No. 22 team headed to Memphis with high hopes. The team had strong performances in the short track events this season, but the finishes were not indicative of the team’s effort. Lester and the team sought a solid run from start to finish at Memphis Motorsports Park.
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Kraig Kinser, No. 46 CENTRIX Auto Finance Silverado, has fought an uphill battle in his Raybestos Rookie season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Every race is a new track that the Bloomington, IN native has never laid eyes on prior to the activities leading up to that particular event.
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Dennis Setzer looked to be well on his way to keeping his incredible top-five-only finishing streak at Memphis Motorsports Park alive. In fact, the driver of the No. 85 E85 FlexFuel Silverado had what appeared to be the makings of not only his Morgan-Dollar Motorsports team's first win of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) season but their first top-five finish as well. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Three time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Jack Sprague knew that a trip to Victory Lane was close for his No. 60 Con-way Freight team. The year-old team had been close several times, but luck hadn't been on their side. But that all changed at Memphis Motorsports Park on Saturday night. Sprague and his Wyler Racing team scored their first pole and the team's first ever trip to Victory Lane. (High Sierra Photo)
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In his first start in the No. 04 Hemi Dodge since Texas in June, Dodge Hemi Driver Scott Lagasse Jr. battled an extremely tight race truck in the O’Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park. Lagasse Jr. came home in the 26th position after qualifying 31st for the 14th race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Unable to solve a tight handling condition that plagued their #40 Chevrolet Silverado, the Key Motorsports NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team and driver Ryan Moore were forced to settle for a frustrating 31st place finish in Saturday night’s O’Reilly 200 at the Memphis Motorsports Park.
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Peter Shepherd made his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut Saturday evening at Memphis Motorsports Park. He was out to prove he had what it takes to compete at this level of racing, a fete which he achieved once he took the checkered flag.
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Short tracks in general and Memphis Motorsports Park specifically favor veteran drivers - a point driven home emphatically by the final results of Saturday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series O'Reilly 200. Yes, Raybestos Rookie of the Year leader Erik Darnell nearly won and settled for a freshman best, second-place finish at the .75-mile track. But the remainder of the top five, beginning with winner Jack Sprague, followed form and in spades. (High Sierra Photo)
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Three-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Jack Sprague outlasted Erik Darnell in a classic battle pitting veteran against rookie and won Saturday night's O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park breaking a winless streak of more than a year. Sprague, who started from the Budweiser Pole, was well behind race leader Dennis Setzer when the night's fifth caution closed the field with less than 25 laps remaining and most competitors facing a round of green flag pit stops. After a bizarre incident on pit road dropped Setzer to 14th on the restart - and Darnell's Roush Racing Ford beat Sprague's Con-way Freight Toyota onto the track - the pair set off in pursuit of Terry Cook. Cook, making a record-breaking 211th consecutive series start, had pitted off-sequence to repair crash damage and took the lead when the remainder of the field stopped for service. But Cook, on well-worn tires, lasted just one lap at the helm when the green flag flew. (Christina R/High Sierra Photo)
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Defending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Ted Musgrave fought back from a pit road miscue and wrestled the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to a 19th-place finish in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park on Saturday. Musgrave, one of four former Memphis winners in the field, started 13th and hovered just outside the top-10 for much of the night.
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On a hot July evening Dodge Driver Timothy Peters over came a flat tire on lap 62, a slight altercation with another competitor on lap 83 and a tight race truck in the O'Reilly 200 to finish in the 12th position. The strong finish earned Peters the Featherlite Most Improved Driver Award of the race. Peters qualified for the 200 lap event earlier that afternoon in the 12th position. (High Sierra Photo)
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Battling a loss of front grip, a tight race truck and several trips to pit road, Boston Reid managed to salvage a 24th-place finish on Saturday from as deep as 33rd in the field thanks to his driving prowess at a challenging 3/4-mile Memphis track.
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Fireworks lit up the night sky over Memphis Motorsports Park after the race but Brendan Gaughan saw more than his fair share on the race track during the event. Gaughan rolled the No. 77 Orleans Dodge off the starting grid in 16th place and braced himself for 200 laps of short track competition Craftsman Truck Series style.
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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rolled into the home of the King of Rock and Roll with the Circle Bar Truck Corral leading the climb up the Truck Series standings over the last 8 weeks. The only one that could climb the charts faster than Rick Crawford and his Circle Bar team was Elvis Presley and Elvis is gone, or is he? With Memphis in mind, the team spent the last 6 weeks bringing Elvis back.
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Matt Crafton was as hot as the southwestern Tennessee weather on Saturday evening, as he raced to a third-place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park. The finish was Crafton's second straight in the top-10, following a hard-fought seventh-place finish at Kentucky last weekend, and equaled the Tulare, CA native's season and career-best result. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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David Ragan had a strong race in Saturday night's O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park, but was looking for more. The driver of the No. 6 Scotts Miracle-Gro Ford F-150 was coming off the strength of consecutive top-10 finishes for the first time in his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career, and was looking to continue adding to his successes by scoring a win.
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Erik Darnell came just short of winning his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Memphis on Saturday night, finishing second to series veteran Jack Sprague. Darnell never showed out of the top-five all night, and looked to have the truck to win the race. Late caution periods and a veteran tactic on the final restart allowed Sprague to head home the victor, and Darnell a disappointed second. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competitor Bobby Hamilton Jr. found himself singing the old familiar country refrain “If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all” in Saturday night’s O’Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park. Hamilton Jr. suffered a broken rear end gear while running in the top 10 on lap 93 of the 200 lap event.
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"We were happy with it. I really thought we had something to run with these guys, but we just needed a longer green flag run. We needed probably about 10-15 more laps on that last run. I loved those re-starts. I cannot thank these guys enough, they changed so much stuff today, and I told them that I didn't want to know what they changed. We qualified third, and finished third, but just came a little short again."
-Matt Crafton
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Jack Sprague had been winless in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for 29 races dating back to June 2005 when he went to the Winner's Circle at Texas Motor Speedway. That streak finally came to an end for the three-time series champion after Sprague capitalized on Dennis Setzer's misfortunes to win the O'Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park. Sprague led the opening 43 laps in the Wyler Racing No. 60 Con-way Freight Toyota after starting from his record-tying 29th Bud Pole, but dropped back through the top ten as the handling characteristics of his truck changed. After pit stop at lap 64, Sprague put it back out front and stayed there through lap 143, at which time Setzer flexed his muscles. Setzer's No. 85 GM FlexFuel Chevrolet looked untouchable, building a 6.5 second advantage over the pack. (High Sierra Photo)
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Australian Marcos Ambrose continued his learning experience in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in the O’Reilly 200 at Memphis, Tennessee today. The two-time Australian V8 Supercar Champion started today’s 200-lap race around the 0.75 mile oval from the outside of the seventh row aboard his Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards Ford F-150.
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"The truck was good tonight. It was real good on long runs. I've got to thank John Quinn (crew chief) and all of the guys. They did a good job of giving me a good truck out there tonight. It wasn't as good on the short runs and I kinda knew that when I saw Jack up front earlier and he was real good on the short runs. Besides Dennis Setzer, I think we were about the best on the long runs."
-Erik Darnell
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Jack Sprague's victory at the O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park was his 26th career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win. This is Sprague's first win driving the No. 60 Con-Way Freight Tundra for Wyler Racing. He has 19 career starts with the Wyler Racing team, 14 starts in 2006 and 5 starts in 2005. Sprague's last victory before tonight was at Texas Motor Speedway a year ago (June 10, 2005). (High Sierra Photo)
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Jack Sprague broke a 29-race winless streak with a victory in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Memphis Motorsports Park. Sprague held off Erik Darnell, Matt Crafton, Ron Hornaday, and Mike Bliss in a two-lap dash to the flag. David Ragan was sixth, with David Reutimann, Terry Cook, Mike Skinner and race dominator Dennis Setzer tenth. Point leader Todd Bodine ran fifteeth. TruckSeries.com will have a complete report will follow. (High Sierra Photo)
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Dennis Setzer, No. 85 E85 FlexFuel Silverado, and Matt Crafton, No. 88 Menards/Energizer Silverado, posted the second and third quickest qualifying times for tonight's O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park. Five of the top-10 qualifiers for the 200-lap/150 mile NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race were behind the wheel of Chevy Silverado race trucks. Jack Sprague (Toyota) will start from the pole with Setzer along side and Crafton in row two.
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Jack Sprague will lead the field to the green tonight after he earned his record-tying 28th career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Bud Pole in qualifying for the O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park. Sprague, driving the WYler Racing No. 60 Con-way Freight Toyota, turned a fast lap of 22.973 seconds/117.529 miles per hour to pick up his first pole of the season. His previous best start was second, coming in the series' last short track race at Mansfield in May. Sprague narrowly defeated Dennis Setzer for the pole, with Setzer's lap of 23.055/117.111 good enough for outside the front row. Setzer has finished among the top-five in all seven races he's run at Memphis - and is the 2001 winner of this event - but the outside front row starter has never gone to victory in the eight-year history of the event. (High Sierra Photo)
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Australian Marcos Ambrose continued his recent good form in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series by posting the ninth fastest time aboard his Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards Ford F-150 during final practice for the O’Reilly 200 in Memphis, Tennessee today.
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Adding to the international flavor of the Craftsman Truck Series with drivers such as Marcos Ambrose and Michel Jourdain, Jr., Canadian Peter Shepherd will attempt to qualify for his first truck series race this weekend at Memphis Motorsports Park in Saturday's O'Reilly 200.
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Kerry Earnhardt spent much of last weekend's event at the Kentucky Speedway at the top of the speed charts from practice where he turned the fastest times in his Pork Chevrolet to his qualifying run which earned him the third starting position. This weekend, Earnhardt and his Thorsport Racing team will work hard to make their Pork Chevrolet Silverado the fastest thing at the Memphis Motorsports Park. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Team Australia NASCAR Truck driver Marcos Ambrose will be aiming to continue his impressive results when he starts his 11th race in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series this weekend in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Although Memphis is known for their Blues music, Kevin Grubb hopes he won’t be feeling the blues when he returns to the seat of the No. 15 Spondivits Chevrolet for Billy Ballew Motorsports this weekend at Memphis Motorsports Park. Grubb made his first start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series since 1997 last week at Kentucky Speedway and racked up a 21st place finish.
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Roush Racing announced today that Griddly Headz Board Games whom has been awarded the NASCAR license has signed on to sponsor the No. 50 of Peter Shepherd in the O'Reilly 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on July 15 at Memphis Motorsports Park. "When I saw Peter's performance at Martinsville, it reminded me so much of a young Mark Martin," said Roush.
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Robert Richardson heads to Memphis with high hopes after a disappointing day in Kentucky last weekend. Richardson hopes to improve his luck when he takes to the track at the Memphis Motorsports Park for the running of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series O’Reilly 200 Saturday, July 15, 2006.
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Starr and the Red Horse Racing Team have excelled at short tracks on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule this season. The No. 11 Red Horse Racing Team won (Martinsville Speedway) and finished third (Mansfield Motorsports Speedway).
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This is the fourth time that Goodyear has brought this specific combination of left- and right-side tires to the track for Craftsman Truck Series teams this season. Truck Series teams previously ran this combination at Gateway, Mansfield and Milwaukee. They are also scheduled to run these codes at Indianapolis Raceway Park next race (August 4).
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With a pair of consecutive top-fives in their back pocket the Orleans Racing team heads to the Memphis Motorsports Park on a roll. Fueling the optimism is that Memphis showed Brendan Gaughan and crew its best finish of the 2005 season (3rd). "Somebody told me that it's been back to 2003 since we had back-to-back top five finishes. Of course, that makes the mood lighter in the shop."
-Brendan Gaughan
(Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Jack Sprague has six career starts at Memphis Motorsports Park in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. In six starts, Sprague has scored two poles, one win and four top-10 finishes. "I've always run well at Memphis. I've picked up a couple of poles there and a win, so I guess you could say that I am pretty comfortable at the track. The most important thing to remember about Memphis is that it is a short track - so track position is key."
-Jack Sprague
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David Reutimann makes his third attempt in the No. 17 Team Tundra Racing NASCAR Craftsman Truck at Memphis Motorsports Park, where he posted a second-place finish last year. “We were able to start on the outside pole and finish second at Memphis Motorsports Park,” Reutimann said, who is currently third in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings.
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As a former U.S. Auto Club national champion, Bobby East is used to running up front. That's why he doesn't accept anything less. The adjustment from open-wheeled cars to a pickup on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has come with many of the expected pitfalls, but that's still no comfort to the driver of the State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford F-150.
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A week after winning the pole position at the Kentucky Speedway and leading the most laps in the main event, Marcos Ambrose believes the next step in his development is patience. It's hard to tell a rookie on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series not to run on the edge during every lap, but Ambrose said that's the most important part of being successful.
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Kraig Kinser, No. 46 CENTRIX Auto Finance Silverado, needs to look no farther than Morgan Dollar Motorsports (MDM) teammate Dennis Setzer for lessons on how to get around the .75-mile virtually flat Memphis Motorsports Park (MMP). Setzer's 3.6 average finishing position at the Tennessee track is by far the best of all NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competitors.
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Coming off of the team’s very first engine failure of the 2006 season and a rare DNF, Ryan Moore and the Key Motorsports, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series entourage will be looking to experience to get them back on track at the Memphis Motorsports Park this weekend.
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“The No. 5 Toyota Tundra team struggled with communication early in the season. I do not understand why, because at the end of last year we were really running well and were a threat to win races week in and week out. Somewhere over the winter we forgot how to communicate, and now we have that back."
-Mike Skinner
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“We were pretty decent last year and were looking forward to the race. We had a little mishap early in the event with a shock and a cut tire, but we managed to keep our Tundra off the wall. We tried unsuccessfully to fix the problem under the caution, so we had to run 50 laps without a right front shock. That was quite eventful."
-Johnny Benson
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“Memphis is all about coming off the corners hard. Easy in and hard off, just your typical short track. I am glad they are going to not have a one-day show, because it give the teams and fans some relief from the heat. Memphis is a place you have to have a solid shock package underneath your truck."
-Bill Lester
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Raybestos Rookie contender, Boston Reid will walk into the garage area at Memphis Motorsports Park this weekend with a wave of confidence from last weekend's performance at Kentucky. Although the 24-year old driver only tied his season's best finish of 14th, he did in fact, lead for the first time in his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career.
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Erik Darnell was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the July 8 Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Darnell claimed a ninth-place finish, his fourth top-10 of the 2006 season, and took top rookie honors for the sixth time in 13 races. Todd Kluever was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2005 O'Reilly 200. Kluever finished 10th, completing all 202 laps of the event. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bobby Hamilton Jr. will be making his first NCTS start at Memphis Motorsports Park. Hamilton Jr. will be making his 11th start in the No. 18 Fastenal Dodge at the O'Reilly Auto Parts 250. Hamilton Jr. has five NASCAR Busch Series starts at Memphis with two top 10 finishes and one win. (October 18, 2003).
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The O'Reilly 200 will be the ninth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Memphis Motorsports Park. There will be nine Toyota Tundras in the field at the 3/4-mile Memphis oval. A year ago at Memphis Motorsports Park, pole sitter Brandon Whitt captured the checkered flag driving the No. 38 Red Horse Racing Tundra. Whitt crossed the finish line just ahead of second-place David Reutimann's Tundra. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Team Chevy Silverado returns to Memphis Motorsports Park where the Bowtie brand has scored four victories in eight previous NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races held on the .75 mile virtually flat race track located north of downtown Memphis, TN. Dennis Setzer, No. E85 FlexFuel Silverado, has highest NASCAR Camping World Truck Series finishing average - 3.6 - of all NCTS drivers at Memphis Motorsports Park. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Lagasse Jr. on Racing at Memphis:
“I am really looking forward to racing at Memphis, said Lagasse. “It will be great to be back in the truck for this weekend. I have never seen Memphis Motorsports Park before. I got a copy of last year’s race from my crew chief and I am going to watch it several times before I head to the track."
-Scott Lagasse
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“I really like Memphis. All I can remember about last year is how hot it was. The heat completely out weighed any great finish you could have had. I checked the weather the other day and it looks like it will be another hot one. Memphis is a fun track to race at."
-Timothy Peters
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Setzer pretty much perfect at Memphis Motorsports Park...
Setzer has competed in seven of eight series races held at the .75-mile track. He won in 2001 and hasn't finished worse than fifth, boasting a finishing average of 3.6. Setzer has completed all 1,402 laps of those seven races and led three consecutive races between 2001 and 2003. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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For David Starr, whose No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota team comes to Memphis Motorsports Park as the defending winner of Saturday's O'Reilly 200, there is no special pressure to perform. According to Starr, this week is no different than any other. "I think that the pressure is the same every time we go to a race track," said the 38-year-old Texan, who most recently visited Victory Lane in April at Martinsville Speedway. Every week, we strive to do the best we possibly can do. We go to the racetrack with the mentality we can win. And there's no difference this week as we head into Memphis Motorsports Park." Last year's win - the first for the team and then-driver Brandon Whitt - wasn't exactly an upset, although it seemed that way when Ron Hornaday Jr. (No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet) spun from the lead in the final turn and handed Whitt the victory. (High Sierra Photo)
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Roush Racing announced today that Canadian racecar driver Peter Shepherd will pilot the No. 50 Roush Racing Ford F-150 in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series O'Reilly 200 this weekend at Memphis Motorsports Park. Shepherd was selected as one of the 25 finalists for Roush Racing's Driver X competition in 2005, and was quick to impress. (High Sierra Photo)
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Memphis Motorsports Park will flip the switch this Saturday on enough horsepower and star power to light up the night when the track hosts the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series O'Reilly 200. For the second year in a row, NASCAR's summer run in Memphis will be "under the lights," courtesy of Musco Lighting and their revolutionary system that will surround the racing surface with 81,000,000 lumens of light.
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Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International driver Terry Cook looks to break the most-consecutive starts streak set by Rick Crawford at 210 Saturday night at Memphis Motorsports Park. Cook will make his 211th-consecutive start and 230th of his 10-year career racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS).
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The official entry list for the
O'Reilly 200
at Memphis Motorsports Park, the fourteenth race of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Track officials announced today that the newly-crowned Miss Tennessee, Blaire Pancake, will serve as Grand Marshal of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series O’Reilly 200 on Saturday, July 15, at Memphis Motorsports Park.
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O'Reilly 200 - Memphis Motorsports Park
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