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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race
#15 | Power Stroke Diesel
200 presented by Ford and International
O’Reilly
Raceway Park at Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
Friday, August 4, 2006
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Kevin Grubb was forced to park the No. 15 Alpharetta Self Storage/Krud Kutter Chevrolet early from the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at O’Reilly Raceway Park this past Friday night due to transmission troubles. Grubb lost fourth gear in his Silverado and had to settle for a 33rd place finish in the Power Stroke Diesel 200.
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In their first season together, David Starr and the Red Horse Racing team have had great success on the short tracks in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with one win and two top-three finishes. That success continued this weekend at O'Reilly Raceway Park as Starr and his No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra recorded a fourth-place finish on the .686-mile oval in Indianapolis. (High Sierra Photo)
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SS Racing teamed up with Green Light Racing on Friday night for the Power Stroke Diesel 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Race at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis, Ind. Sponsors ASI LIMITED, Akzo Nobel and Spectrum Metal Finishing were primary sponsors on the No. 07 truck driven by Robert Turner and associate sponsors on the No. 08 driven by Chad McCumbee.
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With the U.S. Army on the hood to march him back home to Indiana, Raybestos Rookie Kraig Kinser in turn marched his No. 46 Morgan-Dollar Motorsports Silverado through the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series field to score his career-best finish at O'Reilly Raceway Park. "It was a pretty good race for us," said Kinser. "We were just fighting track position from where we started."
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Marcos Ambrose started 19th and finished 22nd at the Power Stroke Diesel 200 Presented by Ford and International Friday at the O'Reilly Raceway Park. Ambrose has a unique sponsorship package with Team Australia and Aussie Vineyards before the race. Team Australia also is supported by RM Williams clothing, Tourism Australia and other progressive Australian brands.
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In what was a crowd-pleasing, heart-pumping race for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at O'Reilly Raceway Park, Dennis Setzer provided his fair share of excitement to the door handle - to - door handle action. As the defending winner of the annual NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event, Setzer and newly appointed Morgan-Dollar Motorsports crew chief Randy Goss had high hopes for the outcome. While the Newton, NC native fell a mere 0.7-second short of defending his title at the short-track on the West side of metropolitan Indianapolis, the team's performance on pit road and Setzer's on-track skill gave the new duo something to build on for the remainder of the season. Starting from seventh spot on the grid, Setzer immediately started his charge for the front in his No. 85 E85 FlexFuel Silverado. The veteran driver showed he was a contender, never running out of the top-five the entire 200-lap race. (Ronda Greer photo)
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After a tough qualifying run, Todd Bodine looked at the 28 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race trucks ahead of him on the starting grid as 28 serious threats to his narrow lead in the championship standings. Racing at O'Reilly Raceway Park is hard - passing is harder at this flat, tight short-track. "It really feels like a win after the night we've had," beamed Bodine, earnestly smiling and satisfied with his finish. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bobby East started 24th last Saturday in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 Presented by Ford and International in his State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford F-150 at the O'Reilly Raceway Park. East finished a season-best 11th in front of a home town crowd. "I think we're pretty happy with that. I'm happy with it, especially since we've had a rough two months.'" said East (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The No. 5 team looked forward to racing at O’Reilly Raceway Park. In his first two visits to the famed short track, Mike Skinner led every lap and won both events. The No. 5 Toyota Tundra team expected the same results Friday night, as it was confident in both its truck and its driver’s abilities.
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Johnny Benson and the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles team headed to Indianapolis hoping to regain some ground on Todd Bodine in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship points standings. The No. 23 team put together a strong run at the famous short track in 2005, but a miscue on pit road spoiled a top-five performance.
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Rick Crawford celebrates in victory lane.
(Nate Mecha/High Sierra Photo)
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Sometimes the fastest truck doesn't win in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series racing, but that was not the case in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Rick Crawford methodically moved the No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford to the front of the field and took the lead on lap 74, and after settling back into the top-five after the last round of pit stops, made a convincing three-wide move to take the lead on lap 168 to go on to his fifth career series victory. Ron Hornaday never made it to the front of the field, but he was a factor much of the evening in the No. 33 Kevin Harvick, Inc. Chevrolet. Hornaday finished third, another strong short track run for the two-time series champion. Hornaday finished ahead of David Starr, who scored another strong finish in the No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota.
There were a track record 11 cautions on the evening for 51 laps. Most of the caution periods were caused by incidents on the track. Chad Chaffin, David Reutimann, Erin Crocker, Ryan Moore, and Robert Richardson all had contact with the wall to bring out at least one caution. Reutimann's
crash in turn on lap 145 left his truck severely damaged, leaving him 34th on
the night.
Todd Bodine retains the lead by 182 points over Johnny Benson, while Crawford moves into third with his victory. Reutimann drops to fourth in the standings with Hornaday, Musgrave, Starr, Cook, Setzer, and Bliss rounding out the unofficial top ten.
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Bill Lester’s Allstate Toyota Tundra was plagued with a tight-handling condition in Friday night’s event at O’Reilly Raceway Park. Changes made during the course of the event improved the truck and resulted in a 14th-place finish for Lester and the Allstate team.
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Dodge Driver Timothy Peters overcame adversity on pit road to score his sixth top-15 finish of the season. A slow pit stop under the third caution due to a malfunctioning pit gun and followed by a bad set of tires put Peters one lap down by lap 140. After a sequence of several cautions Peters was able to get his lap back and pass seven trucks in the final 40 laps to finish in the 15th position in the Power Stroke Diesel 200.
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Solid Top-10 Run Ruined With Late Race Incident -
Coming off a victory at the Memphis Motorsports Park in the most recent NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race just two weeks ago, Jack Sprague and the Wyler Racing team were hoping to repeat the magic at another short track.
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After a mediocre short track performance at Memphis the Circle Bar Truck Corral Team went back to the drawing board to try and fix their favorite short track chassis. CB-17 had taken the team to victory lane in Louden a year ago and was wrecked hard in St' Louis earlier this year. The team rebuilt the truck and put it back in service in Memphis. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Coming home to Indiana had its ups and downs for the Rookie of the Year contender, Boston Reid. Hopes of coming home with his first top-10 finish of the year were diminished when Reid went a lap down on lap 108. But having a cheering section of hometown friends and family in the crowd prior to the start of the Powerstroke Diesel 200 put a smile on the Logansport, IN native’s face.
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David Ragan won his first career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series pole in qualifying for Friday night's Power Stroke Diesel 200, driving the No. 6 Scotts Miracle-Gro Ford F-150. Ragan led the opening 59 laps, but would ultimately finish ninth. "I think we had the truck beat there for a little while," said Ragan. (High Sierra Photo)
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After a two-week hiatus Brendan Gaughan and the Orleans Racing team were raring to go racing at O’Reilly Raceway Park in the 15th race of the season. A one-race sponsorship deal with Huttig Building Products added fuel to their competitive fire as they prepared to do battle at the tiny 0.686-mile track located just a few miles from the hallowed grounds of Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Rick Crawford made the most of a late-race scramble that saw the leaders go three-wide into O'Reilly Raceway Park's first turn to capture Friday night's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Power Stroke Diesel 200. Crawford led defending race winner Dennis Setzer and two-time series champion Ron Hornaday Jr. past Mike Bliss's Chevrolet on the 168th lap as a crowd estimated at 35,000 held its collective breath. Amazingly, all four tracks came through unscathed just before the night's ninth of a record 11 caution flags waved for a two-truck accident. Crawford, driving Tom Mitchell's Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford, held on through two more restarts - the last with four laps to go - and beat Setzer's FlexFuel E85 Chevrolet to the stripe by a margin of .790 second. Hornaday took third in Kevin Harvick's Chevrolet followed by David Starr's Red Horse Racing Toyota and Bliss's Xpress Motorsports Chevy. (High Sierra Photo)
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Todd Bodine's cushion is 182 over Johnny Benson as the two finished seventh and 12th, respectively on Friday night. Bodine rebounded from a terrible qualifying effort that put the three-time winner 29th on the 36-truck grid. That didn't seem much of a handicap as Bodine rallied into the top 10 at lap 56. Significantly Bodine has failed to lead in his three most recent starts. He never went more than a race without collecting race-leading bonus points in the season's first 12 races. Still, the championship remains his to lose. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Ted Musgrave drove the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to an eight-place finish in Friday night's Power Stroke 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Musgrave qualified 16th and quickly moved forward to battle for a top-10 running position. After some mid-race cautions scrambled the field and left many on different pit strategies, Musgrave charged from 23rd at the 60-lap mark to the eighth place by the time the checkered flag flew.
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Bobby Hamilton Jr.’s reign of misfortune continues to fall. A broken upper control arm on the left front suspension on lap 117 erased any hope for success for the No. 18 Fastenal Dodge Ram in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O’Reilly Raceway Park on Friday night. Hamilton Jr. was relegated to a 31st place finish in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event.
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Erik Darnell and the No. 99 FinishMaster team gambled with their pit strategy Friday night at O'Reilly Raceway Park and it paid off with a top-10 finish. Darnell stayed out while most teams pitted on lap 126 to gain valuable track position and held off many teams with fresh tires to remain in the top 10. "Especially with the way we ran at Memphis, I figured we'd have a real good truck here," Darnell said. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Rick Crawford led twice for 87 laps to earn WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Crawford took the honor for the first time in 2006. He is the ninth different driver to win WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race this season.
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Rookie Ryan Moore was marching his way towards a top 20 finish Friday night in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 presented by Ford, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis when a meeting with the first turn wall ended the run. The end result was a short night and a disappointing 35th place finish in the #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado.
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Marcos Ambrose has finished 22nd in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis, Indiana today, but it was almost a great deal better for the Australian and the Team Australia NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series outfit.
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Michel Jourdain made his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series short track start in Friday night’s Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O’Reilly Raceway Park. Jourdain started in the 23rd position and finished 19th in the No. 50 Ford F-150.
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Erik Darnell in the No. 99 FinishMaster Automotive & Industrial Paint Ford was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Darnell finished 10th and took Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the eighth time in 15 races this season. Darnell posted his fourth consecutive top-10 finish and his sixth of the 2006 season. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Dennis Setzer, No. 85 E85 FlexFuel Silverado, finished second in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park. Ron Hornaday, No. 33 Kevin Harvick, Inc., finished third in a battle that saw the top five trucks thunder in to turn one on the final restart of the race virtually five wide to settle the race with just four laps remaining in the 200 lap race. (High Sierra Photo)
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Sometimes the fastest truck doesn't win in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series racing, but that was not the case in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Rick Crawford methodically moved the No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford to the front of the field and took the lead on lap 74, and after settling back into the top-five after the last round of pit stops, made a convincing three-wide move to take the lead on lap 168 to go on to his fifth career series victory. "When we won at Daytona (with a three wide pass for the lead) I never heard the word 'clear' from the spotter," Crawford explained. "I was never happier to hear that word than I was here tonight. We had some great veterans at the front of the field with Hornaday , Setzer, and Bliss, and it was fixing to get messy there. It was good to be racing with those guys at the front, that's what this NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is all about." (High Sierra Photo)
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Rick Crawford took the checkered flag for the fifth time in his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career with tonight's victory. His previous best at ORP was a pair of sixth-place finishes in 2001 and '05. Ford has now won 75 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races all time, and five in 2006. Ford's win tonight is its fourth truck series victory at ORP (Cook, Biffle Edwards). (High Sierra Photo)
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"We did four tires and filled it up with fuel. Jamie (Jones, crew chief) and all the guys on the Red Horse Racing team did a great job on the pit stops. We were a little 'tight' and they tried to 'free-it-up' in the center, and we just didn't get enough. It just wouldn't quite rotate the way we needed it to. We're happy to come home with a top-five finish. This has been a tough place for me over the years. It was a good night for us."
-David Starr
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Rick Crawford picked up his fifth career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win by taking the checkered flag in the Power Stroke 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park. Crawford dominated the event, but faced repeated challenges after several late race cautions allowed Dennis Setzer and Ron Hornaday to stay on his bumper. Setzer held on for his first top-five finish of 2006 in second, with Hornaday third, David Starr fourth and Mike Bliss in fifth. Terry Cook was sixth, Series point leader Todd Bodine rallied from 29th at the start to seventh, Ted Musgrave was eighth, pole starter David Ragan was ninth, and Erik Darnell rounded out the top ten. TruckSeries.com will have a complete report to follow shortly. (High Sierra Photo)
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David Ragan, driver of the No. 6 Ford F-150, won his first career Craftsman Truck Series pole in qualifying for tonight's Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Ragan, who shares driving duties with Mark Martin behind the wheel of the No. 6 Ford, captured the pole in his 21st career truck series start with a time of 22.484 seconds and an average speed of 109.838 mph.
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Aric Almirola led Team Chevy Silverado in qualifying for the Power Stroke Diesel 200 to land his career-best starting position. Almirola's time of 22.578 seconds, 109.381 miles a hour was good enough to put him on the outside of row one. Defending race winner Dennis Setzer posted the seventh quickest time with two-time NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday setting the 10th fastest time at O'Reilly Raceway Park. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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David Ragan picked up his first career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Bud Pole Award in qualifying for tonight's Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Ragan nipped rookie Aric Almirola for the top spot with a lap of 22.484 seconds/109.838 miles per hour in the No. 6 Scotts Ford. Almirola will go from outside the front row after turning a lap of 22.578/109.381 in the No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Chevrolet. Rick Crawford qualified third in the No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford at 22.625/109.154, David Starr was fourth in the No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota with a lap of 22.626 seconds/109.149 miles per hour, and Brendan Gaughan was fifth in the No. 77 Huttig Building Supply Dodge with a lap of 22.652 seconds/109.023 miles per hour. Two previous winners share the third row as Terry Cook qualified sixth in the No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International Ford and Dennis Setzer was seventh in the No. 85 GM FlexFuel Chevrolet. (Matt Eisenmenger/High Sierra Photo)
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His first season as a full-time driver in the cutthroat NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series has been a learning experience for Kerry Earnhardt, and the driver of the No. 13 Pork Chevrolet Silverado accelerated his education on Monday with assistance from teammate Matt Crafton.
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver, Boston Reid will be making his first NCTS start this weekend at O’Reilly Raceway Park. But don’t let that fool you into thinking this rookie doesn’t know his way around the .686-mile oval track. Reid, who got his racing shoes wet in a USAC car at ORP, has been a spectator at the track since the age of seven.
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Matt Crafton, who charged to a 3rd place finish at Memphis prior to the two-week break, has an affinity for short tracks, and ORP is no exception. Crafton has finished in the top-10 in each of his five previous starts at the .686 mile oval, including a 4th place finish in '05. His average finish of 7th is best among NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series drivers. (Ronda Greer photo)
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) driver Terry Cook will certainly be busy this week leading up to the Power Stroke Diesel 200 presented by International and Ford. Cook began his week with Indianapolis-area radio interviews, will sign autographs for the employees at the International Truck and Engine Corporation’s Indianapolis Engine Plant and attend the Power Stroke Diesel 200 Banquet the night before the big race.
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Virginia native Kevin Grubb grew up racing late models around the short tracks of the Southeast, so heading to Indianapolis’ O’Reilly Raceway Park sparks great interest for the driver of the No. 15 Alpharetta Self Storage/Krud Kutter Chevy for Billy Ballew Motorsports. Heading to the .686-mile oval for Friday night’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, Grubb is confident in turning in a good finish.
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Roush Racing announced today that FinishMaster Automotive and Industrial Paint has signed on to sponsor the No. 99 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Ford of Erik Darnell this weekend at O'Reilly Raceway Park. As a result of their partnership with 3M, FinishMaster will also have their logo on the hood of the No. 06 Ford of Todd Kluever.
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While most of the racetracks on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series are new to Bobby East, the O'Reilly Raceway Park is as familiar as his back yard. East, the youngest winner in U.S. Auto Club history and the second-youngest national champion, grew up a few minutes from the fabled short-track in the outskirts of Indianapolis. More important, he's turned hundreds of laps there.
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Marcos Ambrose's rookie season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series has been about getting up to speed - literally. Not only is the driver from Tasmania trying to learn the nuisances of oval racing, he's trying to learn it at full speed. The lessons come hard and fast, making the rewards more satisfying.
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Green Light Racing team owners announced today that "The GPS Store" will serve as the primary sponsor for the No. 08 Chevrolet Silverado NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team and driver Chad McCumbee for the final 11 races of the 2006 season. The GPS Store will be joined on the No. 08 by new associate sponsor Garmin International, beginning this Friday for the Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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"I seemed to have the most dominant truck in the field the first two times we went to IRP. I think the trucks are a lot more aero dependent now than they were back in the early days. The tires and chassis have changed so much, and the level of competition gets higher and higher each year. I think IRP fits my driving style. I love short tracks. I like them much more than the 1.5-mile tracks."
-Mike Skinner
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"ORP is a neat place to race. Ten years ago, you could race right up by the wall or get underneath someone and do some side-by-side racing. Now, the groove has moved down so much that it has become harder and harder to pass there. It is important to be able to run the bottom and get hooked up off the corner to make a pass. All in all, it is a great place to race and is fun."
-Johnny Benson
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"I am really excited about going to Indy. We have had a strong short track program this year, and I know [crew chief] Doug Wolcott and all the guys on the Allstate team will bring a competitive piece to the track. Indy is a fun track for the drivers."
-Bill Lester
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"This week we have the debut of a one-race sponsorship with Huttig Building Products. We're really excited to have them on the truck this weekend. We had a couple people show up to the Michigan race and we had a good run going there so the Huttig group has really been excited. This week it's their truck. They've got the primary spot. They've got the hood, the quarterpanels - the whole deal."
-Brendan Gaughan
(Team PR Photo)
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What are your thoughts going into ORP?
"Just like any other weekend, I just have to get used to the track more than anything."
Have you ever been there?
"I have been there, and have watched a lot of races there, but have never been around the track. It is going to be like most tracks, just go there and try and get some laps."
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What are your expectations going into ORP this weekend with a new crew chief?
"I am just excited about going to ORP, and it is exciting anytime we get to head to ORP, just the same thing that we have had at Morgan-Dollar Motorsports; same trucks, same building, same people, things just got switched around a little bit.
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Dennis Setzer, No. E85 FlexFuel Silverado, is defending event winner at the track formerly known as Indianapolis Raceway Park. Setzer led 177 of the 200 laps to capture his fourth victory of the 2005 season. In nine previous starts, Setzer has one win, one top-five and seven top-10 finishes. Chevrolet Silverado drivers have won six of the 11 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) races run at O'Reilly Raceway Park. (High Sierra Photo)
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The Power Stroke Diesel 200 will be the 12th NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) race at Indianapolis Raceway Park. There will be nine Toyota Tundras in the field at the Indianapolis short track -- the 15th NCTS race of the 2006 season. A year ago, David Reutimann was the top-finishing Toyota at Indianapolis Raceway Park when he ended up 11th at the Indiana short track. (High Sierra Photo)
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With the colors of the U.S Army on the No. 46 Morgan-Dollar Motorsports Silverado, Kraig Kinser will make his first visit to his home state of Indiana as a full-time NASCAR competitor. The Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will mark the first-ever pavement race in the Hoosier state for the Raybestos Rookie.
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Starr on Getting Back On Track At Indianapolis:
“We bobbled a little bit in Memphis, and I really hope we can rebound in Indianapolis. We really thought we should have finished better than 11th. All in all though, short tracks have really been a strong point for the Red Horse Racing team this weekend."
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“I'm really looking forward to getting back to racing this weekend at Indianapolis. It was pretty cool to have a couple of weeks off to celebrate our win at Memphis. It was really a big deal for the entire Wyler organization and especially our sponsor Con-way Freight."
-Jack Sprague
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SportsCenter’s NASCAR coverage will hit full throttle Thursday-Sunday, August 3-6, for the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard in Indianapolis including full-set presence anchored by Chris Fowler.
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Ron Hornaday will pull double-duty for the third time this season. Hornaday will compete in the Truck Series event on Friday night and the Busch Series event on Saturday night at O’Reilly (Ind.) Raceway Park ORP. Hornaday’s most recent double-duty weekend was five weeks ago at The Milwaukee (Wisc.) Mile.
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Three drivers – Dennis Setzer (No. 85 FlexFuel E85 Chevrolet), Ron Hornaday Jr. (No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet) and Jack Sprague (No. 60 Con-way Freight Toyota) – are winners on the “bullrings” in 2006. They count a combined 29 short track victories. Only one series driver, Mike Skinner (No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota), has managed to win twice in the past 11 short track visits dating to October 2003 at Martinsville Speedway.
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Being a Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series means, among other things, that you're going to visit a lot of tracks you've never before seen. That won't be the case this week when two freshman drivers - Bobby East (No. 21 State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford) and Boston Reid (No. 25 Rain Out Roofing Dodge) - finally get what amounts to a home game. East, a former U.S. Auto Club National Midget champion and fellow open-wheel graduate Reid previously called the Indianapolis area home. Each has turned hundreds of laps at O'Reilly Raceway Park, a .686-mile paved oval hosting Friday's Power Stroke Diesel by Ford and International 200. Their racing equipment may be a bit different - twice as heavy in most cases - but home is home. For a change, each will have plenty of partisans in ORP's grandstands. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Team Australia NASCAR Truck driver Marcos Ambrose has used a break in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series to rest and refresh after a run of nine-straight races that saw the Aussie Vineyards-backed driver rise in stature and achieve some remarkable results in the green and gold colours of Team Australia.
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Team Australia NASCAR Truck driver Marcos Ambrose has used a break in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series to rest and refresh after a run of nine-straight races that saw the Aussie Vineyards-backed driver rise in stature and achieve some remarkable results in the green and gold colours of Team Australia.
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Bobby Hamilton Jr. will be making his first NCTS start at O'Reilly Raceway Park. Bobby Hamilton Jr. has six NASCAR Busch Series starts at IRP with one top 10 finish - sixth on August 7th, 2004. The last time a Dodge truck visited victory lane at IRP was in 2004. Former Bobby Hamilton Racing Driver Chad Chaffin took the lead in the No. 18 Dodge on the last lap to win his second race that season.
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The official entry list for the
Power Stroke Diesel 200 presented by Ford and International
at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, the fifteenth race of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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Erik Darnell was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the July 15 O'Reilly 200 at Memphis (Tenn.) Motorsports Park. Darnell finished second, .251 seconds behind race winner Jack Sprague. He claimed his first top-five of the season and best finish in 15 Craftsman Truck Series starts. Darnell has now taken top rookie honors seven times in 14 races. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Todd Bodine, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points leader, has a good chance of winning each time he shows up at a race track with his No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota Tundra. In 54 starts, Bodine has an impressive win count of ten, backed up by 25 top-five and 35 top-ten finishes.
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