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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race
#16 | Toyota Tundra 200
Nashville Superspeedway
Nashville, Tennessee
Saturday,
August 12, 2006
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By some standards, 2006 could be seen as disappointing for Kerry Earnhardt (No. 13 National Pork Board/Thorsport Chevrolet) but the third-generation competitor prefers to take the more optimistic view of his first full season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Earnhardt, who won the 2005 Budweiser Pole at Daytona International Speedway in his first series start, believes he's making progress as teammate to Matt Crafton (No. 88 Menards/Energizer Chevrolet). Crafton is 12th in a tight battle for the series' top 10 while Earnhardt stands 22nd in what arguably is the most competitive season top-to-bottom in the 12-year history of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Earnhardt has flirted with top-five and top-10 finishes and finally - last Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway - the stars aligned to put the driver in 11th-place at the checkered flag. The finish bettered by six positions the North Carolinian's career-best in the series. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Truck Series Rookie Scores Second Top 10 of Season with Strong Truck in Music City -
The usual cast of characters have been running up front this season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Drivers that have typically run up front on a consistent basis have been doing just that again in 2006, but lately, one young driver in particular has been knocking on their door as a potential threat week in and week out. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Kerry Earnhardt stormed to a career-best 11th place finish in the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville SuperSpeedway on Saturday, erasing much of the frustration from a subpar '06 season and establishing momentum for Earnhardt and the No. 13 National Pork Board/ThorSport Chevrolet Silverado team as they head to Bristol. Meanwhile, Matt Crafton piloted the No. 88 Menards Chevy Silverado to a 9th place finish, Crafton's 8th top-10 finish this season. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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After a hard-hitting race last weekend at Indianapolis, Chad Chaffin came into Nashville determined to have a successful weekend. Kicking a good weekend off he placed in the top 20, qualifying with a 16th place starting position. It was evident that Chad's determination paid off throughout the beginning of race as he proved that he could consistently run with the front of the pack. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Musgrave Survives Last Lap Melee to Score Fourth in Nashville; Moves Up to 4th in Championship Standings -
Ted Musgrave wheeled the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to fourth place in the Toyota Tundra 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway, avoiding a last lap melee that scrambled the field. The defending series champion pointed the nose of his truck to the bottom in turn one and two on the final circuit, missing Todd Bodine and Mike Skinner as they made contact while racing for the lead. Musgrave raced back to the line as the field scrambled behind him to score his seventh top-five finish of the season. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Boston Reid and the crew of the No. 25 Woodard Racing Dodge are quietly starting to find the consistency to go with their talent. Their 14th place finish at the Nashville Superspeedway tied the team's best finish this year and capped off a very solid weekend, despite some adversity. "Nashville was a good day. We got our career-best qualifying effort and tied our season best finish," said Reid (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Bill Davis Racing NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Johnny Benson has been on a roll the last seven races with three wins, taking his most recent this past Saturday. Currently second in series points behind Todd Bodine, Benson has eight top fives and 11 top 10's this year, and expects the momentum to continue as the series winds it way toward its first appearance at Talladega in the Oct. 7 Talladega 250. "It's going to be interesting for sure, and it's going to definitely make a great race for the fans. Everybody is going to be jammed up tight, three-and four-wide racing, probably a little more so than the cars. I don't believe anybody will be able to pull away, so it will be a good race for the fans," Benson said. Benson is one of several NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series drivers for whom racing at Talladega Superspeedway will not be an entirely new experience, having made starts here in other series in the past. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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In 1985 Rick Crawford made his first trip to Nashville to race in the All American 400, his first trip to win a Nashville guitar. From the first race at the Fairgrounds in 1985, Crawford developed a love-hate relationship with Nashville, he loved racing there but there were times when it felt like the racetracks hated him.
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Peter Shepherd went to Nashville with the intention of gaining valuable experience by competing in both the ARCA RE/MAX Series and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races. Unfortunately, things did not go quite as planned.
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The No. 5 Toyota Tundra team headed to Nashville seeking redemption. The team had the most dominant truck at the 1.33-mile speedway in 2005, but a wreck with less than 10 laps to go in the event eliminated the team from contention for the victory. The team returned to the home of country music hoping to sing a victory tune by the end of the weekend.
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Johnny Benson and the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra team were on a mission to make it “two for two” in Nashville. Benson wheeled his No. 23 Toyota Tundra into victory lane in the first event sponsored by Toyota earlier this season at The Milwaukee Mile.
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Bill Lester drove his SunTrust Toyota Tundra to a 21st-place finish Saturday night after transmission issues arose during the final 40 laps of the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway. The weekend began on a high note for Lester and the SunTrust Toyota team. Lester posted some of the top speeds in both of Friday’s practice sessions.
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Erik Darnell picked up his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Budweiser Pole award on Saturday at the Nashville Superspeedway, and did so in record fashion. Darnell's No. 99 Ford eclipsed the previous track record by .124 of a second. Darnell's first pole came in his 17th career start.
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David Ragan and the No. 6 Scotts Miracle-Gro team left Nashville with a feeling of disappointment after being involved in an early incident, relegating the No. 6 to a 34th-place finish. Ragan showed in practice he had a truck to contend with, and after qualifying in the 13th position the Scotts crew hoped that they would be able to move up from there.
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David Starr and the No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota ran as high as third with just a handful of laps remaining in the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway on Saturday afternoon. However, a flat right front tire with 10 laps remaining in the race relegated Starr and the team to a 20th-place finish, which dropped Starr to eighth in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series points standings.
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Brendan Gaughan and the Orleans Racing team handled everything Nashville Superspeedway threw at them during Saturday's Craftsman Truck Series event and raced away with a well-deserved fifth place finish. An unresolved problem with the team's radio plagued Gaughan and his pit crew throughout the race but they were able to persevere despite the limited communication and remained in contention right up to the green/white/checker finish. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Veteran Racer Becomes Series Only Six Million Dollar Man -
Jack Sprague became the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series' "Six Million Dollar Man" with his runner-up finish at Nashville Superspeedway in the Toyota Tundra 200 this weekend. The Series only three-time champion is the first driver in Series history to earn more than $6 million in winnings. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bobby East on Nashville:
"We got ran into on Lap 4. That's the breaks we've been having. It's real bad for the guys on the team. They do such a great job. We had a good truck. We qualified good, we were running good in the race, then we got caught up in a deal like that. It's not really bad luck; sometimes things don't go your way."
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Marcos Ambrose on Nashville:
"If I could have cleared (Jack) Sprague coming off of Turn 2, I might have had a chance. He kept beside me and he took the wind out of my motor, and I just didn't want to wreck him there in 3 and 4. We came so far and he's a veteran, and I just wanted to make sure I brought her home."
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Mike Skinner and Todd Bodine were friends before Saturday's Toyota Tundra 200 and likely will remain thus in the future. But after the checkered flag fell to conclude a wild, final-laps shootout at Nashville Superspeedway? Probably not. Neither competitor was pleased with the other - although bump-and-run tactics are nothing new to NASCAR racing when the victory is on the line. (High Sierra Photo)
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After leading 22 laps, and wowing the crowd with a hard-fought battle with fellow Toyota driver and close friend, Mike Skinner, Todd Bodine, driver of the #30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota Tundra took home an eighth place finish in Saturday’s Toyota Tundra 200.
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Benson led only the final lap, the second race winner to do so in 2006. Ironically, Bodine beat Skinner in similar circumstances in June at Texas Motor Speedway without any Nashville-style fireworks. Benson started 22nd in the 36-truck field becoming the first Nashville winner to come from deeper than 15th on the grid. Flying under the radar after the last lap shuffle, Marcos Ambrose quietly became the season's first Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate to score two top-five finishes. (High Sierra Photo)
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Rookie driver Ryan Moore didn’t win Saturday afternoon’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at the Nashville Superspeedway, but his 18th place finish in the Toyota Tundra 200 was still something to smile about.
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David Reutimann earned his 12th top-10 finish of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season in the No. 17 Team Tundra Racing entry with a sixth-place finish at Nashville Superspeedway Saturday afternoon. "We were fortunate to finish sixth," said Reutimann. "We had a tough a day. It was hard for us to be back at a track that we won at last year and not run the way we expected to." (High Sierra Photo)
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Johnny Benson was in the right place at the right time to win Saturday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Toyota Tundra 200 when leaders Todd Bodine and Mike Skinner took themselves out on the final lap around Nashville Superspeedway. Benson, driving Gail Davis' Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota, was fourth at the beginning of a two-lap shootout following the record-matching ninth caution of the afternoon triggered by Indianapolis winner Rick Crawford's trip into the Turn 4 wall after his Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford suffered a flat tire. Skinner, the 1995 series champion, held the lead but pushed up the track in the first turn after being tagged in his Lumber Liquidators Toyota's left rear corner by second-place Bodine. Bodine then held the advantage as the white flag waved but Skinner - Benson's teammate - returned the favor in the 1.333-mile track's final serial. (High Sierra Photo)
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Though Chad McCumbee wasn't the driver walking away with the coveted Gibson guitar after Saturday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway, his performance still gave his Green Light Racing team something to sing about. McCumbee began the weekend with a flourish, qualifying on the outside pole, his best qualifying effort of the season. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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After qualifying his Dodge Motorsports Dodge in the fourth position for the Toyota Tundra 200, Timothy Peters proved he was a force to be reckoned with on the concrete surface of Nashville Superspeedway. The sophomore season driver ran in the top six positions for most of the 150-lap race when in the final laps he suffered a cut right rear tire forcing him to pit under green flag conditions and finish the event in 19th position.
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Johnny Benson shows off his latest addition to his race winners trophy case. (Christina R/High
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Winning in Nashville in NASCAR competition brings along with it a very special trophy: a limited-edition Gibson Guitar painted by notable motorsports artist Sam Bass. That unique trophy at the end of the day drives competitors to push extra hard to win, and sometimes that leaves smoke, bent sheet metal, and frustration as a result. For Johnny Benson, that hard driving by two other drivers meant a trip to victory lane in Saturday's Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway.
Benson, driving the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota, was the beneficiary of contact on two consecutive laps - the final two laps of the race - between Todd Bodine and Mike Skinner. Bodine got the jump on Skinner on the final restart of the day with two laps remaining and nudged the inaugural series champion out of the groove to take the lead. Bodine led across the stripe to lead at the white flag, but not to be outdone, Skinner repaid the favor going into turn one. Bodine and Skinner slid up the track and brushed the turn two wall, leaving the bottom open for Benson who powered past and into the clear to score his third victory of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
The exciting finish was set up by a caution caused by Rick Crawford's crash in turn three that set up a green-white-checkered dash to the finish. Crawford dropped two laps off the pace early in the day due to an unscheduled stop for a loose wheel. He was able to fight back to regain the lost laps and charge through the pack, running as high as third when the right front tire gave way heading into turn three with just a handful of laps remaining. Crawford vented his frustrations after a day that saw many drivers experience tire problems.
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Bobby Hamilton, Jr., driver of the No. 18 Fastenal Dodge, overcame damage from an early race crash and then barely survived a last lap melee on the way to a solid 13th place finish in the Toyota Tundra 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway on Saturday afternoon. Hamilton Jr. actually overcame a spate of adversity throughout the weekend, his Fastenal Dodge proved to be one of the fastest trucks during Friday's practice session.(High Sierra Photo)
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Camp Courageous driver Sammy Sanders managed to earn a top 25 finish after a sneaky pit strategy bit the team in the early laps of the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway. After qualifying his No. 04 Dodge in the 30th starting position, the Nashville champion did a great job working his way through the field, avoiding numerous cautions and ran strong for the entire 150-lap event.
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Team Australia's Marcos Ambrose has produced another fantastic third place finish in today's 16th round of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at the all-concrete Nashville track in Tennessee. Ambrose qualified 11th earlier in the day and only briefly ran outside of the top 10 for the entire race in a performance which has again shown that he his starting to come to grips with oval racing in the US. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Erik Darnell, driver of the No. 99 Ford F-150, won his first career Craftsman Truck Series pole in qualifying for this afternoon's 200-mile race at Nashville Superspeedway. Darnell, who also leads the Raybestos Rookie-of-the-Year standings, captured the pole in his 17th career truck series start with a time of 29.601 seconds and an average speed of 162.116 mph. (High Sierra Photo)
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Winning in Nashville in NASCAR competition brings along with it a very special trophy: a limited-edition Gibson Guitar painted by notable motorsports artist Sam Bass. That unique trophy at the end of the day drives competitors to push extra hard to win, and sometimes that leaves smoke, bent sheet metal, and frustration as a result. For Johnny Benson, that hard driving by two other drivers meant a trip to victory lane in Saturday's Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway. Benson, driving the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota, was the beneficiary of contact on two consecutive laps - the final two laps of the race - between Todd Bodine and Mike Skinner. Bodine got the jump on Skinner on the final restart of the day with two laps remaining and nudged the inaugural series champion out of the groove to take the lead. Bodine led across the stripe to lead at the white flag, but not to be outdone, Skinner repaid the favor going into turn one. (High Sierra Photo)
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This is the fifth straight win for Toyota in the state of Tennessee. Last year, Tundra drivers captured the checkered flag in Tennessee, winning races at Memphis (Brandon Whitt), Bristol (Mike Skinner) and Nashville (David Reutimann). This year, Jack Sprague (Memphis) and Johnny Benson (Nashville) have scored wins in Tennessee. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Johnny Benson stole the win when Todd Bodine and Mike SKinner crashed on the final lap to win the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway. Benson's third win of the season was the result of a pushing match between Bodine and SKinner, which resulted in both drivers scraping the turn two wall on the final lap. Jack Sprague held on to second with Marcos Ambrose in third. Ted Musgrave came home fourth and Brendan Gaughan rounded out the top five. TruckSeries.com will have a complete report to follow. (High Sierra Photo)
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Erik Darnell, driver of the No. 99 Ford F-150, won his first career Craftsman Truck Series pole in qualifying for this afternoon's 200-mile race at Nashville Superspeedway. Darnell, who also leads the Raybestos Rookie of the Year standings, captured the pole in his 17th career truck series start with a time of 29.601 seconds and an average speed of 162.116 mph. (High Sierra Photo)
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Erik Darnell scored his first career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Bud Pole Award in qualifying for today's Toyota Tundra 200 at the Nashville Superspeedway. Darnell went out early in the No. 99 Roush Racing Ford, and turned his quick lap aided by some lingering cloud cover. His quick lap of 29.601 seconds/162.116 miles per hour broke Mike Skinner's one-year-old qualifying record. Skinner's record was 29.725 seconds/161.440 miles per around around the 1.33-mile concrete tri-oval. Darnell held off a stiff charge from a surprising Chad McCumbee. McCumbee, in the No. 08 TheGPSStore.com/Garmin Chevrolet, also caught the cloud cover just right and ran a fast lap of 29.624 seconds/161.990 miles per hour to claim his first ever front row start in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. With Darnell and McCumbee on the front row, it marks the first all-Raybestos Rookie front row since David Reutimann and Robert Huffman swept the front row at Atlanta in 2004. (High Sierra Photo)
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Team Australia’s Marcos Ambrose has made a strong start to this weekend’s 16th round of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at the all-concrete Nashville track in Tennessee today. Ambrose was 19th in the opening practice in his Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards F-150, topped the time sheets in the 12-truck rookie session and was then eighth fastest of 35 trucks in the final practice and the fastest Ford driver.
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David Ragan, who shares driving duties with Mark Martin behind the wheel of the No. 6 Ford F-150, has posted four consecutive top-10 finishes heading into this weekend's Craftsman Truck Series event at Nashville Superspeedway. The Roush Racing entry has been driven to victory lane three times this season, and is currently second in the owner point standings, 90 points out of the lead. (High Sierra Photo)
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David Ragan, driver of the No. 6 Scotts Miracle-Gro Ford F-150, discusses the upcoming NASCAR race weekend at Nashville Superspeedway. Ragan talks about racing at Nashville, his experiences there and getting to visit with friends and family.
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Last week at O'Reilly Raceway Park, Green Light Racing and driver Chad McCumbee brought their new sponsors to the front of the pack during an impressive 10-lap fight for the lead against David Reutimann.
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Kerry Earnhardt will make his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start at Nashville SuperSpeedway in the Toyota Tundra 200 on Saturday. Earnhardt has made four Busch Series starts at the track, and perhaps his familiarity with the facility will contribute to a solid finish and serve to boost a flagging ’06 season.
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Matt Crafton and the No. 88 Menards team look to rebound from last week’s disappointing 20th place finish at ORP in the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville SuperSpeedway on Saturday. In five career starts on the 1.33mile concrete oval at Nashville, Crafton has two top-10 finishes. “After the way we ran at ORP, I can’t wait to race at Nashville,” Crafton said.
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Kevin Grubb returns to the seat of the Billy Ballew Motorsports entry this weekend for the running of the Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville Superspeedway. This Saturday’s race will be the fourth time Grubb has piloted the No. 15 Chevrolet in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series competition.
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It has been a busy week for Travis Kittleson - now it is about to get even busier. The young Florida racer couldn't be happier about that fact. Kittleson will make his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway, driving the No. 07 Chevrolet Silverado fielded by Green Light Racing. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Erin Crocker on Nashville:
“The first time I actually ran back to back races was here at Nashville earlier this year. I ran the ARCA race and had to get directly into the Busch car and I was not feeling too well. I am hoping it is better this time. We ran Kansas that way and I felt great that day. As long as it is not too hot and humid I think I will be fine.”
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"Nashville has always been a fun track to race at. It's not a mile-and-a-half and it's not a mile-and-a-quarter. It's 1.333 miles, so it's an odd size. It's concrete and it's got decent banking. We always have a ton of grip there. The concrete lends itself to a be a very fast racetrack. Ever since we got done with that Chicago test the Orleans Racing team has been very excited." (Team PR Photo)
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Coming off a confidence building performance in his last NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race in Kentucky, JC Stout heads to Nashville Super Speedway for this weekends’ Toyota Tundra 200. The vibrant No. 91 Silverado was carefully loaded this evening in preparation for it’s 16 hour journey to Tennessee that will begin in the still moonlit early morning hours of Thursday.
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Bobby East has never raced at the Nashville Superspeedway. But he feels like he's going there with a lot of experience. The rookie driver at Wood Brothers/JTG Racing said his crew chief, John Monsam, has enough experience to carry the entire team during this Saturday's Nashville 200.
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It didn't take Marcos Ambrose long to find his comfort zone in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He loves the fast speedway races, a place where his Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards Ford F-150 can flex its muscles.
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Kraig Kinser has a busy schedule on tap for this weekend. The Raybestos Rookie contender will drive the No. 46 CENTRIX Auto Finance Silverado in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) event at Nashville Superspeedway (NNS) and defend his title in the prestigious Knoxville Nationals at Knoxville Raceway (KR). (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Erik Darnell was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the August 4 Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis. Darnell finished 10th, his third consecutive top-10 finish and sixth of the 2006 season. Todd Kluever was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the 2005 Toyota Tundra 200 at Nashville, grabbing a fifth-place finish. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Peter Shepherd will be pulling double duty this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway. Shepherd will compete Saturday in both the ARCA/REMAX Series race in the No. 39 Ford Taurus and in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race in the No. 50 Ford 150. Headz Gamez will be the primary sponsor in both of Shepherds races. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Mike Skinner on racing at Nashville Superspeedway:
“I’m excited about Nashville for several reasons. I think Nashville is an awesome facility, and I enjoy racing there. Toyota Tundra is the official truck of the speedway, and Toyota is sponsoring the race. That gives us Tundra guys extra incentive to perform well."
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Johnny Benson on racing at Nashville Superspeedway:
“I love Nashville. The track is pretty neat, although it’s tough place to pass. It’s a finesse-type of race track, where you have to really concentrate to hold it down at the bottom of the track. It also requires a lot of discipline to make sure you don’t go into the corner too hard.
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Bill Lester on racing at Nashville Superspeedway: “I like Nashville because it’s just like the 1.5-mile tracks we race on, although it’s a little shorter. I’m comfortable at those types of tracks. I also like the consistency of the concrete surface at Nashville."
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Nashville Superspeedway has one of the most coveted trophies on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series circuit. Although Rookie of the Year driver, Boston Reid would love to bring home that Gibson guitar, the driver of the No. 25 Woodard Racing Dodge would be just as happy bringing home a top-10 finish; his first of the 2006 season.
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Cook on Competing at Nashville:
“In the last year or so I’ve been looking forward to going to the concrete tracks because we’re taking a lot better race trucks than I’ve ever had. Anytime you go to a race track that you may not have performed well at in the past and you get some new equipment, you basically get a new chance to shine."
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Ryan Moore celebrates his 23rd birthday on Thursday, August 10, and the rookie driver from Scarborough, Maine is hoping that the birthday and a 1-race change in the color scheme of his #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado for this weekend’s race in Nashville will help his team snap its current, 4-race slide.
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The defending NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion hasn't finished outside the top-three in his five Truck Series races at Nashville Superspeedway. Musgrave's 'perennial bridesmaid' rap suits him fine at Nashville, but he'd be happy to move up a step or two in the finishing order and claim a victory and a Gibson guitar trophy for his Team ASE Toyota Tundra team in the Toyota Tundra 200 this Saturday. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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A seventh-place finish in last week’s Power Stroke Diesel 200 allowed Todd Bodine (No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota) to boost his standings lead to 182 points over Johnny Benson (No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota). That margin might appear comfortable until one recalls that last year’s post-Indianapolis leader Dennis Setzer (No. 85 FlexFuel E 85 Chevrolet) was up by 227 points and finished second in the title race. (High Sierra Photo)
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This weekend David Reutimann returns with his No. 17 Team Tundra Racing Darrell Waltrip Motorsports entry to Nashville Superspeedway, the track where he recorded his first-ever NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory in the Toyota Tundra 200 last year. "The day was just perfect," Reutimann grinned. "I can't put it any other way than it was just perfect." (High Sierra Photo)
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Starr on Racing at Nashville Superspeedway:
“I have had some really good runs at Nashville, and I have been really close to grabbing that Gibson guitar a couple of times. I think that is one trophy that everybody in this garage can’t wait to get his or her hands on. I would love for this Red Horse Racing team to contend for the top spot this weekend, and I am confident that we can do it."
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Team Chevy Silverado teams move to Nashville Superspeedway (NSS) for the next event on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) 2006 schedule. This will mark the sixth appearance for the hard-charging truck drivers at the 1.333-mile concrete tri-oval with 14 degree banking in the corners. It is one of the three cement tracks on the circuit - Dover and Bristol being the other two. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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“I really like racing at Nashville Superspeedway. The track is smooth, fast and it has plenty of racing room. I haven’t had a lot of luck at Nashville in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, but I have had two really good runs there in the Busch Series, including a win."
-Jack Sprague
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