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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race
#19 | Smith's Las Vegas 350
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Las Vegas, Nevada
Saturday,
September 16, 2006
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It didn’t seem as if it was going to be a gamble to place an experienced driver with Billy Ballew Motorsports, as much of their success has come from those with lots of laps under their belts. NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series veteran Jeremy Mayfield jumped behind the wheel of the No. 15 Convoy of Hope/Craig Morgan Chevrolet for his second career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start this past Saturday night at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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With one win and one pole already to his credit at the old Las Vegas Motor Speedway, David Starr was looking forward to scoring similar results on the newly configured race track with his Red Horse Racing team. But Starr would have his work cut out for him behind the wheel of the No. 11 Toyotaforklift.net Toyota as he qualified 24th for the start of the race.
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Rick Ren, crew chief for the No. 23 Toyota driven by Johnny Benson, has been fined $1,000 for violating Sections 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing); 12-4-Q (truck, truck parts, components and/or equipment that do not conform to NASCAR rules); and 20B-16.3D (unapproved fuel cell filler panels installed to create space).
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Rookie sensation Chase Miller proved once again age is not an issue when it comes to his experience level on a track he had not laid eyes on before the race. The entire Las Vegas weekend started off in the right direction when 19-year-old Miller posted the fastest time in Friday's test session and second fastest time for Saturday morning's practice session. (High Sierra Photo)
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A promising evening for rookie Chad McCumbee and his No. 08 Green Light Racing team quickly went up in smoke at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. "We had a pretty good truck and I feel we were in a position for a solid top ten finish, this is part of racing and you just have to pick up and be that much more prepaired for the next race," said McCumbee.
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Jack Sprague had always been a perennial favorite at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In eight NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at the track, the three-time Series champion had scored two wins and seven top-10 finishes. ‘Lady Luck’ had always smiled on Sprague at the Las Vegas track.
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Last week at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, nearly the whole field (32 of 36 starters) bettered Mike Skinner's two-year old track qualifying record (165.320 mph) on the 12-degree banking in 2004. Skinner, driver of the No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota, set a new record of 178.065 mph as he became the first driver to win three consecutive poles at two different tracks. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Drivers from the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series were introduced to Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s new high banks this weekend, and most can’t wait for a return engagement. “I really like it,” said Mike Skinner, who won Saturday night’s Smith’s Las Vegas 350. “I liked the old race track, but the new track is really fun to drive. I think we saw more racing grooves out there and it will only get better.”
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Erik Darnell's race weekend at Las Vegas started on a high note, knowing he would head to the racetrack on level playing ground with the rest of the field. With the recent configuration of the speedway, no one would have an advantage and those who could adapt their setups to the new facility the quickest would be rewarded.
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Peter Shepherd knew coming into Las Vegas that he needed to complete all the laps and bring the No. 6 Scotts Miracle-Gro Ford F-150 home in one piece. Shepherd did what he had to do, scoring an 18th place finish at the newly configured speedway.
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Michel Jourdain Jr. headed to the newly refinished Las Vegas Motor Speedway not quite knowing what to expect. The 1.5-mile track had the banking in the turns increased from 12 degrees to 20 degrees and the front and back stretch were now banked nine degrees.
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Boston Reid and the No. 25 Woodard Racing Dodge crew finished 33rd at the new Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) on Saturday night. A promising run was cut short by a broken oil pump belt. “It’s disappointing because we had a truck that could have finished in the top-15 and to finish 33rd kind of stings. We were really good by ourselves, but in traffic I would pick up a terrible aero push."
-Boston Reid
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Saturday night, under the lights, on the newly redesigned Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Todd Bodine rolled to the green flag in eighth place and took the checkered flag for the Smith’s Las Vegas 350 in twelfth.
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With a successful test of both trucks on Friday, the Circle Bar Truck Corral Team entered race day looking for a solid performance in the Smith’s 350 and an eye on improving their standing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. During the day long NASCAR test on Friday, CB-20 slightly out performed CB-18 during eight hours of testing at the newly configured Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Mike Skinner and the No. 5 Toyota Tundra team headed to “Sin City” to race at the newly-configured Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday night. The team turned the momentum from its second-place finish last week at New Hampshire International Speedway into a victory in Vegas. The No. 5 Toyota Tundra team made winning look easy with a dominating performance.
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Bill Lester and the No. 22 Bill Davis Racing team started the Smith’s Las Vegas 350 at the newly-improved Las Vegas Motor Speedway from the 26th spot. Despite qualifying deep in the field, the team believed the truck was capable of a top-15 finish.
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The No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra only had third and fourth gears in Saturday night's race at the newly configured Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Proving it is a championship caliber team, the team turned problems with an ill handling truck into a fourth place finish. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bobby East started second last Saturday at the Smith's Las Vegas 350 in his State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford F-150 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He finished 22nd. "We've had such a run of bad luck lately, finishing on the lead lap is a big relief."
-Bobby East
(Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Race winner Mike Skinner celebrates in victory lane. (Nate Mecha/High Sierra Photo)
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Mike Skinner had earned three consecutive poles in the desert, but going into tonight's Smith's Las Vegas 350 the victory trophy managed to elude him. After dominating the race - leading for 114 of the race's 146 laps - Skinner not only takes home the trophy but made the statement that he and the No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota will be a force to be reckoned with throughout the remainder of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
Skinner defeated defending series champion Ted Musgrave in a surprisingly clean and competitive race on the newly reconfigured 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway tri-oval. Musgrave made a strong move on a late-race restart, going past Skinner on the outside to take the lead. But not to be denied, Skinner repaid the favor on the final restart of the night to reclaim the lead and motor on to his 19th career series victory.
Mike Bliss finished third in the No. 16 XPress Motorsports Chevrolet. Bliss expressed his surprise that the racing was as good as it was on the new surface. Johnny Benson finished fourth in the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota, a strong finish despite the fact he fought transmission problems following his first pit stop of the evening.
Ron Hornaday rounded out the top five, with David Reutimann sixth, Marcos Ambrose seventh, Dennis Setzer eighth, Kraig Kinser ninth, and Aric Almirola rounded out the top ten.
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Call it bad karma or whatever but Mike Skinner, until Saturday night, had done virtually everything this year in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series except visit Victory Lane. Skinner led the series in Budweiser Poles won and laps and miles led but still couldn't quite find his 19th career victory. The sixth time in 2006 that Skinner's Toyota Tundra Toyota started from the No. 1 qualifying position, however, turned out to be the charm as Skinner dominated the Smith's Las Vegas 350 at newly reconfigured Las Vegas Motor Speedway and became the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' 10th winner of the season. Skinner, who hadn't won in more than a year and 25 races, led four times for 114 of the race's 146 laps but had to come from behind following the race's seventh caution. (David M. Vaughn Photo)
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David Reutimann collected his 14th top-10 finish of the season as his No. 17 Team Tundra NASCAR Craftsman Truck crossed the finish line in sixth-place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday night. “We were able to run in the top-five and we ended up finishing sixth,” Reutimann said. “The truck was a little tight from the center off at the start."
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Mike Skinner, driver of the No. 5 Bill Davis Racing Tundra, dominated Saturday evening's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to register his first victory of the season. Skinner, who started from the pole position, led 114 of 146 laps to record his third Craftsman Truck Series win in a Tundra, as well as the 19th NCTS win of his career. The Daytona Beach, Fla.-driver passed fellow Tundra pilot Ted Musgrave on lap 125 and led the final 20 circuits on his way to the victory. When Skinner crossed the finish line, it was Toyota's tenth win of the season, one more win than the nine Toyota recorded a year ago, and was Toyota's 22nd win since joining the Craftsman Truck Series at the beginning of the 2004 season. "Tonight's results were pretty awesome," said Skinner, following the race. (David M. Vaughn Photo)
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The failure of a relatively inexpensive engine part foiled the debut of veteran driver Tim Fedewa in the No. 40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado Saturday night at the newly redesigned and repaved Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Build it and they will come, or so the cliche goes. And come they did, an estimated 65,000 strong, on Saturday night to see the debut of the reconfigured, 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway. If they were looking for speed, the fans got that in spades. Thirty-two of 36 qualifiers smashed the two-year-old qualifying record that Mike Skinner ultimately raised nearly 13 miles per hour, to 178.065. (High Sierra Photo)
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Bobby Hamilton Jr. came to the land of lady luck looking for good fortune but rolled a pair of snake eyes. Hamilton Jr. was making a strong run to the front of the pack in his No. 18 Fastenal Dodge when a cut right front tire sent him careening into the outside retaining wall on lap 51 of the Smith’s 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night.
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The Smith’s Las Vegas 250 may have been a home game for Brendan Gaughan but Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s recent reconfiguration all but erased any hope he may have had for a home field advantage. “It wasn’t a bad night,” Gaughan admitted. “Especially when you think back to the disappointment of last year when we finished 35th."
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Ted Musgrave drove the No. 9 Team ASE Toyota to a second place finish in the Smith's Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race Saturday night at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The defending series champion matched his season-best finish and led for the first time since May at Mansfield before settling for second behind race winner Mike Skinner. (David Vaughn Photo)
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Marcos Ambrose has earned the third top 10 finish of his rookie NASCAR season by finishing seventh in the Smith’s Las Vegas 350 in Nevada today. The result made the Australian the highest finishing Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate in today's race, the second highest lap leader with 12 laps led and one of only six drivers to lead a lap.
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Mike Skinner had earned three consecutive poles in the desert, but going into tonight's Smith's Las Vegas 350 the victory trophy managed to elude him. After dominating the race - leading for 114 of the race's 146 laps - Skinner not only takes home the trophy but made the statement that he and the No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota will be a force to be reckoned with throughout the remainder of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. Skinner defeated defending series champion Ted Musgrave in a surprisingly clean and competitive race on the newly reconfigured 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway tri-oval. Musgrave made a strong move on a late-race restart, going past Skinner on the outside to take the lead. But not to be denied, Skinner repaid the favor on the final restart of the night to reclaim the lead and motor on to his 19th career series victory. (High Sierra Photo)
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Terry Cook and the No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race team finished 16th in Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS).
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"When we got out front we were fast and we were wide open there. I got in clean air early and we were good, but I feel bad for the boys because we sped on pit lane there. We had kind of arm wrestle there with Todd Bodine trying to beat each other out of the last box. He was trying to beat me and I thought, 'I better get going to beat him,' and we both got caught for pit-lane speeding."
-Marcos Ambrose
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Mike Skinner held on for his 19th career NCTS win at the Smith's Las Vegas 350. This is his first NCTS win this season and Skinner's third NCTS win driving the No. 5 Bill Davis Racing Tundra. "The results tonight were pretty awesome. We had a really good truck. We quit practice early yesterday, and then we quit practice early again today because I wanted to save laps for the race."
-Mike Skinner
(High Sierra Photo)
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The lap summary report for the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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The unofficial owner championship points following the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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The unofficial driver championship points following the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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The unofficial final results for the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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The race penalty report for the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Mike Skinner held back a late race charge by defending series champion Ted Musgrave to win the Smith's Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Skinner started from the pole and had one of the dominant trucks on the day, but found himself challenged by Hornaday, Ron Hornaday and Johnny Benson late in the race. Musgrave held on to second with former series champion Mike Bliss in third, Benson in fourth, and Hornaday fifth. Record speeds were set on the newly reconfigured speedway, but numerous cautions kept the average speed to just 117.817 miles per hour. Unofficiall Benson now trails 12th-place finisher Todd Bodine by 91 points in the battle for the series championship. TruckSeries.com will have a complete report to follow. (High Sierra Photo)
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Mike Skinner earned his second consecutive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Bud Pole in qualifying for tonight's Smith's Las Vegas 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Skinner turned a lap 2.3 seconds quicker than the previous track record on the newly remodeled and reconfigured 1.5-mile tri-oval to grab his 30th career pole and the sixth of the 2006 season. Skinner's lap of 30.326 seconds/178.085 miles per hour in the No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota eclipsed his previous record set in 2004 by over 12 miles per hour. That lap was 32.664 seconds/165.320 miles per hour. Bobby East will start outside the front row with his best career qualifying effort in the No. 21 Dreyer's Dibs/State Fair Corn Dogs Ford. East ran a 30.447 second/177.357 mile per hour lap to edge fellow rookie Chase Miller for the outside front row starting position. (Christina R/High Sierra Photo)
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The official final starting lineup for the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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The official final qualifying times for the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Team Australia star Marcos Ambrose has finished in the top five in both of today’s extended practice sessions at the revamped Las Vegas Motor Speedway in preparation for tomorrow’s Smith’s Las Vegas 350 in Nevada.
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The Circle Bar team rolled to Vegas with a pair of trucks in the newly designed hauler that had never been raced, CB-18 & CB-20. CB-20 had been to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Goodyear tire test in August and had performed well. CB-20 was built as a clone to CB-19, better known as the Flying Monkey’s, earning CB-20 a temporary nickname of Monkette. The team will bestow a permanent and more fitting name to CB-20 after the truck has been race proven. Because both trucks have yet to take a green flag, the team planned a long day of testing to determine which truck would get the starting nod on Saturday for the Smith’s 350.
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The official final practice times for the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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The official practice 1 times for the Las Vegas 350, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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Thirty-five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series teams took the newly reconfigured Las Vegas Motor Speedway today for an open-test session prior to tomorrow's running of the Smith's Las Vegas 350. Rick Crawford, driver of the No. 14 Ford F-150, was one of four drivers that participated in a Goodyear tire test on the new surface last month. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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For this weekend's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, owner Billy Ballew has tabbed NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series veteran Jeremy Mayfield to pilot the No. 15 Convoy for Hope/Craig Morgan Chevrolet. "I'm really excited to run with Billy Ballew Motorsports at Las Vegas," Mayfield said. "I like Billy a lot and have a ton of respect for him and his race team." (Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images)
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Thanks to an overall team effort and the success of its only black race truck in its Chevrolet Silverado inventory, Key Motorsports is making its move to attain top 30 status in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
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To help promote Saturday night's Smith's Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, hometown racing icon Brendan Gaughan drove to work - in his No. 77 South Point Hotel & Casino Dodge truck. The head-turning, traffic-stopping journey included a 16-second pit stop in front of the Barbary Coast Hotel & Casino smack dab in the middle of the infamous Las Vegas Strip. (David Vaughn Photo)
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Chase Montgomery returns to NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competition this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway where he will pilot the No. 76 Them Boyz Network/EQ Chevrolet. His participation in the Smith's Las Vegas 350 on Saturday night will be his first race since the season opener in Daytona where he finished 19th. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race team is bringing its winning truck to Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Truck No. 10-11 won at Kansas Speedway on July 1, 2006, the first-career win for ppc Racing. "We're taking the same truck that we've run really well with this year. We're looking for a lot of the same good results that we've had with it earlier this season," said Cook. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The Smith's Las Vegas 350 will cap a very busy week for hometown hero, Brendan Gaughan. In the days immediately preceding the event Gaughan will play host to a poker tournament at his family's South Point Hotel and Casino, an open house at the race shop, a private junket with friends and numerous media opportunities within town. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Defending series champion Ted Musgrave was involved in a crash on lap 90 of the New Hampshire 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway, relegating him to a season-low 31st-place finish. The No. 9 Team ASE Toyota spun entering turn three, backing hard into the turn three wall. Musgrave limped his Toyota Tundra back to the garage and after a team assessment, decided to load it onto the trailer and call it a day.
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Boston Reid is looking forward to this weekend’s event in Las Vegas. Mostly because it will be the first weekend in a long time that Reid feels like his team is on an even playing field with the other 35 drivers in the field. The 24-year old rookie from Logansport, IN has never raced at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but neither have the other drivers in Saturday’s field, with the recent construction done at LVMS.
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Rookie NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Ryan Moore suddenly left his position with Key Motorsports this afternoon, leaving crew chief Barry Dodson and team owner Curtis W. Key, Sr. scurrying to find a replacement. Key then announced that he has hired veteran Tim Fedewa to drive the No. 40 at Las Vegas. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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After the mechanical malfunctions Chad Chaffin experienced in Loudon, he is ready to take his Toyota Tundra to the front of the field this weekend in the Smith’s Las Vegas 350. Last week being Chaffin’s first race of the 2006 season in a Toyota, he wanted to have a better showing.
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They come by the thousands every day to the city of neon and all night buffets, each with the same dream to strike it rich. Marcos Ambrose is no different. Just like the high rollers to who come to Las Vegas, Ambrose will try to catch lightening in a bottle this Saturday in the Smith's Las Vegas 350.
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Five former Smith's Las Vegas 350 winners boasting six victories are expected to compete in Saturday's race. Sprague won the inaugural event in 1996 and repeated two years later. Hoping to join Sprague as double winners are Ted Musgrave (No. 9 Team ASE Toyota, 2001), Starr (2002), Gaughan (2003) and Bodine (2005). (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Skinner and the No. 5 Toyota Tundra team are seeking their third consecutive pole position at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Skinner leads the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with 29 career poles, besting fellow Toyota driver Jack Sprague by one pole. Skinner can become the first Craftsman Truck Series driver to win three consecutive poles at the same track if he is the fast qualifier for the Smith’s Las Vegas 350.
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In four starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Bill Lester has an average start of 7.50. His best start came in 2005, when he qualified his Bill Davis Racing Tundra in the second position. All three of Lester’s pole positions have come at high-banked 1.5-mile race tracks like Las Vegas.
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"Las Vegas is always a fun place to go and race. The track is one of the best on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series circuit, and being in Las Vegas is always such an experience. It is a totally different world out there. There is so much to do. I am not much of a gambler, but I love to people watch, and this is a great place to do that."
-Johnny Benson
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Still looking for that elusive first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory, Green Light Racing driver Chad McCumbee and his No. 08 The GPS Store/Garmin team roll into Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend for the Smith's Las Vegas 350. "I am excited to be heading back to a hi-speed track like Vegas," said McCumbee. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bobby East doesn't need a fast racing truck. He already has one. He doesn't need a top-level race team. He already has one. When he drives in Saturday night's Smith's Las Vegas 350, the only thing he needs is a little Lady Luck.
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With the complete reconfiguration and resurfacing of Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS), Raybestos Rookie Kraig Kinser will be on equal footing with all the other contenders in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) Saturday night.
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All bets are off at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this week.. To put it another way, drivers and crew chiefs can leave any preconceptions about the 1.5-mile track at home before they arrive for Saturday's Smith's Las Vegas 350. LVMS hasn't changed locations, but the track itself has changed dramatically. No longer can it be called a semi-banked or "flat" oval. Banking in the turns has been increased from 12 to 20 degrees with walls raised approximately 15 feet to accommodate the changes. The backstretch, formerly banked three degrees, has been increased to nine degrees, the same as the frontstretch banking. Drivers and race fans won't recognize pit road, which has been moved 275 feet closer to the grandstands. The track surface itself is complete but some of the infield infrastructure remains a work in progress and won't be completed until the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series arrives for its March 11 event. (Track PR Photo)
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Chase Miller will be making his second NCTS start and first at LVMS in The Smith's 350. Miller will be piloting Demon this weekend. Demon is a new chassis in the BHR stable this season and has competed in six events. At 19 years of age Miller is the youngest NCTS competitor and 26 year old Marcus Richmond is currently the youngest crew chief in the series. (High Sierra Photo)
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In last year's NCTS race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Sept. 24, 2005), Toyota driver Todd Bodine captured the checkered flag and two other Tundra drivers recorded top-10 results. Bodine started third and passed Ted Musgrave on the final lap en route to the victory. Tundra drivers following Bodine to the finish line were Mike Skinner (sixth) and Brandon Whitt (ninth). (High Sierra Photo)
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Crocker will be testing two trucks during the open test session on Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The team will use the test session to determine which Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge Ram they will use for the Las Vegas 200. Crocker’s best finish on a mile-and-a-half track was earlier this year at Kansas. She finished 16th.
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Dennis Setzer has two jobs this season. The first is to drive his No. 85 Silverado to race wins in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS). The second for the perennial NCTS favorite and his factory-backed Morgan-Dollar Motorsports (MDM) team is to educate consumers about the fueling options they have as the owner of an ethanol capable vehicle. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bobby Hamilton Jr. will be making his first NCTS start at LVMS. Hamilton Jr. has five NASCAR Busch Series starts at LVMS with one top five finish 5th on March 6, 2004. Hamilton Jr.’s average NBS starting position at Las Vegas is 11.6 and his average finishing position is 25.6. Hamilton Jr. also has one NASCAR Nextel Cup start at LVMS with a best finish of 11th (March 13, 2005).
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"From what I have heard from my manufacturer teammate Todd Bodine, the track is very fast. From talking to Todd, it sounds like it is going to be a lot of fun to race on. There's apparently a distinct bump in turn one, which adds character to the track. I'm really excited to get out to Las Vegas and get on the new track. It's going to be an equal playing field for everyone."
-David Starr
(High Sierra Photo)
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Michel Jourdain, Jr. will attempt to make his fourth career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start in Saturdays Smith’s Las Vegas 350. He last ran at O’Reilly Raceway Park where he finished 19th.
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Peter Shepherd will make his third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start of his career and the 2006 season this weekend in Las Vegas. Shepherd joins Mark Martin, David Ragan and Auggie Vidovich as drivers who have seen time in the No. 6 in 2006.
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Erik Darnell will make his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the Smith’s Las Vegas 350. Darnell was the highest-finishing Raybestos Rookie candidate last week at New Hampshire, marking the 10th time in 18 races that he has taken the honor. Darnell finished ninth at New Hampshire last week, marking his seventh top-10 finish of 2006.
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Ted Musgrave’s shortened race truck from last weekend’s New Hampshire race weekend sends him to Vegas all tied up in the points standings. In driver’s points, he’s tied for fifth, while in owner’s points, his team is tied for 6th as they head to a track where both the team and driver have ‘a checkered past.’
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Erik Darnell was the Raybestos Rookie of the Race in the September 16 New Hampshire 200 at New Hampshire International Speedway. Darnell scored a ninth-place finish, his seventh top-10 of the 2006 season. He claimed Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the 10th tine in 18 races this season.
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Roush Racing announced today that 20 year-old Canadian Peter Shepherd will drive the No. 6 Scotts Miracle-Gro Ford F-150 in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 23. "I'm really fortunate to be in the position I'm in with Roush Racing and the opportunities they give me," said Shepherd. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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This week David Reutimann and his Darrell Waltrip Motorsports team travel west to Las Vegas Motor Speedway following a 12th-place finish in the most recent NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at New Hampshire International Speedway.
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The official entry list of the Smith's Las Vegas 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the nineteenth race of the 2006 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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The most exciting attraction in motorsports is taking shape in Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s infield. Construction crews began raising the preformed concrete walls of the Neon Garage this week as work continued on the speedway’s multi-million dollar infield renovation project.
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Jeremy Mayfield will get a leg up on the competition before the 2007 UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 on Las Vegas Motor Speedway's new high banks. Mayfield, who has run every Nextel Cup race held at LVMS, will compete in the Smith's Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Saturday, Sept. 23. Mayfield will drive the No. 15 Chevrolet for Billy Ballew. (Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images Photo)
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Speedway Children's Charity the Big Winner
- First poker, then NASCAR Camping World Truck Series racing. It's the best of both worlds next week in Las Vegas. Before betting on the best racing strategy for the Smith's Las Vegas 350 on Saturday night, a handful of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series personalities will be going "all in" for a night of celebrity poker. The 'Craftsman Truck Series Tough Poker Tournament' presented by the South Coast Hotel & Casino will be held on Wed., Sept. 20 beginning at 7:30 p.m. PT at the South Coast Hotel & Casino at 9777 Las Vegas Boulevard. The presenting sponsor, South Coast Hotel & Casino, has guaranteed a minimum $10,000 donation will be made to the Speedway Children's Charities - Las Vegas chapter from this tournament. "I'm more than ready to welcome our guests to Las Vegas - both on the track and at the poker table," said local icon, Brendan Gaughan.
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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has attracted legions of new fans to NASCAR. Title sponsor Craftsman brand has built on that, reaching out to new fans in a variety of diversity programs. The latest Craftsman program, Craftsman Trocas Calientes de NASCAR , will be launched in Las Vegas during Fiestas Patrias and the days leading up to the Smith's Las Vegas 350 on Sept. 23.
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Smith's Las Vegas 350 - Las Vegas Motor Speedway
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Event Schedule
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Smith's Food and Drug Stores has signed on as a cosponsor of the Sept. 23 Truck Series event. Smith's has joined longtime Truck race sponsor Las Vegas Events to form the Smith's Las Vegas 350. This will mark the first race on the speedway since the track's banking was raised from 12 to 20 degrees and the pit road was moved approximately 250 feet closer to the grandstands.
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