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2006
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
General News
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Roush Racing announced today that Matt Puccia has been named Crew Chief of it's No. 50 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Ford F-150, beginning with the April 1 event at Martinsville Speedway. The truck will be driven by 'Roush Racing: Driver X' standout, David Ragan. "We've got a lot of confidence in Matt and his abilities, and we feel that he will be a great addition to our program," said Jack Roush.
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Selection Helps Kick-off New DIRECTV Crew Chief of the Race Award, Which Begins at Martinsville -
Ray Evernham, who won three NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series championships in the 1990s as crew chief for Jeff Gordon, has been selected as NASCAR’s top all-time crew chief in a vote by a national motorsports media contingent.
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Assemblymember Bill Emmerson (R-Redlands) recognizes California Speedway President Gillian Zucker as the 2006 Woman of the Year for the 63rd Assembly District. “As President of California Speedway, Gillian Zucker oversees one of the busiest motorsports facilities in the country,” Assemblymember Emmerson said.
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Glauz Out, Hornaday III in as Truck Director for Crocker -
Evernham Motorsports announced today that the No. 98 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Truck Series team will have a new recipe for success for the remainder of the 2006 season. The team will adopt the leadership approach featuring a team director, car director and engineer used by Evernham's NASCAR NEXTEL Cup teams beginning with this weekend's race at Martinsville Speedway.
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Texas Motor Speedway has hired Dawn Gardin to serve in the newly created position of Broadcast Media Relations Manager, effective Monday.
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Smooth and fast were the words spoken most often Wednesday by drivers participating in a Goodyear tire test on the new racing surface at Lowe's Motor Speedway. NASCAR NEXTEL Cup drivers Bobby Labonte, Scott Riggs, Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series regular Bobby Hamilton Jr. participated in the two-day tire testing session, the first on-track activity since the completion of a $3.5 million repaving project.
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War may be hell, but it couldn’t stop Jessica Cherms from buying tickets to Kansas Speedway. The 29-year-old civilian project assistant is assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Camp Liberty, Iraq, about 10 miles west of Baghdad. She’s been in Iraq for about six months and called Kansas Speedway this week to buy two season tickets.
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Many drivers dream of the day they get their big break and have a chance to compete in a NASCAR upper series. For one lucky driver, that dream will come true, thanks to Dollar General and Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI).
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Joe Kruschek, rear tire changer for the No. 26 Roush Racing Ford Fusion, was injured in last Monday’s race in Atlanta during a routine pit stop. Kruschek sustained injuries to both hands when the jack was released while he was still in the process of tightening lugnuts. Kruschek suffered a broken left thumb, a broken right middle finger and a cut right index finger. He successfully underwent surgery on Tuesday, March 21st, in a local hospital in Griffin, Georgia, and was transported back to the Charlotte, North Carolina area by Roush Racing.
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NASCAR announced today that Jeff Gordon, driver of the No. 24 Chevrolet, has been fined $10,000 as a result of his involvement in an altercation on pit road after the completion of Sunday’s NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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Mark Martin and Roush Racing have decided to add an additional seven races to Martin’s 2006 Craftsman Truck Series schedule. Martin, who boasts two victories in the first three races of the season, will now run a total of 14 races in the Scotts Miracle-Gro Ford F-150 this season.
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Golden Flake, the Official Snack Food of Talladega Superspeedway, and Aaron's Sales & Lease Ownership, the track's spring weekend title sponsor, have come together to give one lucky sweepstakes winner the "Best Seat In The House" for the Aaron's 499 on Sunday, April 30.
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Talladega Superspeedway officials announced today that race fans purchasing tickets to attend the Aaron's Dream Weekend April 28-30 will now be able to print them at home. When they arrive on race day, they will be directed to a designated line, where the ticket will be electronically scanned for validation.
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Talladega Superspeedway's two-day, $60 seats in the Allison Grandstand are widely known to be one of the best ticket values offered by any racing venue, but this year fans buying two-day tickets will get even more for their money with the addition of NASCAR NEXTEL Cup qualifying on Saturday.
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Veteran NASCAR crew chief and mechanic Barry Dodson has been named to lead the efforts of the Key Motorsports NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series organization. Dodson succeeds Lance Hooper as crew chief of the No. 40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado race trucks currently driven by Chad Chaffin as Hooper has taken a similar position with the ThorSport organization in Sandusky, Ohio. (High Sierra Photo)
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Former Richmond International Raceway Vice President of Public Relations Robert “Kenneth” Campbell Sr., who helped promote racing for nearly 60 years in Richmond, passed away late last night. He was 83 and resided in Chesterfield County, Virginia at the time of his passing.
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In a unanimous vote yesterday in Nashville, the Tennessee General Assembly granted a proclamation proclaiming May 19, 2006 as NASCAR Day in the state of Tennessee. This decision makes Tennessee the first state with 100% participation at the state government level.
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Two professional football league superstars have joined together to form a new racing team. Football hall of famer Gale Sayers and World Champion Most Valuable Player Ray Lewis, along with entrepreneur Mark Bloomquist, have formed The Milestone Company. The operation will run both cars and trucks under its new name: S&L Racing. The team will be headquartered in North Carolina.
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Team founder and President Curtis Key is making several key personnel changes within the organization as the team continues to build itself into a contending force in the Craftsman Truck Series with its No. 40 Chevrolet Silverado. An announcement on these changes will be made prior to next weekend’s Kroger 250 race at Martinsville Speedway.
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Jack Sprague is used to competing every weekend to be the top driver on the race track and put his No. 60 Con-Way Toyota in victory lane. This weekend, Sprague will take a backseat and watch some other professional drivers showcase their talents as they compete for top honors in the third annual Con-Way Southern Express Driving, Forklift and Mechanics Competition at the Con-Way Southern Express Service Center in Norcross, Ga. (High Sierra Photo)
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Concrete bricks tumbled to the ground at California Speedway on Wednesday afternoon as Speedway President Gillian Zucker drove a CAT 950 Wheel Loader into a souvenir building at Gate 13 to make way for the multi-million dollar Midway redesign. After a quick lesson, Zucker used the machine’s bucket to hit the first concrete brick wall. Seconds later it tumbled down.
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A class of approximately 18 Alabama State Trooper Trainees and their instructors have been on site this week, completing segments of the police driving component in their training. The Trooper Trainees have been using roads inside and outside the track - including the infield road course - to simulate high-speed pursuits and other scenarios.
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The Milwaukee Mile has taken another step in the direction of recent safety and facility improvements, with the installation of the SAFER Barrier System, an energy-dissipating system that has been fastened to the speedway's existing concrete wall. SAFER, an acronym for Steel And Foam Energy Reduction Barrier System, is constructed of a hollow steel impact plate, buffered with polystyrene foam blocks. (Russ Lake/Milwaukee Mile Photo)
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Race fans of all ages will soon be able to learn how Miles the Monster came to be-all in a beautifully illustrated collectible comic book. This one-of-a-kind piece of memorabilia offers a rare opportunity for fans to learn the story behind his creation, and to be involved in the history of the Monster Mile. The first issue, "Miles the Monster, Issue #1 - His Shocking Birth," will be sold exclusively at Dover International Speedway during the June 2-4, 2006 race weekend.
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Per tradition, following this year's GM FlexFuel 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway, the hood from the winning truck is inducted into DAYTONA USA for the year. Mark Martin's winning No. 6 Scotts Ford hood, with signatures from the entire team, will remain inside "The Official Attraction of NASCAR" through Speedweeks 2007. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Coming off its best night ever last week, the gritty, winner-take-all PINKS has been renewed for a third season on SPEED according to VP of Programming Robert Ecker. “Response to the new episodes of Pinks has been overwhelming,” said Ecker, co-Executive Producer for PINKS. “The series showed continued ratings growth while in repeats over the winter, and Season Two is delivering very significant increases in household ratings and in all our key demographics."
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Sometimes the calendar can stop momentum cold but not in 2006 and not for Todd Bodine and his No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota team. Bodine closed out 2005 with three consecutive victories and hated to see the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season end at Homestead-Miami Speedway. His Germain Racing team, assuming its late-season record would put a figurative bulls-eye on the tailgate of Bodine's yellow and black Tundra, refused to lose its edge during the winter months. Bodine's March 17 win at Atlanta Motor Speedway followed a pair of runnerup finishes - both to Mark Martin driving the No. 6 Scotts Ford - and further established the 42-year-old New Yorker as the driver to beat for this year's title. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Bill Lester started the Golden Corral 500, a day later than scheduled due to rain, from the 19th position after an impressive qualifying run on Friday night at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. With a goal of finishing all 325 laps, Lester came close to accomplishing that as he would finish the event in the 38th position, six laps down from the race winner, but with a tremendous amount of experience from his career-first NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race.
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This weekend marks the 2006 debut of Ron Hornaday in the No. 33 Outdoor Channel Chevrolet at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway (BMS). Hornaday will drive the Outdoor Channel Monte Carlo SS in 13 races this season. Hornaday, who also drives the No. 33 KHI Silverado in the Truck Series, has 158 career Busch Series starts and four Busch Series wins to his credit. Hornaday made his last Busch Series start in 2005 at Phoenix International Raceway.
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In 2009, the newly-announced NASCAR Hall of Fame will open in Charlotte, North Carolina, celebrating and commemorating the best to have ever put the pedal to the metal. By that time, many of the subjects of the original new weekly series, NASCAR DRIVEN TO WIN may well be on their way to an eventual spot in that hallowed hall. The series, which delves into the lives of the racing circuit’s hottest up-and-comers, delivers an “under-the-hood” glimpse of life both on-and-off the track like never before.
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Woolrich, The Original Outdoor Clothing Company, has extended its primary sponsorship of the No. 99 Roush Racing Ford F-150 and driver Erik Darnell for seven additional NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races, beginning with the John Deere 200 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 17. "We're very excited about the expansion of our partnership with Roush Racing," said Tim Joseph, Director of Marketing and Media. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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You just never know where NASCAR® Craftsman Truck Series driver JC Stout and his team may appear next. This time the familiar red and yellow #91 Chevy Silverado race truck, Stout and crew members showed up at the largest racing themed exposition in New York State as they attended the CARQUEST Motorsports Expo in the huge Cargill Building at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY.
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Charlie Scott:
Scott made his NASCAR debut in 1956. ... Competed in the 1956 beach/road race in Daytona Beach driving for the famed Kiekhaefer Chrysler team. ... Was a successful driver in Georgia during the late 1940s and 1950s. ... No relation to Wendell Scott.
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National Stock Car Racing Commission Statement -
On March 13, 2006, the National Stock Car Racing Commission heard and considered the Appeal of MRD Racing. The appeal concerned three penalties issued by NASCAR following opening day inspection on Feb. 22, 2006 for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at California Speedway. The infractions concerned Section 12-4-A of the NASCAR Rule Book "Actions detrimental to stock car racing" and Section 12-4-Q "Any determination by NASCAR Officials that the truck, truck parts, components, and/or equipment used in the Event do not conform to NASCAR rules: unapproved carburetor main body modification." (High Sierra Photo)
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Wendy Venturini and Shannon Spake are growing into high-profile weekly roles at SPEED this season, as the two former producers join John Roberts and NASCAR racers Kenny Wallace and Jimmy Spencer on the popular SPEED pre-race show NASCAR RaceDay.
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Harley-Davidson Motor Company returned this year to sponsor activities of the 37th NAACP Image Awards, celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in literature, television, motion pictures and recording arts.
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Louis Powell knows the meaning of "Built Ford Tough." He and his Falcon Security Company have witnessed firsthand just how tough the Ford F-Series pickup is in the heat of battle. Powell and his crew have spent the past year and a half in Baghdad and Mosel, Iraq, piloting a fleet of Ford F-350 pickups, escorting military and civilian convoys along some of the most dangerous stretches of Iraqi roads. (OnWheels.com Photo)
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Students to Work with Teams in Race Shops and Garage As Part of Sears Craftsman Internship -
Program The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series garage will be transformed into a hands-on classroom for four students with aspirations of a career in racing. During the Atlanta race week, Craftsman® Motorsports will host four students from Philadelphia’s Urban Youth Racing School (UYRS) for an intense internship program where students will learn the ABC’s of racing.
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Condominium projects have sprung across Las Vegas, but a site for luxury living like no other is about to emerge in the northeast valley. Trophy Towers, a multi-story condominium with panoramic views of both the world-famous Las Vegas Strip and Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s 1.5-mile superspeedway, is the latest addition to LVMS’s multimillion-dollar makeover.
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Oklahoma Native David Dollar Brings Awareness of E85 Ethanol FlexFuel Alternatives to Forefront Though Farming and NASCAR -
David Dollar is a successful businessman in a wide variety of endeavors. As owner/operator of Dollar Farms, LLC, Dollar has built an industry leader in large-scale custom farming in the Midwest. The organization offers numerous farming services and utilizes state-of-the-art equipment and advanced technology to increase operational efficiency and production per acre. (MDM PR Photo)
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SPEEDtv.com Also Offers New Online Fan Experience Showcasing SPEED on-demand Programming for the 2006 NASCAR Season
- As the 2006 NASCAR schedule kicks into full gear, Comcast and SPEED are teaming up to bring race fans the hottest NASCAR racing action and behind-the-scenes coverage with Comcast’s ON DEMAND service.
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AAA Mid-Atlantic Insurance Becomes Official Sponsor of Craftsman Truck Series
- AAA Mid-Atlantic is proud to announce its title sponsorship of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Dover International Speedway on Friday, June 2, 2006. The race will be called the AAA Insurance 200. The multi-year deal was signed late last week.
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Race fans attending the Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at The Milwaukee Mile on Friday night, June 23 will now have the opportunity to take part in the speedway’s new Victory Club hospitality offerings. Interest has grown in the new indoor/outdoor fan hospitality venue since it was unveiled at the first of the year, leading to the speedway management’s decision to extend the number of events the Victory Club would be available.
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Joining the ranks of some of the greatest names in motorsports, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver David Starr has been chosen to receive this year's Texas Motor Sports Hall of Fame Sportsmanship Award. "I am so very honored," says Starr, who drives the No. 11 Toyota Tundra for Red Horse Racing. "I never dreamed that I would be chosen to receive this highly coveted award." (Ronda Greer photo)
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With no speedway experience and limited sponsorship, Timothy Peters in last year's No. 04 Bailey's Dodge was unable to run a complete NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule in 2005. However, Peters, now in the No. 4 Dodge Motorsports Dodge doesn't believe the past season in which he finished second to Raybestos Rookie of the Year Todd Kluever was wasted. Far from it. Peters, a former NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series late model champion in North Carolina and Virginia, immersed himself in the series - both on and off the track. The 25-year-old competitor, tapped for career development by 2004 series champion Bobby Hamilton, driving the No. 18 Fastenal Dodge in 2006, augmented his abbreviated schedule with fulltime duties in the team's Mount Juliet, Tenn. shop. (BHR PR Photo)
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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) today announced that it has selected Charlotte, N.C., to be the home of its Hall of Fame. The NASCAR Hall of Fame, which will be a state of the art facility capturing the spirit of the sport, will honor the NASCAR icons and create an enduring tribute to the drivers, crew members, team owners and others that have impacted the sport in the past, present and yet to come.
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Orleans Racing is pleased to announce their second annual open house meet and greet. The event will take place on Friday March 10th, 2006. Hours will be between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm. "We're very proud of our shop and we enjoy showing it off whenever we can," said driver Brendan Gaughan. "We believe that our facility is of the same caliber as any of the Charlotte area based teams, which is supported by those from the industry who have visited our Las Vegas facility." (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Rookie Lamar to have Hornaday and Fellows to go to for road course advice -
After racing two straight weekends on the NASCAR Truck Series, circuit teams will have the benefit of a weekend off. That's not the case for two-time Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday. Instead of relaxing at home, the driver of the No. 33 KHI Chevrolet will travel south of the border. (Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images Photo)
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It's no secret that top-level car owners are reaching deep into the junior leagues of racing to seek out their next star. Some Driver Development Specialists and Scouts have been summoned to keep tabs on drivers who might be making noise in Quarter Midgets, Karts, Legends and Bandoleros. In addition, there is great interest in drivers who are currently competing in the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series, as well as, ARCA and Hooters Pro Cup.
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Mark Martin has long been someone fellow drivers look up to. On the track and off, Martin has been there and done that. He has been a mentor to young teammates, and an idol to those striving to become racecar drivers. No exception to that is co-driver of the No. 6 Scotts F-150, David Ragan. (High Sierra Photo)
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As part of the Toyota/Pro Celebrity Race's 30th Anniversary, selected past participants will join a host of new faces from film, television, and sports on Saturday, April 8 as part of the 32nd Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. For the first time ever, each driver in this historic, 10-lap race for charity will compete through a 1.97-mile street circuit in a 2005 race-ready Scion tC, the new official car of the event. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The resurfacing of Lowe's Motor Speedway marks the third time the entire 1.5-mile oval has been repaved since the track opened in 1960. Including design, surveying, safer barrier removal and re-installation, track milling, repairs to the concrete retaining walls and paving, officials estimate the resurfacing project will require 25,000 to 30,000 man hours.
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When Jeff Burton rolled to a NASCAR Nextel Cup pole position in qualifying for the Daytona 500, a lot of people wanted to know what Richard Childress Racing was doing different under the hood of Burton's Chevy Monte Carlo. In addition to a bigger commitment to its engine department, RCR added some new parts and pieces to their race day rockets this season and according to Rick Mann, Chief Engine Builder at RCR, the EMP Stewart Components GM Pro Series Water Pump was one of them. (EMP PR Photo)
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