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2006
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
General News
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Germain Racing teammates Todd Bodine and Ted Musgrave were the participants in today's teleconference. Bodine is the current points leader in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Bodine is also the defending winner of the O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway, this weekend. Musgrave is the defending NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champions and is currently fourth in points.
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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced today that Marcus Jadotte will launch and manage NASCAR’s newly-created Public Affairs department. In his new role as Managing Director of Public Affairs, Jadotte will direct the development and execution of a comprehensive governmental affairs strategy in support of NASCAR’s ongoing initiatives and provide strategic direction to NASCAR’s interaction with community and non-governmental organizations.
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NASCAR announced today that Steve O’Donnell has been promoted to the position of Vice President of Events and Operations, with special emphasis on NASCAR’s three national series. O’Donnell, 37, formerly served as Managing Director of Events and Operations. He will continue to oversee competition administration, at-track operations, strategic planning issues such as scheduling and sanctioning.
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It's no secret that Craftsman Truck Series driver Brendan Gaughan likes to have fun. Lesser known is Gaughan's continued work for charity organizations. On the evening of August 2nd Gaughan will combine the two when he joins Ken Schrader and friends for the annual "M&M's Night of Stars". The annual event, run at the I-55 Raceway Park in Pevely, Mo, has Gaughan joining with other NASCAR stars to help raise funds for charity. (High Sierra Photo)
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It's amazing how much one word can change your life. When you hear it, feel it, bear it, and breathe it that one word changes your entire view on the way you see every single aspect of your life. I will never be the same person I was before I found out I had cancer. I am now a better person for what I have endured just as all the millions of people in our country who feel the same way after battling cancer. It has literally changed my life. I was this guy who was a rough neck, red neck person that raised myself in the most unbelievable conditions and at times thought of myself as indestructible to getting my legs knocked out from under me in the blink of an eye and having it done time and time again battling this terrible disease. My whole life has been a bit of turmoil. I've been pretty proud to do what I've done because I'm a survivor. I was out on the street at 13-14 years old. Ended up doing what I did and got a chance to race with the best race car drivers in the best racing in the world. (Team PR Photo)
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NASCAR announced today penalties and fines that have been issued among six NASCAR Busch Series teams as a result of rule violations at Daytona International Speedway.
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Legendary toy maker Fisher-Price has teamed with the Stock Car Racing Collection at Appalachian State University to provide viewers for stereographic photo images of Southern AllStars dirt track racing. The ViewMaster images depict racing action from 2003.
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Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) will appeal a recent penalty assessed by NASCAR against its No. 77 Busch Series entry following post-race inspection June 30 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. “As a team owner, I understand the importance of rules and I respect the need to have them in our sport,” said DeLana Harvick Owner of KHI.
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Erin Crocker bettered a field of 55 ARCA RE/MAX Series drivers to earn her second career Kentucky Speedway pole award with a 177.390-mph (30.450 seconds) lap today. The 25-year-old Evernham Motorsports development driver's top lap fell just 0.169-mph shy of the series track record set by Steve Wallace at 177.509-mph (30.421 seconds) during the series first visit here this season on May 13. (High Sierra Photo)
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Ron Hornaday knows a thing or two about Martinsville Speedway and that certainly should give the veteran driver at least a slight edge when the NASCAR Busch Series rolls into town for the Goody’s 250 on July 22. When the 48-year-old Hornaday first raced at Martinsville in 1994, many of today’s Busch Series regulars were still playing with toy cars in a sandbox.
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SPEED talked with members of the NASCAR RaceDay broadcast team, including John Roberts, veteran driver Kenny Wallace and Wendy Venturini, about what they have seen so far this season on and off the track. They also provide a few predictions for what could be in store for the second half of the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season.
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AUDIO!
Listen in as David Ragan, driver of the No. 6 Scotts Miracle-Gro Ford F-150, discusses how he dealt with the decision, earlier in the year to be removed from the No. 6 truck and how he's used that as a motivating factor for his continued improvement. Ragan also discusses what he does during his down time, his dabbling in other forms of motorsports, his hobbies, favorite TV shows and more. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The thrill of spotting NASCAR races at places like Daytona, Charlotte and Talladega is one thing. Going back to Wisconsin to spot Rich Bickle in the 27th-Annual Miller Lite Nationals at Slinger Superspeedway this Tuesday, July 18th will be yet another. Slinger is an old haunt for this writer - a place where I watched races for years, covered them as a news reporter and later as the track’s public relations director.
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Darrell Waltrip has enough grandfather clocks signifying Martinsville Speedway victories to stock a clock store, but Saturday’s Goody’s 250 isn’t about first-place hardware for the veteran/retired driver. He just hopes to hold off father time long enough to pull out a respectable finish in what he says is absolutely his final race.
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SPEED will replace SPEED News on Sunday evenings with a new show, The SPEED Report, beginning Aug. 6 at 8 p.m. ET. “Over the last 10 years, SPEED has been the absolute best at collecting highlights and cool racing clips from around the world,” said Hunter Nickell, SPEED EVP & General Manager. “But moving forward, I think we need to do a better job of telling the stories behind the highlights."
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Second-generation ARCA RE/MAX Series racer Brian Keselowski, in the no. 29 Holloway Motorsports-Dusty's Collision Dodge, held off late-races charges from veteran Frank Kimmel and rookie Blake Bjorklund to earn his career-first victory in the Sara Lee-GFS Marketplace 200 Saturday night at Berlin Raceway.
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The chairman of Hooters - the US restaurant chain famous for its scantily clad waitresses - has died. Robert Brooks, 69, made his fortune from the firm - which uses the slogan "Delightfully tacky, yet unrefined" for its style of cuisine and service.
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The Women’s Auxiliary of Motorsports, Inc. (WAM, Inc.) is pleased to announced that it has joined forces with Operation DVD to help collect DVD’s in order to provide safe entertainment to our troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Aaron's Sales and Lease Ownership and Michael Waltrip Racing are pleased to be a part of Darrell Waltrip’s (D.W.) long-awaited return to the NASCAR Busch Series occurring this weekend at Martinsville Speedway. Since it has been slightly over a decade since Waltrip competed in the NASCAR Busch Series, Aaron’s will run a special ‘Another for a Brother’ paint scheme to commemorate his return.
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Rick Crawford (No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford) struggled through a miserable season in 2005 finishing a disappointing 16th after challenging for the series title as recently as 2002; he finished second to Mike Bliss (No. 16 Xpress Motorsports Chevrolet). Like Hornaday, Crawford credits symmetry between driver, crew and his manufacturer's engineers. "We needed to fix what was wrong with ourselves," said Crawford, who with Sprague shares the series' career start record of 236. "(Owner) Tom Mitchell has given us the green light to do what it takes. So it doesn't surprise me that we're doing so well." Crawford also believes Bodine and others ahead of him in the standings can be overhauled. "I really do and we're going to give it our best performance," he said. "I look forward to it. It's fun racing again. Last year's gone." (High Sierra Photo)
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Two-time NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Champion Tony Stewart visited Talladega Superespeedway Monday, July 17 to lend a hand in the monumental paving project underway at the track. Stewart climbed aboard the paver as it made its way through turn one of the track, applying the level-up course of asphalt. "That was not just a normal paving project going on out there," said Stewart. (TSS PR Photo)
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African-American Driver Comments on New Nationalities Joining the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series
- The face of NASCAR is set to undergo accelerated change over the next few months with the arrival of Columbian driver Juan Pablo Montoya from the Grand Prix arena. Bill Lester, who became the first black driver to compete in a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race in 20 years when he qualified for the Golden Corral 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March, sees it as just the beginning of what could become a very different makeup of NASCAR's premiere division. "In March, when I became the first black driver in twenty years to race in the Nextel Cup series it was a watershed event for NASCAR, and one that was amplified due to the focus on diversity efforts over the past few years," said Lester. (High Sierra Photo)
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Team owner David Dollar announced today that Morgan-Dollar Motorsports has swapped crew chiefs and their respective crews on the No. 85 and No. 46 race teams. The change is effective immediately at the team's Statesville, NC headquarters and will debut trackside at the August 4 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) race at O'Reilly Raceway Park, Indianapolis, IN. (High Sierra Photo)
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Three Time Champion To Appear At Con-way Event And Throw Out First Pitch At Cincinnati Reds Game
- It's been a special week for Jack Sprague and the Wyler Racing team. Sprague and the team scored their first pole of the 2006 season, led the most laps and celebrated in Victory Lane at Memphis Motorsports Park last weekend. The victory was Sprague's 26th career win in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. (High Sierra Photo)
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Talladega Superspeedway is joining 12 other tracks to participate in the nationwide NASCAR Foundation Blood and Marrow Drive this September. Talladega Superspeedway's drive is set for Sept. 11, 2006 at the track, and will be called "Talladega Superspeedway Laps For Life."
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I never had so much fun finishing 16th. Tuesday's Miller Lite Nationals didn't produce the on-track results that driver Rich Bickle and I had hoped for, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Bickle was his usual killer self of the quarter-mile, high-banked Slinger Superspeedway oval driving our car right to the front only to have a mechanical failure put us out of the race with just under 50 laps to go. Normally, I might have been disappointed at coming so close so spotting Bickle's fourth and my second Nationals title, but it was hard to feel badly about anything on return trip to my old Wisconsin stomping grounds. (John Close Photo)
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H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president and general manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway, took the hot seat Thursday night during a taping of "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me," National Public Radio's popular news game show. In front of a sold-out crowd at the Belk Theater in Charlotte, N.C., Wheeler was the celebrity contestant in a segment known as "Not My Job," the point of which is to subject writers, politicians, corporate CEOs and other professionals to questions far outside their fields of expertise.
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ESPN will televise the 69th All-American Soap Box Derby Championships presented by Levi Strauss Signature live on Saturday, July 22 from 4-6 p.m. ET. Powered by gravity, regional champions will arrive at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio, for a world championship of amateur racing and week-long festivities surrounding the event. Reporters Krista Voda and Shannon Spake will cover the pits and share the stories of the talented youngsters who will race for glory.
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Johnnny Benson showed his driving experience and patience, as he won the largest cash prize ever paid out at
Kalamazoo Speedway
. There were 71 Outlaw Super Lates entered to qualify, all trying to take home a piece of the $87,000 purse, but it was Benson who took home the $25,000 top prize, plus the 1/2 way bonus of $1000. (James MacDonald Photo)
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HT Motorsports announced that Danny Rollins would take over as Crew Chief of the No. 59 Harris Trucking Ford. Danny takes over for Kevin Cram who has left to pursue other opportunities. "We would like to thank Kevin for his hard work and dedication to the team and wish him well in the future," said Jim Harris owner of HT Motorsports. "We're really excited to have someone like Danny Rollins directing our efforts. Danny brings a wealth of knowledge and success to our team." (High Sierra Photo)
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Drive for Diversity driver Peter Hernandez captured his second NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series victory of the season at Stockton 99 Speedway in Stockton, Calif. on Saturday night. With the victory, Hernandez, driver of the No. 20 Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Chevrolet, closed the gap on the current points leader and now stands only 45 points out of first place.
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Justice Brothers, Inc., one of the most familiar names in motorsports and the manufacturer of a leading line of specialty chemicals that is distributed worldwide, has become a marketing partner with Key Motorsports for the balance of the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.
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Ron Hornaday’s trip to Gateway (Ill.) International Raceway is the second of three races in a row that Hornaday will be behind the wheel of the No. 33 Outdoor Channel Chevrolet before taking two weeks off and returning in Bristol, Tenn. Hornaday’s run started last weekend at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway with a 24th-place finish. Hornaday will pull “double-duty” next weekend at Indianapolis (Ind.) Raceway Park in both the Truck and Busch Series.
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Talladega Superspeedway Vice President and General Manager Rick Humphrey announced today that the track will continue offering fans the convenience of printing their tickets at home in advance for the upcoming UAW-Ford 500 event weekend Oct. 6 - 8, 2006.
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David Reutimann returns to Gateway International Raceway to drive the No. 99 Cottman Transmission Michael Waltrip Racing entry in the NASCAR Busch Series event after finishing third in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at the 1.25-mile egg-shaped oval earlier this season.
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Drive for Diversity program rookie driver Marc Davis won for the second consecutive week and the fifth time this season in the Limited Late Model racing division Saturday night at Hickory (N.C.) Motor Speedway.
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With only one top 10 finish in the 2006 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season, Dodge Motorsports Dodge driver Timothy Peters is not resting on his laurels. Success is what the young driver dreams of and pursues on a regular basis, even an off weekend after a nine week NCTS race stretch. His plan is to head back home to his racing roots at South Boston Speedway in Virginia for a short track showdown. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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Several recent race winners in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series have attributed their success, in part, to time spent driving the NASCAR Racing: 2003 Season racing simulation. According to Dave Kaemmer, creator of NR2003, those professional drivers, and racers of all types, will soon have access to a much better training tool – and to a whole new branch of competition.
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For Brendan Gaughan (No. 77 Orleans Dodge) 2003 was a banner year - six wins and a fourth-place finish in championship standings (he finished 40 points behind champion Travis Kvapil) after leading the point standings for much of the second-half of the season - but it was also a trying year. Leading the points heading into the final race of the season, Gaughan was poised to win his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series title. A mid-race incident dashed those title hopes. Fast forward to this season where Gaughan has mostly struggled. After his Orleans Racing team decided to scale back to a one truck team this year, Gaughan has been the top finishing Dodge in several races, but that hasn't always meant a top-10 finish. By Gaughan's own admission, trying to regain his near-championship form has been tough. "It is frustrating, but at the same time it's what you for," said Gaughan, whose team owner is his father Michael. (High Sierra Photo)
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Records will fall and excitement will rise when the stars of the NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch Series return to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the annual NASCAR Weekend March 9-11, 2007. Tickets will go on sale Sept. 16.
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Former NBA veteran and collegiate basketball All-American Rodney Rogers has finally taken the “next step” in his love of NASCAR, agreeing to become a partner with the Mooresville-based Key Motorsports NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series organization.
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Benny Parsons is all about winning. He’s the 1973 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series champion; a Daytona 500 and Coca-Cola 600 winner; and, in recent years, has emerged as one of NASCAR’s leading television and radio commentators.
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Nashville Superspeedway and Bobby Hamilton Racing invite you to a very special Open House. Thursday August 10th from 5pm – 8pm at the Bobby Hamilton Racing facility in Mt. Juliet, TN. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society – A minimum $5 admission fee gets you in!
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The Drive for Diversity program is enjoying a breakout year in just its third season. Drive for Diversity is an ethnic and gender minority driver and crew member development program run by Access Marketing & Communications. The program, which is NASCAR’s leading on-track diversity initiative, currently has eight drivers competing in the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series. Although the season is only at the midway point, the drivers have combined for eight victories.
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This morning Indianapolis Motor Speedway and NASCAR announced that ESPN's return to NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racing will begin with the prestigious Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on July 29, 2007. The complete 2007 NASCAR schedule won't be released until later this year.
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When the green flag falls for the start of the Randy Waller Memorial presented by Charles Anderson Lawn Care Saturday night at South Boston Speedway, current NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series competitor Timothy Peters will be in the field for the Barkhouser Late Model Stock Car Division event.
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Headz Gamez International has extended their sponsorship of Roush Racing's development driver Peter Shepherd in additional races. Shepherd will drive the No. 50 Ford F-150 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at the Nashville Superspeedway on August 12, as well as in six ARCA races, starting with this weekend's Shop 'n Save 150 at Gateway International Raceway, IL.
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Catch up on what's been going on with the Craftsman Truck Series with SPEED's own Ray Dunlap.
SPEED:
Ray, how did you get your start in broadcasting?
Dunlap:
As dumb as it sounds, practice is the key to success and that also applies in television. I worked for five years producing my own public access show in Columbus, Ohio, just because I knew that I needed as much experience as possible. (SPEED PR Photo)
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Extended Pre-Race Show Will Offer Inside Scoop, Highlights, Interviews & Features
- SPEED has expanded its LIVE coverage of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Beginning Aug. 4 at 8 p.m., ET, this new pre-race show will open the Power Stroke Diesel 200 broadcast by delving into the behind-the-scenes stories and unique personalities that make up the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Veteran NCTS reporter Ray Dunlap will host the 45-minute show, taking viewers up to green-flag action. Bob Dillner and Krista Voda will scour the pits for an inside line on what's happening in the garage area. The show also will provide in-depth interviews, racing highlights and interesting features in and around the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. "I want our audience to really get to know the characters and stories behind the great racing," said Chris Long, SPEED VP of studio productions.
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Drive for Diversity program rookie driver Marc Davis won for the third consecutive week and the sixth time this season in the Limited Late Model division at Hickory (N.C.) Motor Speedway Saturday night. “My entire team gave me a great car,” said Davis. “I’m living my dreams and looking forward to the next few weeks. We’ve got a lot of racing to do and our goal is to win the track championship.”
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Fans looking for the best time to stock up on racing gear to show off during the upcoming UAW-Ford 500 event weekend Oct. 6-8 at Talladega Superspeedway should stop by the Talladega Gift Shop now for the best deals yet on a multitude of items.
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Bill Davis Racing (BDR) announced today that Tommy Baldwin Jr. will join the organization serving as Competition Director for its NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series multi-car efforts, effective August 1, 2006. Baldwin returns to the team after having spent four seasons with the organization from 1999-2002.
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Clay Andrews Racing (CAR), the team the stunned the stock car world on a memorable night in Sparta, Kentucky, is closing the doors on the Statesville, NC shop that they have been leasing from Travis Carter. “We put our heart, soul and resources into David Gilliland,” said Clay Andrews. “Personally and financially we do not feel it is best to move forward at this time.”
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Veteran Driver Carries Message to Consumers on the Race Track in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at O'Reilly Raceway Park -
Dennis Setzer knows his way around O'Reilly (formerly Indianapolis) Raceway Park (ORP). He is the defending winner of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) race at the track just west of Indianapolis, IN.
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