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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race
#16 | O'Reilly 200
Bristol Motor Speedway
Bristol, Tennessee
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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Johnny Benson used a slightly different pit strategy than the bulk of the field and took advantage of late race contact between the two leaders to score the win in the O'Reilly 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Benson, aboard Bill Davis Racing's No. 23 Exide Batteries Toyota, pitted 40 laps later than the majority of the field and quickly knifed his way back to the top-five. He was running third when Travis Kvapil and Kyle Busch came together while racing for the lead on lap 179. Benson dodged the spinning trucks and led the final 20 laps en route to his seventh career series win. (VPS Motorimages Photo)
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Johnny Benson used a slightly different pit strategy than the bulk of the field and took advantage of late race contact between the two leaders to score the win in the O'Reilly 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Benson, aboard Bill Davis Racing's No. 23 Exide Batteries Toyota, pitted 40 laps later than the majority of the field and quickly knifed his way back to the top-five. He was running third when Travis Kvapil and Kyle Busch came together while racing for the lead on lap 179. Benson dodged the spinning trucks and led the final 20 laps en route to his seventh career series win. (VPS Motorimages Photo)
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Johnny Benson was in the right place at the right time to take advantage of contact between Travis Kvapil and Nextel Cup Series interloper Kyle Busch to score his second NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win of the 2007 season. Benson, who pitted for tires on lap 104 and restarted 17th, quickly knifed his way through the field using both the inside and the outside groove on his way back to the top-five. Benson was riding in third and closing in on the leaders when they made contact on lap 179. Kvapil had the dominant truck in the middle stages of the race, but Busch was coming on strong as the laps clicked off. (VPS Motorimages Photo)
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On a sweltering afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway, Travis Kvapil turned the hottest lap in qualifying to take the Bud Pole Award for tonight's O'Reilly 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. With temperatures in the mid 90s and track temperatures well over 110 degrees, Kvapil laid down a 15.840 second/121.135 mile per hour lap to take his second pole of the 2007 season and the third of his Truck Series career. Kvapil, in Roush Fenway Racing's No. 6 K&N Filters Ford nipped out newlywed Brendan Gaughan for the pole. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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The Tough Trucks of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series face perhaps the most difficult challenge of the season as we come to the Bristol Motor Speedway for the O'Reilly 200. Always a challenge under the best conditions, the teams are working with a brand new concrete surface with a decided lack of rubber in the racing groove. The good news is the track is now wider, giving them more room to race off the corners, and compound banking has been added to the corners to give drivers an upper groove to work with. (Charles Krall/TruckSeries.com Photo)
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Travis Kvapil, driver of the No. 6 K&N Filters Ford F-150, returns to Bristol Motor Speedway this week for the Wednesday night NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. In July, Kvapil posted the fastest time during the open test on the newly repaved surface. "I think our strategy is kind of the same as anytime you go to Bristol to race. You want to be fast and run up front, but in the back of your mind the whole time you're just trying to survive. This is one of the places where I really work with my spotter. I kind of give him special instructions for this race."
-Travis Kvapil
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The official entry list for the O'Reilly 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway, the 16th event of the 2007 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season.
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Bill Lester Stepping Aside Due to Lack of Sponsorship -
Billy Ballew Motorsports announced today that Nate Monteith will take the wheel of the No. 15 Billy Ballew Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Monteith, 26, whose hometown is Bristol, Tenn., has made two previous starts in the NASCAR Busch Series (Nazareth and IRP), both coming in 2001. Monteith has one previous qualifying attempt at Bristol Motor Speedway in the NASCAR Busch Series in 2001. (VPS Motorimages Photo)
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After capturing his first NEXTEL Cup win at Bristol Motor Speedway in the Food City 500 back in March, Kyle Busch felt pretty good about his success at the World's Fastest Half-Mile. The 22-year-old Busch had, after all, already won a Busch Series event at BMS and to back that up with a victory in the Cup Series at NASCAR's most popular track felt pretty darn good. However, there's no NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win at BMS on his resume. Busch hopes to change that on Aug. 22. Busch is the lone driver competing in all three night races at BMS. (Ronda Greer Photo)
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O'Reilly 200 - Bristol Motor Speedway
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Event Schedule
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White lightning. Like the moonshine transported through the eastern Tennessee mountains by legendary NASCAR drivers six decades ago, the new bleach-white concrete surface at Bristol Motor Speedway is potent and packs a punch. Drivers from the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series gave the newly resurfaced high-banked oval its first workout Tuesday in a marathon eight-hour test. To a man, the reactions were positive. "It's definitely smoother and they've done a tremendous job," said Johnny Benson. "The transitions are better both going into the corners and coming out of the corners." (Close Finishes.com Photo)
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SPEED will air a pair of 30-minute specials from the NASCAR "Car of Tomorrow" test sessions from Bristol on February 28 and March 1 at 7 p.m. ET. "NASCAR is expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 cars to participate … with some teams bringing more than one car," said Frank Wilson, SPEED VP of Production. "This is a huge test that will set the table for the rest of the NASCAR race season"
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