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NASCAR Camping World
Truck Series
Race
#1 | NextEra Energy
Resources 250
Daytona International Speedway |
Daytona Beach, Florida
February 13, 2009
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They might have to rename the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway. Todd Bodine drives this event like he owns it. Bodine held off a last-lap bid by Kyle Busch to capture his second truck race in as many years Friday night. The former series champion had to charge back through the field after being shuffled to the back of the pack for passing under the yellow line. He also had to dodge a series of multi-truck accidents that sidelined several front-running contenders before the race had reached the halfway point, including defending NASCAR Camping World Truck champion Johnny Benson. (Photo : Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
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Colin Braun, driver of the No. 6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford, will start on the front row after winning the pole award in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series qualifying at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday evening. No. 88 Chevrolet driver Matt Crafton will start second and Todd Bodine in the No. 30 Toyota will start third. Ron Hornaday, Jr. and Mike Skinner round out the Top-5.
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After an off season under clouds of crew cutbacks and rule changes, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series opened under bright, sunny skies at Daytona International Speedway Wednesday. In all, 38 trucks signed into the DIS garage area and participated in a pair of practices leading up to Friday's Energy Resources 250 on the 2.5-mile oval. As with every season, there's been a bunch of driver and team changes. This year, there seems like there are more than ever. Here are the players in the Truck Series garage area this week at Daytona (listed by truck number) and a brief note on their 2009 situations. (TruckSeries.com Photo by John Close)
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Can "The GOAT" hang with the big boys when he trades his two wheels for four this weekend at Daytona International Speedway? Ricky Carmichael, five-time AMA Supercross champion known as the "Greatest of All Time," makes his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut Friday (8 p.m. ET on SPEED; NCWTS Setup with Krista Voda at 7:30 p.m. ET) at Daytona. (Photo: KHI)
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The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season kicks off Friday night at Daytona International Speedway with the NextEra Energy Resources 250, which will be televised live on SPEED, with the green flag set for 8 p.m. Eastern. The Trucks almost always put on a great show, and this year, the 10th time the Truck Series will race at Daytona, should be no exception. Nine prior NCWTS races at the 2.5-mile superspeedway have produced nine different winners, with the largest margin of victory in any one race being a whopping 0.318 seconds. Of the seven Daytona Truck races that ended under green flag conditions, the total margin of victory is .944 seconds. It doesn't get much more competitive than that.
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In 2008, Johnny Benson and Ron Hornaday Jr. waged an epic battle that not only was the best in the history of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, but one of the best ever in all of NASCAR, period. After 25 races, Benson ultimately prevailed by just 7 points in a fight that literally came down to the last lap of the last race before it was settled. When the dust cleared, Benson earned his first NCWTS title, while Hornaday was thwarted in his hopes of winning a fourth series championship. Now, as the 2009 season is set to begin Friday night with the running of the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway, the question is, can these two heavyweights do it again?
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Malsam and the No. 81 One Eighty Toyota Tundra team claimed a 10th-place finish during the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at the famous 2.5-mile tri-oval on Friday night.
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As the laps wound down, Hornaday tried the high line hoping to make a rally and catch the leaders. He gained two positions, and was able to survive the 2.5-mile high banks crossing the finish line in the fifth position, recording his career-best finish at Daytona.
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Bliss, who had practiced 12th fastest in final practice, took the green flag in the 27th position but ended up in 33rd place.
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Timothy Peters goal : finish in the Top-10 at Daytona. Call it a successful weekend. Not only did they finish in the Top-10, but their 6th place finish was their best result in the new team's history.
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Compton, who has taken the green flag at the historic high-banked oval 21 times throughout his career, returned to Daytona Beach, Florida this year driving for a new team, in a new truck, with support from a new manufacturer.
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Brian Scott and his No. 16 Albertsons Toyota Tundra battled a plethora of problems over the course of the week at Daytona International Speedway. In the end Scott and his Xpress Motorsports teammates were able to post a solid 12th place finish in Friday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona's famed 2.5 mile high-banked oval. (Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images/NASCAR)
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Coming off an impressive first season, Premier Racing has high hopes for its sophomore season in the Camping World Truck Series in 2009. The team has been working non-stop on the new fleet of Toyota trucks since the checkered flag flew last November, and team owner Philip Hudgins believes it will show at Daytona, “I see how hard the guys in the shop have been working, and I am confident we can run up front this year.”
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Sylvania, Ohio native has scored one pole starting position, two top-five and six top-10 finishes in those trucks starts. Cook has also led 45 laps at Daytona in a truck.
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While Friday will mark Sauter's first visit to Daytona as a driver in a truck, the Necedah, Wisconsin native is hardly a stranger to the track.
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Scott is making only his second start at the historic 2.5 mile high banked oval at Daytona. Scott posted a ninth place finish in his first foray there last year.
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With three straight superspeedway wins and a victory in the 2008 season finale, Germain Racing's No. 30 Tundra team has as much momentum as a team can have.
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Three-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) champion Ron Hornaday is the all-time NCWTS leader with 39 career victories. However, one trophy that Hornaday would like to add to his collection is one from Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.
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