Cook continues his hot streak. Since the penalty NASCAR assessed he and the K-Automotive team at Daytona, he moved back to 102 points of lead. Add back that 100 points taken away after Daytona, and Cook is 2 behind in second place. (4:05 pm ET)

Jason Leffler, #2 Team ASE/CarQuest Dodge: “We had a great truck again, and nothing to show for it.” (4:02 pm ET)

Jason Small, #07 Sunbelt Rentals Chevrolet: “Man, we got parked again. It is just hard to believe. We keep having good race trucks, but we never seem to get luck to stay with us to the end.” (3:58 pm ET)

Matt Crafton, #88 Menards/Colorpave Chevrolet: “We had a great truck, but the brakes just weren’t up to par. I had to press the pedal so hard, my left leg is still shaking.” (3:57 pm ET)

Cook has won both NCTS races in 2002 that have gone to overtime. (3:54 pm ET)

Cook’s win makes him the seventh winner in seven NCTS races at NHIS. Winning team K-Automotive is the first team to ever visit Victory Lane at NHIS twice. (3:55 pm ET)

Brian Rose, #4 Perry Connection Dodge: ”We lost the engine at the start finish line. It went nose on into the wall in turn one. The Hutchens device really helped me down there, that was a really hard hit.” (3:53 pm ET)

The race today mirrored a couple of events earlier this season. A flashback to Martinsville, Cook led late with Dennis Setzer chasing him down. At Martinsville, Setzer won after a late pass. At Milwaukee, Cook led late and was forced into “overtime” after Brian Rose crashed and brought out the yellow. Here at NHIS, Rose’s engine failed going into turn one and crashed hard again, bringing out a yellow and forcing Cook into overtime yet again. (3:50 pm ET)

When Carlos Contreras and his wife Alejandra sat down to dinner last night with Terry Cook and his wife Amy, he said “Terry, you are going to win this race.” Eighteen hours later, Carlos’ prediction came true as Cook won for the third time this season in the Power Stroke Diesel Ford. As Cook celebrated with his team in Victory Lane, Carlos stopped in to give Terry a congratulatory hug and told him simply, “I told you so.” (3:45 pm ET)

There have been rumors about Brian Rose’s future with Bobby Hamilton Racing since the series visited Gateway International Raceway back in May. At that time, his sponsor decided to depart the sport, leaving Rose to find funding at the last minute. Rose secured a partial-season sponsorship with Perry Co0nnection, which comes to an end after the conclusion of the New England 200. However, Rose says he is committed to the team through the next three races, concluding at Nashville, and has “four or five really strong prospective sponsors” that are interested in picking up sponsorship to allow him to complete the season.

“I have some sponsors that are very interested,” he said. “They will be watching today, so it is very important we have a good run. The truck is brand new and it is awesome. Hopefully, we will impress a few people and get the ball rolling. I really want to stay right here at BHR. These guys work their tails off to make this thing go fast, but we need to get some sponsorship to keep it going. I am pretty sure we will. We have had some talks with Bobby, and we are all on the same page. Hopefully we will know more in a couple of weeks.” (12:13 am ET)

With Winston Cup Series practice concluding shortly before the start of the drivers’ meeting, there was some question whether or not Ken Schrader, Kevin Harvick, and Morgan Shepherd would make it in time. However, NASCAR officials report all drivers did make it on time and no one will be sent to the rear for missing the meeting. (11:47 am ET)

The #08 of Bobby Dotter has picked up some sponsorship help for the New England 200. Exotic Car Rentals will be on the quarter panels for the race. (11:46 am ET)

Drivers and teams are faced with track conditions that vary greatly from the practice sessions yesterday. Yesterday was cool and cloudy, but with the bright sunshine today, track temps are expected to be 30-40 degrees higher than yesterday. That throws a monkey wrench into the teams’ setup plans. (11:45 am ET)

Two drivers will go to the rear of the field due to engine changes. Travis Kvapil will relinquish his 14^th position and go to the rear, while Emerson Newton-John is already at the back following a DNS on his qualifying run. (10:17 am ET)

Former Truck Series competitors Mike Stefanik and Chuck Hossfeld ran the New England 100 NASCAR Modified Tour race this morning. Stefanik finished 8^th and Hossfeld ended up 24^th, a lap off the pace following a tangle early in the race. Others with NCTS experience in the field included John Blewett III (fourth) and Ken Bouchard (29^th). (10:12 am ET)

Good morning from the Media Center at New Hampshire International Speedway. Rain damped the festivities last evening, but the scattered clouds in the sky have no rain in them, and the sun is shining brightly over the Magic Mile. Temps are expected to reach 75 degrees this afternoon and should make for a perfect day of racing. (10:10 am ET)

This concludes Trackside Live! from the practice and qualifying sessions for the New England 200 at the New Hampshire International Speedway. If news breaks from the garage area before the green flag tomorrow, you will find it here at TruckSeries.com.

Don’t forget, Live! Qualifying presented by Axciom will come at you from Michigan International Speedway next Friday afternoon.

Former NCTS competitor Chuck Hossfeld is competing in today’s New England 100 NASCAR Featherlite Modified tour race. He is one of the Northeast’s most famous rides, the legendary Mystic Missile. Hossfeld drove for Roush Racing in several early season races in 2001. (4:46 pm ET)

Final practice has concluded without any on-track incidents or slow downs. Top-10 drivers:

 Musgrave, Leffler, Cook, Harvick, Rose

 Bliss, Kvapil, Schrader, Pressley, Gaughan (4:44 pm ET)

Happy Hour has just begun. With one minute in the books, Brian Rose has the fastest lap followed by Jon Wood, Jason Leffler, Ted Musgrave, and David Starr. (4:26 pm ET)

In an ironic twist, Carl Edwards has been added to the entry list for the Busch Series race at Gateway as a teammate to Larry Gunselman. Gunselman was the driver of the #63 Mittler Bros. Ford before Edwards took over a few races ago. (4:15 pm ET)

Kevin Harvick, #6 Harvick Motorsports Chevrolet: “These guys are hard out qualifying every week and we only come every once in a while, so if we can stay close, we’re doing a good job. It should be a lot of fun to race. They’ve done a good job on the racetrack. We should be able to run in to the corner beside and run up underneath someone up off it.” (3:58 pm ET)

Mike Bliss, #16 IWX Motor Freight Chevrolet: “We are really loose in the corners. We just can’t carry any speed off. If we can get the truck to carry some speed through the turns and be smooth off the corner, we will be good during the race. (3:55 pm ET)

Hearing in the garage that Roush Racing will move their Truck Series operation from Livonia, Michigan to North Carolina to be closer to the rest of the team’s NASCAR operations. (3:52 pm ET)

Doug Richert is here helping the Ballew/Countryman team get the #15 Dickies Ford up to speed for Rich Bickle. Richert is helping the team in an advisory role, and according to team owner Billy Ballew, things are going phenomenally well. The team’s usual “advisor” Red Dog Barnes is in Indianapolis assisting Ultra Motorsports with their Winston Cup effort. (3:47 pm ET)

Ted Musgrave, #1 Team Mopar Dodge: “The last couple of weeks we haven’t been hitting it. We’ve been really bad in qualifying and not much better in the race. It looks like its continuing. We’re struggling pretty bad right now. If I knew what it was, I would fix it. It’s a mixture of things. We have changed everything on the truck today, four shocks, four springs, swaybars, heights, you name it. We haven’t hit on it yet.” (3:08 pm ET)

Jason Leffler, #2 Team ASE/CarQuest Dodge: “I just took it easy and luckily repeated the same time I had in practice, and luckily it was good for the pole. I felt better about it when I saw the 29 slow down. It was just a matter of us repeating our time and me doing my job right. A lot of trucks will be fast in the race, but the 29 is the king of the flat tracks. We’re going to have to keep up with him.” (3:03 pm ET)

Brian Rose, who’s sponsorship with Perry Connection ends after this week’s race at NHIS, has commented that he will continue on in the #4 Bobby Hamilton Racing Dodge through at least Nashville. If funding can be secured, he will finish the season with the team. (2:59 pm ET)

Rick Ren, crew chief, CAT Rental Store Chevy: “Looks like we have a camshaft problem. Its not an uncommon problem, but it is just unfortunate that it happened to us.” (2:56 pm ET)

Travis Kvapil, #60 CAT Rental Store Chevrolet: “We were having some engine problems in practice and we changed the plug wires and distributor hoping to cure it. We were down a cylinder and to be on the safe side, we decided to change it. We don’t really know what the problem is, so we wanted to go out and qualify so we could pick a good pit. They pick pits by your qualifying time, so hopefully we can get a good pit stall. We have a good truck for the race. Our corner speeds are very good, we were just way down on straightaway speeds.” (2:53 pm ET)

Carlos Contreras, #43 Hot Wheels Dodge: “I couldn’t get in the throttle like I needed too. We had the same problem in practice. It was hard to find the setup for qualifying, but we have a good race setup. We’ll be okay.” (2:49 pm ET)

Robert Pressley, #18 BHR Dodge: “We never made a qualifying run in practice. We have been working on race setups all morning. I think we will be good for the race. This is one of my favorite tracks.” (2:47 pm ET)

Dennis Setzer will qualify the #66 Carter Racing Ford for the New England 300. He will give way to Geoffrey Bodine for the race. Geoffrey is qualifying the #26 for his brother Todd, who is pursuing his Busch commitments. (2:40 pm ET)

Travis Kvapil qualified 14^th, but he will start the New England 200 from the rear. Rick Ren and the CAT Rental Store team are busy changing engines between qualifying and Happy (Half) Hour. (2:37 pm ET) UPDATE: The decision to change engines was made before qualifying. The team has been very unhappy with the engine’s performance, and have struggled to crack into the top-20 all day. (2:43 pm ET)

Emerson Newton-John did not make a qualifying run, still working on the engine change from practice. (2:36 pm ET)

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The #23 of Emerson Newton-John is excused from its allotted spot in qualifying after Phil Bonifield a crew discovered a broken rocker in the engine. The team has replaced it and they are expected to be on line to qualify soon.

Tom Carey, #03 Team EJP Chevrolet: “We’re fast, but we don’t we don’t run the truck every week, so we are trying some things in qualifying to make us go faster. These guys all run every week, so they know these things inside and out. We’re still learning. We have a real good record here, lots of poles and one with in the Busch North car, we are just trying to translate the things we know about this place to the truck.” (1:17 pm ET)

It only took 19 minutes for all 34 trucks to make their way on to the racetrack for practice. All teams were searching for as much track time as possible to get used to the new racing surface. (12:33 pm ET)

Manufacturer breakdown in the top-10:

 Two Fords (Terry Cook, first; Jon Wood, third)

 Four Dodges (Jason Leffler, second; Brian Rose, sixth; Bill Lester, ninth; Brendan Gaughan, tenth)

 Four Chevrolets (David Starr, fourth; Kevin Harvick, fifth; Ken Schrader, seventh; Mike Bliss, eighth) (12:32 pm ET)

David Starr, #75 Spears Motorsports Chevrolet: “What they did is make the apron a racing lane, and what that does is give you a false sense of security. You can go down there if you need to, but you really still race in the same groove that you did before.” (11:41 pm ET)

Terry Cook, #29 Power Stroke Diesel Ford: “The truck has been very fast off the trailer. It is just awesome. I have really enjoyed this trip to New Hampshire. The new pavement is holding up great, and it has really widened the groove out. This place is similar to Milwaukee in that it is a flat one-mile oval, and we ran real well at Milwaukee!” (11:27 am ET)

Three of the top contenders here at NHIS have had unscheduled meetings with the concrete walls so far this morning, but none of the incidents were enough to bring out a red flag, or even cause any significant damage. David Starr was on a flyer late in practice when the truck jumped loose on him coming out of turn 2. He dinged the right rear a bit, and the Spears crew has already covered the damage with 200-mph tape. Robert Pressley also shows a “New Hampshire Stripe” on the right side of his machine. The team will repair the crush panels between practice and qualifying. Teammate Brian Rose has also played tag with the fence, again, damaging the right rear corner of the truck. The team says the damage is purely cosmetic. (11:33 am ET)

Top-10 speeds with just minutes remaining in the morning practice session for the New England 200:

 Terry Cook, 129.134

 Jason Leffler, 128.489

 Jon Wood, 127.351

 David Starr, 127.270

 Kevin Harvick, 127.265

 Ken Schrader, 126.956

 Mike Bliss, 126.956

 Brendan Gaughan, 126.627

 Brian Rose, 126.257

 Ted Musgrave, 126.220 (11:09 am ET)

Another appearance by the famous Frenchman, Pierre Debris, has stopped practice. Track workers have cleaned the speedway, and the Trucks are back in action. (11:00 am ET)

Teri McDonald-Cadieux has been approved to make a qualifying run here this weekend. (10:42 am ET)

Another top-20 update with 45 minutes remaining in practice:

 Cook, Leffler, Harvick, Schrader, Bliss

 Rose, Wood, Crawford, Starr, Musgrave

 Pressley, Crafton, Norick, Gaughan, Carey

 Lester, Bickle, Kvapil, Shepherd, Contreras (10:41 am ET)

Several drivers involved in the NCTS were at NHIS for the inaugural Busch Series race here in 1990. The best finisher of the group was Morgan Shepherd, who finished 4^th. Bobby Dotter was 9^th, and Robert Pressley was 29^th. Team owner Bobby Hamilton was 38^th. Other NCTS alumni in the huge 46-car field: Jack Sprague (21^st), Steve Grissom (23^rd), and Dave Rezendes (44^th). The race was won by Tommy Ellis. (10:38 am ET)

Morgan Shepherd will join Ken Schrader and Kevin Harvick as the third driver to compete in both the New England 200 Craftsman Truck Series event and the New England 300 Winston Cup Series event. Shepherd will once again team up with Ware Racing to pilot the #51 Quality Metric / AmIHealthy.com / OOIDA Dodge Ram. This is the second event of the season that Shepherd has ran for Rick Ware. In Kansas, Shepherd drove the #81 Ware Enterprises Dodge.

A couple of drivers and teams have found the going rough in the first hour of practice. Dennis Setzer is languishing in 31^st on the speed chart, while Travis Kvapil has fallen out of the top-20, back to 21^st on the sheet. (10:20 am ET)

Michael Dokken is splitting duties in the #72 and #93 in practice, shaking down both trucks. Teri McDonald-Cadieux has spent much of the morning session in the #93 and will attempt to make her second NCTS start if she is approved by NASCAR to make a qualifying attempt. If she is not approved, Dokken will likely take the reigns of the Troxell Racing Chevy. (10:17 am ET)

An updated top-20 after one hour of practice:

 Cook, Leffler, Schrader, Bliss, Rose

 Wood, Harvick, Pressley, Starr, Musgrave

 Carey, Bickle, Norick, Crafton, Shepherd

 Gaughan, Gibbs, Lester, McDonald/Dokken, Kvapil (10:12 am ET)

The $75,800 he earned by winning at Kentucky pushed Mike Bliss over the $2 million mark in career earnings, making him only the fifth driver in series history to eclipse that plateau. (10:05 am ET)

With a schedule tighter than the NCTS garage area, teams will be limited to only 30 minutes of final practice following Bud Pole Qualifying for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Teams do have 2 hours and 15 minutes available in morning practice. (9:57 am ET)

For the first time in NCTS history at NHIS, there are no previous winners of the event entered. (9:48 am ET) UPDATE: This is incorrect! Dennis Setzer won at NHIS in 1999. My apologies for the error. (12:28 pm ET)

After 45 minutes of the morning’s practice session, the top-20 are:

 Cook, Leffler, Schrader, Rose, Harvick

 Wood, Bliss, Starr, Crafton, Bickle

 Norick, Musgrave, Gaughan, Shepherd, Pressley

 Lester, Kvapil, Portenga, Crawford, Contreras (9:47 am ET)

Bobby Dotter brings the People Against Drugs Chevrolet back to one of the speedways that has given him the most success throughout his Busch Series career. Dotter finished ninth in the inaugural NASCAR event here in 1990, and had back-to-back top-3 finishes in 1993 and 1994. (9:46 am ET)

There are many drivers and team members that are all smiles in the garage area this morning as the rumors surrounding the once-cloudy future of the Truck Series television package have apparently come to an end. While no formal announcement has been made, TruckSeries.com has learned that ESPN will once again be the home for the Tough Trucks of NASCAR in 2003, with a renewed focus on promoting the series from all parties involved, NASCAR, ESPN, and Craftsman. Rumors had the Truck Series changing television partners, leaving many series sponsors and team sponsors scrambling. (9:41 am ET)

Usually, teams use a brightly colored arrow to point to the jack post on the side of the truck, denoting where the jack man should place the jack to get the truck in the air on pit stops. To keep with the theme of the truck’s name, K-Automotive has placed a decal of Droopy Dog at their jack posts of the Power Stroke Diesel Ford. The cartoon character is a favorite of Terry Cook, who likes to keep the word “dog” in all of his trucks’ names. Droopy Dog is so named because it is a drop snout truck. (9:33 am ET)

Rick Ware Racing Enterprises has signed a couple of one-race sponsors for this event. amIhealthy.com has signed to be the primary sponsor of Lance Hooper’s #5, while Quality Metric has come on board Ware’s #51, this week piloted by Morgan Shepherd. (9:28 pm ET)

Is it time to get Physical? We’ll see as the weekend progresses. Emerson Newton-John, nephew of 1980’s music sensation and Grease co-star Olivia Newton-John, is entered in the New England 200, his first ever NCTS start. He has one ARCA start under his belt, last fall’s race at Atlanta. He is in Phil Bonifield’s #23 Chevy this weekend. (9:18 am ET)

Two NCTS drivers participated in the Concord Race Fest in the Granite State’s capital city. Travis Kvapil and Brendan Gaughan both signed autographs for two hours for the throngs of fans that turned out. (9:17 am ET) 

Practice started promptly at 9:00 am ET. First out this morning was Ken Schrader in his own Federated Auto Parts Chevy. The first red flag of the day’s activities has waved for debris in turns one and two. (9:15 am ET)