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Lucas Oil 200
Dover
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Friday, May 13, 2011
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Kroger 250
Martinsville
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Sat. April 2, 2011
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Too Tough to Tame 200
Darlington
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Sat. March 12, 2011
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10-13-2005

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Primer: Martinsville
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ETC. … Three-time series champ Jack Sprague parted ways with his Xpress Motorsports team at the end of last week. The No. 16 Chevy Trucks Silverado will have Bobby Labonte behind the wheel at Martinsville, with a driver for the remainder of the season to be named later. Sprague has moved into the No. 60 Wyler Racing Toyota, replacing Chad Chaffin. … A couple of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers will be racing this weekend at Charlotte - David Reutimann (No. 17 NTN Bearings Toyota) is entered in Saturday's NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race and Todd Bodine (No. 30 Germain Motor Company Toyota) and Johnny Benson (No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota) are entered in Friday's NASCAR Busch Series race. … Dennis Setzer (No. 46 Chevrolet Silverado Chevrolet) finished 11th in the Bailey's 300 late model race at Martinsville. … Terry Cook (No. 10 Power Stroke Diesel Ford) will be in the TV booth this weekend at Mesa Marin Raceway for the NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series and the NASCAR Grand National Division, West Series races.

Did you know?

  • The 2005 season is the 11th for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
  • The series visits 22 different tracks coast-to-coast measuring from .5-mile to 2.5-miles in length.
  • Four former champions - Mike Skinner (1995), Ron Hornaday Jr. (1996, 1998), Jack Sprague (1997, 1999, 2001) and Bobby Hamilton (2004) - will go head-to-head for the first time. All but Sprague (11th) are among the top 10 championship contenders.
  • With Skinner's Aug. 24 win at Bristol Motor Speedway all three of the "original" champions - Skinner, Hornaday and Sprague - have won in 2005. Skinner and Hamilton have two wins.
  • Hornaday is the all-time series win leader with 27 victories.
  • One team owner - Ultra Motorsports' Jim Smith - has competed in all 262 races and has won at least once in all 11 seasons. Smith has 36 wins to share the all-time owner record with Roush Racing.
  • Nearly 60% of the series' 262 races have been decided by one second or less. In 2005, 13 of 18 races have sub, one-second margins of victory. Two others finished under caution.
  • Series attendance is at an all-time high. In 1995, 400,000 attended 20 races. Last year, 1.1 million attended 25 races.
  • The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is the No. 3 motorsports series on cable TV trailing only NASCAR NEXTEL Cup and NASCAR Busch Series.
  • Thirty-two teams have attempted to qualify for the first 20 races, an all-time high.
  • More longtime NASCAR NEXTEL Cup drivers are competing in 2005 including Hamilton, Johnny Benson, Todd Bodine, Ricky Craven, Ted Musgrave, Robert Pressley, Jimmy Spencer and Mike Wallace.
  • The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is one of the most diverse in NASCAR with two female drivers (Deborah Renshaw and Kelly Sutton) and an African-American driver (Bill Lester) competing fulltime. Sutton competes despite a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Lester won back-to-back Bud Poles at Kansas and Kentucky speedways in early July.
  • The series produces future NASCAR stars including Greg Biffle, a five-time NASCAR NEXTEL Cup winner in 2005, Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup champion and Carl Edwards qualified for the Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup.
  • Biffle, the 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck and 2002 NASCAR Busch Series champion, could become the first to win a title in all three of NASCAR's national touring series.
  • "Young guns" in 2005 include Brad Keselowski, 21; Todd Kluever, 26; Chase Montgomery, 21; Timothy Peters, 24; and Brandon Whitt, 22. Whitt and Kyle Busch (20) have combined for three wins this season.
  • There have been 13 different winners in the season's first 20 races. The season record is 14. There were 13 different winners in 2004.
  • The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship has been decided in the final race in nine of the series' first 10 seasons. The current leader is Dennis Setzer who heads Musgrave by five points. This matches the closest points race with five races remaining (1998 -Hornaday over Sprague).
  • With five races remaining on 2005 the schedule, 16 drivers retain a mathematical chance to win the championship based upon each competing in the remaining events.
  • No driver has won a race at Martinsville Speedway in his championship season. Two have finished second: Rich Bickle (1997) and Setzer (2003).
  • Last year's champion Hamilton had finishes of 9th (Kroger 200) and 31st (Kroger 250) in 2004.
  • Setzer, the current point leader, is the only two-time series winner at Martinsville Speedway. He won back-to-back races in 2002-03.
  • Musgrave's best finish at Martinsville Speedway is second in 2003.
  • Musgrave finished seventh in April's Kroger 250. Setzer was 33rd.
  • NASCAR NEXTEL Cup champion Bobby Labonte won April's Kroger 250 to make Bobby and Terry Labonte the first brothers to win races on all three of NASCAR's national touring series.
  • The Kroger 200 is the seventh and final short track event on the schedule. Skinner, with victories at Bristol and Richmond, is the season's only two-time winner.
  • Toyota drivers Skinner and Whitt have captured three of the year's six short track races. Other winners are Setzer (Indianapolis), Hamilton (Mansfield) and Labonte (Martinsville).
  • Former Martinsville Speedway winners expected to compete in the Kroger 200 are Labonte, Setzer, Hamilton, Skinner and Rick Crawford.
  • Skinner will make his 100th series start at Martinsville. He's the 18th driver to reach the century mark.
  • Crawford, Hamilton and Setzer have the most series starts at Martinsville - 11.
  • Sprague replaces Chad Chaffin in the Wyler Racing Toyota beginning at Martinsville. Sprague has driven a Chevrolet in all of his 217 series starts.
  • Raybestos Rookie of the Year contender Timothy Peters won Martinsville's Late Model Stock Car Bailey's 300 on Oct. 9. A rookie has yet to win a series race at the .526-mile track.
  • Three-time NASCAR NEXTEL Cup champion Darrell Waltrip will make his final racing appearance in the Kroger 200. The spring Martinsville round was supposed to mark DW's "swan song" but he failed to make the Kroger 250 field when time trials were canceled by inclement weather. Waltrip's No. 12 Toyota has a guaranteed starting position this week.
  • Current NASCAR NEXTEL Cup drivers competing this week include Labonte, Kyle Busch and Ken Schrader.
  • Setzer holds most of Martinsville Speedway's individual records: wins (2), top five (5), top 10 (7), miles run (1,269.76 of 1,612.19) and money won ($202,680).
  • Rich Bickle led the most laps of any Martinsville winner (204 of 256 in 1997). Joe Ruttman led the fewest (two of 150 in 1995).
  • A Martinsville race has been won from the Bud Pole just once - by Bickle in 1997. This week's Craftsman-sponsored Win from the Pole bonus, uncollected since Memphis on July 23, is $14,000.
  • Six of the last seven Martinsville Speedway races featured a margin of victory of less than a second. The 2003 Kroger 200 finished under caution.
  • Last year's Kroger 200 was the slowest series race of 13 held at Martinsville Speedway. Jamie McMurray averaged 60.819 mph.


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