Ever so quietly, Terry Cook is having himself a career year.
Nearly lost among the strong seasons by past champions Ron Hornaday Jr. and Mike Skinner - not to mention the force Kyle Busch is when he races - the veteran Cook sits sixth in the points.
In his 13 previous seasons, he has never finished higher than seventh in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings.
Cook already has more top-five finishes - three - than he had all of last season. Additionally, his Loop Data statistics rank among the tops in the series.
Cook has a Driver Rating of 89.4 (sixth-best), an Average Running Position of 11.0 (sixth), 14 Fastest Laps Run (ninth) and a Laps in the Top 15 percentage of 81.6% (fifth).
Last Friday night's fifth-place finish at Lowe's Motor Speedway may have been Cook's finest performance of the season. He ran 126 of the 134 laps in the top 15 (94%) and notched a Driver Rating of 101.0, which was his second-best rating of the season. Only at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where he also finished fifth, did Cook have a better Driver Rating - 101.2.
The Lowe's Motor Speedway race was Cook's third Driver Rating over 100.0 - Daytona and Atlanta were the others.
