The Circle Bar/International Truck and Engine team will utilize chassis CB-17 this weekend at Iowa Speedway. Chassis CB-17 has visited victory lane on two separate occasions: at ORP in 2006 and at Loudon in 2005. It last saw action at ORP at Indianapolis in late July, where Crawford finished 11th. It has also been raced earlier this year at Memphis Motorsports Park (11th), The Milwaukee Mile (12th) and Martinsville Speedway (5th).
Rick Crawford and his uncle, Charles "Buddy" Bielarski, will make a special visit to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Iowa, on Thursday, September 3. Crawford and his uncle recently completed restoration on a historic Southern Supermodified, R1, and it will be delivered for display at the HoF on Thursday evening during special reception that is open to the public from 6 pm - 9 pm.
Circle Bar Racing is proud to display the Idealease logo on the rear quarterpanels of its Nos. 10 and 14 Ford F-150s this weekend at Iowa Speedway. Idealease, which has served the truck leasing and rental industry since 1982, offers truck leasing, contract maintenance and truck rentals. With over 400 locations in the USA, Canada and Mexico, Idealease is one of North America's largest full-service transportation companies and uses International equipment as part of its fleet operation.
With his fourth-place finish last weekend at Chicagoland Speedway, Crawford advanced one position to move into ninth place in the driver point standings and is 103 points out of the top five and 542 points out of the lead.
In 313 career Camping World Truck Series starts, Crawford has posted 154 top-10 finishes - a mark of 49.2%.
In his truck series career, Crawford has been running at the finish of 283 races, the most of any driver in the series and a mark of 90.4%.
Crawford has logged over 54,000 miles in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competition, the most of any driver in series history.
Crawford will make his 314th start - extending a Series record - this weekend at Iowa Speedway. Crawford's impressive string of race starts began at the Walt Disney World Speedway on January 19, 1997.
Crawford's Thoughts on Iowa:
"With last week's fourth-place finish at Chicagoland Speedway - in the backyard of our sponsors International and Navistar - we have established some positive momentum going into this weekend's inaugural race at Iowa Speedway. I've heard great things about the facility that Rusty Wallace helped build and look forward to visiting Iowa for the first time this weekend. Actually, this is the first time that I'm going to a track where I have less track time than my rookie teammate James Buescher, but with the day of testing on Friday, I think it provides a level playing field for all of the teams.
"We're just looking forward to having another solid run in our International Truck & Engine Ford F-150 and moving up in the points as we enter the final nine races of the season. This is the third of six consecutive weeks of racing for the truck series, and with the top 10 in points being so close, I think whoever can establish themselves best during this stretch is going to put themselves in position for a top-five finish in the final points at the end of the season."
