Category: RC Truck Series

After suffering a speeding penalty early in the race, Kyle Busch would work his way through lap traffic to take the victory in the UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday night.

 

Early caution for 45 spinning

Restart lap 9

Lap 15 Elliott leads Peters Crafton Blaney Dillon

Lap 66 Peters leads KyBusch Elliott as they go through lap traffic

Caution lap 70 Brandon Jones spins around. Leaders hit pit road. Busch and Seig were too fast. Peters leads Keselowski Blaney Crafton Elliott

Restart lap 78 Peters pulls ahead off of turn two ahead of Keselowski and Crafton

Lap 79 Blaney moves into third on Crafton

Caution lap 80 Townley spins around

Restart lap 90. Peters takes the lead

Lap 99 Bubba Wallace on pit road with problems. Something electrical.

Lap 100 Peters leads Keselowski Blaney Hornaday Crafton

99 to go Blaney passes Keselowski for second

63 to go Blaney catches Peters for the lead

62 to go Blaney gets to the outside of Peters; Peters slides up a little and Blaney gets into the wall. Keselowski passes Blaney for second.

59 to go Peters leads Keselowski Blaney Crafton Hornaday

40 to go Peters leads Keselowski Blaney Crafton Buescher

36 to go Seig is smoking. No caution yet.

34 to go Seig black flag

Caution 27 to go Agnew gets loose and into the inside wall. 9 of the 13 of the lead lap trucks came to pit road. Peters stayed out ahead of Crafton and Quiroga.

14 to go Quiroga’s truck stalls as he rolls quietly on to pit road. Peters leads Crafton Blaney Keselowski Buescher Dillon Hornaday Busch

Restart 13 to go Crafton stalls while running second and bunches up field, Keselowski slows up, Buescher spins Keselowski. Blaney got by Peters on the restart for the lead.

Restart 7 to go Blaney and Busch are side-by-side for the lead

5 to go Busch takes the lead as Blaney slides up the track. Peters up to second.

4 to go Busch leads Peters, Blaney and Sauter and Elliott

Final Lap Peters and Busch battle for the win

Kyle Busch takes the win. Peters. Blaney. Sauter. Elliott. Dillon. Buescher. Hornaday. Keselowski. Crafton. Coulter. Burton.

Austin Dillon won the Inaugural Mudsummer Classic for his fifth victory in 53 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races. Kyle Larson, Ryan Newman, Joey Coulter and Brendan Gaughan rounded out the top five.

“It’s amazing,” Dillon said in victory lane. “I love this dirt racing. It’s so much fun. I want to thank Tony Stewart and NASCAR for coming here and my grandpa and American Ethenol for the opportunity. This is real racing right here – that’s all I have to say. Thanks to everybody back at RCR and ECR Engines.”

 

Heat Races:

Kenny Schrader led the field to the first heat and led all 8 laps for the victory. He will start in the pole in the feature race. Jared Landers started on the pole in the second heat and was getting a ton of pressure from Darrell Wallace Jr. Wallace Jr tried to get the middle to work but could not and spun with 3 laps to go and the caution came out. The green came back out and Matt Crafton went to the very bottom of the track and battled Landers for the win in the heat. Landers got him with a lap to go and took the win. Timothy Peters led the field to the green flag on heat 3 and pulled away from the field to win the heat. Larson beat Jason Bowles for the spot to be locked in for the feature in a great back and forth battle. The 4th heat was won by Kenny “Herminator” Wallace when he led the field to the green and was in the top spot for all 8 laps. The 5th and final heat race was won by Jeb Burton with  Newman finishing second and clinching his spot in the feature. There was a last chance race where 10 drivers completed and only 5 of them made the feature race. Before the green flag, The truck did a 4 wide salute like the sprint cars and other do at dirt tracks.

 

Main Feature

Schrader led the 30 trucks to the green flag at the PACKED Eldora speedway. Peters, who had barely any experience with dirt at all, was battling with Dave Blaney and Schrader for the lead on lap 13 but could not get it done. He used a slide job on Schrader on lap 14 and took the lead while Schrader fell to 3rd. Larson got to 13th to 5th in about 20 laps and took the lead on lap 38 and never looked back. He lapped 10 cars until the first segment ended or else he would have lapped the whole field!

Larson led the field to segment 2 and they were 4 wide behind him! Larson pulled away from the field but got caught up to lap traffic and Dillon caught up to him. He got caught up with the #77 and Dillon got past him. Larson said not so fast my friend and tried to get the lead back but the caution waved for debris on lap 92. They went back to green on lap 97 and Newman went three wide to take 2nd. Larson was gaining on him and over took the #34 truck on lap 102. Larson was about to take the lead over Dillon but the caution came out for the end of the second segment.

We went back to green with 40 laps to go in segment 3. Dillon led easily to the green flag while Blaney and Larson battled Blaney for second but then the caution came out for the #6 of Landers getting together with the #3 of Ty Dillon and the #98 of Johnny Sauter.

We went back to racing with 5 laps to go but that did not last long as the caution waved with 2 to go for debris coming from the truck of Larson. They tried it again and Dillon pulled away while Larson barely got passed Newman for second.

Matt Crafton leads the point standings by 48 points over Jeb Burton.

Austin Dillon would get by Kyle Larson while in lap traffic to take the win in the Mud Summer Classic at Eldora Speedway.

 

Lap 1 Schrader leads Landers

Lap 4 Schrader leads Landers, K Wallace, Peters, D Blaney

Lap 11 Schrader leads Peters D Blaney Landers K Wallace

Lap 14 J Burton passes K Wallace

Lap 15 Peters makes the slide job to get the lead from Schrader; K Wallace gets back by Burton

Lap 16 D Blaney passes Schrader for second; Larson gets by K Wallace for fifth

Lap 18 Peters leads D Blaney Schrader Landers Larson

Lap 19 Larson does the slidejob on Landers for fourth

Lap 20 Peters leads D Blaney Schrader Larson Landers

Lap 21 Larson passes Schrader for third

Lap 24 Dave Blaney has closed the gap between himself and Peters…..Larson, Landers, Schrader

Lap 33 Peters leads D Blaney Larson Landers Newman A Dillon

Lap 35 Larson passes D Blaney for second as they and Peters are trapped behind the lap truck of Scott Bloomquist

Lap 36 Larson tries to grab the lead from Peters, but isn’t able to

Lap 37 Larson looks underneath Peters for the lead down the front stretch though Peters is able to hold on to the lead

Lap 38 Larson passes Peters on the outside as Peters was looking for a way to lap Norm Benning

Lap 41 Larson leads Peters D Blaney Landers Newman A Dillon

Lap 50 Larson leads D Blaney Peters Landers Newman

Lap 51 A Dillon passes Newman for fifth

Caution lap 54 for debris. A Dillon knocks a piece off of Bloomquist’s truck trying to get by him. Gresham gets the lucky dog. Caution runs to end of the first segment and teams hit pit road for tires

Restart lap 61 Larson leads ahead of D Blaney

Lap 64 Larson leads Blaney A Dillon Newman Peters Gaughan. The 84 is off the pace and smoking.

Lap 87 Larson leads A Dillon D Blaney Newman Peters. A Dillon got by D Blaney when he got hung up trying to get by the lapped truck of Newberry.

Lap 89 Larson gets stuck in lap traffic behind German Quiroga, A Dillon grabs the lead

Lap 80 As Larson tries to grab the lead back from A Dillon, debris caution flies. Gresham gets the free pass.

Restart lap 97 A Dillon grabs the lead ahead of Larson…..Newman grabs second bumping Larson back to third

Lap 99 A Dillon leads Newman Larson D Blaney Gaughan

Lap 100 Larson and Newman side-by-side for second. Larson gets by Newman off of turn two.

Lap 105 Larson has caught A Dillon for the lead

Caution lap 111 end of segment 2

Restart start of segment 3

39 laps to go A Dillon leads ahead of Larson and D Blaney. Blaney bounced off the wall after contact with Larson

Caution 38 to go Landers spins, collecting Ty Dillon, Dakoda Armstrong, Jeb Burton and Johnny Sauter

Restart 26 laps to go A Dillon leads ahead of Newman as Larson falls back due to missing a gear on the restart

23 laps to go A Dillon leads Newman Larson Peters Schrader Coulter

16 to go Coulter passes Schrader for fifth

15 to go Dave Blaney passes Schrader for sixth

11 laps to go caution for debris

Restart 66 to go Austin Dillon gets away as Larson and R Newman are side-by-side for second

4 to go Larson clears Newman for second as Newman battles with Coulter for third. Coulter grabs third from Newman

Caution 3 to go debris on the front stretch out of turn four

Green-White-Checkered

Dillon pulls ahead again as Newman and Larson are side-by-side for second

White flag – Larson grabs second from Newman

Austin Dillon wins! Larson. Newman. Coulter. Gaughan. Peters, Wallace Jr.,

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is going back to it’s roots by returning to the dirt on a Wednesday night. Though NASCAR history was also made when Ken Schrader scored the pole for the Mid Summer Classic, becoming the oldest NASCAR pole sitter at the age of 58.

Dirt racer Jared Landers qualified second in his first truck start, followed by Timothy Peters, Kenny Wallace and Jeb Burton.

Usually NASCAR would line the trucks up for the main event based on the qualifying results. However, things were changed. NASCAR went with a dirt track format with five heat races that took three locked in drivers and one non-locked in driver per race, followed by a last chance qualifier that took the top five.

As a result, Ken Schrader would start on pole in the first heat and led all eight laps to take the victory. He’ll start pole come tonight’s A-Main.

Jared Landers would start on pole in the second heat and lead seven of the eight laps after being challenged by series regulars Darrell Wallace Jr. and Matt Crafton. Darrell Wallace Jr. pressured Landers for the lead, though spun with three laps to go; Wallace Jr. would get back to fourth. After the restart for Wallace’s spin, it was Crafton was pressuring Landers and using the very bottom of the track, however he would come up short and finish second.

Timothy Peters would lead all the laps in the third heat.

In the fourth heat, Kenny Wallace led the field to green and like those before, led all of the laps.

The last chance qualifier saw Brennan Newberry pick up the win. However, behind Newberry, the excitement was on in a battle for fifth between Norm Benning, Jimmy Weller III and Clay Greenfield. The three of them bumped and banged for the second half of the event with Benning bouncing off the wall coming to the line grabbing the final spot.

“I’ve been looking forward to this race since the day they announced it!” Benning said.

Known as the underdog story, Benning is a series regular, however is not known for running upfront as he typically runs near the back of the pack with his unsponsored No. 57 truck.

“This could be the start of something good…” Ty Dillon said on the radio as he crossed the finish line.

With 26 laps to go, Ty Dillon would pass Kyle Busch to take the lead and never looked back, taking the victory in the UNOH 225 at Kentucky Speedway.

“First things first, I got to thank the Lord,” the driver of the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet said in victory lane. “I was praying on the last restart. Got to thank him first. This couldn’t be a better day. So proud of Marcus Richmond and all of these guys.”

It marks second victory of Dillon’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career, the first of this season.

“We got a strong team,” the 21-year-old added. “We won’t give up. We’re going to put our superman cape from here on out.”

After battling hard with a really loose truck mid-race, Brad Keselowski would come back to finish second.

Busch would finish third after struggling with a loose truck late in the race.

“I was loose before the stop,” he commented. “We tried to tighten it up but it was loose. It seemed like clock work in the test – 9 o’ clock comes and it gets loose. Can’t believe we messed it up that bad.”

James Buescher would finish fourth while Ryan Blaney had to settle for fifth.

With 32 laps to go, Blaney was side-by-side with Busch for the lead, though would make contact with the outside wall.

“I was really excited about the run we were having – everybody did a good job at getting this truck better as the race went on,” he said. “I was running the bottom really good and I knew it was only a matter of time before I caught Busch. I went to the outside, he got loose, got up into me and put me in the wall. It just damaged the outside of the truck too much.”

“I got out of the throttle, turned it all the way to the left, but it kept taking the air off my spoiler and sliding up,” Busch commented on the contact.

Timothy Peters would finish sixth, followed by Miguel Paludo, German Quiroga, Jeb Burton and Matt Crafton. Crafton leads the points, still, 22 points ahead of Burton.

Joey Coulter was battling for eighth on the last lap when his truck got loose, causing him to make contact with the outside wall. As a result, Coulter finished 16th.

Darrell Wallace Jr. dominated the first half of the race, though would get loose on lap 86 while underneath Blaney and spin around, making contact with the outside wall.

“Just came around,” he said. “Just barely had room there. I mean, I’m not pissed off of Ryan. We’re good friends. Just frustrated. Haven’t been able to figure out these trucks yet. It seems everytime I get behind someone, I get really loose.”

Ty Dillon would pass Kyle Busch late in the race to pick up his first victory of the season at Kentucky Speedway.

 

Lap 1 Blaney and Wallace are side-by-side in turns one and two, Blaney takes the lead into turn three

Lap 3 Blaney leads Wallace Townley KyBusch Gaughan Crafton Coulter Peters Quiroga Paludo…..Townley passes Wallace off of turn four

Lap 4 Busch passes Wallace for third off of turn two

Lap 6 Peters by Coulter for seventh

Lap 16 Blaney leads Townley Busch Wallace Peters Gaughan Crafton Keselowski Quiroga Coulter

Lap 25 Busch passes Townley for second

Caution lap 26 Brendan Gaughan with smoke pouring out the back. Leaders head down pit road for tires and fuel. Wallace leads Keselowski Crafton Blaney Busch off pit road

Restart lap 31 three-wide between Wallace, Keselowski and Crafton for the lead. Crafton takes the lead off of turn two. Brennan Newberry has a breakage on the restart to bring the caution back out.

Restart lap 36 Wallace grabs the lead as Blaney uses a three-wide move to move up to second

Lap 39 Wallace leads Blaney Busch Keselowski Dillon Crafton Buescher Peters Townley Paludo…..Dllion passes Keselowski for fourth

Lap 40 Crafton and Buescher pass Keselowski…….Peters and Townley also pass Keselowski

Caution lap 41 Max Gresham goes around and hits the outside turn two wall.

Restart lap 46 Wallace grabs the lead as Blaney gets sideways, drops back some spots but saves it

Lap 55 Wallace leads Busch Dillon Buescher Crafton Blaney Peters Townley Burton Coulter

Lap 67 Wallace leads Busch Dillon Buescher Crafton Blaney Peters Townley Burton Coulter

Lap 69 Keselowski passes Coulter for 10^th

Lap 70 Wallace and Busch battle side-by-side through lap traffic

Lap 71 Keselowski passes Burton for ninth

Caution Lap 80 Townley gets sideways, makes a great save – but still there was a caution. Leaders head down pit road. Busch leads Keselowski

Restart lap 85 as Busch grabs the lead

Caution lap 86 Darrell Wallace Jr. gets loose well underneath Blaney and goes around and backs into the wall

Restart lap 90 Busch pulls ahead of the field once again

43 to go Busch leads Blaney Peters Buescher Dillon Crafton Paludo Buton Gale Townley……caution as Bryan Silas spins. Busch leads the race off of pit road.

Restart 38 to go Busch and Blaney side-by-side into turn one. Busch grabs the lead off of turn four

37 to go Busch leads Blaney Dillon Keselowski…….Keselowski slid up as Dillon tried to take a little extra room

35 to go Busch leads Blaney Dillon Keselowski Buescher Peters Paludo Quiroga Burton Coulter

32 to go Blaney gets into the outside wall as Busch slides up, defending the lead. Dillon moves into second behind Busch

29 to go Busch leads Dillon Keselowski Buescher Blaney Peters Paludo Quiroga Burton Coulter

26 to go Dillon passes Busch for the lead off of turn four

18 to go Dillon leads Busch Keselowski Buescher Blaney

17 to go Keselowski drives in the corner hard, gets loose, saves it and keeps it out of the wall. Dillon leads Busch and Keselowski

13 to go Keselowski passes Busch for second

12 to go Dillon leads Keselowski Busch Buescher Blaney Peters Paludo Quiroga Coulter Burton

Final lap. Joey Coulter spins and hits the outside turn four wall, no caution. Coulter was inside of Quiroga, got loose and up into the wall. Dillon wins ahead of Keselowski, Ky Busch, Buescher, Blaney, Peters, Paludo, Quiroga

After taking the lead on a restart with 24 laps to go, Jeb Burton would hold on to lead the final laps and beat Ty Dillon to the line to win the WinStar World Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. It’s the marks the victory of the 20-year-olds career.

“It’s freaking awesome,” he said in victory lane. “I’m just a little old country boy from South Boston living a dream. Just have an awesome team behind me. These guys right here, damn, that’s the best team I have ever had the privilege to drive for.”

Burton has been strong so far this season, though has come up short each weekend – till now.

“It’s huge,” Burton continued. “I’ve been telling everybody that once we get one, they’re going to start stacking up. I’m ready for Kentucky in a couple weeks. It’s been a lot of blood and tears to get here so it means a lot.”

Burton is the son of 2002 Daytona 500 winner Ward Burton, who said this is the biggest day he has ever experienced in racing.

“We got so many people to think,” Ward Burton said. “Can’t say enough about them all. Steve Turner and Harry Scott – they’re providing awesome resources for my son. Mike Hilman Jr. is guiding him, helping him. The Burton family is really lucky.”

Ward Burton was up on the spotter stand for the race and noted that he wished he had a parachute to get to victory lane quicker.

For crew chief Mile Hilman Jr., it marks his first win with Turner-Scott Motorsports and first win with a driver other than Todd Bodine. Hilman Jr. scored his 19 previous wins with Bodine.

“Everybody works hard at Turner-Scott Motorsports day in and day out,” Hilman Jr. said. “It’s nice to get them back to victory lane where they belong.”

Ty Dillon would lead much of the race at Texas, though fell up short as he finished second.

“One more lap, one more turn is all I needed,” Dillon said afterwards. “We shouldn’t had that at the end. We were the dominant truck and should have had it. We’re going to win a lot of races this year. I wanted to win this race at Texas – I’m a little heartbroken.

“I just didn’t have the help on the restart. Crafton was shoving the 4 (Burton) on the restart and they just went by on the backstretch.”

NASCAR Mexico Series Champion German Quiroga would score his best career truck finish with a third.

“I want to thank the whole team, Red Horse Racing,” Quiroga said. “The truck was great. I knew we were fast. We just need to work on pit tragedy; I just need to get better. I’m very proud of the team and everybody in the shop.”

Running up front, Quiroga noted that he earned respect and had fun racing Crafton in the final laps.

“He was giving me room,” Quiroga noted. “I want to thank him for that. it was good for us. They had a lot of respect and I appreciate that.”

Crafton would finish fourth to keep the points lead, now 23 points ahead of Burton.

“We just missed it a little bit,” Crafton commented. “We just didn’t have the speed on the short run – we were just decent. But man those guys would just drive away on the restart. We finished top five. Definitely not what we wanted, disappointed a little bit with it.”

Brendan Gaughan would round out the top five in fifth after leading the middle portion of the event.

“The track freed up too much in the end and we just didn’t adjust enough to it,” Gaughan noted. “I got behind our teammate, trying to give him a push and lost the nose and Buescher got a run there and took advantage.”

Darrell Wallace Jr. finished sixth, followed by pole sitter Johnny Sauter, Ryan Blaney, James Buescher and Miguel Paludo.

Besides Wallace’s top 10 finish, the Kyle Busch Motorsports truck would find trouble in Texas.

Making his first start for KBM, ARCA standout Chad Hackenbracht would wreck on the backstretch on lap 42 after getting loose while trying to split Jennifer Jo Cobb and Ty Dillon.

“Not what I wanted,” Hackenbracht tweeted. “The @KBMteam guys worked way too hard for that. Waited too late to get around the lapper.”

Then 12 laps later, his teammate Joey Coulter would spin in the corner and back the truck into the wall.

“I was doing good, pointed in the right direction and then suddenly pointed in the wrong direction,” Coulter said. “Can’t tell whether a shock or not. It just happened so quick. I heard something break and it just came around and that was it.

“I hate it for these 18 guys. We had a really good truck and thought we could work our way through there. We’ll get it back together and go and get some points and win the championship at the end of the year.”

There would only be three cautions during the event with the third caution coming on lap 138 when Brad Keselowski Racing driver Ross Chastain got into the wall.

The trucks will have most of the month off before heading to Kentucky Speedway on June 27^th.

After grabbing the lead on a late race restart, Jeb Burton would hold Ty Dillon off for his first ever Camping World Truck Series victory.

 

Green flag. Johnny Sauter pulls ahead of Ty Dillon into turn one.

Lap 3 Sauter leads Dillon Blaney Burton Paludo Gaughan Peters Crafton Chastain Quiroga

Lap 5 Paludo passes Burton; Chastain passes Crafton

Lap 6 Gaughan passes Burton

Lap 10 Sauter leads Dillon Blaney Paludo Gaughan Burton Peters Chastain Crafton Quiroga

Lap 12 Dillon takes the lead from Sauter for the lead after some slight contact

Lap 13 Blaney passes Sauter for second

Lap 15 Gaughan passes Sauter for third

Lap 25 Dillon leads Blaney Gaughan Sauter Paludo Burton Chastain Peters Crafton Coulter

Lap 31 Quiroga passes Coulter back for 10^th

Lap 37 Gaughan tries to make a pass on Blaney for second, but gets really sideways

Lap 39 Dillon leads Blaney Gaughan Sauter Paludo Burton Chastan Peters Quiroga Crafton

Lap 40 Gaughan passes Blaney for second

Caution Lap 42 Chad Hackenbracht wrecks on the backstretch. Tried to split Cobb and Dillon and gets loose and gets into the outside wall, followed by the inside wall. Blaney stalled on pit road. Ty Dillon wins the race off of pit road.

Restart lap 49 Dillon and Gaughan are side-by-side for the lead

Lap 51 Dillon clears Gaughan for the lead

Caution lap 54 Joey Coulter spins suddenly in the corner and backs into the wall. “It just freaking came around.” He added it felt like an axle broke or shock broke.

Restart lap 59 Gaughan Dillon are side-by-side for the lead

Lap 60 Dillon grabs the lead once again as Gaughan and Crafton are side-by-side for second

Lap 62 Dillon leads Gaughan Crafton Burton Hornaday Quiroga Buescher Sauter Paludo Peters

Lap 65 Hornaday passes Burton; Buescher passes Quiroga

Lap 67 Paludo passe Sauter

Lap 79 Dillon leads Gaughan Crafton Burton Buescher Hornaday Quiroga Paludo Sauter Peters…..Gaughan passes Dillon for the lead in turns three and four

Lap 91 Peters pits

Lap 95 Townley pits

Lap 97 Gaughan leads Dillon Burton Crafton Quiroga Buescher Hornaday Paludo Chastain Sauter

Lap 98 Dillon pits out of second

Lap 99 Gaughan pits from the lead, handing the lead to Burton. Wallace Jr. and Crafton also pit.

Lap 101 Burton and Buescher pit.

Lap 102 Sauter and Hornaday pit

Lap 103 Paludo pits

Lap 104 Blaney pits

Lap 106 David Starr to the lead as he can stay out there a little longer.

Lap 114 Starr pits, handing the lead back to Brendan Gaughan. Peters pits unscheduled with a tire going flat.

50 to go Gaughan leads Dillon Crafton Burton Quiroga Buescher Paludo Wallace Chastain Sauter

46 to go Burton passes Crafton for third

39 to go Gaughan leads Dillon Burton Crafton Quiroga Buescher Paludo Wallace Chastain Sauter

34 to go Dillon passes Gaughan for the lead down the backstretch

Lap 138 Caution as Chastain gets into the wall. Leaders head down pit road. Dillon leads Burton Crafton Gaughan Quiroga Buescher off pit road.

Restart 24 to go Burton pulls ahead of Dillon on the restart off of turn two

23 to go Burton leads Crafton Dilllon Wallace Buescher Quiroga Gaughan Hornaday Sauter Paludo

22 to go Quiroga and Gaughan pass Buescher

21 to go Gaughan passes Quiroga

19 to go Burton leads Crafton Dillon Wallace Gaughan Quiroga Hornaday Buescher Sauter Blaney….Gaughan passes Wallace for fourth

18 to go Dillon passes Crafton for second; Quiroga passes Wallace

17 to go Qurigoa passes Gaughan

16 to go Burton leads Dillon Crafton Quiroga Gaughan Wallace Hornaday Sauter Blaney Buescher

9 to go Sauter passes Hornaday

8 to go Blaney passes Hornaday

6 to go Buescher passes Hornaday

Jeb Burton wins his first race! Dillon Quiroga Crafton Gaughan Wallace Sauter Blaney Buescher Paludo