Category: Truck Series

MOORESVILLE, NC – November 12, 2015   NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie Korbin Forrister will run double-duty this weekend at the Phoenix International Raceway running both the NCWTS Lucas Oil 150 on Friday night and the NASCAR XFINITY Series DAV 200 on Saturday afternoon in the hometown of sponsor Tilted Kilt Pub and Eatery.

Besides running the No. 08 Silverado for SS Green Light Racing on Friday, Forrister will also pilot the No. 15 Camaro for Rick Ware Racing on Saturday making the second XFINITY Series start of his career. “It’s going to be a big week,” the Georgia native said. “It’s going to be a challenge to keep up going between the two garages, but I think it will be fun and the extra seat time should help me in both races.”

Friday’s Lucas Oil 150 will be Forrister’s second NCWTS start at PIR, he finished 15th last fall behind the wheel of the SS Green Light Racing Silverado. “I think Phoenix is a really fun track. There isn’t any other track like it with the dogleg on the backstretch. It’s different because you can run different lines and you can go real low through the backstretch, actually below the yellow line.”

Last year’s Lucas Oil 150 was cut short due to a power outage at the track forcing NASCAR to call the race after 126 of the scheduled 150 laps. “Hopefully the power stay’s on and we can run the full length this year,” joked Forrister. “Right now I just need to avoid the bad luck, run all the laps and continue to improve. I think this week we’ll show that the more racing the better. Maybe some day I can even pull the triple and run all three series.”

Fans can join Korbin and the Tilted Kilt XFINITY series Camaro at the Tilted Kilt Tempe for a pre-race party at 6:30 pm Thursday night. Plus the Kilt Girls will once again join Forrister at the track this weekend during pre-race activities. “Tempe is the home office for Tilted Kilt so we’re looking to have a lot of fun this weekend,” concluded Forrister.

The Lucas Oil 150 is the 357th consecutive NCWTS start for the SS Green Light Racing team, a streak that dates back to 2001. There are 34 trucks on the entry list for the 150-lap, 150-mile race, which will prelude both the Sprint Cup, and Xfinity races this weekend.

Practice for the Lucas Oil 150 will be Thursday, November 12th from 2:30 p.m. to 4:55 p.m. Qualifying will be Friday, November 13th at 10:45 a.m. and the green flag will fly on the Lucas Oil 150 at 6:30 p.m. Mountain time. Both qualifying and the Lucas Oil 150 will be shown live on FOX Sports 1 and will also be broadcast via the Motor Racing Network and on SIRIUSXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

About Tilted Kilt

Tilted Kilt, known as “The Best Looking Sports Pub You’ve Ever Seen,” has over 100 units in operation throughout the U.S. and Canada, with additional 20 Pubs in various stages of development. Tilted Kilt is uniquely different than other sports bars because of its theme that combines Celtic décor, humorous and slightly bawdy limericks and sexy cast members with great food, drinks and a fun, entertaining atmosphere. In 2015, Tilted Kilt was named one of America’s Top 10 Fastest Growing Restaurants by CNBC. The original restaurant concept was developed in the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas in 2003. For more information, go to www.tiltedkilt.com.

For more information about SS Green Light Racing visit www.SSRacingonline.com or email pr@ssracingonline.com.

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BOBBY PIERCE, PIXOGRAPHS IN MB MOTORSPORTS’ #36 CHEVY AT PIR

Driver: Bobby Pierce
Crew Chief: Rick Ren
Twitter: @MBMotorsports, @BobbyPierce32

Bobby Pierce and MB Motorsports look to further the young dirt tracker’s asphalt experience as he makes his first start at Phoenix International Raceway in the Lucas Oil 150 in the #36
Pixographs Chevy Silverado.

“Bobby did a tremendous job at Martinsville,” says team owner Mike Mittler.  “How he maneuvered the truck through some of those wrecks was unbelievable.  I think Phoenix is an ideal track
for Bobby, so we’re very excited for Friday night’s race.”

“As I said before, Pixographs can’t get enough of MB Motorsports and Bobby Pierce!” exclaims RPM Services, LLC CEO Mike Kamp.  “After the response we received after Martinsville, I can think of no better way to promote our Pixographs app than with Bobby and MB Motorsports. The exposure at Martinsville really drove race fans to pixographs.com.”

Pixographs is an amazing new app for iPhones and iPads that will change the way the world looks at photos!  Imagine you’re at the racetrack and see your favorite driver. You could ask for
their autograph or maybe ask to take a selfie photo with them, but now you can do both! Simply take the photo the same way you normally would, but then open your Pixographs app, choose the color of the “ink” you want and have the celebrity sign the photo with their finger!  Pixographs can be purchased from the app store at iTunes for just 99¢.

Also supporting Pierce at Phoenix International Raceway are Obie’s Artic Chili, Chief City Vapors, Allgayer, Dale Moore and Blue Gold.  Rick Ren will once again be serving as crew chief on
the #36 Pixographs Chevy.

“I learned a lot at Martinsville,” says Pierce.  “I’m hoping I can apply some of what I learned there to Phoenix. This is a learning experience for me, but at the same time, though, the
racer in me wants to bring home as strong a finish as we can.  With the help of Rick and the crew, I think we can have a good run for the Pixographs Chevy at Phoenix.”

The Lucas Oil 150 will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1, MRN Radio and Sirius Channel 90 Friday November 12 at 8:30 pm ET.  Practice will be broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Thursday the 11th at 4:30 pm ET with Qualifying to be broadcast live on Friday at 12:30pm ET on Fox Sports 1.

FAST FACTS:
• The Lucas Oil 150 will mark Bobby Pierce’s second series start on asphalt, third series start overall.
• Bobby scored the pole, a heat race victory and a second place finish in the MudSummer Classic at Eldora Speedway.
• The bed cover of Bobby’s #63 Chevy Silverado will feature the logos of his “Junior Associate” sponsors for the Lucas Oil 150.

MB Motorsports Marketing Partners:
• The black and red Chevy Silverado features the logos of Pixographs and RPM Services, LLC. Joining them are Obie’s Artic Chili, Chief City Vapors, Allgayer, Dale Moore and Blue Gold.

Tune-in:
• The Lucas Oil 150 will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1, MRN Radio and Sirius Channel 90 Friday November 12 at 8:30 pm ET.  Practice will be broadcast on Fox Sports 1 Thursday the 11th at 4:30 pm ET with Qualifying to be broadcast live on Friday at 12:30pm ET on Fox Sports 1.

QUOTE:
Bobby Pierce on racing at Phoenix International Raceway:
“I’m hoping I can apply some of what I learned at Martinsville to Phoenix. This is a learning experience for me, but at the same time, though, the racer in me wants to bring home as strong
a finish as we can.  With the help of Rick and the crew, I think we can have a good run for the Pixographs Chevy at Phoenix.”

About MB Motorsports:
MB Motorsports is the sole surviving original team in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, having competed in every season since the series debuted in 1995.  The team has given many young drivers their start in NASCAR, including Sprint Cup Series winners Carl Edwards, Jamie McMurray, Brad Keselowski and Regan Smith.

For more information on MB Motorsports and its marketing partners, visit www.mbracing.net

For more information on Bobby Pierce, visit www.bobbypierceracing.com

National Motorsports Appeals Panel Statement
(Nov. 10, 2015)

The National Motorsports Appeals Panel today heard and considered the appeal of a P4 level penalty issued on Oct. 28 to Shane Huffman (crew chief), Brandon Jones (driver) and Maurice Gallagher Jr. (owner) relative to the No. 33 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team at Talladega Superspeedway.

The penalty concerns the following sections in the 2015 NASCAR Rule Book: Sections 20.4.12.2; 20.20.a; 20.4.f; P4, 12.5.3.4. b&d, Penalty Options; P4, 12.5.3.4.1 d&f, Penalty Examples.

The original penalty assessed included: Huffman was fined $10,000, suspended for the next three NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship events, plus any non-championship races or special events which might occur during that period, and placed on NASCAR probation for a six-month period following the issuance of the penalty. Jones and Gallagher Jr. were also assessed with the loss of 25 championship driver and 25 championship owner points, respectively.

Upon hearing the testimony, the decisions of the National Motorsports Appeals Panel are:

1.                  The Appellants violated the Rule or Rules set forth in the Penalty Notice

2.                  The Panel finds that the suspension portion of the Penalty for the crew chief should not last beyond the current season in this special case because of the delay in the originally scheduled hearing. All other portions of the original Penalty as levied by NASCAR (e.g.; owner points; driver points; fine; probation) are affirmed and upheld.

The panel consisted of the following three individuals:
Mr. David Hall
Mr. Hunter Nickell
Mr. Kevin Whitaker

The Appellants have the right to appeal the decision of the National Motorsports Appeals Panel to the National Motorsports Final Appeals Officer in accordance with Section 15 of the NASCAR Rule Book.

Companion Weekend at Iowa Speedway Headlines 23 Events

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Nov. 10, 2015) – NASCAR today announced the 2016 schedule for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, which features 21 tracks hosting 23 events in the U.S. and Canada. As with the previously announced NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR XFINITY Series schedules, agreements have also been reached with the tracks to host the Camping World Truck Series through 2020.

Iowa Speedway will host its first NASCAR national series companion weekend, with the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series joining the NASCAR XFINITY Series on June 18-19. Other changes for 2016 are:

• The Dover International Speedway event moves two weekends earlier in the schedule (May 13).
• The first visit to Texas Motor Speedway moves one week later to June 10.
• The Gateway Motorsports Park event moves two weekends later in the schedule to June 25.
• The Canadian Tire Motorsport Park event returns to the Sunday of Labor Day (U.S.) weekend, on Sept. 4.

“For more than 20 years, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has been home to some of the closest side-by-side racing in the sport, and we’re committed to delivering that to our fans for many years to come,” said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer. “We expect that the stability of five-year agreements will benefit the entire industry, and anticipate the continuation of compelling NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship battles, like the one we’re watching unfold in 2015.”

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series kicks off the 2016 season during Daytona Speedweeks, as the iconic track welcomes fans to experience its $400 million redevelopment project, DAYTONA Rising.  After Daytona, the trucks will race at Atlanta Motor Speedway in a double-header with the NASCAR XFINITY Series for the second consecutive season. Two popular Wednesday night events – at Eldora Speedway (July 20) and Bristol (Aug. 17) – also return to the schedule for 2016.

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series closes the 2016 season with five events in five weekends, including three triple-header weekends with the NASCAR Sprint Cup and NASCAR XFINITY Series at Texas Motor Speedway, Phoenix International Raceway, and Homestead-Miami Speedway. FOX Sports will provide broadcast coverage of every race event in the 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck season.

About NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States. NASCAR consists of three national series (the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™, NASCAR XFINITY Series™, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series™), four regional series, one local grassroots series and three international series. The International Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. Based in Daytona Beach, Fla., with offices in eight cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races in more than 30 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico and Europe. For more information visithttp://www.NASCAR.com and http://www.IMSA.com and follow NASCAR at www.Facebook.com/NASCAR and Twitter: @NASCAR.

TOYOTA NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS)
Matt Crafton & Erik Jones – Notes & Quotes
Texas Motor Speedway – November 5, 2015

Kyle Busch Motorsports driver Erik Jones and ThorSport Racing driver Matt Crafton were made available to the media at Texas Motor Speedway:

ERIK JONES, No. 4 Toyota Tundra, Kyle Busch Motorsports
What are you expectations for the next three weekends?
“Need to do a lot better job than we’ve done the last week at Martinsville and then really at Chicago before that, so I think these next three tracks coming up for – here at Texas we were fast in the spring, in Phoenix we’ve been fast there always and I think they’ll be a lot better off for us, so we’ll see. I think we can definitely go out and contend for a win here the next three weeks really and just see how it all plays out.”

Have you met with crew chief Jason Ratcliff about possibly driving the No. 20 Camry in the NSCS this weekend?
“No, I haven’t. We’re just waiting to see what happens here with the appeals process in a few hours and see where it goes from there, but, you know, obviously the truck and the XFINITY car are my main focus. That’s what  I know I’m doing coming into this weekend, so if that were to happen obviously I’m going to do the best I can for them and just to keep them in contention and hopefully have a good race for them. But we’ll just see what all happens there and obviously we’ll go into the truck race here first this weekend and try to fire off and get ourselves back to where we need to be in that series.”

Is it more difficult having to battle Matt Crafton, a two-time champion?
“You know, being in this situation I guess is a new experience for me at this level at least. I’ve done it in the Late Model stuff and I’ve done it on the owner’s championship side of things, but obviously the 88 team and Matt (Crafton) and Tyler (Reddick) have been running well the last few weeks and gained points back up on us that we had made up, so we just need to make sure we’re doing all that we can every week to get out and run as well as we can and just go out and get good finishes. Like I said, I feel like Martinsville was definitely going to be a rough one for us and it was. It didn’t work out how we wanted it to, so we’ll go into this weekend and the next few with definitely high hopes that these tracks have been good to us in the past and not only good to me at KBM (Kyle Busch Motorsports), but KBM in general, so hopefully we can come out of here with some strong runs and maintain this point lead.”

What are you looking forward to doing in the offseason that you can’t do in the regular season?
“Sleep. It seems like it’s been busy here the last few weeks especially for me – just been  kind of running around and trying to do a lot of things in a lot of different directions, so it’d be nice to just get some rest and for me be home in Michigan. I haven’t been home in quite a while.”

Does it ease your mind knowing you’ve filled in driving in the NSCS twice previously?
“Bristol was, I think, a tough situation for everybody never being in a Cup car altogether and then I was really comfortable at Kansas. I was pretty happy with the way things were going up to the point that I lost it, but running up in the top-10 and being competitive and being in contention definitely gave me a lot of confidence for the next opportunity that I get whether it be this weekend of whether it be in a year or two years or whatever it may be. I definitely feel confident in myself to be able to go out and do a good job.”

What would it mean to you win to win the NCWTS championship with regards to Joe Gibbs Racing’s plans for you?
“Well, for me, honestly more than winning it for myself, just giving back to KBM (Kyle Busch Motorsports) – the whole organization – for Kyle (Busch, team owner), you know? Obviously, I want to win the championship, but Kyle’s wanted a driver’s championship since he started his program in the Truck Series and hasn’t been able to get it with a few drivers, so if I could bring that back for him, you know, that’d kind of be just a nice thank you for the last three years and what he’s done for me over those three years. So, obviously we all want to win it as an organization and I want to win it as well. It’s nice to know what we’re doing next year, but for me to have a Truck Series championship and know that we can have the opportunity to get an XFINITY Series championship next year, it’d be nice to have both of those series championships. There’s only a few guys that have been able to win in both those series, so for me it’s kind of the stats thing. You always want to be able to look back at those stats and getting that championship trophy would just be kind of one of the cool steps in my career that I would be able to be able to hopefully accomplish.”

MATT CRAFTON, No. 88 Damp Rid/Menards Toyota Tundra, ThorSport Racing
What are your goals coming off a win?
“We just have to get doing the same thing we’ve been here the last couple of months and just not have any bad luck. Honestly, we’ve all three (Erik Jones, Tyler Reddick and Crafton) had very, very fast trucks and I’ve had horrendous luck and led a lot laps the last few races and hopefully the best man wins at the end.”

What are you looking forward to doing in the offseason that you can’t do in the regular season?
“I’m just going out to the desert and, like I said, have no cell phone service. That’s probably one of the greatest things and don’t have to be bothered and get to just go play with the sand car and have fun.”

Are you interested in moving to the NSCS and do NCWTS teams test in the wind tunnel?
“I’m very happy doing what I’m doing. As long as I can be competitive, I wouldn’t want to go run in any other series and run 20th to 43rd – that’s just not me. There’s a reason why I’ve stayed in the Camping World Truck Series – it’s great racing. I think any race fan would believe in saying the same thing. If you want to watch a great race on Friday night or Saturday, you’re going to watch a Truck race, so that’s huge in my part and it’s not just about the money. It’s about knowing you can win races and Duke and Rhonda Thorson (team owners) and Menards has been with me a long time and I’m very happy there. Wind tunnel testing – yeah, we definitely – all of our mile-and-a-half trucks go in the wind tunnel, and, like I said, we work on all that. I’m sure each and every team in the top-15 does the same thing.”

What have you thought of Cameron Hayley and is he returning to ThorSport Racing in 2016?
“I have no idea what their plans are for 2016. Cameron’s (Hayley) done a very, very good job. He had a lot of speed at the beginning of the year, but now he’s been able to put races together and that’s very good to see for that whole group with the 13 group and ThorSport and Duke and Rhonda (team owners) and Cameron and them. Like I said, they’re finally executing and finishing races where they should.”

Does your experience give you a competitive advantage?
“I’m not worried about it. Like I said, I’m just going to go into the next three races and try to lead the most laps and win the race and I know how it was trying to win my first championship and, like I said, just sleepless nights and when you’re the points leader and you – I said, you’re going, ‘What can go wrong? What? Can I make a mistake,’ and I said, ‘It’s his championship to lose and ours to win right now,’ and he’s got to be on defense and all we’ve got to do is play offense and try not to make any mistakes and he’s got to do the same thing. We all do and we just can’t have any bad luck.”

What challenges are there filling in for a driver in a hurry like you did for Kyle Busch at Daytona in February?
“It’s not honestly as nerve-racking as you’d think and whenever I got the call – I think it was on Saturday night at about 7 o’clock and I didn’t have time to think about anything. I just went straight to JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing) and sat in some seat inserts. I’m sure at least he has his own seat insert to be able to fit in the seat. I sat literally in Kyle’s (Busch) – I couldn’t fit a seat insert into his seat that would fit me and that was one of my biggest problems running the 500 miles in somebody else’s seat. I remember at the end of the race, my back was hurting so, so bad, but we’re race car drivers – we adapt to the situation. Like I said, this has been Erik’s (Jones) dream I’m sure to race in Sprint Cup. I’m sure it’s definitely not the opportunity he wanted to get here, but – same way with me running the Daytona 500. Definitely, I’ve always wanted to say I ran the Daytona 500, but I didn’t want to say I did it for my buddy that was hurt for sure.”