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  • Fogleman joins On Point Motorsports for 2022 Truck Series season

    Fogleman joins On Point Motorsports for 2022 Truck Series season

    On Point Motorsports announced that Tate Fogleman will be joining the organization as a full-time competitor for the 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.

    Fogleman, a 21-year-old native from Durham, North Carolina, will be piloting the No. 30 Toyota Tundra sponsored by Fowl Life TV as he will embark in his third full-time season in the Truck circuit. He is also set to become the seventh different competitor to drive in one or more events for On Point Motorsports.

    “I’m looking forward to being with On Point Motorsports,” Fogleman said. “I know everybody that works here is dedicated to racing just like I am. They’re willing to work hard and use their resources, and they’ve had success in the previous season. I’m hoping to build on that. I’m looking to improve throughout the season as a team and to knock off consistent top 10 finishes.”

    Fogleman, who made his inaugural presence in the Truck Series for three events in 2018 with Young’s Motorsports before going full-time racing in 2020, is coming off a memorable season, where he earned his first career victory at Talladega Superspeedway in October after sending John Hunter Nemechek spinning on the final lap and beating Tyler Hill in a photo finish before both competitors wrecked past the finish line. He also earned a ninth-place result at Knoxville Raceway in July and a total of eight top-20 results before concluding the 2021 Truck season in 20th place in the final standings.

    Through 48 previous starts, Fogleman has notched one career victory, one top-five result, two top-10 results, 20 top-20 results and an average-finishing result of 23.7 with his best points result being 17th in 2020.

    Prior to NASCAR competition, Tate Fogleman, who is the son of former NASCAR and CARS Tour competitor, Jay Fogleman, competed in the CARS Super Late Model Tour, beginning in 2016. He claimed his first career victory at North Carolina’s Hickory Motor Speedway in August 2017 and went on to finish in fifth place in the final standings. Two years later, he achieved a career-best fourth-place result in the final standings despite going winless and recording a pole and three top-five results.

    Fogleman replaces Danny Bohn at On Point Motorsports. Bohn, the 2014 Bowman Gray Stadium Modified champion, spent the previous three seasons with On Point Motorsports, where he earned a total of four top-10 results, including two in 2021. Future plans for Bohn remain to be determined.

    Fogleman is set to make his debut with On Point Motorsports at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2022, which will commence a new season of NASCAR competition.

  • Tate Fogleman scores first career win in wild overtime finish at Talladega

    Tate Fogleman scores first career win in wild overtime finish at Talladega

    It took one overtime and one wild last lap for Tate Fogleman as he collided with John Hunter Nemechek coming to the finish line to capture his first career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory.

    “I had never finished a superspeedway race before,” Fogleman said. “Before, we had tried laying back and have a second draft going on behind the main pack that obviously didn’t work out in the past.

    “We weren’t really sure what our game plan was going in. We were going to try and stay toward the front, take the positions we were given and just work our way up.

    “The biggest thing was avoiding wrecks. Once we got through that first big wreck, we knew we had a shot at it. A few laps after that, we got through another wreck and we finally had a little bit of luck on our side. There at the end, we lined up third on the inside and knew that was our shot (at the victory). My truck had damage from both the wrecks, but I got a good push out back and that’s really what got me to the front. Ended up sliding across the finish line and be able to get the win.”

    Talladega Superspeedway served as the second race of the Round of 6 Saturday afternoon, with Ben Rhodes on the pole. Stages of 20/20/94 laps originally made up the event before an overtime finish pushed the lap length to Lap 99.

    The first two stages were relatively calm and stayed green, with the exception of one caution on Lap 29 for the No. 28 of Bryan Dauzat who crashed on the backstretch off Turn 2. In Stage 1, the victory went to Ben Rhodes as the Kentucky native dominated the first stage with help from teammate Matt Crafton.

    The second stage only had one caution and Sheldon Creed grabbed the stage victory after Nemechek originally made the pass for the lead on Lap 38, but was shuffled out of the top spot as Creed went on by to take the stage win.

    Three cautions slowed the final stage with multiple crashes. The first big one occurred on Lap 57 when Gilliland got a big push from the No. 23 of Chase Purdy which then caused Gilliland to turn into Austin Hill and set off a multiple-vehicle crash. Several drivers were involved, most notably, Chandler Smith, Zane Smith and Tanner Gray.

    After the first one big one, the field went single file for a brief period until Grant Enfinger went high off Turn 4 and got turned by Creed. Enfinger got hit from behind in an incident that saw Friesen, Hocevar, Deegan and Greenfield taking hard hits.

    The final yellow was on Lap 93. Purdy had a big run and tried coming down on Gilliland, but was too close to his bumper and Purdy spun in the tri-oval causing an overtime restart.

    As the field came back around for the checkered flag, Nemechek made a move on the leaders to get out in front, but it was Fogleman who made another move, spinning Nemechek and taking the win while wrecking with second-place finisher Tyler Hill.

    It was Hill’s career-best finish and his first top-five in 23 Camping World Truck Series starts.

    There were 23 lead changes among 18 different leaders and six cautions for 29 laps with one red flag lasting nine minutes and 41 seconds. Fogleman led one lap en route to victory.

    Playoff Standings following Round of 2 of 3 in Round of 6:

    1. John Hunter Nemechek, +34
    2. Ben Rhodes, +34
    3. Matt Crafton, +27
    4. Sheldon Creed, +4
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    5. Stewart Friesen, -4
    6. Chandler Smith, -33
    7. Carson Hocevar, -36
    8. Zane Smith, -39

    Official Results following the Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Talladega Superspeedway:

    1. Tate Fogleman, led one lap
    2. Tyler Hill
    3. Todd Gilliland, led 39 laps
    4. John Hunter Nemechek, led 11 laps
    5. Ryan Truex
    6. Cory Roper
    7. Spencer Boyd
    8. Danny Bohn
    9. Chase Purdy, led four laps
    10. Keith McGee, led one lap
    11. Jordan Anderson
    12. Sheldon Creed, won Stage 2, led six laps
    13. Ben Rhodes, won Stage 1, led 20 laps
    14. Matt Crafton, led four laps
    15. Bret Holmes, led 11 laps
    16. Codie Rohrbaugh, OUT, Accident
    17. Norm Benning, 1 lap down
    18. Willie Allen, 5 laps down
    19. Chandler Smith, 7 laps down
    20. Derek Kraus, 9 laps down
    21. Grant Enfinger, OUT, Damage Vehicle Policy
    22. Stewart Friesen, OUT, Damage Vehicle Policy
    23. Clay Greenfield, OUT, Accident
    24. Hailie Deegan, OUT, Accident
    25. Carson Hocevar, OUT, Accident
    26. Dylan Lupton, OUT, Accident
    27. Jason White, OUT, Damage Vehicle Policy
    28. Tyler Ankrum, OUT, Damage Vehicle Policy
    29. Austin Wayne Self, OUT, Electrical
    30. Johnny Sauter, OUT, Accident
    31. Jennifer Jo Cobb, OUT, Accident
    32. Austin Hill, OUT, Accident
    33. Zane Smith, OUT, Accident
    34. Tanner Gray, OUT, Accident
    35. Drew Dollar, OUT, Accident
    36. Kris Wright, OUT, Accident
    37. Parker Kligerman, OUT, Accident
    38. Lawless Alan, OUT, Accident
    39. Bryan Dauzat, OUT, Accident
    40. Jack Wood, OUT, Engine

    Up Next: The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will take a couple of weeks off before heading to Martinsville Speedway on Saturday, October 30 at 1 p.m. ET live on Fox Sports 1 and MRN Radio.