NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series visits the Monster Mile - The Lucas Oil 200 Preview
Dover International Speedway
Laps: 200
Miles: 200
Capacity: 135,000
Total purse: $587,559 (2010 figures)
Race record: Mark Martin, 120.200 mph (2006)
Qualifying record: David Starr, 157.577 mph (2005)
After a three-week hiatus, NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series will travel to the Monster Mile this Friday for the Lucas Oil 200. This race will be an exciting start to a three-series event weekend!
A win at Dover International Speedway is elusive at best and two is unheard of. No Truck Series drivers have visited Victory Lane more than once. But the drivers have undoubtedly been focusing on taming the Monster Mile during their time off.
Don’t think that the race date of Friday the 13this going to stop a Truck Series regular from getting lucky. It is commonplace at Dover for a driver to receive their first victory here. Five of the past eleven winners have and the past three winners (Scott Speed, Brian Scott and Aric Almirola) were all first-timers at this track.
Kurt Busch, as a rookie, won Dover’s inaugural event in 2000. Look for rookies Cole Whitt and Parker Kligerman to challenge for their first national series win. Neither has raced here before, but both sit in the Top-10 in points.
These rookies will have to deal with the likes of Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch, who will be racing against each other for the first time following their altercation at Darlington. Busch has already won two of the four NCWTS races he has entered and has an average finish of 2.2. Harvick came in fourth at Martinsville in the only Truck Series race he has competed in this season.
Busch and Ron Hornaday are the series’ most copious winners on concrete tracks and have won at all three concrete tracks: Dover, Nashville, and Bristol. The two will likely run up front all afternoon.
Defending champ, Aric Amirola will not be in the race, but keep an eye out for James Buescher who came in second last year. His season began to turn around after a fifth place finish at Nashville Superspeedway bumped him up four positions in the points to sixteenth.
Johnny Sauter currently leads the NCWTS points. Timothy Peters, Matt Crafton, Ron Hornaday, and Cole Whitt round out your Top 5.
The entry list is after the jump.
Entry | Trk# | Driver | Owner | Crew Chief | Vehicle Mfg | Sponsor |
1 | 1 | Carl Long | Rick Ware | Bobby Burrell | 11 Chevrolet | TBA |
2 | 2 | Kevin Harvick | Delana Harvick | Bruce Cook | 11 Chevrolet | Bad Boy Buggies |
3 | 3 | Austin Dillon | Richard Childress | Danny Stockman Jr | 11 Chevrolet | Bass Pro Shops/Remington/Tracker Boats |
4 | 4 | Ricky Carmichael | Steve Turner | Mark Rette | 11 Chevrolet | Monster Energy |
5 | 5 | Travis Kvapil | David Dollar | Daniel Stillman | 11 Toyota | International Truck-Monaco RVs |
6 | 07 | Johnny Chapman | Ken Smith | Butch Miller | 11 Chevrolet | TBA |
7 | 7 | Miguel Paludo | Tom Deloach | Rick Gay | 11 Toyota | Lucas Oil/K&N Filters |
8 | 8 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Delana Harvick | Chris Carrier | 11 Chevrolet | Autotrac |
9 | 9 | Max Papis | Bob Germain | Randy Goss | 11 Toyota | GEICO |
10 | 10 | Chris Lafferty | Jennifer Jo Cobb | Mark JaNes-O'rourke | 11 Ford | DrivenMale.com |
11 | 13 | Johnny Sauter | Mike Curb | Joe Shear | 11 Chevrolet | Chevrolet Safe Auto-Curb Records |
12 | 17 | Timothy Peters | Tom Deloach | Butch Hylton | 11 Toyota | Red Horse Racing |
13 | 18 | Kyle Busch | Kyle Busch | Eric Phillips | 11 Toyota | TRAXXAS |
14 | 20 | Johanna Long | Michelle Gosselin | Kevin Starland | 11 Toyota | Panhandle Grading & Paving |
15 | 22 | Joey Coulter | Pete Raymer | Harold Holly | 11 Chevrolet | RCR/Rip-It |
16 | 23 | Jason White | Steve Urvan | Chad Kendrick | 11 Chevrolet | Gunbroker.com |
17 | 29 | Parker Kligerman | Brad Keselowsk | Jeff Stankiewicz | 11 Dodge | Penske Truck Rental |
18 | 30 | Todd Bodine | Steve Germain | Michael Hillman Jr. | 11 Toyota | Germain.com |
19 | 31 | James Buescher | Steve Turner | Michael Shelton | 11 Chevrolet | Space Coast Center for Mothers with Children |
20 | 32 | Brad Sweet | Steve Turner | Trent Owens | 11 Chevrolet | Great Clips |
21 | 33 | Ron Hornaday Jr. | Delana Harvick | Jeff Hensley | 11 Chevrolet | Utz Snack |
22 | 38 | Mike Garvey | Pam Sieg | Timothy Brown | 11 Chevrolet | S&W Services |
23 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Susan Bates | Mike Garvey | 11 Chevrolet | S&W Services |
24 | 46 | Craig Goes | Eddie Sharp | Trip Bruce | 11 Toyota | Greenville Toyota |
25 | 51 | Chris Fontaine | Billy Ballew | Doug George | 11 Chevrolet | Vision Airlines/Wounded Warrior Project |
26 | 57 | Norm Benning | Norm Benning | James Dugger | 11 Chevrolet | TBA |
27 | 60 | Cole Whitt | Vickie Compton | Marcus richmond | 11 Chevrolet | Red Bull |
28 | 62 | Brendan Gaughan | Rick Ware | Bryan Berry | 11 Toyota | South Point Hotel and Casino |
29 | 66 | Justin Marks | Stacy Compton | Doug Wolcott | 11 Chevrolet | GoPro |
30 | 77 | Justin Lofton | Rick Germain | Ryan Fugle | 11 Toyota | Lofton Cattle |
31 | 81 | David Starr | Bobby Dotter | Jason Miller | 11 Toyota | Zachry |
32 | 84 | TBA | Chris Fontaine | Kevin Ingram | 11 Chevrolet | Glenden Enterprises |
33 | 87 | Chris Jones | Rick Jones | Richard Kahlich | 11 Chevrolet | Copy Wizard |
34 | 88 | Matt Crafton | Rhonda Thorson | Vance Haefele | 11 Chevrolet | Menards |
35 | 92 | Clay Rogers | Ricky Benton | Michael Hester | 11 Chevrolet | BTS Tire & Wheel/Fleet HQ |
36 | 93 | Shane Sieg | Pam Sieg | Tony Wilson | 11 Chevrolet | S&W Services |
37 | 99 | J.R. Fitzpatrick | Charles Vest | Cal Broprey | 11 Chevrolet | CollegeComplete.com |
You won’t be able to watch the 4:45pm ET race live, but it will air on Speed Channel at 8:30pm ET.
And finally, NCWTS won’t miss a beat this upoming week by heading straight to Charlotte Motor Speedway Friday, May 20th.
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