Open Race Thread: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Lucas Deep Clean 200 | Nashville Superspeedway

Man, what a hot spell most of us in North America experienced this week. I can’t think of a better way to cool off than to sit down with a cold beverage with the air conditioner set on the ‘severe frostbite’ setting while watching a NASCAR race. Any race, from any of the NASCAR series’ for that matter.

And what do we have here? A NASCAR Truck race. Hmm ... I’m thinkin’ this is going to be one cool night! For me anyway. The drivers in those Trucks will have my sympathy for having to drive in this heat, but at least the race is in the evening and not at 1:00 pm in the afternoon.

Matt’s race preview:

For the second straight week, the NASCAR Trucks have a standalone race - this time at Nashville Superspeedway.

Similar to last weekend, not one Sprint Cup Series regular is represented in the 34-car field.

This should give several opportunities for attention-strapped truck teams who are used to being beaten by Kyle Busch on a continual basis.

Busch is not entered for tonight’s race and his infamous no. 18 is being piloted by Josh Richards.

Austin Dillon won the pole for the 11th Annual Lucas Deep Clean 200 with a lap of 30.603 seconds (156.808 mph). This is Dillon’s 10th pole in 39 Truck Series races, and his third pole and 11th top-10 start of 2011. This is also his first pole in four starts at Nashville.
Joey Coulter joins him on the front row, posting his eighth top-10 start of 2011 and his first in two races at Nashville. Coulter was once again the fastest qualifying rookie.
Elliott Sadler, Ron Hornaday Jr. and Timothy Peters make up the rest of the starting top five.

A starting lineup can be found on the other side just above the comments section. See you there!