Parker Kligerman, driver of the #7 Toyota/Red Horse Racing Toyota, leads the field to start of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series American Ethanol 200 race at Iowa Speedway on September 15, 2012
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The Fan Appreciation 200 presented by New Holland will feature the Camping World Truck Series at Iowa Speedway on Sunday, September 8th. Television coverage begins at 1:30pm ET with radio coverage on MRN, Sirius XM channel 90.
Four different drivers under the age of 21 have won Camping World Truck Series races in 2013, including the most recent winner Chase Elliott at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park last weekend. Elliott also made history as the youngest winner in the history of the series at 17 years, nine months and four days. Ryan Blaney – 18 years, eight months and 15 days – was the previous record holder with his win at Iowa Speedway last year.
Amazingly, of the 11 different series winners this season, seven of them are 23 years of age or younger, including defending series champion James Buescher, Ty Dillon, Kyle Larson, Jeb Burton, Blaney and Elliott all 21 or younger when they won their races earlier this year.
Matt Crafton, now the points leader, is the oldest series winner at 37, with his 35-year old teammate Johnny Sauter with victories at Daytona and Martinsville. Timothy Peters at 33 is the only other series winner over 30 with his win at Iowa Speedway. Kyle Busch, winning at Charlotte, Dover and Bristol is 28 years old.
At Iowa Speedway this weekend, fans could see another record-breaking winner as Erik Jones, finished second to Timothy Peters in Iowa’s first race of the season. Jones, a native of Byron, Michigan enters Sunday’s race at age 17 years, three months and ten days.
In the 1995 Skoal Bandit Cooper World Classic at Phoenix International Raceway, Ron Hornaday started the very first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race from the pole. Hornaday didn’t win that race (finishing ninth) but the Palmdale, California racer has done just about everything else in the series.
Hornaday is a record holder in several categories with series titles (four); wins (51); top-fives (151); top-tens (221); most years with consecutive poles (seven). Now Hornaday adds to his résumé and NASCAR‘s record book this Sunday as he makes his 337th career and series start. When he takes the green flag at Iowa Speedway, Hornaday will eclipse the mark of 336 he now shares with Rick Crawford.
Timothy Peters comes to the track as the only repeat winner at Iowa with two wins. Should he win this weekend, he will be the first back-to-back-to-back winner. Pursuing his 15th consecutive top-ten finish of the season, Matt Crafton also has a victory at Iowa (2011) and six straight top-tens. Ben Kennedy, a NASCAR Next driver, will make his second series start of his career and is the grandson of NASCAR’s founder Bill France. Kennedy finished 19th in his first start at Bristol Motor Speedway in August.
Sunday’s race also marks the second annual Fan Appreciation 200 presented by New Holland, the seventh Camping World Truck Series race held at the track and the second consecutive season in which the track has hosted the series twice in a season.
