NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Next Race: WinStar World Casino 400
The Place: Texas Motor Speedway
The Date: Friday, June 5
The Time: 9 p.m. (ET)
TV: FOX Sports 1, 8:30 p.m. (ET)
Radio: MRN, Sirius XM Ch. 90
Distance: 250.5 miles (167 laps)
Texas ‘Two’ Step:
With Win No. 2, Reddick Catapults To P2 in Camping World Truck Standings
Tyler Reddick joined Matt Crafton on top of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series wins leaderboard by taking his second checkered flag of the season at Dover International Speedway.
Fittingly, Crafton and Reddick rank first and second, in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standings. Reddick trails Crafton by 11 points.
In six starts this season, Reddick has finished lower than fifth once – a 13th-place showing at Kansas when he ran out of gas with the lead on the closing laps. The California native owns an average finish of 4.8 and boasts a 113.0 driver rating this season.
Reddick will attempt to further diminish Crafton’s points lead in Friday’s WinStar Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. The 19-year-old Ford driver has earned a 21 Means 21 pole award and a high finish of fourth at the 1.5-mile track.
Jones Owns:
Sunoco Rookie Of The Year Frontrunner Tries To Continue Hot Start At Texas
Erik Jones has some fond memories of Texas.
The 19-year-old Kyle Busch Motorsports driver earned his first career XFINITY Series victory at the track in March. Less than a year before, he made his first 1.5-mile venture in a truck at Texas, missing his high school graduation and receiving his diploma during driver introductions. He went on to finish 11th after starting fifth.
Jones returns to Texas for Friday’s WinStar Casino 400 in search of his first Camping World Truck Series win of the season. Despite being unable to find Victory Lane this year, Jones has four top-three finishes and leads the Camping World Truck Series in several stats, including: average running position (3.2), average start (3.2), number of fastest laps (239), laps led (328) and driver rating (125.6).
Jones ranks third in the Camping World Truck Series’ standings, trailing first-place Matt Crafton by 14 points. He leads the Sunoco Rookie of the Year race by 33 points over his teammate Justin Boston.
1.5-Mile Master:
Crafton Heads To Lone Star State To Defend Last Spring’s Win
It’s fair to say Matt’s mastered the ‘Craft(on)’ of navigating 1.5-mile tracks.
The No. 88 ThorSport Racing driver has not finished outside the top-ten at a 1.5-mile track in 11 starts, beginning at Kansas in 2014, and owns three wins – Texas-1 in 2014 in addition to Atlanta and Kansas in 2015.
On Friday, he will try to tame Texas Motor Speedway – where he returns as the defending race winner and current points leader. In 28 Lone Star State starts, Crafton has one win, nine top-fives (32.1%) and 17 top-tens (60.7%). He has logged a top-ten finish in 13 of his last 16 starts at Texas.
Knock, Knock, Knocking:
Suárez Knocking On The Door Of First Win
Daniel Suárez is due for his first NASCAR national series win.
He produced a runner-up showing at Dover last Friday and has been a model of consistency with five top-ten finishes in his five Camping World Truck Series starts this season. He owns another runner-up finish in the XFINITY Series at Bristol.
Whether Suárez gets his first victory is a question more of ‘when’ than ‘if.’
He’ll get his next shot at a checkered flag when he pilots the No. 51 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota Tundra in Friday’s WinStar Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. He has never made a Camping World Truck Series start at the 1.5-mile track, but finished 18th there in the XFINITY Series earlier this season after starting fourth.
With a victory, Suárez would become the first Mexico-born driver to win a NASCAR national series race.
Wild, Wild (John) Wes:
Townley Ventures To Texas Trying To Continue Strong Start
John Wes Townley now finds himself in pleasant unchartered territory.
Six races into the season, he ranks fifth in the Camping World Truck Series standings for the second consecutive race.
The No. 5 Zaxby’s Chevrolet Silverado driver will attempt to continue his ascent up the Camping World Truck Series leaderboard in Friday’s WinStar Casino 400 at Texas Motor Speedway. He ventures to the Wild West with a high finish of fifth in last year’s spring race at the 1.5-mile track.
“I really like that 1.5-mile oval in Fort Worth a lot,” Townley said. “We ran really good in the truck at three tracks that size earlier this year. So, I expect us to contend for a top-five and, hopefully, the win at Texas.”
For the Hometown Crowd:
Young Returns To Home State Following Best Career Finish
Midland, Texas native Tyler Young returns to his home track at Texas Motor Speedway after recording a career-best tenth-place finish at Dover last weekend. The 24-year-old Chevrolet driver is running in his second full-time season in the Camping World Truck Series and manages the day-to-day operations of his family owned Young’s Motorsports team out of Mooresville, North Carolina. Young has made four starts at Texas in his career with a high finish of 14th last fall. In 2014, he placed fourth in the Camping World Truck Series Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings.