NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Next Race: Careers for Veterans 200
presented by Cooper Standard and
Brad Keselowski’s Checkered Flag Foundation
The Place: Michigan International Speedway
The Date: Saturday, Aug. 15
The Time: 1 p.m. (ET)
TV: FOX Sports 1, 12:30 p.m. (ET)
Radio: MRN, SiriusXM Ch. 90
Distance: 200 miles (100 laps)
Big Weekend For Brad Keselowski Racing
It’s a big weekend for Brad Keselowski Racing as its team sponsor hosts Saturday’s Careers for Veterans 200 presented by Cooper Standard and Brad Keselowski’s Checkered Flag Foundation. Series points leader Tyler Reddick and NASCAR Next alum Ryan Blaney will represent the team in the No. 19 and No. 29 Fords. Reddick claims two wins this season and leads second-place Matt Crafton in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings by 11. Blaney has made two Camping World Truck Series starts this year, finishing seventh at Dover and third at Kentucky.
Sauter Goes For Michigan Repeat
Johnny Sauter returns to Michigan as the defending race winner after capturing the checkered flag at the two-mile track. Travis Kvapil is the only other driver to win at Michigan expected in Saturday’s field. Repeating for Sauter will be a difficult task. The last ten Camping World Truck Series races at Michigan have produced ten different race winners.
Sauter ranks fourth in the Camping World Truck Series standings, 59 points behind Tyler Reddick. He has four top-fives and eight top-tens in 12 starts this season.
Joe Gibbs Racing Development Driver Cody Coughlin Debuts At Michigan
Kyle Busch Motorsports will grant another young driver the opportunity to pilot one of its trucks when Joe Gibbs Racing development driver Cody Coughlin makes his team debut at Michigan. A Delaware, Ohio native, Coughlin had vast success running Late Models in the Midwest. He won the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour championship in 2013, and has won races at prestigious tracks such as Indiana’s Winchester Speedway and Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway. Coughlin, 19, made his only NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start for Bill Venturini at Kentucky in July. Rain washed away all practice and qualifying, but Coughlin was still able to score a top-20 finish even after having never run a lap in a truck before taking the green flag.
Michigan Man: Erik Jones Set To Make First Start In Home State
If new Michigan Wolverines Head Coach Jim Harbaugh had to recruit NASCAR drivers, it would definitely be his No. 1 priority to keep Byron, Michigan native Erik Jones in state.
On Saturday, the NASCAR Next alum will make his first start at his hometown track, Michigan International Speedway, in the Careers for Veterans 200 presented by Cooper Standard and Brad Keselowski’s Checkered Flag Foundation.
Jones is right in the thick of the competition for the Camping World Truck Series championship at third in the point standings, trailing leader Tyler Reddick by 16 points and second-place Matt Crafton by five. He has one win this season and leads the series in many significant loop data categories, including average running position (4.2), laps led (656) and driver rating 124.3.
Alex Bowman Set To Make Truck Series Debut With JR Motorsports
Alex Bowman will become the fourth driver to sit behind the wheel of the JR Motorsports No. 00 Chevrolet in Saturday’s Careers for Veterans 200 presented by Cooper Standard and Brad Keselowski’s Checkered Flag Foundation. The 22-year-old full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver for Tommy Baldwin Racing will make JR Motorsports’ eighth start this season and try to improve on its totals of two wins with Cole Custer and Kasey Kahne, and four top-ten finishes. Kevin Harvick drove the No. 00 Chevrolet to a second-place finish in the last Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono. Bowman made two XFINITY Series starts for JR Motorsports last fall, finishing 12th at Charlotte and 17th at Phoenix.