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Matt Crafton Scores Second Consecutive Top-Five at Bristol

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Matt Crafton is our next guest on Fan4Racing Fan2Fan NASCAR & Race Talk on Monday, August 25, 2014 at 9 pm ET. Call 347-996-5176 during the LIVE broadcast with any questions/comments.

Scheduled as a night race for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Bristol Motor Speedway, due to rain on Wednesday night, their race began and ended the UNOH 200 on Thursday morning show. Teams were ready for night racing, so the conditions of a day race presented challenges for many teams. The No. 88 ThorSport Racing team and driver Matt Crafton were up to the challenge by not letting the rain dampen their spirits. Crafton braved the changing conditions and brought his Toyota Tundra home in the fourth-place for his second consecutive top-five finish in Bristol’s Thunder Valley. Continue reading →

Keselowski Wins First Camping World Truck Series Race at Bristol

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2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, Brad Keselowski, joins an exclusive list of 25 drivers to win in all three national series.

There were only two leaders – Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch –  for the entire NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, and they battled throughout the UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Thursday morning after rain delayed the race Wednesday night.

Busch and Keselowski dominated the race, leading all 200 laps of the event. Overall, Keselowski led 119 laps to Busch’s 81.

This is Brad Keselowski’s first Camping World Truck Series win after 61 series starts.   Continue reading →

Camping World Truck Series UNOH 200 at Bristol Preview

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ThorSport Packs 1-2 Punch

ThorSport has not one, but two drivers at the top of NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series standings following a record-setting performance at Michigan this weekend.

Team drivers Johnny Sauter and Matt Crafton finished 1-2 in Saturday’s Careers For Veterans 200, blazing away from the field in the fastest race in series history with an average speed of 161.1ten mph. The new mark demolished the previous record of 154.737 mph set at Texas Motor Speedway in 2012.  Continue reading →

Johnny Sauter Grabs his First 2014 Series’ Win and the Points Lead at Michigan

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ThorSport Racing finishes 1-2 in the Career for Veterans 200 at Michigan International Speedway

For Johnny Sauter this is his first win of the season in the Camping World Truck Series in a tight finish of just 0.433 seconds over his ThorSport Racing teammate, Matt Crafton, finishing second.

Pit strategy was the difference between first and second with the race leader Crafton pitting on lap 97 for fuel allowing Sauter to regain the lead on his way to the checkered flag and victory lane. Sauter led 21 laps en route to his tenth career victory in the Camping World Truck Series. He also takes over the points lead from Ryan Blaney. Continue reading →

Camping World Truck Series Careers for Veterans 200 at Michigan Preview

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Fresh Start Likely At Michigan
Not one regular in this weekend’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race has won at Michigan.In fact, the only entry who has taken a checkered flag there is two-time winner and past series champion Travis Kvapil (2004, ‘07). Kvapil has run mostly a part-time schedule in the truck series, starting only four races in the last three years combined. His last series win came in 2007.So, consider it a strong possibility that Saturday after the Careers for Veterans 200, there will be a new victor crowned.With 12 different winners in 14 seasons – Greg Biffle and Kvapil are the only repeat winners – Michigan is anyone’s race to win.

Let’s take a look at this year’s prospects:

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