Timothy Peters captured his first win of the season in Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Freds 250 powered by Coca Cola at Talladega Superspeedway. This was Peters’ first win at the “intimidating” superspeedway, his eighth career victory and it also gives him a win in six consecutive seasons.
Peters started 26th, avoided trouble on his way to the front and led 31 of 94 laps in a race that was surprising since there weren’t any of the “big ones” that you typically see at Talladega.
“It was just crazy! I gotta thank Darrell Wallace Jr. for working with me all day,” Peters said. “That last restart we got shuffled back and couldn’t get to each other, but we worked good all day.”
“I know Steve Byrnes is watching, he was riding along with me, so Steve we wish you well,” Peters added.
On lap 12, the first caution flag came out when German Quiroga got tapped and went around hard in the wall collecting Mason Mingus, Ron Hornaday Jr., Ryan Sieg and Chris Fontaine. There were also minor cautions for debris or single truck spins.
On lap 64 however, Joe Nemechek Jr. tapped Ben Kennedy sending his truck into the wall, then on its side, only to right itself and hit the wall again with the rear of the truck. Ryan Ellis got a piece of that wreck as well but nothing compared to Kennedy’s hard hit.
Tayler Malsam would come home in second place today, giving him his best career finish.
Malsam stated, “We ended up where we started, so it wasn’t a bad day.” He went on later to say, “I am looking forward to Texas, we got some good momentum going.”
Third place went to 24 year old Spencer Gallagher, who is currently 27th in points with seven starts, one top-five finish, one top-ten finish and two DNF’s.
Bringing home fourth place was Tyler Reddick and in fifth, Ryan Blaney. Blaney’s finish moved him into second place in the points standings.
Erik Jones came home in sixth place followed by Chris Fontaine in seventh. John Wes Townley held the lead for a short period, ending the race with an eighth place finish.
Ninth and tenth place finishers were Darrell Wallace Jr. and Joe Nemechek, respectively.
Johnny Sauter experienced an engine failure on lap 24 and finished a disappointing 31st, effectively ending his run for the championship. He is currently fourth in the standings, 36 points behind leader Matt Crafton.
Your top five in the points are as follows:
1) Matt Crafton 674
2) Ryan Blaney 658 -16
3) Darrell Wallace Jr. 646 -28
4) Johnny Sauter 638 -36
5) Timothy Peters 597 -77
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series heads next to Martinsville Speedway on Saturday October 25 for the Kroger 200.
