Thursday, September 16
Track: Bristol Motor Speedway, .533-mile oval
Race: 18 of 22
Event: UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics (200 laps, 106 miles)
Schedule
Race: 9:00 p.m. ET (FS1)
Hailie Deegan, No. 1 Toter Ford F-150
- Deegan is making her 19th career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start on Thursday at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.
- Deegan’s F-150 will carry the Toter livery for Thursday night’s 200-lap race. Additionally, the scheme will have the purple Hodgkins Lymphoma Awareness ribbon on the hood and decklid. September is Hodgkins Lymphoma Awareness month and Wastequip is using its Toter branded partnership with Deegan to bring awareness to the cause.
- This week marks Deegan’s second truck race at “The Last Great Colosseum.” This week’s surface will be the traditional Bristol concrete track versus the dirt surface in March.
- At the Bristol dirt track in the spring, Deegan started 22nd and ran in the top-15 but battled quickly changing track conditions and ultimately finished 19th after several late race cautions.
- Deegan enters the event after racing two weeks ago at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway. The Ford driver started the race from 14th and recovered from several incidents throughout the event, but a flat tire with less than 10 laps to go, relegated her to a 29th-place finish.
- The young driver has one ARCA Menards Series start at Bristol. In September 2020, she started eighth and finished the event in sixth.
- In total, crew chief Mike Hillman Jr. has called 13 truck races at Bristol on the regular surface, and one race with the dirt surface. He’s amassed one pole, four top-five and six top-10 finishes at the Tennessee track.
Tanner Gray, No. 15 Ford Performance F-150
- Gray makes his 18th start of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season and 44th of his career on Thursday night.
- The Ford Performance driver has one career Truck Series start on the .533-mile concrete oval where he finished third last season. He also has two starts at the track with the former K&N Pro Series East with finishes of 10th and sixth. On the dirt configuration earlier this season, he finished 13th.
- After making contact with the wall on lap 104 while running inside the top-10 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway in the series’ last race, Gray was forced to pit and go a lap down. He ultimately finished 24th in the final rundown.
- Marcus Richmond has called 15 career races at Bristol between the Truck Series, Xfinity Series and K&N Pro Series East. With the Truck Series, he has one top-five and six top-10s. His lone win came in the K&N East race with Todd Gilliland and DGR on April 14, 2018.
Taylor Gray, No. 17 Ford Performance F-150
- Taylor Gray makes his third career NCWTS start at Bristol Motor Speedway. In his previous start at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Ill., he brought the Ford Performance F-150 home in 12th.
- Gray has one career start at the “The Last Great Colosseum” in ARCA Menards Series action last season with a seventh-place finish.
- Prior to the 200-lap Truck Series race on Thursday evening, the Ford driver will compete in the 200-lap ARCA race in his Ripper Coffee Ford Fusion starting at 6:30pm ET.
- During his time as a Cup Series crew chief, Chad Johnston accrued 18 starts at Bristol with five top-fives and nine top-10s between Martin Truex Jr., Tony Stewart, Jeff Burton, Kyle Larson and Matt Kenseth.
