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In taking the checkered flag in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Ben Kennedy captured the 2014 Sunoco Rookie of the Year title, capping off his season with a top-20 finish. Despite handling struggles which resulted in a disappointing 17th-place finish, Kennedy made history as the first descendant of NASCAR's founding family to complete a season in one of the sport's top-three touring series.

Good afternoon. This is day 3 of the 2014 Ford championship weekend here as we wrap up what has been another exciting and successful NASCAR racing season. You know, we couldn't do it without the support, the professionalism, and the collaboration between three outstanding partners. We thought that we would let you men and women hear from them today.

Jamie Allison, director, Ford Racing, participated in a press conference this afternoon with counterparts from Chevrolet and Toyota. Below is a transcript of Allison’s remarks.

Making his third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) start of the 2014 season for Turner Scott Motorsports, Kyle Larson put on a dominating performance for the majority of the 134-lap race, leading a race-high 96 laps en route to a solid second-place finish in the season finale. With his first-ever go-kart sponsor ParkerStore back on board, Larson and his No. 42 team unloaded with speed right off the truck during the weekend's two practice sessions.

Matt Crafton earned the 2014 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) driver's championship with a ninth-place finish in Friday night's race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Tundra driver Matt Crafton captured the 2014 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) driver's championship when he finished ninth in Friday evening's season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Crafton and his ThorSport Racing No. 88 Menards Toyota Tundra captured the title by 21 points over second-place Ryan Blaney -- becoming the first driver in Camping World Truck Series history to win back-to-back driver's championships.

Jeff Gordon: Yeah, I'm just blown away right now. To me this has been one of the toughest places for qualifying for me over the years, and that's why we've never sat on a pole. I think having the three rounds of qualifying actually helped me a lot, and the team did an excellent job with the tuning to get it ready for that last round.

Matt Kenseth, No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing - Starting Position: 3rd - How strong is your race car for Sunday? "We just worked on qualifying today so we'll get into race practice a little bit tomorrow. Then we'll have a little better idea about Sunday. Today went well -- we had good speed the first lap on the track. I thought qualifying went pretty good."

“We had a great Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet but the bottom just wasn’t the perfect place for us to run. I could feel the tires going away and then we needed to move up. So when we saw some of those guys running fast laps a little bit higher up, I was looking forward to making that last lap. The guys made some great adjustments. We unfortunately had a tire going down on the left front, so I don’t know if that helped us or hurt us, but it was pretty nice to get that pole. That’s awesome.”

Brad Keselowski – No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – “I’m not happy with fourth, but I’m happy with how strong we’ve been all day. We had decent runs. Our first qualifying run was really strong and then our second and third just weren’t quite where we wanted to be. I’m not sure what we were missing there, but we were close.”