SM Archive

After working their way up from a 20th-place starting position to race much of the Kroger 250 inside the top five, James Buescher and the No. 31 Rheem Chevy slipped back in the pack during a late race green-flag run.

Tundra driver Johnny Sauter earned his second win of the 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season in only the second race of the year on Saturday at Martinsville Speedway.

Johnny Sauter’s hot start to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season continued Saturday afternoon with a win in the Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway.

Team Penske has won all three of the IZOD IndyCar Series races at Barber Motorsports Park (Will Power in 2011 and '12; Helio Castroneves in 2010).

Johnny Sauter's started from the pole for the Kroger 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway, but as good as his No. 98 Carolina Nut Co. / Curb Records Toyota practiced Friday, capped off by a fourth-place qualifying effort, Sauter's looking to repeat his winning performance from April 2011.

DARRELL WALLACE JR., No. 54 ToyotaCare Toyota Tundra, Kyle Busch Motorsports - Starting Position: 2nd - How do you expect the tires to wear during the race? "Unfortunately I haven't run here and this is my first race here so it will be difficult to tell, but I have been talking with the crew chiefs and some of the Cup drivers -- they're saying that these tires are going to fall off a little bit and the track is going to change and the trucks are going to change."

A couple of rookies in their first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway captured the front for Saturday’s Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway.

BRIAN VICKERS, No. 55 Jet Edge Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing - Starting Position: 3rd - How was your lap? "I don't know that I did. I don't know that I didn't, but I don't know that I did. You're kind of scratching your head like, 'Man, could I have got a little more out of it?' It's so tight here at Martinsville."

Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet SS, set a new track record with a time of 19.244 seconds and average speed of 98.400 mph in the first race at the 0.526-mile Martinsville Speedway short track for the Gen-6 Chevrolet SS race car.

BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – “I think we’ve had OK speed since we’ve been here. I was hoping for a little bit more and I’m optimistic we can find it come Sunday. It’s been a solid year so far and I think everybody that follows the sport on a regular basis knows how I feel about all that stuff, so I’m just anxious to get a win early in the year and I feel like Martinsville is a good place to do that."