The win was Dillon’s first of the 2011 season and the third of his 39 starts in the series. Johnny Sauter leads the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points following the race, 18 points ahead of Dillon.
With their NASCAR Sprint Cup colleagues taking a weekend off, the Nationwide Series has a rare, but well deserved, opportunity to shine in the racing spotlight during Saturday night's Federated Auto Parts 300 at the Nashville Super Speedway.
During the NASCAR weekend at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway there were a lot of comments, reflecting a wide variety of issues, that were more than worthy of pondering and repeating. Here are just a few of them:
After a week of debate on whether or not NASCAR drivers were athletes, thanks to Golden Tate at the EPSYs, as well as which driver was in desperation mode to make the Chase, 43 NASCAR Sprint Cup cars took to the Magic Mile in Loudon, New Hampshire.
During the NASCAR weekend at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway we witnessed a phenomenal performance from a team that was overdue for something phenomenal.
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 U.S. Army Chevrolet, went from ‘Rocket Man’, qualifying on the pole for the start of the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 to ‘Magic Man’, scoring his first win of the season at the Magic Mile.
The race at New Hampshire would prove to be yet another shake up in the series points standings as the leader coming in would take a huge hit in the points dropping four spots.
Matt Crafton broke a 79 race winless streak and recorded his second win at Iowa Speedway on Saturday, nudging defending race winner Austin Dillon by two car lengths at the stripe.
