NASCAR Truck Series

The 59th running of the Daytona 500, with first-time winner, Kurt Busch, included eight cautions for 40 laps and saw only 15 drivers complete all 200 laps. Was this typical restrictor-plate racing or a result of the new race format that NASCAR implemented this season?

Most of this year’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) competitors are eager to get back behind the wheel. Rookie Justin Haley will have to wait his turn as his teammates return to work.

Sauter started Friday night’s NextEra Energy Resources 250 from the second position, working early on with teammates Spencer Gallagher and Kaz Grala to stay up front through an early caution and shuffling throughout the field.

Toyota driver Austin Wayne Self (second) was the top-finishing Tundra driver in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

Rookie driver Kaz Grala guided his truck through, then past a last-lap incident involving 13 trucks to win an action-filled NextEra Energy Resources 250 on Friday night at Daytona International Speedway, to open the season for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

CHASE BRISCOE – No. 29 Cooper Standard Ford F-150 (Finished 3rd) – TALK ABOUT YOUR RACE TONIGHT? “It was hectic. This kind of racing will make your hair go white. An up and down night. I felt that I had something to do with that first wreck and I feel bad about that. Overall, to have my first start in NASCAR in the Camping World Truck Series with the Cooper Standard Ford and BKR, it was awesome. Hopefully we can go to Atlanta and get a win now.”

NOAH GRAGSON, No. 18 Switch Toyota Tundra, Kyle Busch Motorsports - Are you okay and what happened. “I’m fine. NASCAR does a great job with the safer barriers and making these trucks safe."

A few hours after earning his first pole in NASCAR, Kaz Grala was in the right place on the final lap to drive through a field of wrecking trucks to win the season-opening NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

Toyota driver Todd Gilliland was made available to the media at NASCAR Daytona Media Day: Todd Gilliland, No. 51 Toyota Tundra, Kyle Busch Motorsports Are you excited to join Kyle Busch Motorsports this season? "I'm very excited to join Kyle Busch Motorsports for the 2017 season. Every time you go to the track with KBM, they have really great stuff, really great equipment, and hard‑working people at the shop. I feel like it's a great opportunity and probably one of the best truck teams I could have made my debut with."

Toyota driver Christopher Bell was made available to the media at NASCAR Daytona Media Day: Christopher Bell, No. 4 JBL Toyota Tundra, Kyle Busch Motorsports - Are you ready to get back in the truck and a preview for Daytona? "I'm really excited that the 2017 race season is upon us because it's just been a long off‑season, and I feel like last year we were starting to get hot towards the end of the year."