NASCAR Truck Series

The No. 31 Great Clips Turner Motorsports Chevrolet team came into yesterday’s race riding a wave of momentum after posting their fourth victory of the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season. That wave will continue into Talladega Superspeedway next week thanks to a little luck in avoiding a near head-on collision on lap 116. Buescher and the Great Clips team would post a sixth-place finish and close the gap to just one point behind the series leader.

Under a full moon in Las Vegas, Miguel Paludo battled back from illness and late-race damage in a caution-filled race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to earn his 12th top-15 finish of the season. With a fast truck, impressive pit stops by the Turner Motorsports crew and the driver's own endurance, Paludo, who felt ill prior to the start of the Smith's 350, powered through a string of early-race cautions and recovered from damage received in a lap 116 accident to finish 11th in Saturday night's event in Sin City.

Ron Hornaday went into the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) Smith's 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) as a dark horse with advertised odds of 25-1. Hornaday, a four-time series champion, has a history of working odds against him to his favor. However, Saturday night, the circumstances that kept him from overcoming those odds were beyond his control. Hornaday lost two engines over the course of the weekend which relegated the Smokey Mountain Herbal Snuff No. 9 to a 27th-place finish in Sin City.

Cale Gale and the No. 33 Rheem team brought home their fifth top-10 finish of the 2012 season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Gale raced a clean, hard race, avoiding several on-track incidents to come home in the seventh position.

Justin Lofton and the No. 6 Imperial Valley Full Plate Chevrolet finished 20th on Saturday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. While running inside the top five with 30 laps to go, Lofton was involved in a multi-truck incident on the front stretch resulting in heavy damage to his Silverado and eliminating him from contention.

Nelson Piquet Jr. won Saturday nights NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) Smith's 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Piquet Jr. passed Matt Crafton on the final lap and captured his second win of the season.

Grant Enfinger (No. 29 Reese Towpower RAM) Finished 12th “You know we definitely improved the whole time. Doug Randolph made some great calls on pit road. We gave up a little track position at the beginning to gain some in the middle."

Tundra driver Matt Crafton (second) was the top-finishing Toyota in Saturday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Travis Pastrana will be piloting the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Toyota Tundra, sponsored by ampm convenience stores at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 29th. This will be the first start for Pastrana in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and with ThorSport Racing.

The SS Green Light Racing team heads to Las Vegas this Saturday looking to add some additional excitement to the Entertainment Capitol of the World. NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie contender Ross Chastain will pilot the SS Green Light Racing No. 08 Toyota and the Florida teen is hoping for some of that famous Las Vegas Luck to shine upon the team as they head to the Smith’s 350 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.