NASCAR Truck Series

Jason White knew the hard work of his GunBroker.com team was going unnoticed. On Saturday in the Irish Hills of Michigan, it all came together for the young race team and their No. 23 GunBroker.com Ford. White earned a career best second place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series running of the 13th Annual VFW 200 at Michigan International Speedway.

Making his first start in the No. 7 Red Horse Racing Toyota Tundra on Saturday at Michigan International Speedway, Parker Kligerman set his sights on a solid finish to bring home after his crew worked countless hours to put together his Tundra for competition over the past week. New pavement on the two-mile asphalt oval created pack racing that relied heavily on drafting, much like restrictor plate racing. Kligerman put his driving skills to work and raced tight with the lead pack from the drop of the green flag, allowing him to pull away with a fourth place finish.

James Buescher scored his seventh top-five finish of 2012 at Michigan International Speedway (MIS), leading five laps and maintaining the third position in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) driver point standings, just six points outside of the lead. A combination of stellar handling and fuel strategy gave Buescher and the No. 31 Wolf Pack Rentals team the edge needed to finish fifth in the VFW 200.

The No. 3 Chevrolet team is tied for first in the Camping World Truck Series owner championship point standings, with the No. 22 team seventh in the standings and the No. 2 team ninth.

Miguel Paludo earned his second top-10 finish of 2012 at Michigan International Speedway in his debut pairing with new crew chief Jeff Hensley. Paludo ran in the top-five for most of the second half of the 100-lap event before varying pit strategy resulted in a 10th-place finish in the VFW 200.

Although his final finishing position might not show it, Ron Hornaday proved why he's a four-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) champion in Saturday's VFW 200 at Michigan International Speedway.

Nelson Piquet Jr. won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday. Piquet stretched his fuel mileage to 48 laps in route to his first NCWTS victory in 42 career starts.

Brad Keselowski (No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM) Finished 8th “We had a decent day in our Cooper Standard Ram, not bad, not good. We needed some more speed and didn’t have it today. We’ll keep working on it and see if we can find it.

Dakoda Armstrong (third) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Saturday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race at Michigan International Speedway.

Justin Lofton, driver of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) No.6 Chevrolet currently sits fourth in the series standings with one win, four top-5 and nine top-10 finishes, gave me the opportunity to talk to him and ask a couple of questions.