NASCAR Truck Series

Coming into the night, all Austin Dillon had to do was finish 16th or better to clinch the 2011 championship. With 40 laps to go at Homestead-Miami Speedway, it was looking like that championship would be in jeopardy.

The 2011 racing season may be coming to a close, but Turner Motorsports already has an eye on the 2012 season. The organization is pleased to announce the addition of Nelson Piquet Jr. to their 2012 driver line up.

Joe Denette Motorsports (JDM), a rookie team in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS), is pleased to announce that four- timeseries champion, Ron Hornaday, Jr., will pilot the No. 9 Chevrolet powered by Pro Motor Engines for the 2012 campaign.

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will be presenting their final tail gate party of the year by closing out their season with Friday night's running of the Ford 200 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.

This Week’s Tundra… The No. 5 International Trucks/Monaco RVs team and Germain Racing driver Todd Bodine will utilize TRD-092 in Friday’s 134-lap NCWTS race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Friday night just one team and driver will celebrate the winning of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship; for dozens of other teams and drivers the race signifies the end to a long season of hard work trying to reach the podium at the annual banquet.

This Week's Monster Energy Chevrolet Impala ... Ricky Carmichael will pilot chassis TMS-021 from the Turner Motorsports (TMS) NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) stable in Friday night's Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

This Week's Silverado... The No. 31 Exide Batteries team will bring chassis TMS-011 to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) 2011 season-finale at the 1.5-mile Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Nelson Piquet Jr. and the No. 8 Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) team will head to South Florida for the final NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race of the 2011 season.

Elliott Sadler has spent 94.8 percent of laps completed at Homestead-Miami Speedway (HMS) in the top-15. Veteran crew chief, Jeff Hensley will be calling the shots for Sadler in this weekend's Ford 200 at HMS.