Sauter wins at Texas; Chevrolet clinchs 2012 NCWTS Manufacturers’ Championship
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[/media-credit]Johnny Sauter won Friday nights NASCAR Camping World Truck Series WinStar World Casino 350 at Texas Motor Speedway. Sauter took over the lead with 11 laps remaining and captured his second win of the season (both at Texas) and the sixth of his career.
“We’ve had the truck to beat I felt last week and just had a lot of bad luck this year quite frankly. Toyota had a great week down in San Antonio at the Toyota Tundra plant down there. Say, ‘Hi,’ to all of those people down there. Just an awesome performance.” Sauter said.
Parker Kligerman only took two tires on his final pit stop and could not hold off Sauter for the lead. Kligerman finished second.
“I hate finishing second man — so does this truck. This truck is 001, the one of the first of the new trucks Red Horse built, the new generation. Every time we’ve run it we either finished fourth or second. It wants to win so bad, but sadly this is probably its last race.” Kligerman said.
Polesitter Nelson Piquet Jr. led twice for a race-high 65 laps and finished third.
Chevrolet clinched the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Manufacturers’ Championship with Piquet Jr.’s third place finish. Chevrolet has captured the prestigious title for the eighth time since the 1995 inception of the Series.
Kyle Busch finished fourth and Ty Dilon finished fifth.
Dillon’s fifth place finished moved to within 15 points of the series points lead after current points leader James Buescher finished 11th, after he reported a vibration about midway through the race and contact from Matt Crafton on the restart after the second caution flag.
“It could have been worse.” Buescher said. “I thought we were controlling our own destiny tonight and we got run into on a restart.”
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| Pos. | St. | No. | Driver | Make | Points |
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| 1 | 13 | 13 | Johnny Sauter | Toyota | 47 |
| 2 | 10 | 7 | Parker Kligerman | Toyota | 43 |
| 3 | 1 | 30 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Chevrolet | 43 |
| 4 | 3 | 18 | Kyle Busch | Toyota | 0 |
| 5 | 9 | 3 | Ty Dillon * | Chevrolet | 40 |
| 6 | 11 | 88 | Matt Crafton | Toyota | 39 |
| 7 | 5 | 22 | Joey Coulter | Chevrolet | 37 |
| 8 | 19 | 11 | Todd Bodine | Toyota | 36 |
| 9 | 7 | 5 | Aric Almirola | Ford | 0 |
| 10 | 14 | 17 | Timothy Peters | Toyota | 34 |
| 11 | 2 | 31 | James Buescher | Chevrolet | 34 |
| 12 | 21 | 8 | Max Gresham * | Chevrolet | 32 |
| 13 | 18 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Chevrolet | 31 |
| 14 | 4 | 32 | Miguel Paludo | Chevrolet | 31 |
| 15 | 12 | 33 | Cale Gale * | Chevrolet | 30 |
| 16 | 8 | 9 | John Wes Townley * | Toyota | 28 |
| 17 | 15 | 2 | Brendan Gaughan | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 18 | 17 | 4 | Brandon McReynolds | Chevrolet | 26 |
| 19 | 20 | 23 | Jason White | Ford | 26 |
| 20 | 22 | 9 | Ron Hornaday | Chevrolet | 24 |
| 21 | 27 | 81 | David Starr | Toyota | 23 |
| 22 | 23 | 6 | Justin Lofton | Chevrolet | 22 |
| 23 | 25 | 99 | Bryan Silas * | Ford | 21 |
| 24 | 6 | 119 | David Mayhew | Ram | 0 |
| 25 | 26 | 7 | Jeff Agnew | Chevrolet | 19 |
| 26 | 34 | 57 | Norm Benning | Chevrolet | 18 |
| 27 | 36 | 10 | Jennifer Jo Cobb | Ram | 17 |
| 28 | 24 | 151 | German Quiroga | Toyota | 16 |
| 29 | 35 | 84 | Russ Dugger | Chevrolet | 15 |
| 30 | 16 | 29 | Ryan Blaney | Ram | 14 |
| 31 | 31 | 8 | Ross Chastain * | Toyota | 13 |
| 32 | 33 | 27 | Stephen Leicht | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 33 | 29 | 25 | B.J. McLeod | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 34 | 30 | 174 | Scott Riggs | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 35 | 32 | 93 | Dennis Setzer | Chevrolet | 9 |
| 36 | 28 | 38 | Chris Jones | Chevrolet | 8 |
CJ Faison Captures the K&N Pro Series East Pole at Rockingham Speedway
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[/media-credit]Rookie CJ Faison will lead the field to green in the inaugural Classic 3 Championship presented by RCR Racing Museum at Rockingham Speedway this Saturday. The season finale will be Faison’s 12th career start in the K&N Pro Series East division.
Faison described winning the pole as “the best feeling in the world so far.” He continued on to say that “patience, I think, is going to win this race and we’ve got a good shot at it.”
Current points leader, Kyle Larson, qualified in the 11th position. Brett Moffit, second in the points standings, will start in fifth place.
Corey LaJoie, 19 points behind Larson in the championship standings, qualified fourth. LaJoie leads the series in wins this season with five victories.
Darrell Wallace Jr. claimed the outside pole and Coleman Pressley will start the race in third position.
The Classic 3 Championship presented by RCR Racing Museum is scheduled to begin at approximately 2pm on Saturday. Live streaming audio will be available at www.nascarhometracks.com.
Larry Barford Jr. Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness at Rockingham Speedway
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[/media-credit]Larry Barford Jr., driver of the No. 86 Trauma Doc Chevrolet for Deware Racing Group, will compete in the K&N Pro Series East race Saturday at Rockingham Speedway in the Classic 3 Championship presented by RCR Racing Museum. His car will feature a pink and white paint scheme with a pink bow on the side to promote Breast Cancer Awareness.
The decision to run this special paint scheme was a personal one.
“Cancer has touched my life in a lot of different ways,” Larry told me.
His wife’s aunt and grandmother are breast cancer survivors and he wanted to pay tribute to them and others like them. Larry posted a request on his Facebook page asking his friends and fans for the names of loved ones who have been “diagnosed with breast cancer, are in remission or still fighting the fight.” The car will also carry the names of those who have lost their life to breast cancer.
The first 86 names that were submitted are displayed on the deck lid of his racecar. Larry was disappointed that all the names could not fit on the car but says that each one of them “is in his heart.”
Saturday’s race will be the last one of the season for the pink and white Breast Cancer Awareness car but Larry has vowed that all of his future cars will carry a pink ribbon somewhere on them.
Larry qualified his car on Friday and will begin the race in the 16th position. This is his best qualifying run in three NASCAR K&N Pro Series East starts.
Next year he will run a full season in the series as well as several select races in the Camping World Truck Series to round out the year.
His goal is simple. Larry wants to be competitive, learn from each race and continue his development into the top levels of NASCAR.
“Everything that I’ve learned yesterday, I apply today.”
