NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series visits the Monster Mile - The Lucas Oil 200 Preview

by Cortney Dryden on May 11, 2011 11:45 PM EDT in NASCAR Camping World Trucks

Last year's race winner Aric Almirola looks to get another victory this weekend at Dover. | Geoff Burke/Getty Images for NASCAR (5/14/2010)

Dover International Speedway

Laps: 200

Miles: 200

Capacity: 135,000

Total purse: $587,559 (2010 figures)

Race record: Mark Martin, 120.200 mph (2006)

Qualifying record: David Starr, 157.577 mph (2005)

After a three-week hiatus, NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series will travel to the Monster Mile this Friday for the Lucas Oil 200. This race will be an exciting start to a three-series event weekend!

A win at Dover International Speedway is elusive at best and two is unheard of. No Truck Series drivers have visited Victory Lane more than once. But the drivers have undoubtedly been focusing on taming the Monster Mile during their time off.

Don’t think that the race date of Friday the 13^this going to stop a Truck Series regular from getting lucky. It is commonplace at Dover for a driver to receive their first victory here. Five of the past eleven winners have and the past three winners (Scott Speed, Brian Scott and Aric Almirola) were all first-timers at this track.

Kurt Busch, as a rookie, won Dover’s inaugural event in 2000. Look for rookies Cole Whitt and Parker Kligerman to challenge for their first national series win. Neither has raced here before, but both sit in the Top-10 in points.

These rookies will have to deal with the likes of Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch, who will be racing against each other for the first time following their altercation at Darlington. Busch has already won two of the four NCWTS races he has entered and has an average finish of 2.2. Harvick came in fourth at Martinsville in the only Truck Series race he has competed in this season.

Busch and Ron Hornaday are the series’ most copious winners on concrete tracks and have won at all three concrete tracks: Dover, Nashville, and Bristol. The two will likely run up front all afternoon.

Defending champ, Aric Amirola will not be in the race, but keep an eye out for James Buescher who came in second last year. His season began to turn around after a fifth place finish at Nashville Superspeedway bumped him up four positions in the points to sixteenth.

Johnny Sauter currently leads the NCWTS points. Timothy Peters, Matt Crafton, Ron Hornaday, and Cole Whitt round out your Top 5.

The entry list is after the jump.

Entry	Trk#	Driver	Owner	Crew Chief	Vehicle Mfg	Sponsor
1	1	Carl Long	Rick Ware	Bobby Burrell	11 Chevrolet	TBA
2	2	Kevin Harvick	Delana Harvick	Bruce Cook	11 Chevrolet	Bad Boy Buggies
3	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress	Danny Stockman Jr	11 Chevrolet	Bass Pro Shops/Remington/Tracker Boats
4	4	Ricky Carmichael	Steve Turner	Mark Rette	11 Chevrolet	Monster Energy
5	5	Travis Kvapil	David Dollar	Daniel Stillman	11 Toyota	International Truck-Monaco RVs
6	07	Johnny Chapman	Ken Smith	Butch Miller	11 Chevrolet	TBA
7	7	Miguel Paludo	Tom Deloach	Rick Gay	11 Toyota	Lucas Oil/K&N Filters
8	8	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Delana Harvick	Chris Carrier	11 Chevrolet	Autotrac
9	9	Max Papis	Bob Germain	Randy Goss	11 Toyota	GEICO
10	10	Chris Lafferty	Jennifer Jo Cobb	Mark JaNes-O'rourke	11 Ford	DrivenMale.com
11	13	Johnny Sauter	Mike Curb	Joe Shear	11 Chevrolet	Chevrolet Safe Auto-Curb Records
12	17	Timothy Peters	Tom Deloach	Butch Hylton	11 Toyota	Red Horse Racing
13	18	Kyle Busch	Kyle Busch	Eric Phillips	11 Toyota	TRAXXAS
14	20	Johanna Long	Michelle Gosselin	Kevin Starland	11 Toyota	Panhandle Grading & Paving
15	22	Joey Coulter	Pete Raymer	Harold Holly	11 Chevrolet	RCR/Rip-It
16	23	Jason White	Steve Urvan	Chad Kendrick	11 Chevrolet	Gunbroker.com
17	29	Parker Kligerman	Brad Keselowsk	Jeff Stankiewicz	11 Dodge	Penske Truck Rental
18	30	Todd Bodine	Steve Germain	Michael Hillman Jr.	11 Toyota	Germain.com
19	31	James Buescher	Steve Turner	Michael Shelton	11 Chevrolet	Space Coast Center for Mothers with Children
20	32	Brad Sweet	Steve Turner	Trent Owens	11 Chevrolet	Great Clips
21	33	Ron Hornaday Jr.	Delana Harvick	Jeff Hensley	11 Chevrolet	Utz Snack
22	38	Mike Garvey	Pam Sieg	Timothy Brown	11 Chevrolet	S&W Services
23	39	Ryan Sieg	Susan Bates	Mike Garvey	11 Chevrolet	S&W Services
24	46	Craig Goes	Eddie Sharp	Trip Bruce	11 Toyota	Greenville Toyota
25	51	Chris Fontaine	Billy Ballew	Doug George	11 Chevrolet	Vision Airlines/Wounded Warrior Project
26	57	Norm Benning	Norm Benning	James Dugger	11 Chevrolet	TBA
27	60	Cole Whitt	Vickie Compton	Marcus richmond	11 Chevrolet	Red Bull
28	62	Brendan Gaughan	Rick Ware	Bryan Berry	11 Toyota	South Point Hotel and Casino
29	66	Justin Marks	Stacy Compton	Doug Wolcott	11 Chevrolet	GoPro
30	77	Justin Lofton	Rick Germain	Ryan Fugle	11 Toyota	Lofton Cattle
31	81	David Starr	Bobby Dotter	Jason Miller	11 Toyota	Zachry
32	84	TBA	Chris Fontaine	Kevin Ingram	11 Chevrolet	Glenden Enterprises
33	87	Chris Jones	Rick Jones	Richard Kahlich	11 Chevrolet	Copy Wizard
34	88	Matt Crafton	Rhonda Thorson	Vance Haefele	11 Chevrolet	Menards
35	92	Clay Rogers	Ricky Benton	Michael Hester	11 Chevrolet	BTS Tire & Wheel/Fleet HQ
36	93	Shane Sieg	Pam Sieg	Tony Wilson	11 Chevrolet	S&W Services
37	99	J.R. Fitzpatrick	Charles Vest	Cal Broprey	11 Chevrolet	CollegeComplete.com

You won’t be able to watch the 4:45pm ET race live, but it will air on Speed Channel at 8:30pm ET.

And finally, NCWTS won’t miss a beat this upoming week by heading straight to Charlotte Motor Speedway Friday, May 20^th.

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Great article. I’ll be DVRing it to watch the next morning and I’m excited for Cole Whitt’s chances at winning.

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