NCWTS goes solo to the Lone Star State - The WinStar World Casino 400k Preview

by Cortney Dryden on Jun 9, 2011 9:55 PM EDT in NASCAR Camping World Trucks

James Buescher, driver of the No. 31 Wolfpack Rentals Chevrolet, celebrates winning the Keystone Light Pole Award for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series WinStar World Casino 400k at Texas Motor Speedway on Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images via nascar-assets.americaneagle.com

Everything is bigger in Texas and so too will be the battle for that elusive cowboy hat. NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway this Friday for the WinStar World Casino 400k.

Two drivers with plenty of worn-in hats themselves are Germain Racing teammates Todd Bodine and Brendan Gaughan. Defending champ Bodine has won four of the last five June races at the track, while Gaughan has four wins to his name as well. Bodine may have the advantage as Gaughan has been on a three-year hiatus from the series.

The WinStar World Casino 400k Stats

Laps: 167

Miles: 250.5

Capacity: 191,122

Total purse: $582,371 (2010 figures)

Defending Polesitter: Austin Dillon

Defending Champion: Todd Bodine

GASP! Kyle Busch will not be in the #18 truck this weekend! Instead, Brian Ickler will be subbing for him as Busch will be in Pocono for the 5-Hour Energy 500. In fact, none of the Cup Series regulars will be in the race. This is great news for NCWTS fans and for Truck regulars who remain winless this season.

Johnny Sauter, who has moved into the points lead, has an impressive record at this track. He finished second in both Texas races last year. Sauter still remains the only Truck Series regular to win this season and will hold steadfastly onto that fact this weekend.

Canadian Steve Arpin will be a fresh face to the series. He is replacing Brad Sweet in the No. 32 Turner Motorsports’ Chevy in his NCWTS debut.

Cole Whitt, Austin Dillon, Matt Crafton, and Timothy Peters round out your Top 5.

The entry list is after the jump.

Entry	Trk#	Driver	Owner	Crew Chief	Vehicle Mfg	Sponsor
1	2	David Mayhew	Delana Harvick	Bruce Cook	11 Chevrolet	MMI Services
2	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress	Danny Stockman Jr.	11 Chevrolet	Bass Pro Shops/Nat'l Wild Turkey Federation
3	4	Ricky Carmichael	Steve Turner	Mark Rette	11 Chevrolet	Monster Energy
4	5	Travis Kvapil	David Dollar	Daniel Stillman	11 Toyota	International Truck/Monoco RVs
5	7	Miguel Paludo	Tom Deloach	Rick Gay Jr.	11 Toyota	Stemco Duroline
6	07	Butch Miller	Ken Smith	Troy smith	11 Toyota	TBA
7	8	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Delana Harvick	Chris Carrier	11 Chevrolet	Bozzano-Jontex
8	9	Max Papis	Bob Germain	Randy Goss	11 Toyota	GEICO
9	13	Johnny Sauter	Mike Curb	Joe Shear	11 Chevrolet	Safe Auto/Curb Records
10	17	Timothy Peters	Tom Deloach	Butch Hylton	11 Toyota	Red Horse Racing
11	18	Brian Ickler	Kyle Busch	Eric Phillips	11 Toyota	Toyota
12	20	Johanna Long	Michelle Gosselin	Kevin Starland	11 Toyota	Panhandle Grading & Paving
13	22	Joey Coulter	Pete Raymer	Harold Holly	11 Chevrolet	American Eurocopter
14	23	Jason White	Steve Urvan	Chad Kendrick	11 Chevrolet	Gunbroker.com
15	29	Parker Kligerman	Brad Keselowski	Jeff Stankiewicz	11 Dodge	Penske Truck Rental
16	30	Todd Bodine	Steve Germain	Michael Hillman Jr.	11 Toyota	NTB/Vavoline Toyota
17	31	James Buescher	Steve Turner	Michael Shelton	11 Chevrolet	Wolfpack Rentals
18	32	Steve Arpin	Steve Turner	Doug George	11 Chevrolet	Mike's Hard Lemonade
19	33	Ron Hornaday Jr.	Delana Harvick	Jeff Hensley	11 Chevrolet	Kroger/IAMS
20	38	Mike Garvey	Pam Sieg	Timothy Brown	11 Chevrolet	S&W Services
21	39	Ryan Sieg	Susan Bates	Rod Sieg	11 Chevrolet	S&W Services
22	46	Craig Goess	Eddie Sharp	Trip Bruce	11 Toyota	Greenville Toyota
23	57	Norm Benning	Norm Benning	James Dugger	11 Chevrolet	TBA Chevrolet
24	60	Cole Whitt	Vickie Compton	Marcus Richmond	11 Chevrolet	Red Bull/Fuel Doctor
25	62	Brendan Gaughan	Rick Ware	Bryan Berry	11 Toyota	Big Red
26	65	Stephan McCurley	Joey Sonntag	Kelly Frankum	11 Chevrolet	Lumbermen's Millwork/Trans Pecos Trucking
27	66	66 Justin Marks	Stacy Compton	Doug Wolcott	11 Chevrolet	GoPro/Construct Corps
28	68	Clay Greenfield	Bill Alger	Tim Walter	110 Dodge	TBD
29	73	Tim Andrews	Ron Crosby	Joey Sonntag	11 Chevrolet	County Building Centers/Trans Pecos Trucking
30	77	Justin Lofton	Rick Germain	Ryan Fugle	11 Toyota	Lofton Cattle/Germain.com Toyota
31	81	David Starr	Bobby Dotter	Jason Miller	11 Toyota	ZACHRY/Boot Campaign
32	88	Matt Crafton	Rhonda Thorson	Vance Haefele	11 Chevrolet	Menards
33	92	Clay Rogers	Ricky Benton	Barry Elvis	11 Chevrolet	BTS Tire & Wheel/Fleet HQ
34	93	Shane Sieg	Pam Sieg	Tony Wilson	11 Chevrolet	S&W Services
35	99	Chase Mattioli	Charles Veset	Cal Boprey	11 Ford	CollegeComplete.com

Catch the WinStar World Casino 400k on Speed Channel this Friday at 9pm ET.

NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series will head to Kentucky Speedway on July 7^th for the UNOH 225.

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Sometimes I hate this platform

I’ve fixed the paragraph spacing on this post 4 times and it still isn’t right. I give up.

I’m picking Gaughan for this one! Dillon will be a close second – non-cup RCR drivers seem to do well here, but when it comes to Cup they seem to tail off for some reason, anyone agree?

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by 4ever3 on Jun 9, 2011 10:07 PM EDT reply actions

curious

Are you using the paragraph feature of the text editor or your keyboard? I use both depending and usually get the formatting I want. I am no professional so I probably don’t even notice if it is off a bit.

Opinions are like......, Well anyway, this is mine.

by Sean in Pa. on Jun 10, 2011 7:19 AM EDT up reply actions

I use both too but ...

I think it has something to do with writing in word and then copying it into the SBN platform. I tell all my writers to do that because sometimes you can lose your work in the SBN platform even though they have autosave features – I know, it has happened to me more than once.

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by 4ever3 on Jun 10, 2011 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions

I've had to rewrite a few articles because of that.

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by Troy J. on Jun 10, 2011 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions

I think notepad would be better

Word is probably your problem. The HTML word embeds probably conflicts with the BB code on the SBN site.

Opinions are like......, Well anyway, this is mine.

by Sean in Pa. on Jun 10, 2011 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm picking Cole Whitt to win his first race.

by Troy J. on Jun 10, 2011 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions

Wish I was in Texas this weekend.

NASCAR Trucks AND the first IndyCar doubleheader since the 1970s!?! This has epic written all over it!

I really enjoy the Truck Series when Cup guys can’t make the show. I’m expecting a really good race with Dillon taking the win.

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by MattWeaver on Jun 9, 2011 10:21 PM EDT reply actions

Trucks at Texas

Can you say four wide :D

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by Sean in Pa. on Jun 10, 2011 7:20 AM EDT reply actions

Smoke break

for the latest caution. I do love DVR :)
Been good racin’ so far, as much fender banging as they are doing you would think this was a short track. And how about that save on the restart by Sauter.

Opinions are like......, Well anyway, this is mine.

by Sean in Pa. on Jun 10, 2011 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions

And controversy

I thought he spun the tires as soon as they restarted. Don’t like that ruling at all.

Opinions are like......, Well anyway, this is mine.

by Sean in Pa. on Jun 10, 2011 11:51 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't like that we didn't have a race thread. =(

Sorry guys. Sometimes the puck sneaks through the goalie. We’ll have one up for Sunday.

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by MattWeaver on Jun 11, 2011 2:43 AM EDT reply actions

Yeap ... that was my fault

I solely shoulder the blame for this one. I had one ready to go but I timed it to be posted for Saturday instead of Friday. The kicker about it is that I knew the race was Friday. What happened is when I went to save it and schedule the post, it was just past midnight Friday morning and I thought it was still Thursday so I scheduled it for the day after instead of the day of.

When I got home last night from the local dirt track (story later) I was very disappointed to see there was no thread for me to read and catch up on.

Sorry guys and gals.

Bob

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by 4ever3 on Jun 11, 2011 8:56 AM EDT up reply actions