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Camping World Trucks
TRUCKS: Piquet Paces First Practice
Nelson Piquet Jr. is one of five first-time winners this season…
Nelson Piquet Jr. scored his first career Truck Series win last weekend. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Fresh off his first series victory last weekend, Nelson Piquet Jr. led the first of today’s two practice rounds for tonight’s UNOH 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Piquet, driver of the No. 30 Turner Motorsports Chevrolet, set the early pace with a lap of 121.697 miles per hour. He was followed by teammate James Buescher and then the Richard Childress Racing entries of Cale Gale and Ty Dillon. Completing the top five was Matt Crafton in the first of the two ThorSport Racing Toyotas.
The morning practice was the first time for the Truck Series on the newly configured 0.533-mile oval, which has had the top groove essentially removed in an attempt to restore racing to what it used to be at Bristol.
SPEED’s coverage from Bristol starts with UNOH 200 qualifying at 5 p.m. ET. NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Setup starts at 7:30 p.m., followed by the race at 8 p.m.
The final Happy Hour round of practice takes place from noon to 1:30 p.m.
With 12 of 22 races in the books for 2012, Timothy Peters and Dillon are tied for the Truck Series points lead. Buescher (-6) is third, followed by Justin Lofton (-17) and Parker Kligerman (-25).
Brazilian Piquet, the second foreign-born driver to win in the series, is the 10th different winner in the season’s first 12 races, breaking a record for different winners over the first 12 events. Five first-time winners are the most since 2006, when there were six. The all-time record is seven (three times).
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100.
Piquet, driver of the No. 30 Turner Motorsports Chevrolet, set the early pace with a lap of 121.697 miles per hour. He was followed by teammate James Buescher and then the Richard Childress Racing entries of Cale Gale and Ty Dillon. Completing the top five was Matt Crafton in the first of the two ThorSport Racing Toyotas.
The morning practice was the first time for the Truck Series on the newly configured 0.533-mile oval, which has had the top groove essentially removed in an attempt to restore racing to what it used to be at Bristol.
SPEED’s coverage from Bristol starts with UNOH 200 qualifying at 5 p.m. ET. NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Setup starts at 7:30 p.m., followed by the race at 8 p.m.
The final Happy Hour round of practice takes place from noon to 1:30 p.m.
With 12 of 22 races in the books for 2012, Timothy Peters and Dillon are tied for the Truck Series points lead. Buescher (-6) is third, followed by Justin Lofton (-17) and Parker Kligerman (-25).
Brazilian Piquet, the second foreign-born driver to win in the series, is the 10th different winner in the season’s first 12 races, breaking a record for different winners over the first 12 events. Five first-time winners are the most since 2006, when there were six. The all-time record is seven (three times).
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100.
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