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Date: Friday, June 7
Start Time: 9 p.m. ET
Site: Texas Motor Speedway -- Fort Worth, Texas
Track: 1.5-mile oval
Laps: 167
Miles: 250.5 (400 kilometers)
Capacity: 122,377 (Grandstand Seating)
Total purse:
Payouts:
Year: 17th
On TV: Speed
Announcers:
On Radio: Motor Racing Network (MRN)/SIRIUS NASCAR Radio
Race record:
Qualifying record: Clint Bowyer, 2006 (184.464 mph)
2012 Finish
Defending champion: Johnny Sauter
Runner up: Matt Crafton
Pole winner: Justin Lofton (owner points)
Top 10:
1. Johnny Sauter (Start: 20)
2. Matt Crafton (10)
3. Joey Coulter (11)
4. Brendan Gaughan (6)
5. Nelson Piquet Jr. (8)
6. Jason Leffler (18)
7. Ty Dillon (3)
8. Cale Gale (16)
9. Justin Lofton (1)
10. Parker Kligerman (5)
Average speed: 123.925 mph
Time of race: 2 hrs., 1 min., 17 secs.
Margin of victory: 2.101 secs.
Caution flags: 7 for 32 laps
Lead changes: 13 among 6 drivers
Past winners
2012 Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 123.925 mph
2011 Ron Hornaday Jr, Chevrolet, 111.752 mph
2010 Todd Bodine, Toyota, 127.227 mph
2009 Todd Bodine, Toyota, 153.133 mph
2008 Ron Hornaday Jr, Chevrolet, 109.988 mph
2007 Todd Bodine, Toyota, 118.060 mph
2006 Todd Bodine, Toyota, 132.129 mph
2005 Jack Sprague, Chevrolet, 144.844 mph
2004 Dennis Setzer, Chevrolet, 148.959 mph
2003 Brendan Gaughan, Dodge, 140.621 mph
2002 Brendan Gaughan, Dodge, 129.569 mph
2001 Jack Sprague, Chevrolet, 133.620 mph
2000 Greg Biffle, Ford, 126.932 mph
1999 Dennis Setzer, Dodge, 122.805 mph
1998 Tony Raines, Ford, 111.018 mph
1997 Kenny Irwin, Ford, 131.823 mph
Last race
Race: Lucas Oil 200 (May 31)
Site: Dover International Speedway -- Dover, Delaware
Miles: 200
Laps: 200
Finish line order: Kyle Busch, Matt Crafton, Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, Brendan Gaughan
Time of Race: 1 hr., 50 mins., 5 secs.
Average speed: 109.008 mph
Margin of victory: 1.484 secs.
Caution flags: 6 for 29 laps
Lead changes: 7 among 6 drivers
Lap leaders: D. Wallace Jr. 1-119; M. Crafton 120; C. Elliott 121-135; T. D. Wallace Jr. 1-119; M. Crafton 120; C. Elliott 121-135; T. George Jr. 136-139; D. Starr 140-141; K. Busch 142-159; M. Crafton 160-168; K. Busch 169-200.
Entry list
#0 Chris Lafferty (Concord, NC) RAM/Koma Unwind Drink
#02 Tyler Young (Midland, TX) Chevrolet/Young's Building Syst.
#3 Ty Dillon (Welcome, NC) Chevrolet/Bass Pro Shops
#4 Jeb Burton (Halifax, VA) Chevrolet/Arrowhead
#5 Tim George Jr. (New York, NY) Chevrolet/Applebee's
#07 Chris Cockrum (Conyers, GA) Toyota/TBA
#7 John Wes Townley (Watkinsville, GA) Toyota/Zaxby's
#8 Max Gresham ((Griffin, GA) Chevrolet/Amwins
#9 Ron Hornaday Jr. (Palmdale, CA) Chevrolet/Smokey Mountain Snuff
#10 Jennifer Jo Cobb (Kansas City, KS) Chevrolet/Koma Unwind Drink
#13 Todd Bodine (Chemung, NY) Toyota/Sealmaster
#17 Timothy Peters (Providence, NC) Toyota/Parts Plus
#18 Joey Coulter (Miami Springs, FL) Toyota/Darrell Gwynn Foundation
#19 Ross Chastain (Alva, FL) Ford/Bulldog/Draw Tite
#24 Brennan Newberry (Bakersfield, CA) Chevrolet/NTC Inc./Qore-24
#27 Jeff Agnew (Copper Hill, VA) Chevrolet/TBA
#29 Ryan Blaney (High Point, NC) Ford/Cooper Standard
#31 James Buescher (Plano, TX) Chevrolet/Ruud
#32 Miguel Paludo (Nova Prata, Brazil) Chevrolet/Duroline
#39 Ryan Sieg (Tucker, GA) Chevrolet/RSS Racing
#51 Chad Hackenbracht (New Phila., OH) Toyota/Tastee Apple/Ingersoll Rand
#54 Darrell Wallace Jr. (Mobile, AL) Toyota/Kyle Busch Motorsports
#57 Norm Benning (Level Green, PA) Chevrolet/TBA
#60 Dakoda Armstrong (New Castle, IN) Chevrolet/Winfield
#62 Brendan Gaughan (Las Vegas, NV) Chevrolet/South Point
#63 Justin Jennings (LaGrange, MO) Chevrolet/LG Seeds/Mittler Bros.
#77 German Quiroga (Mexico City, Mexico) Toyota/Net 10
#81 David Starr (Houston, TX) Toyota/TBA
#84 Mike Harmon (Birmingport, AL) Chevrolet/TBA
#88 Matt Crafton (Tulare, CA) Toyota/Menards/Goof Off
#93 Chris Jones (Forest, VA) Chevrolet/RSS Racing
#98 * Johnny Sauter (Necedah, WI) Toyota/Carolina Nut Co/Curb Records
#99 Bryan Silas (Stuart, FL) Ford/Rockingham Speedway
Leading contenders
| Name | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Sauter | 11 | 6 | 2 | 22 | Won | ||||
| Matt Crafton | 8 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 29 | 2 |
| Joey Coulter | 5 | 3 | |||||||
| Brendan Gaughan | 27 | 26 | 24 | 15 | 14 | 4 | |||
| Ty Dillon | 7 | ||||||||
| Timothy Peters | 32 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 20 | 11 | |||
| Ron Hornaday Jr | 6 | 15 | 4 | Won | 19 | 9 | Won | 12 | |
| James Buescher | 18 | 6 | 9 | 15 | |||||
| Todd Bodine | 30 | Won | Won | 5 | Won | Won | 31 | 30 | |
| Darrell Wallace Jr. | |||||||||
| Jeb Burton |
Notes
This 1.5-mile racetrack has 24 degrees of banking in all four turns and five degrees of banking on both the front and back straightaways. The length of the front straight is 2,250 feet, and the back straight measures 1,330 feet.
There have been 30 truck races held at Texas. The series competed there once each season from 1997-98 and then twice each year since then. The second truck event at Texas this season is scheduled for Nov. 1.
Kenny Irwin Jr. won the inaugural truck race at Texas, the Pronto Auto Parts 400, on June 6, 1997.
Todd Bodine holds the record for most truck victories at Texas with six. Bodine's most recent win at this track came in June 2010.
Brendan Gaughan won both truck races at Texas during the 2002 and '03 seasons. Gaughan became the first driver in the series to win four consecutive races at the same track. He is driving the No. 62 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing this year.
Texas-native David Starr has the most truck starts at this track with 29. Starr did not compete in the first race there in '97.
Mike Skinner holds the record for most poles at Texas with five.
The winner of the truck race at Texas has started from the pole five times. Bodine most recently did it in June 2007.
The next race is the June 27 UNOH 225 at Kentucky Speedway. Timothy Peters won last year's event there.
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