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By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

(October 22, 2011)

TALLADEGA, Ala.—In his first Camping World Truck Series start since 2009, Mike Wallace won Saturday’s Coca-Cola 250 at Talladega Superspeedway, as Kevin Harvick Inc. teammate Ron Hornaday Jr. pushed him across the finish line.

Hornaday ran second, followed by James Buescher, who made a dent in the series points lead of Austin Dillon. Dillon scrambled to a seventh-place finish after he was demoted to 18th for not maintaining pace under the final caution of the race. The recovery enabled Dillon to stay ahead of Buescher in the standings.

The victory was the fifth overall for Wallace, who was substituting for Elliott Sadler, whose wife, Amanda, is expecting the couple’s second child. Wallace won in the truck series for the first time since 2000. The victory was his first in any of NASCAR’s top three touring series since he won a Nationwide race at Daytona in July 2004.

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1 31 James Buescher Bad Boy Mowers Chevrolet 53.896 SEC / 177.676
2 8 Nelson Piquet Jr. # tagg/Qualcomm Chevrolet 54.149 SEC / 176.845
3 3 Austin Dillon Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats Chevrolet 54.232 SEC / 176.575
4 4 Ricky Carmichael Monster Energy Chevrolet 54.274 SEC / 176.438
5 2 Ron Hornaday Jr. Bad Boy Buggies Chevrolet 54.368 SEC / 176.133
6 33 Mike Wallace(i) Anderson’s Maple Syrup Chevrolet 54.504 SEC / 175.694
7 22 Joey Coulter # Rip It Energy Fuel Chevrolet 54.508 SEC / 175.681
8 20 * Johanna Long # Panhandle Grading & Paving Toyota 54.598 SEC / 175.391
9 29 Parker Kligerman # Penske Truck Leasing Dodge 54.654 SEC / 175.211
10 60 Cole Whitt # Fuel Doctor/Red Bull Chevrolet 54.727 SEC / 174.978
11 32 Blake Feese AccuDoc Solutions Chevrolet 54.760 SEC / 174.872
12 88 Matt Crafton Menards/Certain Teed Chevrolet 54.769 SEC / 174.843
13 81 David Starr BuildYourFuture.org/Zachry Toyota 54.826 SEC / 174.662
14 84 * Chris Fontaine Glenden Enterprises Toyota 54.848 SEC / 174.592
15 17 Timothy Peters NTB/Service Central Toyota 54.888 SEC / 174.464

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By Brian Hilderbrand
Special to the Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

(October 15, 2011)

LAS VEGAS, Nev.—Polesitter Ron Hornaday Jr. held off a late challenge by Matt Crafton on Saturday to earn his 51st Camping World Truck Series victory in the Smith’s 350 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Hornaday, 53, led 107 of the 146 laps and notched his second victory in a row and his first in 11 starts in Las Vegas. Crafton was second, .629 seconds back, followed by Timothy Peters, Johnny Sauter and Todd Bodine.

Rounding out the top 10 were Nelson Piquet Jr., David Mayhew, Cole Whitt, Brendan Gaughan and Parker Kligerman.

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By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

(August 20, 2011)

BROOKLYN, Mich.—Kevin Harvick outran Timothy Peters in a green-white-checkered-flag finish at Michigan International Speedway, and with Nelson Piquet Jr. slamming the inside backstretch wall behind him, claimed his second straight NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory in Saturday’s VFW 200.

The victory was owner/driver Harvick’s second in four starts this season and the 11th of his career.

Peters ran second, followed by Miguel Paludo, James Buescher and David Starr. Jason White, Ron Hornaday Jr., Brendan Gaughan, Colin Braun and Cole Whitt completed the top 10.

Harvick, who became the first driver to win at Michigan in all three of NASCAR’s top touring series, avoided a vicious multicar collision on Lap 90—initiated by contact between the trucks of Parker Kligerman and Mark Martin—to put himself in position to win.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Aug. 9, 2011) – The No. 13 team that competes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the No. 6 and 14 teams that compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series were penalized Tuesday as a result of rules violations committed this past weekend.

The No. 13 truck was found to be in violation of Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing); 12-4-J (any determination by NASCAR Officials that the race equipment used in the event does not conform to NASCAR rules); and 20B-12.8.1D (truck failed to meet maximum right rear bed panel height) of the 2011 NASCAR rule book.

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