After Saturday's race, the last one will be given out to the race winner. It'll be a bummer for me, since I think it's pretty unique trophy to give a race winner and wish they kept giving them out.
At least I can hope that MMP replaces it in 2010 with another unique cool looking trophy and not just another generic one.
Here's a picture of the trophy.
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At Memphis, there are 34 Trucks entered to race Saturday night in the MemphisTravel.com 200 presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts.
It's two trucks shy of a full field. The breakdown is 25 full-time teams and nine part-time teams.
The Points Tighten
We've run 10 races, have 15 more left to run to complete the 2009 Camping World Truck Series season.
The series is known for it's great point battles, the last two seasons have came down to the final lap wave of the checkers at Homestead.
So far in 2009, the points are no different. Even with a tough economy, we've seen five different changes with the points leader. Now Hornaday is back leading for a second time.
The top four are a mere 89 points separated, then fifth through 10th are over 200 points back, but only 57 points separate them. It's just one bad race by the leader to close the gap back up.
It's definitely going to be exciting to watch another awesome points battle unfold. Don't be surprised to see three or more drivers roll into Homestead with a shot to win the championship.
Hornaday's Corner
It's back to back tracks that we may just see Ron Hornaday just dominate the race.
He's the defending race winner, and last year he led 134 of 204 laps.
In fact, according to the loop data statistics, Horn, in his four previous races at the track, has led 274 of the last 478 laps. No one's close to that total driver-wise.
More impressive is that he's completed 1,208 laps; every one in the six races he's run at Memphis.
He should unload with a fast truck and qualify on the pole. He wants that guitar for his trophy room and we should see another dominating performance by him.
Horn wants to claim that last Elvis trophy, so he'll have a matching set on his mantle.
He'll be racing the same chassis No. 027 at Memphis, and it's the same one he took to victory lane at Milwaukee. We could just see it go back to back.
The Rookie Chase
James Buescher would be the Raybestos Rookie of the Race at Milwaukee, where he started 19th on owner points and finished a career best of fifth place.
He started out with a tight truck and made two pit stops 14 laps apart to help loosen his truck.
He would go a lap down on lap 117, but regained it when green flag pit stops started happening.
His pit strategy helped him out. A caution flag during green flag pit stops was to his benefit, and placed him in the top five.
With a balanced truck he was able to maintain fast lap times and came home with a fifth place finish.
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