2009 Team News
David Starr will be back with Red Horse Racing, in the No. 11 Toyota Tundra and Zachry's Holdings, Inc. has re-newed it's sponsorship for 2009.
Rick Crawford will back with Circle Bar Racing, in the No. 14 Ford F-150 and International Diesel will be back as sponsor in 2009.
Ron Hornaday will be back with Kevin Harvick, Inc., in the No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado, both Camping World and the VFW will be back as sponsors in 2009.
News
Speed TV Enjoys It's Best Ever Season Rating Wise
With the dramatic finale in the NCTS, Speed peaked at more than one million households, making 2008 the most watched season since 2003 when the series moved to the network.
"The race at Homestead-Miami Speedway scored a Nielsen Household Rating of .96 (702,000 households), up 146 percent from last year's .39 (286, 000 households). The broadcast peaked at 1.39 (1,021,000 households) and marked the highest year to year average rating increase of the season". (speed.com)
"The 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season on Speed was the highest rated ever, averaging a .80 and 585,000 households. On the year 19 of 22 races on Speed saw year to year Nielsen Rating's increases, 15 in double digits." (speed.com)
Awards Banquet Winners
The final Awards Banquet for the Craftsman Truck Series was held Monday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Grand Ballroom and here's the list of winners.
Champion: Johnny Benson
Rookie of the Year: Colin Braun
Most Popular Driver: Johnny Benson
Wix Filters Lap Leader Award: Ron Hornaday
Featherlite Awards: Ron Hornaday
Mobile 1 Contingency Award: Johnny Benson
Goodyear Contingency Award: Johnny Benson
Sunoco Contingency Award: Johnny Benson
Manufacturer Champion: Toyota
Speed TV on Dec. 8th at 8:00PM will air highlights from the banquet.
NASCAR.com Latest Poll Question
Which Series was the most entertaining in 2008? Here's the results as of 3:12AM 11/21.
Truck Series: 22,087 votes for 53%
Cup Series: 14986 votes for 36%
Nationwide: 4329 votes for 10%
Speed Bump
(This will be the final one, it will be on hiatus, but should Speed do any truck races in the future it will be back.)
Scott Speed had his heart set on watching friend, mentor, and teammate Johnny Benson battle for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship, but to do it he had to come from the back not once but twice.
Before the race even started, Speed was on pit road getting his transmission changed, scratching his seventh place starting spot in the Ford 200.
So he started in the back, by Lap 40, he was running in 15th place and would get a speeding penalties on his first pit stop and he would again start from the back.
But Speed would not be denied watching JB win the title andby the green-white-checkers on Lap 134. He would be sitting in eighth with JB, in front of him and Ron Hornaday in ninth behind him.
He'd take his time getting started on the restart, holding up Hornaday just a few fractions of a second, and yes the Speed Demon got to watch JB win the title and couldn't be happier for him.
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