NASCAR Camping World Truck Series News | Matt Crafton 2015
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series News | Matt Crafton. Based Sandusky, Ohio, ThorSport Racing is the longest-tenured NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team. Matt Crafton enters 2015 as the defending back-to-back NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers’ champion (2013,2014). In 2015 Matt once again joins ThorSport owners Duke and Rhonda Thorson with the team’s No. 88 Menards Toyota.
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Matt Crafton Dominates At Homestead – Wins Truck Series Season Finale
Stats: Started: 1st Finished: 1st Laps: 134/134 Status: Running Driver Points: 3rd (-15) Owner Points: 3rd Homestead, FL (November 21, 2015) – Making his 361st career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) start in Friday night’s NCWTS 200 at Homestead-Miami (Fl.) Speedway (HMS), Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, closed out the 23-race season in d...
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Matt Crafton Will Once Again Make History In Homestead
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 3rd (-32) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 3rd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (November 16, 2015) – Although a third-consecutive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) driver’s championship title is unlikely for Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra in 2015, the ThorSport Racing driver can cha...
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Promising Run Cut Short For Crafton At Phoenix
Stats: Started: 4th Finished: 23rd Laps: 130/150 Status: Accident Driver Points: 3rd (-32) Owner Points: 3rd Avondale, AZ (November 14, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, entered Friday night’s Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix (Ariz.) International Raceway (PIR) looking to make up ground in his chase for a third championship title. Showing speed in th...
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Phoenix International Raceway – Back To Where It All Began For Crafton
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-17) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (October 9, 2015) – Although the central California town of Tulare, home of Matt Crafton, is more than 500 miles from Phoenix (Ariz.) International Raceway (PIR), site of Friday night's Lucas Oil 150, the two-time, and defending series champion calls...
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Crafton Earns 88th Career Top-Five Finish In Texas
Stats: Started: 1st Finished: 4th Laps: 147/147 Status: Running Driver Points: 2nd (-17) Owner Points: 2nd Fort Worth, TX (November 7, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 DampRid/Menards Toyota Tundra, entered the 21st race on the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) schedule at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth looking to make Texas-sized gains in route to a “...
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Crafton Looking For Texas-Sized Gains En Route To A “Three-Peat”
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-10) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (November 2, 2015) – “Consistent Crafton” has had a season for the history books in 2015 – leading a career-high 636 laps, and winning a career-high five races in one season, including last weekend’s Kroger 200 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway....
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Martinsville Victory Revives Matt Crafton’s Championship Hopes
Stats: Started: 13th Finished: 1st Laps: 200/200 Status: Running Driver Points: 2nd (-10) Owner Points: 2nd Martinsville, Va. (October 31, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Fisher Nuts/Menards Toyota Tundra, started 13th in Saturday’s Kroger 200 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, led the final 63 laps in the 200-lap event, and scored his second win in 28 starts at the half-mile...
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The Final Four Has Crafton Needing To “Clock-In” At Martinsville
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 3rd (-23) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 3rd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (October 27, 2015) – It’s down to the final four races of the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season for Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Fisher Nuts/Menards Toyota Tundra, and after last week’s 24th-place finish, that left the tw...
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Debris Demolishes Crafton’s Day In Talladega
Stats: Started: 7th Finished: 24th Laps: 96/98 Status: Running Driver Points: 3rd (-23) Owner Points: 3rd Talladega, Al. (October 24, 2015) – Making his 10th start at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in Saturday afternoon’s fred’s 250, Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Hormel Pepperoni/Menards Toyota Tundra, looked like he would be a contender for victory lane following the 94-lap ev...
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Crafton’s “Craft” Can Help Determine His “Fate” In Talladega
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-4) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (October 20, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Hormel Pepperoni/Menards Toyota Tundra, enters the 19th race on the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) schedule at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway second in the driver point standings,...
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Crafton Comes Up Short On Fuel After Promising Run In Vegas
Stats: Started: 1st Finished: 8th Laps: 146/146 Status: Running Driver Points: 2nd (-4) Owner Points: 2nd Las Vegas, NV (October 4, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 FVP/Menards Toyota Tundra, was dominant throughout the day on Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS). Topping the speed charts early in the lone NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) practice session on Sa...
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The “Odds” Are In Favor Of Matt Crafton In Vegas
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-7) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (September 29, 2015) – You can say Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 FVP/Menards Toyota Tundra, knows his way around the 1.5-mile Las Vegas (Nev.) Motor Speedway (LVMS). In 14 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) starts since 2001, the two-time a...
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Crafton Scores Track-Best Finish In Loudon
Stats: Started: 10th Finished: 2nd Laps: 175/175 Status: Running Driver Points: 2nd (-7) Owner Points: 2nd Loudon, NH (September 26, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Rip It/Menards Toyota Tundra entered Saturday’s UNOH 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) in Loudon, looking for redemption. The two-time and defending series champion began the 17th race on the 2015 NCWTS...
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Lucky Number 13 For Crafton In Loudon
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 3rd (-11) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 3rd Crew Chief: Carl "Junior" Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (September 22, 2015) - Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Rip It/Menards Toyota Tundra, heads to New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) in Loudon, for Saturday's UNOH 175 looking for redemption. The two-time and defending series champion, who finished 14th in...
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A Multitude Of Mishaps Relegates Crafton To A 14th-Place Finish In Chicago
Stats: Started: 2nd Finished: 14th Laps: 147/150 Status: Running Driver Points: 3rd (-11) Owner Points: 3rd Joliet, IL (September 19, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Slim Jim/Menards Toyota Tundra, had an average finish of 1.4 on mile-and-a-half tracks, going into Saturday morning’s rain delayed American Ethanol 225 at Chicagoland Speedway. Starting second, when qualifying...
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Crafton Hopes To “Snap” Into Victory Lane In The Windy City
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-3) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (September 14, 2015) – The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) has visited five 1.5-mile tracks in the first 15 stops on the 2015 schedule. Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Slim Jim/Menards Toyota Tundra has won at four of those venues (Atl...
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Crafton Scores Runner-Up Finish North Of The Border
Stats: Started: 3rd Finished: 2nd Laps: 64/64 Status: Running Driver Points: 2nd (-3) Owner Points: 2nd Bowmanville, Ontario (August 31, 2015) – In his third start at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP) in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, on Sunday, Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra started a track-best third and finished a track-best second in the NA...
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Crafton Hopes To Crack The Top-Five For The First Time North Of The Border
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-6) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (August 25, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, lost his spot atop the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) point standings following a 28th-place finish at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway earlier this month....
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Crafton Comes Up Short – Finishes Seventh After Strong Run At Bristol
Stats: Started: 6th Finished: 7th Laps: 202/202 Status: Running Driver Points: 2nd (-6) Owner Points: 2nd Bristol, Tenn. (August 20, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Great Lakes/Menards Toyota Tundra, looked like he was in position to capture his fifth win of the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season late in Wednesday night’s UNOH 200 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor...
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Crafton Primed To Continue Short Track Success At Bristol
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-8) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (August 17, 2015) – As the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) heads into the 14th race on the 2015 schedule at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway (BMS), Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Great Lakes/Menards Toyota Tundra, finds himself in the thi...
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“Trying Day” Yields A Top-10 Finish For Matt Crafton At Michigan
Stats: Started: 1st Finished: 6th Laps: 100/100 Status: Running Driver Points: 2nd (-8) Owner Points: 2nd Brooklyn, MI (August 15, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, had the type of day that championships are characterized by. Starting on the pole for Saturday’s Careers for Veterans 200 at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in Brooklyn, t...
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Crafton – Ready to Rebound at Michigan, Reclaim the Points Lead
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-11) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (August 11, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, has been an “Ideal” candidate for consistency throughout the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season. The 15-year veteran ha...
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A Promising Start Cut Short For Crafton In Pocono
Stats: Started: 3rd Finished: 28th Laps: 12/69 Status: Overheating Driver Points: 2nd (-11) Owner Points: 2nd Long Pond, PA (August, 1 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Chi Chi’s/Menards Toyota Tundra, had a promising start to the 12th race on the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) schedule at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway on Saturday afternoon. Starting a track-be...
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Consistent Crafton Looking For A “Trifecta” Of Firsts At Pocono
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+14) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (July 28, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Chi Chi’s/Menards Toyota Tundra, enters the 6th Annual Pocono Mountains 150 at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway with a 14 point lead on the competition after 11 races this season. Although the field is inva...
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Crafton Settles For A Top-10 Finish At Eldora
Stats: Started: 12th Finished: 9th Laps: 154/154 Status: Running Driver Points: 1st (+14) Owner Points: 1st Rossburg, OH (July 23, 2015) – Menards driver, Matt Crafton, started the 3rd Annual 1-800-Car-Cash Mud Summer Classic at Eldora Speedway from the 12th position and finished ninth. The top-10 result was the two-time champion’s third top-10 finish in three starts at the h...
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Crafton Aims To Protect His Title In Eldora
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+20) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (July 20, 2015) – For the third consecutive year, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) will head to the historic half-mile clay oval of Eldora Speedway located in the cornfields of Rossburg, Ohio for the 1-800-CarCash Mudsummer Classic....
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Crafton Wins For The Fourth Time This Season In Wreck-Shortened UNOH 225 At Kentucky
Stats: Started: 1st (based on rule book) Finished: 1st Laps: 145/145 Status: Running Driver Points: 1st (+20) Owner Points: 1st Sparta, KY (July 10, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, won the wreck-shortened UNOH 225 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta on Thursday night. The feat is the ThorSport Racing driver’s first win at the 1.5-mile track and...
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Intermediate Ace, Crafton, Looks To Continue His Dominance In Kentucky
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+12) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (July 7, 2015) – For the sixth time this season, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) will invade an intermediate-style race track, the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, for the 18th annual UNOH 225 on Thursday night, July 9. Wi...
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Matt Crafton Scores 200th Career Top-10 Finish At Iowa
Stats: Started: 9th Finished: 4th Laps: 200/200 Status: Running Driver Points: 1st (+12) Owner Points: 1st Newton, IA (June 20, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Chi Chi’s/Menards Toyota Tundra, continued his consistent ways in 2015, finishing fourth in Friday night’s American Ethanol 200 presented by Enogen at Iowa Speedway in Newton. The 2011 race winner started n...
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Iowa Speedway – A field of Dreams for Matt Crafton
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+12) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (June 15, 2015) – Coming off his first finish of the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season outside the top-10, Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Chi Chi’s/Menards Toyota Tundra, has his...
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Crafton Finishes 21st in Gateway – Remains Truck Series Point Leader
Stats: Started: Third Finished: 21st Laps: 151/160 Status: Accident Driver Points: 1st (+12) Owner Points: 1st Madison, Ill. (June 14, 2015) – Making his 12th start at Gateway (Ill.) Motorsports Park, Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, entered Saturday night’s Drivin’ for Linemen 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS...
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“Success Breeds Success” – Matt Crafton Looks To Continue His Dominance At Gateway
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+25) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (June 9, 2015) – For the first time in his 16-year NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) career, Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, has three wins in one season. In fact, it wasn’t until 2014...
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Crafton Claims Third Win of the Season at Texas
Stats: Started: 2nd Finished: 1st Laps: 167/167 Status: Running Driver Points: 1st (+25) Owner Points: 1st Fort Worth, TX (June 6, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, outdueled Toyota Racing teammate, Daniel Suarez, following a pair of late-race restarts to claim his third win of the season in Friday night’s WinStar World Casino 400k at Tex...
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FOX Sports South’s EMMY Award-Winning Series Driven Continues with Matt Crafton: Born to Race
Premieres Friday, June 12 at 11 p.m. ET on FOX Sports South and FOX Sports GO Click on photo to view preview of show ATLANTA (June 4, 2015) – FOX Sports South will debut DRIVEN – Matt Crafton: Born to Race, presented by Toyota on Friday, June 12 at 11 p.m. ET, the latest in the network’s EMMY Award-winning original programming series. DRIVEN – Matt Crafton: Born to Ra...
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Matt Crafton – an “Ideal” Candidate for Victory Lane at Texas
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+11) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (June 1, 2015) – The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) has visited three intermediate tracks in six races this season. Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra, has won a...
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Matt Crafton Finishes Fifth at Dover – Retains Point Lead
Stats: Started: 3rd Finished: 5th Laps: 200/200 Status: Running Driver Points: 1st (+11) Owner Points: 1st Dover, DE (May 30, 2015) - Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Rip It®/Menards Toyota Tundra, recovered from a pit road penalty late in Friday's Lucas Oil 200 at Dover (DE) International Speedway to finish fifth, the ThorSport Racing driver's f...
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Points Leader, Matt Crafton Hopes to “Rip” into Victory Lane at Dover on Friday
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+16) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (May 26, 2015) – Dover (Del.) International Speedway is known as the “Monster Mile,” and “Miles,” the tracks iconic mascot, has had his share of victims in the 15-year tenure that the NASCAR Campin...
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Crafton Finishes Third at Charlotte – Retains Point Lead
Stats: Started: 9th Finished: 3rd Laps: 139/139 Status: Running Driver Points: 1st (+16) Owner Points: 1st Concord, NC (May 16, 2015) - Matt Crafton piloted his No. 88 Great Lakes/Menards Toyota Tundra to a third-place finish in Friday night's NC Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway (CMS). The solid run was the ThorSport Racing driver's fifth...
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Matt Crafton, A Sure “Bet” for Friday Night’s NC Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+17) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (May 11, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Great Lakes/Menards Toyota Tundra, has seven career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) wins, including two wins this season at Atlanta (Ga.) Motor...
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Matt Crafton “Snaps” into Victory Lane at Kansas
Stats: Started: 2nd Finished: 1st Laps: 167/167 Status: Running Driver Points: 1st (+17) Owner Points: 1st Kansas City, KS (May 9, 2015) – Defending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) champion, Matt Crafton, defied history once again, winning Friday night’s Toyota Tundra 250 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, KS. The Slim Jim®/Menards driver earned his se...
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Matt Crafton – Ready to Re-Write the History Books Once Again at Kansas
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 1st (+2) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 1st Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (May 4, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Slim Jim®/Menards Toyota Tundra, re-wrote the NASCAR history books in 2014 when he became the first back-to-back NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NC...
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Crafton Finishes Second At Martinsville – Takes Over The Points Lead
Matt Crafton, No. 88 Hormel® Pepperoni/Menards Toyota Tundra NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Martinsville Speedway – Kroger 250 Race No. 3 of 23 Stats: Started: 13th Finished: 2nd Laps: 258/258 Status: Running Driver Points: 1st (+2) Owner Points: 1st Ridgeway, Va. (March 28, 2015) – Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, site of Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Kroger 25...
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Crafton Eyeing Another Win In Martinsville
Matt Crafton, No. 88 Hormel® Pepperoni/Menards Toyota Tundra NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Martinsville Speedway – Kroger 250 Race No. 3 of 23 Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 2nd (-2) 2015 Owner Point Standings: 2nd Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner When the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) takes the green flag at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway on Saturda...
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Matt Crafton Wins In Dominating Fashion In Atlanta
Matt Crafton, No. 88 Fisher® Nuts/Menards Toyota Tundra NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Atlanta Motor Speedway Race No. 2 of 23 Hampton, GA (February 28, 2015) – Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Fisher® Nuts/Menards Toyota Tundra, proved why Atlanta (Ga.) Motor Speedway (AMS) is his favorite race track. The two-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) champion captured his firs...
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Matt Crafton Goes “Nuts” Over Atlanta
Team Information: 2015 Driver Point Standings: 6th 2015 Owner Point Standings: 8th Crew Chief: Carl “Junior” Joiner Sandusky, Ohio (February 24, 2015) – For the first time in two years, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) will head back to Atlanta (Ga.) Motor Speedway (AMS) for the 14th annual Hyundai Construction Equipment 200 on Saturday, Feb. 28. &nb...