Camping World Truck Series : Bristol

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

Next Race: UNOH 200 presented by ZLOOP

The Place: Bristol Motor Speedway

The Date: Wednesday, Aug. 19

The Time: 8:30 p.m. (ET)

TV: FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. (ET)

Radio: MRN, SiriusXM Ch. 90

Distance: 106.6 miles (200 laps)

Sargeant Takes ‘Next’ Step In NASCAR Journey

Dalton Sargeant, a 17-year-old NASCAR Next driver, continues to progress through the sport’s ranks, making his first NASCAR national series start at Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 19 in the UNOH 200 (8:30 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1). Sargeant will make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut with Wauters Motorsports, driving the No. 5 GALT Toyota. A Boca Raton, Florida native, Sargeant is competing full-time in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and has moonlighted in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West where he earned his first victory in his series debut at Kern County Raceway Park (Calif.).

Also running in Wednesday’s UNOH 200 are NASCAR Next members Cole Custer and John Hunter Nemechek. Custer, 17, returns to the NCWTS after a four-week hiatus and already has one win to his name this season, coming at Gateway Motorsport Park in June. Custer will make his second career start at Bristol where he finished eighth in his track debut. Nemechek also returns to Bristol with one previous start, finishing sixth at The Last Great Colosseum in 2014.

Triple The Fun At The Last Great Colosseum

Three times a charm for Ryan Blaney who is scheduled to run all three NASCAR national series races at Bristol Motor Speedway. First up, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in which Blaney will pilot the No. 29 Cooper Standard Ford for Brad Keselowski Racing. Blaney has three NCWTS starts this season, including a most recent second-place finish at Michigan International Speedway.

“I remember going to Bristol as a kid to watch my dad race and I think that's why I really look forward to racing there,” Blaney said.  “When you look forward to going to a track you usually run pretty well.  When you walk inside that place it's like walking into a big coliseum.  That's something really neat and it stuck in my mind.” 

Also running all three NASCAR national series races is NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standout Kyle Busch. After capturing back-to-back wins in the last two NCWTS events, Busch returns to Bristol where he claims an all-time best four series victories. Bristol is one of 11 tracks where Busch owns a win in all three of NASCAR’s national series. It’s also where he completed the only national series sweep in NASCAR history (2010).

Haley Set To Make National Series Debut At Bristol With Newly-Formed Braun Motorsports

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East driver, J.J. Haley, 16, will make his NASCAR national series debut in Wednesday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 200 for newly formed Braun Motorsports.

Haley competes full time for HSCOTT Motorsports with Justin Marks in the NKNPSE where he claims five top-five and eight top-10 finishes in 11 starts.

Wednesday’s race will mark the second time Haley has driven at Bristol. The Indiana native placed ninth there in the April NKNPSE event.

Braun Racing team owner Todd Braun is not new to NASCAR. He used to own Braun Racing, an organization that competed in the NASCAR XFINITY Series from 2003-10. Standouts who have driven for Braun included Kasey Kahne, Brian Vickers and Jamie McMurray.

Points Battle Gets Tighter At Michigan

The race for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship continues to be competitive as Matt Crafton (-8) and Erik Jones (-9) closed in on standings leader Tyler Reddick at Michigan International Speedway. Jones placed third, followed by Crafton in sixth and Reddick in ninth. Jones and Reddick will make their first career series starts at Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday, while Crafton returns to the short track where he has a 10.2 average finish.

If Reddick or Jones, both 19, were to win the championship, the individual would become the youngest NCWTS title winner in its history, supplanting Austin Dillon, who accomplished the feat in 2011 at the age of 21 years, 6 months and 22 days.

Crafton is chasing his third consecutive NCWTS championship. Last year, he became the first driver to successfully defend a NCWTS title.

Daniel Suarez Back In Truck At Bristol

NASCAR Next and Drive for Diversity alum Daniel Suarez returns to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for the first time since July 9 at Kentucky Speedway. Suarez has yet to finish outside the top 10 in the series for Kyle Busch Motorsports. He has no truck experience at Bristol, but finished a career-best second in the NASCAR XFINITY Series at the short track earlier this year – the top result by a Mexican-born driver in NASCAR national series history.