Everybody’s A Winner At Red Horse Racing

Everybody’s A Winner At Red Horse Racing

Four different drivers – Todd Bodine, John King, Parker Kligerman and Timothy Peters – have climbed behind the wheel of the organization’s Toyota Tundras in 2012.
    With Kligerman’s drought-busting victory at Talladega Superspeedway, each of the four has visited Victory Lane in 2012.
    Teams have fielded four winning drivers before: Kevin Harvick Inc. in 2010-11, when the organization fielded six and nine drivers, respectively. But never in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series history has a team gone four-for-four.
    "Magic" is how Red Horse co-owner Tom DeLoach describes the team/driver synergy – and the chassis that has won twice at Daytona (Peters and King, in February) and on Saturday at Talladega with Kligerman at the controls.
    "We've got five wins among four drivers, so it's pretty special that everybody that comes here wins," said DeLoach, who shares ownership of the team with legendary NASCAR Sprint Cup crew chief Jeff Hammond. The team, which made its 300th start at Talladega, also has won with Brandon Whitt and David Starr, 10 times overall.
    Red Horse has two shots at its first driver and owner titles. Peters, a two-time winner this season, is third, 26 points behind standings leader Ty Dillon. Red Horse’s No. 17 Toyota trails the No. 3 Richard Childress Chevrolet by a similar margin on the owners’ side.
    Connecticut’s Kligerman, who snapped a string of five second-place finishes, is 34 points back in fourth.

Young Guns Help Series Close In On Record

With 13 different winners in 2012, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is one shy of the single season record of 14 set in 1998 and matched in 2005.
What a difference seven years make – especially in demographics.
In 2005, nine of the 14 winners were past their 40th birthdays. Only two – Kyle Busch, 20, and Brandon Whitt, 22 – were under the age of 30.
Contrast that with the current season, in which Ryan Blaney set a record for the youngest winner (age 18) and eight winners are 29 or younger.
Looking at 43 races run since the beginning of 2011, there have been plenty of victories to go around with 21 different winners. Harvick, Peters and Johnny Sauter are the only drivers with a victory in each season.
NCWTS points-eligible competitors have won all but two of this year’s 18 races, a huge turnaround from 2011 when NASCAR Sprint Cup or Nationwide Series drivers claimed 15 of 25 events.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Etc.

    Ninety-four wild laps of Talladega competition settled nothing as far as the standings are concerned. Ty Dillon entered with a one-point lead over James Buescher and exited – with the same margin, as both drivers traded top five finishes and lap leader bonus points. Last year’s Talladega race (the 22nd of a 25-race season) produced a three-point differential between eventual champion Austin Dillon and Buescher. … Peters had the best Daytona-Talladega results, finishing second and fifth. Dillon was next with a fourth and ninth. … German Quiroga scored his first NCWTS top 10 (eighth) in his third start for Kyle Busch Motorsports. … Tim George Jr. (ninth) recorded his series-best finish, improving on a pair of 15ths at Pocono and Iowa. … Series teams take a two-week bye before heading for the Oct. 27 Kroger 200 at Martinsville Speedway.