CLERMONT, Ind. — After three weeks off, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence returns to motion in Friday evening’s TSport 200 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
That’s excellent news for reigning sequence champion Ty Majeski, whose victory on the 0.686-mile quick monitor final 12 months proved to be a springboard to the sequence championship.
Majeski added a win at Richmond and a runner-up end from the pole on the Milwaukee Mile in his subsequent two begins. After qualifying for the Championship 4, he received from the pole at Phoenix Raceway to safe the title.
Majeski was fourth within the Truck Sequence standings when he got here to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park final 12 months. This season, his place is significantly extra tenuous.
With three races left within the common season, the driving force of the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford is tenth on the potential Playoff grid, simply 38 factors above the present elimination line.
Accordingly, the TSport 200 couldn’t come at a greater time for the 30-year-old short-track ace from Seymour, Wis., who received the distinguished Slinger Nationals tremendous late mannequin race in his native state on July 8 throughout the down time for the Truck Sequence.
Watkins Glen Worldwide and Richmond Raceway comply with Indianapolis, and that portion of the schedule bodes nicely for Majeski in a disappointing 12 months for ThorSport.
Majeski is the one one of many group’s drivers presently above the elimination line.
Jake Garcia is eleventh, 38 factors behind his champion teammate. Two-time title winner Ben Rhodes is thirteenth on the present Playoff grid, 68 factors out, and three-time champion Matt Crafton is 153 factors down in sixteenth, needing a win within the subsequent three races to advance to the 10-driver Playoffs.
The ARCA Menards Sequence can be on Friday’s card at IRP.
