CLERMONT, Ind. — After three weeks off, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection returns to motion in Friday evening’s TSport 200 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
That’s excellent news for reigning collection champion Ty Majeski, whose victory on the 0.686-mile brief monitor final yr proved to be a springboard to the collection 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 Collection standings when he got here to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park final yr. 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 through the down time for the Truck Collection.
Watkins Glen Worldwide and Richmond Raceway observe Indianapolis, and that portion of the schedule bodes nicely for Majeski in a disappointing yr 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 Collection can also be on Friday’s card at IRP.
