Jeff Agnew has circled Motor Mile Speedway countless times in race cars. But when the Copper Hill, Va., native took to his home track on Tuesday, it was for the first time in the cockpit of a race truck. Three days removed from his first USAR Pro Cup Series win at the Radford, Va., racetrack, Agnew and Team 7 Motorsports returned for a test session in preparation for another milestone: A NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut. Agnew is tentatively slated to make his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway on August 24. The opportunity came to fruition earlier this year, when Team 7 Motorsports owner Eddie Asbury acquired a pair of race trucks from the ThorSport Racing stable, with engines from Earnhardt-Childress Racing. The two-truck fleet is operating out of the same Bluefield, WV, race shop that harbors the team’s USAR Pro Cup Series effort. While the team plans to complete the remainder of the dates on the USAR Pro Cup Series schedule, the 2011 calendar has accumulated at least one additional race. Agnew stresses that the team’s NCWTS 2011-2012 plans are indefinite, however. “I don’t think since we’ve been together that we’ve ever had a plan. It’s always been ‘let’s go race.’ We’ve been racing since 1998 together, and I’m sure this won’t be any different,” says Agnew. “We’ll see how [Bristol] goes, and then we’ll go from there.”(Motor Mile Speedway PR)(8-9-2011)
