This week’s 200-lap event marks Ty Dillon’s second appearance at Martinsville Speedway in the Camping World Truck Series. The 20-year-old driver qualified the #3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet in the second position and remained a fixture in the top-three for the entire 250-lap affair at the half-mile short track. Dillon led for two laps en route to a second-place finish in his first Camping World Truck Series appearance at the Martinsville, Va.-based facility. Dillon remains the leader of the 2012 Camping World Truck Series driver championship point standings, ahead of second-place driver by one point. Throughout the course of the last 18 Camping World Truck Series races, Dillon has one win (Atlanta Motor Speedway), three pole awards (Charlotte Motor Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway), six top-five and 16 top-10 finishes. The Welcome, N.C., native holds an average starting position of 5.2 and a seventh-place average finishing position. He has completed 99.9 percent (2,730 of 2,732) of the contested laps and led for 142 circuits.(Richard Childress Racing)(10-23-2012)
