Frank Kimmels ThorSport Racing team has called upon him to drive the #13 Toyota Tundra in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series American Ethanol 200 this Saturday at Iowa Speedway. And, just like Kimmels ARCA car, the truck will be sponsored by Ansell and Menards. ‘Its really exciting – of course to get back in a truck – but all my guys that work on the ARCA cars will be crewing the truck at Iowa’ Kimmel said.( ARCARacing.com )(7-9-2013) UPDATE: Frank Kimmel, the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards championship leader and three-time winner this season, will make his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start in nine years, this weekend for ThorSport Racing in Saturdays American Ethanol 200 presented by Enogen at Iowa Speedway. Kimmel will drive a #13 Toyota Tundra with a primer-gray paint scheme typical to the #13 this season, highlighted with Menards signature Day-Glo orange ‘swoosh” stripes with an identical Ansell / Menards sponsorship package. Kimmel has 12 career Truck Series starts, the most recent in 2004 for owner Bob Keselowski, for whom he had his career-best eighth-place finish that season, at Daytona. Kimmel is a guaranteed starter at Iowa thanks to his truck being tied for 16th in the series owners standings. ThorSports #13 truck was driven in the series first seven races by Todd Bodine and in its last race by NASCAR K&N Pro Series East title contender Brett Moffitt of Grimes, Iowa, who has a conflicting K&N race this weekend while the Trucks race at his home track. Kimmel was already scheduled to be in Iowa to coordinate the running of a 200-lap Frank Kimmel Street Stock Nationals race on Friday. (See an image on the #13 team paint scheme page )(ThorSport PR)
