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Quaker State not returning to Sprague’s team

During the post truck race interview on Saturday in Phoenix, Jack Sprague said that Quaker State was not going to be back in 1998 on the #24 truck(11-2-97)...
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Dave Rezendes driving for Rahal and Gloy

CART driver/owner Bobby Rahal and sports car driver Tom Gloy formed a Truck team to field a Fords for Dave Rezendes in 1998. Icehouse Beer(Miller) will be the sponsor and debut Saturday in Phoenix(Greensboro News & Record)(11-2-97)...
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Greg Biffle driving Roush’s third Truck

Jack Roush announced his third NASCAR truck team with sponsorship from W.W. Grainger, Inc., a manufacturer of motors, pumps, fans and air compressors.with Greg Biffle, a NASCAR Northwest Tour series driver from Vancouver, Wash., handling the driving duties(The Depot...
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Trucks at Memphis

The Craftsman Truck Series will also run at the new three quarter-mile oval Memphis Motorsports Park on 9/13 in 1998.(iRace)(10-31-97)...
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Truck aero changed after wind tunnel testing

"NASCAR ordered up plenty of wind tunnel time before the Craftsman Truck series went to its first two-mile track, California Truck Speedway, for the No FEAR Challenge last weekend. As a result of the various tests, the aero package for the trucks was altered significantly...
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Sprague comments on Cup plans

Jack Sprague says in 10-29's NASCAR Online chat "We're going to run the truck series next year, and run five Cup races with an eye to getting tuned up and being ready to run Winston Cup in 1999."(NASCAR Online), Quaker State was not mentioned in the transcript.(10-...
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Busy time for Troy Selberg

Craftsman Truck crew chief/team manger Troy Selberg will be working overtime at Vegas. Troy is helping Southwest Tour Driver Craig Raudman during the Winston West race on the same weekend the Trucks are in Vegas."I'm looking forward to working on a car after a whole...
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Ken Schrader competing at Las Vegas

Ken Schrader plans on competing in both races being held at the 1.5-mile Las Vegas Superspeedway during the Carquest Auto Parts 420K weekend presented by Las Vegas Events on Nov. 7-9. Schrader will drive a pick-up truck owned by the legendary A.J. Foyt in the Carquest...
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Three year deal for Wayne Anderson

Wayne Anderson will be/or has signed a three year deal to drive a Porter Cable Professional Power Tools sponsored truck for the Liberty Racing Teamand the #98 Ford. It appears that Raybestos will not be returning as a sponsor of the Liberty truck(10-25-97)...
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Wayne Auton moving to Busch Series?

I hear that Wayne Auton, the Director of the Craftsman Truck Series, will move to the same position in the Busch Series, Grand National Division in 1998. No idea what current director Ray Hill will be doing or going(10-24-97)...
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NAPA Auto Parts sponsoring fall Martinsville race

"NAPA Auto Parts has signed a multi-year agreement to sponsor Martinsville Speedway's fall NASCAR Winston Cup Series weekend beginning in 1998. The 1998 NAPA AutoCare 500 will be held Sunday, Sept. 27, and the NAPA 250 Craftsman Truck Series race will take place Saturday...
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Mike Bliss returning to the #2 Truck team

It was announced Saturday, October 18th during the Craftsman Truck Race at California Speedway that Mike Bliss has re-signed with the #2 Ford Truck team and will not take the #43 STP Pontiac Richard Petty ride. It was noted that he had talked to Petty about the ride...
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Truck race for Elliott

Bill Elliott will drive the Team ASE Ford Truck Nov. 9 at Las Vegas as a teammate to Mike Bliss(10-17-97)...
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Kevin Cywinski to Trucks

I hear ASA Champion Kevin Cywinski is moving to the truck series in 1998 as he won the competition for the seat on the #18 Dana-sponsored Kurt Roehrig team(10-15-97)...
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Butch Miller gets the Dana Dodge Truck

I also hear that after all the driver auditions for the Dana Dodge truck ride that Butch Miller will get the ride 1998 and it was also announced that Robby Gordon would drive the truck in Fontana Oct 18th(10-7-97)...
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Gold scheme for Hornaday

Truck News: Ron Hornaday Jr. driver of the #16 NAPA Chevy will sport a Gold paint scheme on his truck this weekend in Nazareth, PA(thanks Dave 6-23-97)...
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Brewer starting a Truck team?

I also hear Tim Brewer may attempt to start his own truck team(6-21-97)...
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Petty Enterprises adding second Truck team

Petty Enterprises adds second truck team Seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion Richard Petty announced that his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team would run a second Dodge Ram in at least five races with major sponsorship from Touch 1 Inc., a communications...
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Craftsman Truck News

Another Andretti! Jeff that is, may attempt to make some NASCAR Craftsman Truck series races with a team owned by Tim Buckley and Larry Smith and share the driving duties with Bill Sedgwick(thanks to NSSN for the story)(5-2-97)...
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Latest Randy MacDonald news

there has been a hitch with the sponsorship and that things have been delayed a bit. Other than that he may race in more truck races. MacDonald had expected to announce a solid Winston Cup effort with an Indiana-based team -Atlanta this weekend was to be the first ...