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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Pinty's Truck Race on Dirt

Bristol Motor Speedway (Dirt)

March 29th, 2021

Race #5 of the 2021 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 150
Miles Raced : 80.0
Time of Race : 01 Hours 49 minutes 30 seconds
Average Speed: 41.096 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.149 seconds
Cautions: 12
Caution Laps: 56
Lead Changes: 11

Martin Truex Jr gives a thumbs up to fans — Bristol, Tennessee - March 29th, 2021: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #51 Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota, gives a thumbs up to fans after winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Pinty's Truck Race on Dirt at Bristol Motor Speedway. Photo by Jared C Tilton | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Martin Truex Jr	15	1	1	1	1	16	2.3	+14	35	18	+17	34	53	99.3%	105	150	141.0	0
Ben Rhodes	9	2	2	2	1	11	3.9	+7	32	26	+6	31	8	100.0%	3	150	108.7	48
Raphael Lessard	29	8	4	3	2	29	9.7	+26	47	26	+21	27	1	77.3%	0	150	103.9	37
Todd Gilliland	13	10	3	4	3	21	8.7	+9	33	29	+4	26	1	86.7%	0	150	100.3	38
Chase Briscoe	33	5	6	5	3	33	9.0	+28	56	30	+26	25	1	84.7%	0	150	96.9	0
Grant Enfinger	8	13	5	6	1	13	6.9	+2	29	30	-1	29	0	100.0%	2	150	86.9	34
Zane Smith	6	18	10	7	3	35	11.9	-1	64	41	+23	40	1	74.0%	0	150	90.8	38
Parker Kligerman	16	11	8	8	5	16	10.2	+8	37	38	-1	37	0	100.0%	0	150	83.3	29
Austin Hill	2	4	7	9	1	11	6.1	-7	34	41	-7	34	1	100.0%	1	150	91.4	41
Austin Wayne Self	17	9	11	10	8	18	12.1	+7	46	41	+5	42	0	90.7%	0	150	79.2	29
Bubba Wallace	32	15	15	11	11	32	18.0	+21	49	34	+15	17	0	36.0%	0	150	80.3	0
Stewart Friesen	7	6	12	12	1	15	7.1	-5	34	35	-1	34	4	100.0%	1	150	86.6	36
Tanner Gray	18	23	14	13	12	39	22.2	+5	57	55	+2	23	1	30.7%	0	150	75.7	24
Matt Crafton	4	7	17	14	1	20	10.3	-10	43	53	-10	27	2	66.7%	0	150	78.1	26
Kevin Harvick	30	16	9	15	7	30	15.0	+15	51	43	+8	29	0	66.0%	0	150	73.2	0
Sheldon Creed	3	3	13	16	1	16	6.5	-13	35	39	-4	35	5	94.0%	38	150	78.5	36
Daniel Suarez	26	19	18	17	12	30	21.3	+9	47	53	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	150	70.0	0
Chase Purdy	23	17	16	18	1	27	17.3	+5	32	51	-19	11	0	24.0%	0	150	67.2	19
Hailie Deegan	22	12	19	19	6	24	17.4	+3	35	43	-8	12	0	32.7%	0	150	66.5	18
Ryan Truex	14	34	21	20	11	34	23.0	-6	38	39	-1	5	0	8.7%	0	150	64.3	17
Carson Hocevar	11	33	22	21	10	40	28.5	-10	25	51	-26	5	0	11.3%	0	150	47.8	16
Myatt Snider	37	14	20	22	9	37	21.9	+15	52	37	+15	8	0	15.3%	0	150	66.3	0
Tate Fogleman	24	30	23	23	21	37	28.2	+1	41	52	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	150	61.7	14
Brett Moffitt	10	24	25	24	9	39	24.6	-14	39	36	+3	4	0	18.7%	0	150	66.5	13
Spencer Boyd	31	32	27	25	25	39	32.6	+6	17	40	-23	0	0	0.0%	0	150	40.3	12
Cody Erickson	34	25	26	26	20	35	27.6	+8	32	43	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	150	44.8	0
Codie Rohrbaugh	20	28	24	27	17	37	25.5	-7	52	60	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	150	63.5	10
Mike Marlar	38	26	28	28	17	38	28.7	+10	39	46	-7	0	0	0.0%	0	148	40.7	0
Jake Griffin	36	36	29	29	24	37	32.8	+7	32	43	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	147	42.8	0
Timothy Peters	27	27	30	30	21	36	28.2	-3	47	60	-13	0	0	0.0%	0	147	52.0	7
Andrew Gordon	40	31	31	31	23	40	30.7	+9	45	45	+0	0	2	0.0%	0	144	53.1	0
Johnny Sauter	5	21	32	32	1	35	21.9	-27	52	35	+17	9	0	26.7%	0	124	65.8	6
Jennifer Jo Cobb	35	35	33	33	26	40	33.8	+2	14	28	-14	0	0	0.0%	0	120	46.0	4
Chandler Smith	21	29	34	34	10	38	27.0	-13	57	33	+24	11	0	12.0%	0	117	59.2	3
Kyle Larson	28	22	35	35	13	33	25.2	-7	42	27	+15	9	0	12.7%	0	98	74.3	0
Danny Bohn	25	20	36	36	15	28	27.0	-11	26	32	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	98	64.2	1
Norm Benning	39	37	37	37	29	40	36.3	+2	12	16	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	72	25.7	1
Derek Kraus	12	38	38	38	12	40	36.5	-26	23	12	+11	0	0	0.0%	0	49	26.7	1
John Hunter Nemechek	1	39	39	39	1	10	28.6	-38	15	25	-10	14	1	32.0%	0	48	62.3	7
Tyler Ankrum	19	40	40	40	18	24	35.6	-21	14	20	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	34	42.3	1

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Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt
Pinty's Truck Race on Dirt
Race Winner: Martin Truex Jr.
Age: 40
Team : No. 51 - Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota
Owner: Kyle Busch Motorsports
Crew Chief: Mardy Lindley
Martin Truex Jr. won the Pinty's Truck Race on Dirt, his first victory in three NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in his series debut at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt.
Ben Rhodes (second) posted his first top-10 finish in his series debut at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2021.
Raphael Lessard (third) posted his first top-10 finish in his series debut at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt.
Chase Purdy (18th) was the highest finishing rookie.
This is Kyle Busch Motorsports 83rd victory in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Martin Truex Jr. has now become the 35th different driver all-time to win in all three NASCAR national series.

Race Recap

Martin Truex Jr. wins the Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt at Bristol

March 29th, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

In defiance of conventional wisdom, it wasn’t an experienced dirt racer who won Monday’s twice-rain-delayed Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Nor was it a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series regular who took the checkered flag.

When the dust settled, Martin Truex Jr. was the unlikely occupant of Victory Lane—and a dominant one at that. Racing in the Camping World Truck Series for the first time since 2006, Truex led 105 of the 150 laps in an action-filled race that featured 12 cautions for 54 laps and saw pre-race favorite Kyle Larson and series leader John Hunter Nemechek in the garage with wrecked trucks at the finish.

It was the first career win for Truex in his third career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start, but it was the third straight victory this season for a Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota—and 83rd overall. Truex is the 35th driver to win in all three of NASCAR’s top touring series.

“It’s unbelievable, really,” said Truex, who was using the Truck Series race to prepare for the NASCAR Cup Series event later on Monday afternoon. “I guess they had to put dirt on Bristol to get me back to Victory Lane here. It’s been a long time. Man, that was a blast.

“I wanted to run this race so I could get more experience with the Cup car, and we got out there in practice and it felt really good. And I was having a lot of fun, so I just kept trying to work with the guys and tell them what I needed. It was really amazing how much the track changed, but I will have to say the (No. 51 Tundra) stayed really, really good the whole time.”

Truex took control of the race after reigning series champion Sheldon Creed led Laps 2 through 39. Ben Rhodes lined up beside Truex on the front row for the final restart on Lap 139 but missed a shift, dropped briefly to third and fought his way back to the runner-up spot.

Rhodes finished 1.149 seconds behind Truex, with Todd Gilliland coming home third and Chase Briscoe and Grant Enfinger completing the top five.

“We were running them back down there the last few laps, but, yeah, just the worst restart of my life,” Rhodes said. “Early in the race, I had an issue of getting it into fourth gear and missed a shift early on, but I really didn’t think nothing of it and had clean shifts afterwards—and then just missed it. Bummer for my guys, but the closest I’ve been to winning here at Bristol was on the dirt.”

Nemechek exited after a Lap 49 crash, spinning after contact from Matt Crafton’s Ford and sustaining heavy damage when the No. 19 of Derek Kraus slid into his No. 4 Toyota as it sat near the outside wall of the half-mile high-banked speedway.

Larson was unable to avoid the slow truck of Mike Marlar on Lap 99 and sustained extensive damage to his No. 44 Niece Motorsports Chevrolet after heavy contact with the No. 30 Toyota of Danny Bohn in the same incident.

“My spotter said they were slowing down the backstretch, and a I saw some trucks slowing on the bottom, so I was running the top,” said Larson, who was set to start the subsequent NASCAR Cup Series race from the rear of the field because of an engine change in his No. 5 Chevrolet. “I thought ‘I’m going to get a lot of spots here in (Turn) 3.’ So I ended up top, and there was somebody parked there.

“We were fighting. Our truck wasn’t very great, but we were making adjustments on it… I still learned something for the Cup race, which was nice… learned how to pass people, so starting in the back, that’s a help.”