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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
Cars in Race : 40
Finished On Lead Lap: 27 (68%)

Martin Truex Jr bumps fist with an official — Bristol, Tennessee - March 29th, 2021: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #51 Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota, bumps fist with an official 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

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	15	51	Martin Truex Jr	Toyota	0	0	0	150	105	5	1	1	Running
2	9	99	Ben Rhodes	Toyota	48	35	13	150	3	2	7	2	Running
3	29	24	Raphael Lessard	Chevrolet	37	34	3	150	0	0	0	8	Running
4	13	38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	38	33	5	150	0	0	0	6	Running
5	33	04	Chase Briscoe	Ford	0	0	0	150	0	0	0	4	Running
6	8	98	Grant Enfinger	Toyota	34	31	3	150	2	1	9	10	Running
7	6	21	Zane Smith	Chevrolet	38	30	8	150	0	0	3	0	Running
8	16	75	Parker Kligerman	Chevrolet	29	29	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
9	2	16	Austin Hill	Toyota	41	28	13	150	1	1	6	3	Running
10	17	22	Austin Wayne Self	Chevrolet	29	27	2	150	0	0	0	9	Running
11	32	11	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	0	0	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
12	7	52	Stewart Friesen	Toyota	36	25	11	150	1	1	4	7	Running
13	18	15	Tanner Gray	Ford	24	24	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
14	4	88	Matt Crafton	Toyota	26	23	3	150	0	0	8	0	Running
15	30	17	Kevin Harvick	Ford	0	0	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
16	3	2	Sheldon Creed	Chevrolet	36	21	15	150	38	1	2	5	Running
17	26	02	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	0	0	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
18	23	23	Chase Purdy	Chevrolet	19	19	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
19	22	1	Hailie Deegan	Ford	18	18	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
20	14	40	Ryan Truex	Chevrolet	17	17	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
21	11	42	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	16	16	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
22	37	33	Myatt Snider	Chevrolet	0	0	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
23	24	12	Tate Fogleman	Chevrolet	14	14	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
24	10	45	Brett Moffitt	Chevrolet	13	13	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
25	31	20	Spencer Boyd	Chevrolet	12	12	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
26	34	41	Cody Erickson	Chevrolet	11	11	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
27	20	9	Codie Rohrbaugh	Chevrolet	10	10	0	150	0	0	0	0	Running
28	38	56	Mike Marlar	Chevrolet	0	0	0	148	0	0	0	0	Running
29	36	34	Jake Griffin	Toyota	8	8	0	147	0	0	0	0	Running
30	27	25	Timothy Peters	Chevrolet	7	7	0	147	0	0	0	0	Running
31	40	49	Andrew Gordon	Chevrolet	6	6	0	144	0	0	0	0	Running
32	5	13	Johnny Sauter	Toyota	6	5	1	124	0	0	10	0	Accident
33	35	10	Jennifer Jo Cobb	Chevrolet	4	4	0	120	0	0	0	0	Electrical
34	21	18	Chandler Smith	Toyota	3	3	0	117	0	0	0	0	Accident
35	28	44	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	0	0	0	98	0	0	0	0	Accident
36	25	30	Danny Bohn	Toyota	1	1	0	98	0	0	0	0	Accident
37	39	6	Norm Benning	Chevrolet	1	1	0	72	0	0	0	0	Parked
38	12	19	Derek Kraus	Toyota	1	1	0	49	0	0	0	0	Accident
39	1	4	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	7	1	6	48	0	0	5	0	Accident
40	19	26	Tyler Ankrum	Chevrolet	1	1	0	34	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Pinty's Truck Race on Dirt at Bristol Motor Speedway (Dirt)

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Jennifer Jo Cobb	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved adjusment	Tail End	0	0	White
Carson Hocevar	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	27	31	Yellow
Tyler Ankrum	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	36	0	Yellow
Johnny Sauter	Unspecified Working after time expired	Tail End	41	42	Yellow
Zane Smith	Improper fueling	Tail End	41	42	Yellow
Tate Fogleman	Unspecified Working after time expired	Tail End	41	42	Yellow
Codie Rohrbaugh	Unspecified Working after time expired	Tail End	41	42	Yellow
Carson Hocevar	Unspecified Working after time expired	Tail End	41	42	Yellow
Norm Benning	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	50	57	Yellow
Norm Benning	Intentionally causing a caution 2 Laps	NASCAR Discretion	70	77	Yellow
Norm Benning	Disobeying a NASCAR request Parked	NASCAR Discretion	77	0	Yellow
Mike Marlar	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	99	107	Yellow
Johnny Sauter	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	120	125	Yellow
Johnny Sauter	Car/Truck pitting out of the assigned pit box	1 Lap	120	125	Yellow
Jennifer Jo Cobb	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	120	0	Yellow
Andrew Gordon	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	134	138	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

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.”