The sixth race of the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season is Friday at Kansas Speedway, with the 37 Kind Days 250.
Here’s a quick look at some interesting statistics and tidbits heading into the race.
- This is the 18th NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway. Ricky Hendrick won the inaugural race at the track in 2001, driving a Chevrolet.
- Matt Crafton and Kyle Busch each have two Camping World Truck Series races at Kansas Speedway. Crafton won in 2013 and 2015, while Busch won in 2014 and 2017.
- Overall, 15 drivers have won a Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas. In addition to Crafton and Busch, other winners are Ricky Hendrick, Mike Bliss, Jon Wood, Carl Edwards, Todd Bodine, Terry Cook, Erik Darnell, Ron Hornaday Jr., Mike Skinner, Johnny Sauter, Clint Bowyer, James Buescher and William Byron, the most recent first-time winner at the track in 2016.
- Byron is the last Camping World Truck Series regular to win at Kansas.
- Toyota leads all manufacturers in victories at Kansas, with seven, including a record five in a row. Chevrolet has six, having two the first two races at the track and three straight before Toyota’s streak of five consecutive wins. Ford has four victories.
- The polesitter has won the Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas twice – Ron Hornaday Jr. (2008) and Kyle Busch (2014).
- All 17 Camping World Truck Series races at Kansas have been won from the front five starting rows, with the 10th starting position responsible for three wins (2005, 2007 and 2017).
- Clint Bowyer is the only Kansas-born driver to win at the one-and-a-half mile track, in 2011.
- Drivers who have led the most laps in a Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas, and gone on to win that race, 10 times (59 percent of the time).
- Ron Hornaday Jr. holds the record for most laps led in a Camping World Truck Series victory at Kansas, when he led 136 of 167 laps in the 2008 race.
- Erik Jones holds the record for most laps led in a Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas, having led 151 laps before finishing 11th in the 2015 race. Meanwhile, Matt Crafton led only six laps in that race, the fewest of a race winner.
Statistics – 2018 Season and Series Overall
- Four drivers have won races this season: Johnny Sauter, Brett Moffitt, Kyle Busch and John Hunter Nemechek. Sauter is the only driver who have won multiple races, at Daytona International Speedway and Dover International Speedway.
- Johnny Sauter also leads all drivers in top threes, top fives and top 10s (four), best average finish (5.2) and most laps led in a victory (137 at Dover). Ben Rhodes and Grant Enfinger also have four top 10s this season.
- Ben Rhodes is the only driver this season to have completed all 828 laps.
- Drivers need to complete only 7.3 more miles this season to reach 1,000 miles in 2018. That equates to five laps complete at Kansas.
- Johnny Sauter is the last driver with consecutive victories in the Camping World Truck Series, when he won the playoff races last November at Texas Motor Speedway and ISM Raceway.
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