 |  | | Todd Bodine hopes to continue his hot streak into 2005. Credit: Autostock |
By Josh Pate, NASCAR.COM
January 13, 2006
05:25 PM EST (22:25 GMT)
The Craftsman Truck Series teams will try to dial in on Daytona's high banks Friday, as testing begins. When it ends, it will leave the teams exactly one month to make their information useful for the season opener. Exactly what information they use is up to them, but there's plenty of statistics entering the 12th season of the Truck Series that should be monitored for record-breaking purposes.
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0 -- Races to be held at Richmond International Raceway for the first time since the Truck Series began in 1995. |
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1 -- Time the Truck Series will have visited Talladega Superspeedway after making its inaugural stop at the 2.66-mile monster Oct. 7. |
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2 -- Drivers who have won the Truck Series championship and returned the following season to drive for a new owner. Travis Kvapil won in 2003 driving for Steve Coulter but competed in 2004 in Alexander Meshkin's truck. Ted Musgrave won last year's title with owner Jim Smith and Ultra Motorsports, but he will drive the 2006 schedule for Germain Racing. |
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4 -- Wins by Todd Bodine in the last six Truck Series races, including the final three races of the 2005 season to tie a series record for consecutive victories. |
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5 -- Consecutive seasons Ted Musgrave has finished no worse than third in the points. |
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7 -- Tracks the Truck Series visits that are not included on the Cup Series schedule: Gateway International Raceway, Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, The Milwaukee Mile, Kentucky Speedway, Memphis Motorsports Park, Indianapolis Raceway Park and Nashville Superspeedway. |
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8.96 -- Average starting position for winners during the 2005 season. Bobby Hamilton won the season opener at Daytona after starting 36th, the only driver to start from last and finish first in '05. Three drivers -- Ted Musgrave, Brandon Whitt and Dennis Setzer -- won races from the pole. |
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9 -- Truck races that have been held at California Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway. California will hold its 10th event Feb. 24, and Las Vegas will host its 10th truck race Sept. 23. |
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12 -- Consecutive races in which the winner had a top-10 starting position, dating to the Memphis race on July 23, when Brandon Whitt won from the pole. Eighteen of the 25 races in 2005 were won by a driver who started inside the top 10. |
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13 -- Tracks the Truck Series ran in its inaugural schedule in 1995 but no longer visit: Colorado National Speedway, Evergreen Speedway, Flemington Speedway, Heartland Park Topeka, I-70 Speedway, Infineon Raceway, Louisville Motor Speedway, Mesa Marin Raceway, North Wilkesboro Speedway, Portland International Raceway, Richmond International Raceway, Saugus Speedway and Tucson Raceway Park. |
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14 -- Different drivers who won a race in 2005, tying the most ever for a Craftsman Truck Series season (1998). The number of winners has increased each year since 2001, when nine drivers went to Victory Lane. |
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16 -- Truck races Texas Motor Speedway has hosted. The two events scheduled for this season will push the total to 18, the most among all tracks the series has visited. Texas was added to the circuit in 1997, but it has held two dates each year since 1999. |
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18 -- Number that former champion Bobby Hamilton will switch to in 2006, changing from the No. 04 he ran last season. Hamilton had run either 04 or 4 in each Truck Series race he entered since 1999. Other numbers Hamilton has run: 1, 40, 48 and 51. |
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25 -- Races on the schedule for the fourth consecutive season, establishing a pattern to the Truck Series tour. During the first eight years of the series, as many as 27 races appeared on the schedule (1998) and as few as 20 (1995). |
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27 -- Career wins by Ron Hornaday Jr., tops on the Truck Series' all-time victories list. His lone victory last season came at Atlanta in March. |
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65 -- Consecutive races without a DNF for Bobby Hamilton until he dropped out of the '05 season finale at Homestead because of an accident. The streak dated to July 5, 2003, at Kansas. |
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110 -- Combined points by which Dennis Setzer has lost the championship while finishing second in the standings the past three years, including a nine-point loss to Travis Kvapil in 2003. |
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222 -- Career starts by both Rick Crawford and Jack Sprague, tying them atop the all-time list. Crawford has competed in every Truck Series race since 1997, while Sprague has been in the series since it began in 1995 but did not race in 2002 and only ran two races in 2003. |
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869 -- Points that Todd Bodine scored in the final five races of 2005, more than any other driver. He finished third in the points standings, 73 behind champion Ted Musgrave. |
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136,909.2 -- Miles that Ted Musgrave drove in the Nextel Cup Series, Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series before winning the truck championship in 2005. |
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Fifty-four drivers have gone to Victory Lane in the Truck Series. Of those, 16 have won races in the Truck Series, Busch Series and Cup Series, including Steve Park, Bobby Labonte, Kyle Busch and Ricky Craven, all of whom were added to the list last year. No driver has won titles in all three major series, but one man has lifted the trophy in both the Truck Series and the Busch Series -- Greg Biffle.
| Career Wins |
| Drivers who have wins in all three series |
| Driver |
Truck |
Busch |
Cup |
| Greg Biffle |
16 |
17 |
9 |
| Kurt Busch |
1 |
4 |
14 |
| Kyle Busch |
3 |
6 |
2 |
| Ricky Craven |
1 |
4 |
2 |
| Carl Edwards |
6 |
5 |
4 |
| Bobby Hamilton |
10 |
1 |
4 |
| Kevin Harvick |
2 |
17 |
5 |
| Kasey Kahne |
2 |
3 |
1 |
| Bobby Labonte |
1 |
9 |
21 |
| Terry Labonte |
1 |
11 |
22 |
| Mark Martin |
1 |
47 |
35 |
| Jamie McMurray |
1 |
7 |
1 |
| Steve Park |
1 |
3 |
2 |
| Ken Schrader |
1 |
2 |
4 |
| Jimmy Spencer |
1 |
12 |
2 |
| Tony Stewart |
2 |
1 |
24 |
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