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  1.   Johnny Sauter posted:
  11.18.2011 - 10:45 pm
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First!!!


  2.   myothercarisanM535i posted:
  11.18.2011 - 10:53 pm
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Pretty good racing throughout this one, although I think the race
could've gone green to the end if they didn't throw those two cautions
for the spins - (IMO, they could've stayed green as neither of the
trucks actually stopped at any point or had any damage).


  3.   Rusty posted:
  11.18.2011 - 10:54 pm
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Congrats to Austin Dillon on winning the 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck
Series championship. Nice to see the black #3 win a championship 10
years after Dale's passing.


  4.   New 14&88 Fan posted:
  11.18.2011 - 11:00 pm
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Congrats to Austin Dillon and the entire #3 truck team on winning the
2011 Truck Series Championship, also congrats to Joey Coulter on winning
Rookie of the year.


  5.   1995 Subaru WRX STi posted:
  11.18.2011 - 11:25 pm
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Congrats Austin on winning RCRs 2nd Truck title (first with Mike Skinner
in 1995)

And the #3s first title of anykind since Dale Jr. (i think) won back to
back Busch titles in 1998 and 1999. (correct me if i'm wrong on this one
people)


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.18.2011 - 11:32 pm
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Johnny Sauter held off Denny Hamlin when Denny tried a bonsai move to
the outside to take the lead. Sauter's block turned out to the rain
winning move as the skies opened up right afterward complete with a
funny "IT'S RAINING!" line from Sauter over his radio.

The weather ended up ending the race and actually it's easy to see why,
just in the time it took Speed to show some replays of the Hamlin's
attempted pass the whole track ended up soaked, complete with some
rooster tails coming off the trucks under caution as they headed for pit
road.

Sauter was very excited about winning the race afterward, completely
ignoring that he didn't win the title. He came close though, Austin
Dillon had trouble late and almost slipped far enough back to lose it
while Sauter made all the right moves.

Like Sauter James Buscher had a chance on paper to win the title and
started the night well by winning the pole then leading early. Things
almost turned to disaster though when he and Kevin Harvick got into it
on a restart, almost running each other off the track, which led Buscher
to get Harvick seriously sideways when the Cup driver tried to overtake
him as both headed for pit road. Neither truck was damaged and both kept
racing, Harvick went on to finish 3rd but easily could have had second
if the caution for rain came 10 seconds later.

The pace vehicle for this race was oddly a new Ford Police Interceptor
Utility, a police-spec version of the Ford Explorer. It appeared to have
no modifications for its pace car duties, it was just a police SUV
leading the field around under caution (hey it already had the flashing
lights).


  7.   Spen posted:
  11.18.2011 - 11:37 pm
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I was quite dissapointed with James Buescher in this race. I can cut him
some slack for the first incident with Harvick, as that was caused by
their mutual unwillingness to give and take. But the second one was
totally uncalled for. Yeah, I get that he doesn't want to be viewed as a
guy who can be pushed around, but trying to spin someone out on pit road
while running fourth with a truck still capable of winning, is not the
way to go about things. Please don't do it again, James. I've been
cheering for you for the last three years, and you just made that
significantly harder for me. Another incident like that, and you may
lose yourself a fan.

On a happier note, congrats to Austin Dillon on winning the
championship, and major congrats to Johnny Sauter on the win!

Since I don't feel like looking it up, Cooper, when was the last time a
NASCAR season finale was shortened for any reason? The last one I can
think of offhand was North Wilkesboro in 1954, which was called off
after Lou Figaro's fatal accident.


  8.   potatosalad48 posted:
  11.18.2011 - 11:47 pm
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Johnny Sauter did all he could to pull the upset, but Dillon eeks out
the title by 6 points. Congrats to the #3 team and Sauter's team as
well. Also, Kevin Harvick wins the owners' championship in his final
year driving for KHI.


  9.   KurtBusch22Fan posted:
  11.18.2011 - 11:50 pm
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The 2011 IndyCar finale was cancelled for Dan Wheldon's fatal crash, if
that counts.


  10.   Anonymous posted:
  11.18.2011 - 11:53 pm
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"Since I don't feel like looking it up, Cooper, when was the last time a
NASCAR season finale was shortened for any reason?"

The 1998 Atlanta Cup race was rain shortened.


  11.   jabber1990 posted:
  11.19.2011 - 12:01 am
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@10 that's what I thought.


  12.   00andJoe posted:
  11.19.2011 - 12:14 am
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Oddly for November, the weather pattern on the radar all day looked
oddly tropical, with rain showers/squalls marching east to west...

Mike Garvey 'qualified' the #38, while Brent Raymer was the scheduled
starter in the #93. Setzer and Chastain replaced them after the rain
kept their rides from making the show.

Career Truck Series start #300 for both Ron Hornaday Jr. and Dennis Setzer.


  13.   00andJoe posted:
  11.19.2011 - 12:14 am
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#21 sponsor: Charter Communications
#15 sponsor: Red Top Auto Oction/OnLine Ring Man


  14.   00andJoe posted:
  11.19.2011 - 12:14 am
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Er...that's Red Top Auto Auction, of course. No idea where THAT typo
came from!


  15.   Bronco posted:
  11.19.2011 - 12:25 am
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NASCAR basically handed the championship to Dillon by not rightfully
penalizing him for going under the yellow line on the last lap at
Talladega. They rightfully penalized Sauter for changing lanes before
the start finish line at Texas, which cost him the win and a ton of points.

On the flip side, going back to 2011 Daytona Speedweeks, Denny Hamlin
was penalized for his move in the Bud Shootout, while Kahne was not
penalized for moving down in front of JPM in the Duel race.

Either way I feel like Sauter got screwed out a championship, and
combine that with NASCAR not penalizing Vickers at all for his move at
Phoenix, it proves that NASCAR officiating has a very long way to go.

Todd Bodine records his worst season in the Trucks in every category a
year after scoring a dominant championship. His #30 team shut down due
to a lack of sponsorship forcing him to move to the #5.

Ted Musgrave, Johnny Benson and now Todd Bodine are the only ones to go
winless in the season after they won the championship. With Musgrave and
Benson, their teams shut down after Homestead.

Hornaday and Setzer make their 300th starts.


  16.   Anonymous posted:
  11.19.2011 - 1:55 am
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Nelson Piquet Jr. will be a factor next year.


  17.   RCRandPenskeGuy posted:
  11.19.2011 - 2:00 am
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James Buescher is quite prone to making mistakes out there. Also, I
didn't like how he tried to spin Harvick out on pit road. Yes, Kevin has
pulled more than his share of dumb moves in the past, and hell, he's
even blatantly spun others out ON PURPOSE. But I don't care who you are,
trying to wreck another driver like that is very hazardous, and I think
James needs to definitely spend a couple more years in this Series
before moving up. I congratulate him on a good season, but he isn't
quite a champion-caliber driver yet.

RCR and the #3 truck win their second Truck Series championship (their
first coming in '95 with Mike Skinner). RCR also won a ROTY trophy from
the performance of Joey Coulter in the #22.


  18.   1995 Subaru WRX STi posted:
  11.19.2011 - 2:57 am
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Actually JS screwed himself when he changed lanes at Texas when he
shouldn't have. If he doesn't do that (finishing 22nd, Austin finished
26th). Johnny wins and if hind set is really 20-20, then Johnny Sauter
is your champion.

So NASCAR "Gifted" nothing to Austin, JS "gifted" it to him back at
Texas with his "david ragen" like move.


  19.   NicoRosbergFan posted:
  11.19.2011 - 5:41 am
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I didn't watch because I thought Dillon winning the title would be worse
than watching a murder, but I bet the trophy turned to rust and fell
apart the moment it got in that little rich scab's hand.


  20.   NicoRosbergFan posted:
  11.19.2011 - 5:50 am
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To mod a Colonel Sanders quote-- that little brat prostitutes the 3!
Yes, it is Childress's old number, but holding the number hostage for 10
years in all three series for your grandkids who are almost on the same
tier of human beings as Harvick and Busch and saying you are keeping it
for old time's sake is sick and a perversion of justice. Dale Jr., if I
were you, I would quit in protest. Not that you couldn't have the 3 (you
said yourselve it had to wait until you a Cup title), but that the 3 is
being blemished and adulterated by these little cockroaches. Is this
NASCAR's future? A future corrupted by the Dillons?


  21.   00andJoe posted:
  11.19.2011 - 6:52 am
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NRF, your unlikable side is showing again.


  22.   00andJoe posted:
  11.19.2011 - 6:54 am
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Anyone have any idea why the #10 was showing on the ticker as a Dodge?


  23.   NicoRosbergFan posted:
  11.19.2011 - 7:27 am
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I have a likable side? The #10 has been changing makes all year; look at
her season stats.


  24.   cjs3872 posted:
  11.19.2011 - 10:30 am
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Actually, if I remember right, the reason Johnny Sauter "changed lanes"
on that final restart at Texas was that he spun his tires so much that
he was actually fighting for control and he wound up in front of
Hornaday, and I still can't figure out why NASCAR issued a one-lap
penalty for that. But what nobody remember to mention is that not long
after that, Sauter broke an axle leaving the pits on his final pit stop
at Kentucky while on his way to no worse than a second place finish, if
not a win. And by the way, I'm glad that NASCAR didn't penalize Dillon
and whoever it was behind him one lap each for passing below the broken
yellow line at Talladega, which is not totally straight, as it angles
toward the pit entrance.

And by the way, why doesn't NASCAR just say they're going to
automatically penalize you one lap for violations like that, instead of
the baloney they give after the fact. They can do that by simply nit
scoring you for that lap, like they do if your car is disabled and gets
outside help on the final lap, such as was the case with Richard Petty
and Neil Bonnett at the '76 and '80 Daytona 500s, respectively.

By the way, the end of this race, with the torrential downpour was
shades of Indy in 1975, just without the spin outs and outright havoc
that the rain at Indy that day caused. [By the way, the torrential
downpour at the 1975 Indianapolis 500 occurred the very same day that
Dale Earnhardt, Sr. made his Cup debut.]


  25.   18fan posted:
  11.19.2011 - 10:36 am
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If I remember correctly Dillon also made a pass below the yellow line on
the backstretch at Talladega.


  26.   Cooper posted:
  11.19.2011 - 1:24 pm
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18fan, not once but twice!....


  27.   Martin5fan posted:
  11.19.2011 - 4:19 pm
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I dont care what anybody says. I really liked how Buescher what not
going to pull over and let a cup driver go. That is what they should do
and stop letting the trucks series turn into a second cup series. The
nascar world would be much easier if cup driver were banned from
nationwide and trucks like Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, and
Brad Keselowski

Also Congrats to Austin Dillon on his 1st Truck Series Championship and
Johnny Sauter on his 2nd truck win of the season

Hopefully Dillon can pull of the nationwide championship next season


  28.   Green Beans posted:
  11.19.2011 - 8:17 pm
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Matt Crafton completes his eleventh full season in the series and still
has failed to lead over 100 laps in a season. The DNQ at Phoenix
probably cost Buescher the championship. Looks like he would have only
needed a 14th or better in that race and the title would have been his.


  29.   IHateSteveWallace! posted:
  11.19.2011 - 9:34 pm
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good move by james buescher! show those cup guys that they should be
ashamed of themselves for running lower series!


  30.   H8R posted:
  11.20.2011 - 1:22 am
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Dillon and Sauter had pretty even seasons. Championship gets decided on
in-race penalties (Dillon not getting penalized at Talladega, Sauter
getting penalized at Texas; both situations should have been penalized).
Well done NASCAR. You let a championship come down to your terrible
officiating skills.


  31.   Evan posted:
  11.20.2011 - 11:09 am
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* First time a 3 won a NASCAR Championship of any kind since 1999-last
to do it was Dale Earnhardt Jr. in his Busch Series days.
* First time a championship had been decided by poor officiating and by
Kyle Busch wrecklessly destroying another's championship chances.
* Its the 10th title for the the 3 overall in all of NASCAR's top series
and its the first number to have titles in all three of NASCAR's top series.
* Also leave Childress's decision to keep the 3 alone, he drove the
number for many years and Childress has the rights to the #3 and its his
decision of what he wants to do with it.
* First championship for the Dillon family, father Mike Dillon had been
with RCR for meny years and was a longtime Busch series competitor and
even subbed for Dale Earnhardt and drove some races in his Busch car.
Mike did run the fulltime Busch schedule in 2001.


  32.   irony posted:
  11.20.2011 - 10:50 pm
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Mike Dillon won a track championship at my home track (Tri-County Motor
Speedway) but was rather bad in the Busch Series.


  33.   Talon64 posted:
  11.21.2011 - 7:52 pm
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As DSFF would say, this was a season where it seemed like nobody wanted
to win the championship. At least during the middle of the year when
Dillon and Sauter were losing points due to both bad luck and mistakes.
But Dillon was the one who turned it on the most during the last 3rd of
the season (aside from Ron Hornaday), 5 top 3 finishes and 7 top 10's in
the last 8 races to take and then hold on to the point lead and win the
title.

Austin Dillon becomes the youngest Truck Series champ in history at age
21, beating Travis Kvapil's record of 27 when he won the 2003
championship. Dillon and Kvapil are the only 2 drivers under the age of
30 to win a Truck Series championship.

For the 1st time in his career, Johnny Sauter wins multiple national
touring series races in a season as he picked up his 2nd Truck win of
2011. He finishes a career-high 2nd in the standings in just his 3rd
full season in Trucks, although his average finish (9.4) was worse than
when he was 3rd in 2010 (8.1).

Nelson Piquet Jr. was the highest finishing rookie in the race with his
rookie-leading 6th top 5 of 2011. But it wasn't enough to overcome 5th
place finish Joey Coulter for ROTY, who became the 2nd straight RCR
driver to take home the award (Austin Dillon in 2010). Coulter led all
rookies in top 10's (13), average finish (12.4) and in the standings
with a 7th place finish.

ARCA champ Ty Dillon picked up his 2nd top 10 in his first 3 Truck
starts (9.0 avg fin).


  34.   Martin5fan posted:
  12.03.2011 - 10:25 pm
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Just Think, If Johnny Sauter didn't get penalized at texas. He would
have one and got the championship


  35.   44andJoe posted:
  12.29.2012 - 1:40 pm
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  37.   SpiderTre posted:
  10.17.2014 - 8:14 pm
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  40.   SweetRich posted:
  07.07.2020 - 5:23 pm
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The final NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race for Germain Racing.


  41.   Bodyblower posted:
  09.03.2020 - 8:54 am
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Brent Raymer was going to drive the 93 but was replaced by Ross Chastain
after the 20 truck missed the field after qualifying was rained out.


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