NASCAR Race Mom: The #NASCAR Truck Series Tonight at Iowa Speedway

Saturday, June 16, 2018

The #NASCAR Truck Series Tonight at Iowa Speedway

M&M’s 200 presented by Casey’s General Store (200 Laps)

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series heads to Iowa Speedway this weekend for the M&M’s 200 presented by Casey’s General Store on Saturday, June 16 (7 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Johnny Sauter continued to take the Camping World Truck Series by storm last weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, holding off Stewart Friesen on a three-lap shootout at the 1.5-mile oval.

.@JohnnySauter and Joe Shear Jr. are a potent combination for @GMSRacingLLC in the @NASCAR_Trucks Series: https://t.co/0ZILTynPJX
— Motorsport.com (@Motorsport) June 7, 2018

Sauter, the series points leader, posted his fifth career win at Texas Motor Speedway and his fourth win in eight races this season. Todd Bodine, two-time Truck Series champion, is the only driver with more wins at the track than Sauter, with six.

Finishing 0.092 seconds ahead of Friesen, Sauter took the lead for the first time on Lap 117, passing teammate Justin Haley.

Sauter has now won six of the last 11 series races, going back to Texas last fall, and has posted a top-three finish in 10 of the last 12 races. Sauter now has 21 career Truck Series victories in 229 starts.

"It's a bad fast truck & a lot of fun to drive."@StewartFriesen looks to cash in from the pole at @TXMotorSpeedway. pic.twitter.com/loPy8OpbVD
— NASCAR Trucks (@NASCAR_Trucks) June 8, 2018

After his victory on Friday, Sauter is now the third driver in series history to post four or more wins in the first eight races of the season. Kyle Busch and Mike Skinner are the only other drivers on that list. If Johnny Sauter were to win this weekend at Iowa, he would tie Kyle Busch and become just the second driver is series history to win five races in the first nine races of the season. Busch accomplished the feat in 2014.

On top of that, he hasn’t started a race outside of the top-10 this season and has finished in the top-five in all but one race – Martinsville, where he finished 19th.

Sauter now sits 77 points ahead of second-place Noah Gragson and 95 points ahead of Brett Moffitt in third. Friesen posted his first top-10 finish in the three races he’s contested at Texas Motor Speedway and recorded his fifth top-10 finish of 2018.