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| 2021 Circuit of The Americas #Winner - Todd Gilliland) |
Last season, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers put their skills to the test at three road courses producing three different winners - Daytona Road Course (Ben Rhodes), Circuit of The Americas (Todd Gilliland) and Watkins Glen International (Austin Hill).
This season, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will be tasked with competing on three road courses, but COTA is the only one returning from last season. Sonoma Raceway, who hasn’t hosted the Truck Series since 1998, and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, who will be hosting the series for the first time, are the other two road courses on the schedule in 2022.
Here we come @NASCARatCOTA! đ€ #NASCARatCOTA | @MenardsRacing | @Matt_Crafton | #TeamToyota | @ToyotaRacing pic.twitter.com/yqg8mVGeq2
— ThorSport Racing (@ThorSportRacing) March 22, 2022
With Gilliland now competing in the NASCAR Cup Series and Hill in his rookie season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Rhodes is the only active truck road course winner set to compete this weekend in Austin for the XPEL 225.
ThorSport Racing’s driver and 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, Ben Rhodes is still looking for his first win of the 2022 season. Last year at this time, he had already won twice taking the first two races of the season in Daytona. Now, the Kentucky native finds himself fifth in points after posting two fives this season. Watch for Rhodes to be a contender this weekend as he finished 10th in last season event.
Some of Rhodes’ biggest competition this weekend will come from the Kyle Busch Motorsports stable. KBM drivers have won the last two races – Chandler Smith (Las Vegas) and Corey Heim (Atlanta). John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the No. 4 KBM Toyota will be one to watch as well. In 2021, he finished in third at the Daytona road course, just behind Rhodes and Sheldon Creed. At COTA, he had a 12th-place finish and in the last road course race of the season at Watkins Glen, he came in second, losing only to Austin Hill.
Ready for some left & right turns this weekend đ#SafeliteLookingForward | @KBMteam pic.twitter.com/K7Pp6lsGki
— Chandler Smith (@CSmithDrive) March 24, 2022
Joining Nemechek and Smith this weekend will be team owner/driver and two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch, who will be making his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series track debut on Saturday at COTA – his first on a road course in the series. Although Busch hasn’t competed on a road course in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, he does hold the record for wins in the series (61) and has eight road course wins under his belt (four in the NASCAR Cup Series and four in the NASCAR Xfinity Series).
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