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Peters Spins And Wins At Lucas Oil Raceway

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

Lucas Oil Raceway - Clermont, IN - With lightning flashing over the third-turn wall, Timothy Peters thundered to an improbable win in the AAA Insurance 200, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event Friday night at Lucas Oil Raceway.

Peters unsponsored Red Horse Racing Toyota took the lead on lap 195 and held off the dominant Chevrolet of James Buescher (97 laps led) for a win that looked like it might never happen earlier in the event.

The truck of Peters was slow coming off the hauler, started 16th, and was a back-marker during the first hundred laps. But a spin due to a cut tire on lap 91 sent him to the pits where miracles were performed. "We unloaded and were super tight in practice," said Peters who hadn't won since Daytona, 2010. "I spun out over here in turns one and two and came down pit road. Butch (crew chief Hylton) made a great call to put four tires on. We took the adjustment out that we made previously and put it back the way it was, and if I would have told you that was our last caution and we were going the rest of the way green, I would have said you were crazy."

Now off his normal pit sequence, and on a track with newly-found grip after being washed by rain during a 17 lap caution period, the North Carolia native began his run through the field in pursuit of early race leaders Buescher, Johnny Sauter and Austin Dillon.

Buescher, who has yet to record a series win, led 97 laps and dominated the final half of the race. He had pitted with most of the leaders back on lap 80, and was conserving fuel and tires as Peters narrowed the margin during a green-flag run that lasted the final 107 circuits.

"Tim really did a great job conserving tires. It's really frustrating to lose the lead that late in the race", noted Buescher, whose Wolfpack Rentals Chevrolet gave up the lead to Peters in turn two with six laps to go, and finished 2.6 seconds behind. "We had nothing for him there at the end."

David Starr's Zachry Toyota ran third, breathing down Buescher's exhaust."We were just racing hard and, I think we were up to fourth and were racing hard next to Timothy when my crew chief came on with eight or nine laps to go and said we'd have to start conserving fuel," said Starr, who was as frustrated as Buescher. "We all wanted to race for the win, but we're just excited to get our first top-five finish of the season.

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July 30th 2011 - By:  Mark W. Theisen

     CLERMONT, INDIANA July 28, 2011:    The annual Kroger Speed Fest at Lucas Oil Raceway Park opened tonight with it’s first ever Triple-Header program featuring the stock cars from the Automobile Racing Club of America and the Silver Crown and Midget cars from the United States Auto Club with each series running a feature race for there cars.
     New to the Speed Fest this year was the ARCA race and the traveling series from Ohio did not disappoint with a star studded field of veterans and promising rookies encompassing the 46 cars that competed for the 35 starting berths in the starting field and it was Ty Dillon driving for his grandfather, Richard Childress in a car co-owned by Ron Hemelgarn, a veteran Indy Car owner, capturing the pole for the 200 lap race the first time since 1985 that the series had raced at the tight 5/8 mile track.
     Kyle Larsen of Elk Grove, California won the pole for the USAC midget 30 lap race while Tracy Hines took the pole for the 100 lap Silver Crown.
     Dillon, the current series point leader with 5 wins under his belt, was making his first ever start at Lucas Oil Raceway but he certainly did not look like a rookie as he took off from fellow front row starting driver Ryan Blaney, son of veteran open wheel and stock car driver Dave and paced the early laps of the race while being pursued by James Buescher, Chad McCumbee and Casey Roderick.
     As the first set of tires wore on Dillon’s car he was overhauled by both Blaney and Buescher on the 31st lap and was in third when the first caution flag of the race was waived on lap on lap 34 as Benny Chastain spun in turn one.
     The top four cars did not elect to pit at this point in the race but several did behind them setting up a strategy that they hoped would work to their advantage later in the race but that quickly went out the window when the cautions began to flow on a regular basis soon after.
     Lap 60 saw Chastain spin again this time collecting Kenzie Ruston in the process.  This time Dillon with the handling on his car quickly leaving him and Buescher elected to pit leaving only Blaney as the only car on the track not to have made a pit stop.

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