Craftsman Truck Championship - Series 4 - Current Progress

Season 4 - Current Progress

For season 4 the race length was increased by 5% to 35%

Round	Venue	Finish	Standings	Points
1	Daytona International Superspeedway	34	34	4375
2	Auto Club Speedway	1	10	4446
3	Atlanta Motor Speedway	28	11	4447
4	Martinsville	1	4	4518
5	Kansas	35	8	4324
6	Lowes Motorspeedway	1	6	4403
7	Dover	21	7	4422
8	Texas Motor Speedway	5	6	4480
9	Michigan International Speedway	6	5	4533
10	Milwaukee Mile	3	5	4842
11	Indianapolis Raceway Park	1	5	4895
12	Bristol Motor Speedway	1	4	4945
13	New Hampshire	34	5	4908
14	Las Vegas	24	5	4898
15	Talledega	36	6	4886
16	Martinsville	1	5	4936
17	Atlanta Motor Speedway	2	5	4982
18	Texas Motor Speedway	13	5	4998
19	Phoenix International Raceway	1	4	5044
20	Homestead, Miami Florida	1	4	5337

Trivia Series 4

Up to and including round 17 I have made 76 starts.

Up to and including round 17 I have been on pole 41 times.

Up to and including round 16 I have 34 top 5 finishes.

Up to and including round 20 I have 40 top 10 finishes.

Up to and including round 16 I have made a total of 9 pit stops.

Up to and including round 18 my average finishing position has been 14th. 

Up to and including round 18 I have used 1052 tyres.

Up to and including round 19 there have been a total of 492 caution laps.

Up to and including round 19 I have driven 5608 miles.

Up to and including round 17 I have burnt 940 gallons of fuel.

Up to and including round 16 my average qualifying position was 6th.

Up to and including round 16 I have driven a total of 4138 laps.

Up to and including round 20 I have led a total of 1564 laps.

Up to and including round 20 I have an average race speed of 93mph.

Round 20 - Homestead Miami Florida

Round 20, the final round of the series took place at Homestead Miami Speedway in Florida.

I had to get a good result to stand any chance of haing a championship top 5 finish.

The 10 lap practise session went well as I was fastest with a time of 37.927s.

Qualifying did not go too well as I had to be content with a 10th place grid slot with a time of 37.951.

In the race I managed to climb through the field to get into the lead by the end of lap 2.

I held the lead for most of the race. There was a yellow flag period in the last 10 laps but I didn't let it distract me and I held on for the win.

My fastest lap of the race was a 37.750, my fastest lap of the weekend.

So a good finish to complete the season. 4th in the championship, 389 points behind the leader was a big improvement on the previous season. Next season a top 3 should be possible.



Round 19 - Phoenix International Raceway

The penultimate round of the Championship took place in the Arizona desert at the Phoenix International Raceway.

With no chance of winning the championship the best I could aim for out of this season was a solid top 5 finish. I did have an outside chance of a top 3 spot but I would have to have two very good results.

Practise went very well as my time of 29.500 was the fastest posted during the session.

My good form carried over into qualifying as my time of 29.512 was enough to win pole position.

In the race I was always in the top 2. I led for 45 of the 55 laps, unlike some of the previous races if I made a mistake I was content to let the cars through and then work my way back to the front.
My best lap time in the race was 29.353, my fastest lap of the weekend
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I was now up to 4th in the standings, 424 points behind the leader.

Round 18 - Texas Motor Speedway

Round 18 took place at one of the fastest tracks on the championship circuit, Texas Motorspeedway.

The race weekend started well as I was fastest straight out of the box in practise with a time of 33.799 after the mandatory 10 laps.

I was a tad slower in qualifying but still managed to claim pole position with a time of 33.815.

The 51 lap race was another fuel disaster for me. From the dropping of the flag I led for 41 laps before pitting under a yellow flag for fuel. No one else did. I used the remaining laps to climb back to 13th place.

My best lap of the race was a 33.647 which was my fastest of the race weekend.

I was 5th in the standings - still 4 places higher than the previous season.