2017_NASCAR_Camping_World_Truck_Series

2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

23rd season of third-tier NASCAR Camping World Truck Series


The 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was the 23rd season of the third highest stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in North America. The season began with the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway on February 24, 2017, and ended with the Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 17. Johnny Sauter entered the season as the defending drivers' champion. This was the final season for Brad Keselowski Racing and for Red Horse Racing.

Christopher Bell, the 2017 Camping World Truck Series champion.
Johnny Sauter, the 2016 NCWTS Champion, finished 2nd in the Championship.
Austin Cindric finished third in the championship.
Matt Crafton, the 2013 and 2014 champion, finished fourth in the championship.
Chase Briscoe was the 2017 Camping World Truck series rookie of the year.
Toyota won the manufacturers' championship with 12 wins and 856 points.

Christopher Bell of Kyle Busch Motorsports won the driver's championship with a second-place finish in the season finale, Kyle Busch won the owner's championship for the fifth consecutive season, and Toyota won the manufacturer's championship.

This was the second year that the Truck Series (and the Xfinity Series) had a playoff system. Three of the four "championship 4" drivers (who are shown below), were the same as last year's; the only difference being Austin Cindric in it instead of Timothy Peters.

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule

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Limited schedule

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Notes

  1. Entries were fielded in a collaboration with MB Motorsports.
  2. MB Motorsports and Copp Motorsports shared the Nos. 36/63/83 and helped each other at the track in all their entries.
  3. Entries were fielded in a collaboration with Peck Motorsports.
  4. Entry was fielded in a collaboration with TJL Motorsports.
  5. Entry was fielded in a collaboration with Charles Buchanan Racing.
  6. Self's and Fontaine's races in the No. 45 were fielded in a collaboration with AM Racing.
  7. Entries were fielded in a collaboration with Austin Hill Racing.
  8. Entries were fielded in a collaboration with Rick Ware Racing.
  9. Entries were fielded in a collaboration with Mike Harmon Racing.
  10. Tommy Joe Martins crashed the only truck the team had, so Mike Harmon let Martins drive his backup truck renumbered to No. 42 in the race.
  11. Entries were fielded in a collaboration with Brandonbilt Motorsports.
  12. Self's races in the No. 44 were fielded in a collaboration with AM Racing.
  13. Entry was fielded in a collaboration with Bolen Motorsports.

Changes

Drivers

Teams

Crew chiefs

Rule changes

  • On October 26, NASCAR announced that drivers with more than five years of full-time racing on the Cup level may drive a maximum of seven Camping World Truck Series races.[2] They are also ineligible to drive in the final eight races of the season. Exceptions will be given to drivers with more than five years of full-time racing on the Cup level if they declared to run points in Truck Series.[3]
  • On February 8, 2017, NASCAR announced a new damaged vehicle policy for all three national series. Body panels can no longer be replaced after a wreck, and a team has five minutes on pit road to fix the damage before they are eliminated.[4]
  • As in the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series, all Truck races will be split into segments. After the first two intermediate segment finishes, the top 10 drivers will be awarded points. The race finish will air full points as usual. The first two segments have about one quarter of the race laps each, and the final segment has about half of the race laps.

Schedule

The Bar Harbor 200 at Dover International Speedway in June

The season's schedule comprises 23 races, and was released on May 5, 2016. Fox, FS1, and Fox Business will televise every race in the United States.[5]

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Results and standings

Race results

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Drivers' standings

(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or owner's points. * – Most laps led. 1 – Stage 1 winner. 2 – Stage 2 winner. 1-10 – Regular season top 10 finishers.
. – Eliminated after Round of 8 . – Eliminated after Round of 6

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Owners' championship (Top 15)

(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led. 1 – Stage 1 winner. 2 – Stage 2 winner. 1-10 – Owners' regular season top 10 finishers.
. – Eliminated after Round of 8 . – Eliminated after Round of 6

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Manufacturers' Championship

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See also

Notes

  • ^1 After a dominant win by Chase Elliott at Martinsville in a part-time team (No. 23), GMS Racing switched owner points from No. 24 and No. 23 for number 24 make the owners' playoffs.

References

  1. Utter, Jim (October 7, 2016). "NASCAR Next driver Noah Gragson set to join Kyle Busch Motorsports". Motorsport.com. Concord, North Carolina: Motorsport Network. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  2. Albert, Zack (October 26, 2016). "New participation guidelines put limits in place for 2017". NASCAR.com. Charlotte, North Carolina: NASCAR Media Group, LLC. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  3. Fryer, Jenna (October 26, 2016). "NASCAR limits number of lower tier races for veterans". Associated Press. Charlotte, North Carolina: AP Sports. Associated Press. Archived from the original on October 28, 2016. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  4. Pockrass, Bob (February 8, 2017). "NASCAR unveils new damaged vehicle policy". ESPN.com. Concord, North Carolina: ESPN Inc. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  5. "NASCAR announces 2017 national series schedules". NASCAR.com. Daytona Beach, Florida: NASCAR Media Group, LLC. May 5, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2016.

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