News & Updates
August 17, 2017
Recap: Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Great Lakes/Menards Toyota Tundra made his 15th career start at Bristol Motor Speedway in Wednesday night’s rain-delayed NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) UNOH 200. Starting sixth, Crafton battled a tight Menards Tundra throughout the 200-lap event, finishing third in Stage 1, and second in Stage 2. During the final pit stop […]
August 15, 2017
Sounding Off – Matt Crafton: “Bristol is a unique, half-mile, high –banked, bullring-type race track. You are flying around the place, and it gets crowded with 32 other trucks vying for position. It’s a fun race to drive, but an even better track for the fans. We have been close there. 2015 was a heartbreak, for sure. We were leading […]
August 13, 2017
Recap: Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra made his 16th-career start at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) LTi Printing 200. Starting from the pole position, the ThorSport Racing drivers third at the 2-mile D-shaped oval, Crafton led the 30-truck field for 10 laps, but lost the lead on […]
August 12, 2017
Matt Crafton won the pole for today’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway after a lap of 184.256 mph. This is Crafton’s 13th career pole, third at the 2.0-mile D-shaped oval, and first since Feb. 2016 at Atlanta, 33 races ago. The LTi Printing 200 will air live on FOX Sports 1 at 1:00 p.m. ET.
August 9, 2017
Sounding Off – Matt Crafton: You’ve been pretty strong at Michigan in the past. Has the track aged at all since the repave? “Before they repaved it you could run all over the place. Then they paved it, and the racing groove got narrow. The groove is widening out – the inside lane is a little bit faster now – […]
August 1, 2017
Recap: Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Goof Off/Menards Toyota Tundra made his eighth career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) start at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway in Saturday’s Overton’s 150. Starting ninth, Crafton finished fifth in Stage 1, and 16th in Stage 2, utilizing a late-Stage pit stop to gain track position for the start of the third and […]
July 25, 2017
Sounding Off – Matt Crafton: You’re fourth in the standings, and you have a win, locking you in the Chase. Does this change your approach to the rest of the season? “No. I wanna win more races, and it will all take care of itself. NASCAR has put such an emphasis on getting the wins – they mean so much […]
July 19, 2017
Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Ideal Door/Menards Toyota Tundra made his fifth career start at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, OH, on Wednesday night. Starting a track-best second, the ThorSport Racing driver led the field twice, for 24 laps, and ended a 27-race winless streak, winning the fifth annual Eldora Dirt Derby, his first win of 2017, and the […]
July 18, 2017
Sounding Off – Matt Crafton: You’ve finished inside the top-10 in every start at Eldora Speedway. Is this a track you look forward to racing at each year? “I have a love, hate, relationship with Eldora. I need to figure out how to put the whole race together. For the first two-thirds of the race I’m, ‘King Kong,’ and driving […]
July 7, 2017
Recap: Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Jack Links/Menards Toyota Tundra made his 19th career start at Kentucky Speedway in Thursday night’s rain-delayed NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) Buckle Up In Your Truck 225. Starting fourth, when qualifying was canceled due to weather, and the field was set based on the rule book – 2017 owner points – […]
July 5, 2017
Sounding Off – Matt Crafton: “Kentucky Speedway and I have had a love-hate relationship, to be quite honest – it’s been really good to us at times, and really bad for us too. With the new asphalt on it, there is a difference in the corners. Turns 1 and 2 are wide open, with a bunch of banking, and Turns […]
June 22, 2017
Recap: Matt Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Fisher Nuts/Menards Toyota Tundra made his 11th career start at at Iowa Speedway in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) M&M’S 200. Starting 12th, Crafton finished 14th in Stage 1, and 19th in Stage 2. Restarting eighth for the final 68-lap stint in Stage 3, the ThorSport Racing driver ran […]
