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SRT Motorsports - RAM Camping World Truck Series Race Recap - Homestead
November 15, 2012, HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Brad Keselowski Racing’s Ryan Blaney (No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM) scored a 28th-place after being caught up in a late-race, multi-truck accident in tonight’s Ford 200 at Homestead- Miami Speedway.
Blaney started the 134-lap contest in 16th position and quickly moved his way up to ninth on by lap 28. An ill-handling race truck would slow any hopes of contending for the win but Blaney ran respectable, hovering around 10th-place over the remaining 103 laps.
But on lap 132 Blaney’s night dramatically changed as he battled for position in a pack of trucks off Turn 4 within sight of the white flag.
Racing in 11th position, Blaney would get collected in a three-car mishap after Ty Dillon and Kyle Larson banged fenders racing hard for second-place coming out of Turn 4. The contact sent the two Chevrolets spinning down the frontstretch and clipped the No. 29 RAM, sending him hard into the outside safer barrier, ending his night. He was credited with a 28th-place finish.
“It’s one of the worst hits when you get clipped like that,” Blaney said. “We struggled a little bit all night and just really couldn’t find speed but I really wish we could have at least finished. I think we could have wrestled a decent finish out of it. It was a bad night but hopefully we can go get ‘em tomorrow. Every time you’re getting turned around into the wall it’s not really a good thing.”
The talented Camping World Truck Series rookie ends the 2012 Truck Series campaign scoring one win, two top-five and six top-finishes in nine starts.
Cale Gale was the race winner beating Kyle Busch in a fender-banging finish, crossing the finish line just 0.144 seconds ahead of Busch. Joey Coulter, Nelson Piquet Jr. and Miguel Paludo rounded out the top-five.
Race Results NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Ford Ecoboost 200 Homestead-Miami Speedway November 16, 2012 1. Cale Gale 2. Kyle Busch 3. Joey Coulter 4. Nelson Piquet Jr. 5. Miguel Paludo 6. Johnny Sauter 7. Parker Kligerman 8. Timothy Peters 9. Justin Lofton 10. Ross Chastain 28. RYAN BLANEY
NCWTS Final Driver Standings (after 22 of 22 events) 1. James Buescher 808 points 2. Timothy Peters -6 3. Joey Coulter -19 4. Ty Dillon -24 5. Parker Kligerman -30 6. Matt Crafton -49 7. Nelson Piquet Jr. -61 8. Justin Lofton -98 9. Johnny Sauter -130 10. Miguel Paludo -140
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