Under perfectly blue skies at Kansas Speedway on Friday afternoon, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was able to execute the new elimination-style qualifying for the first time since its inception. Qualifying was rained out for the first two events on the 2014 schedule. All three Red Horse Racing entries transferred into the second session. Germán Quiroga locked the No. 77 OtterBox Toyota Tundra into the 17th starting position. Brian Ickler and Timothy Peters transferred into the final qualifying session where Ickler and the No. 7 Bullet Liner team locked in the fourth position and Peters and the No. 17 Red Horse Racing team earned the eighth starting position. A multi-truck incident on the first lap involved the No. 17 and No. 77 Toyota Tundras, requiring repairs by both teams. The No. 7 snapped loose and made hard contact with the outside wall on lap 10 to end the night early for the Bullet Liner team.
Despite the early damage, Quiroga drove the OtterBox Tundra to a seventh-place finish, his third top 10 in as many races this year, and jumped up to fourth in the Camping World Truck Series championship point standings. Peters finished in the 14th position and only fell to second in the point standings. The last time that Red Horse Racing team owner Tom DeLoach had two drivers in the top five in the Camping World Truck Series driver championship point standings was November 2012 following the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway with Timothy Peters (second) and Parker Kligerman (fifth).
Germán Quiroga came home with a seventh-place finish in Friday's SFP 250 at Kansas Speedway and moved up to fourth in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series point standings after a challenging race weekend. The No. 77 OtterBox Toyota Tundra was fast during Thursday's practice sessions, running consistently in the top 10, but a flat tire in the last few minutes of final practice sent Quiroga into the outside wall. The Red Horse Racing team returned to the track early on Friday and worked tirelessly to prepare the backup truck for the race.
Quiroga still battled a tight-handling condition during the knock-out qualifying session and wasn't able to move past the second round, earning him a 17th-place starting position. Once the race started, Quiroga felt he had a competitive Tundra; however, on lap one a competitor got loose in front of the yellow and black machine and with nowhere to go, the Mexico City native was collected in the incident. He brought the No. 77 Toyota Tundra down pit road and the OtterBox team worked to repair the damage, giving Quiroga a truck with which he could finish the race. He battled with his Tundra throughout the race, and made numerous scheduled pit stops for adjustments.
With improved handling, he rallied his way into the top 10. A late-race caution and a fast pit stop that gained him three positions was a key factor in his seventh-place finish. After the final restart he climbed to as high as fifth in the running order before settling into the seventh position, where he would take the checkered flag. The result was Quiroga's third top-10 finish of the season and fourth consecutive top 10 in Camping World Truck Series competition, with a seventh-place finish in the 2013 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway (November), a tenth-place finish at Daytona International Speedway (February 2014) and seventh-place finish at Martinsville Speedway (March 2014).
"I am so happy with our results tonight and I can't thank the team enough. After we wrecked in qualifying, the team worked extremely hard to give me a backup No. 77 OtterBox Toyota Tundra that was just as good as our primary truck. We didn't qualify as well as we wanted and then got tangled up in the first caution of the race, so to finish seventh after all of that is a big success in my opinion. We moved up to fourth in points and I feel really confident heading into Charlotte next week"
Contenido generado, publicado y difundido por el departamento de prensa del piloto de la NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Germán Quiroga.
Contacto prensa: Martín Caño.
Email: prensa@germanquiroga.com
Contacto prensa: Martín Caño.
Email: prensa@germanquiroga.com
