2024 NASCAR

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Waiting to see if the truck race will be shown in Aus.
Keen to see how Cam Waters races, debut on a short track might seem a strange choice at first but given his background not really.
He does have quite a bit of spritcar experience, is actually a former modified sedan national champion, his brother won his second consecutive modified tittle last weekend and he has also raced late models.
Lots of experience racing ovals but all dirt track, a short track pavement start in trucks is just the next step up and pretty similar to the way many find their way into a truck seat.
He might not have the supercars wins and championships of SVG but certainly has similar level of skill, as often as not the leading Ford runner and can certainly hold his own with SVG when it comes to last lap battles on the track.

Cam & SVG going at it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqSumNVWUJw

Comes from a bit of a racing family his father also raced dirt, his cousin is a 3x national superbike champion and has raced in the British SBK and World SBK championships and made a few starts in the USA.

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22nd in qualifying for Cam, SVG qualified 28th in his short track truck debut.
If Cam cans stay out of trouble, learns on the run and they make the right strategy and calls on adjustments then a top 10 wont be out of the question.
Expect he will perform similarly to SVG improving through the race, slowly working his way forward and if he stays out of trouble be around the top 10 come the end of the race.

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Cam got involved in a few late race wrecks and didnt make the race finish, classified 30th in the end.
With a lot of different strategy calls bit hard to get a real gauge on his pace, ran as high as 11th at times and dropped back to 30th or so with pit stops. Seemed to have the pace on fresh rubber to work his way back up to around 20th fairly quickly after pitting. Second half of the race was caution after caution and trucks running multiple different strategies with no real extended green running so hard to get a true gauge on his race pace.
Certainly didnt look out of place in a truck on a short track, commentary announced he would be doing another race in May but in post race interviews Cam said as of now he had nothing confirmed.

[JEBar]

looking forward to tonight's xfinity race at Martinsville .... SVG starts 19th .... Hailie starts 27th

[JEBar]

oh well, on Lap 36 Brennan Poole turned Hailie at the the exit of turn two causing her to hit the car .... that spun her car into Kyle Weatherman and damaged the nose of her car .... she's still running but lost 2 laps by the end of stage 1

[JEBar]

well, It looked like Hailie Deegan’s race would be over after a crash on Lap 36, which saw the front bumper of her car ripped off.... kept her head in the game, and her team help her to a solid 18th place finish.​

[JEBar]

the Cup series races at Martinsville today .... prerace 2:00PM .... green flag shortly after 3:00PM ....Kyle Larson's #5 Chevy on the pole .... good to see Chase Elliot finally get it together and starts 3rd

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

Well, the weather is a whole lot better here in this area of Virginia today. Compared to the last two nights of racing. They both had pretty small attendances, especially the truck race.

[JEBar]

the Cup race seemed to be better attended but that is usually the case .... Rick Hendrick had 1,200+ employees and their families there ... his cars finished first, second, and third ....

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

Denny Hamlin should not had pitted. I tried telling him, but I guess he couldn't hear me through my kitchen radio.