{"id":18813,"date":"2015-09-28T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2015-09-28T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:00:31","slug":"austin-dillon-routs-new-hampshire-truck-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/austin-dillon-routs-new-hampshire-truck-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Dillon Routs New Hampshire Truck Field"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Austin<\/a>
Austin Dillon, driver of the #33 Rheem Chevrolet, leads a pack of trucks during the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Austin Dillon, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado, fought off a late race skirmish with ThorSport Racing teammates Matt Crafton and Johnny Sauter to win NASCAR\u2019s 500th<\/sup> Camping World Truck Series race on Saturday afternoon, taking the checkers of the UNOH 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

Dillon knew he was up to the task after the caution flag flew with 15 laps to go and he stayed out on slightly used tires after then second place runner Kyle Busch, who had led for 69 laps, had to pull in for fresh rubber after suffering from right rear damage to his truck.\u00a0 On the 167th<\/sup> lap restart, Crafton and Sauter ganged up on Dillon, pushing each other to the front, but soon thereafter, Dillon had sailed away, building up a straightaway lead of 1.054 seconds at the end.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s very special,” said Dillon, the 2011 series champion, who won his first event of the season, his first at New Hampshire and seventh of his career and was very gracious in his honor of being the winner of NASCAR\u2019s 500th<\/sup> Truck event. \u00a0“I owe a lot to the Truck Series for getting me to where I am today.\u00a0 Our truck really got going at the end of a run, and that was awesome.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve had a lot of success qualifying, racing and winning in the Truck Series.\u00a0 It taught me a lot about how to race hard when you have to.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely a fun series to be in, and I\u2019m thankful for it.\u00a0 Hopefully, we can have thousands of races in the Truck Series.\u00a0 I\u2019ve enjoyed all of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>
Dillon celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With his runner-up finish, Crafton, now second in the standings, closed his deficit to the leader and seventh-place finisher Erik Jones to seven points. \u00a0Tyler Reddick closed his day in 15th<\/sup> and trails Jones by 19 points.<\/p>\n

“The 33 [Dillon] was definitely a little better,” Crafton said.\u00a0 “We missed it a little today. \u00a0\u00a0We fought tight and just kept freeing it up, and I was just a little too free on the short run right there.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what I was doing wrong, but I was missing my restarts so bad.<\/p>\n

“My teammate Johnny [Sauter] helped me on those last couple restarts and gave me a good shove and got me down in there.\u00a0 I just missed it, and we\u2019ll get them next week.”<\/p>\n

Sauter ran third, followed by Timothy Peters and John Hunter Nemechek, the winner at last week\u2019s Chicagoland Speedway, completed the top five.<\/p>\n

The average speed of the UNOH 175 was 95.084 mph after six caution flags for 32 laps.\u00a0 There were six lead changes among five drivers with Dillon dominating for 80 circuits.<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>
Dillon takes the checkered flag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next NASCAR Camping World Truck series event is next Saturday, October 3, for the running of the Rhino Linings 350K at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway starting at 10 p.m. EDT on FOX Sports 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austin Dillon drove hard to the win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3424,3470,22],"tags":[3016,2951,3132,3133,682,2848,397,2643,2953],"class_list":["post-18813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-austin-dillon","tag-erik-jones","tag-john-hunter-nemecheck","tag-johnny-sauter","tag-kyle-busch","tag-matt-crafton","tag-nascar-camping-world-truck-series","tag-timothy-peters","tag-tyler-reddick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/53239200303674.Sxnqlx7R7utsU80N8zgA_height640.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-4Tr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18817,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions\/18817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}