NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series regular, Kenny Wallace, will be starting in his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race since Phoenix, 1996. This weekend Wallace will return to his hometown of St. Louis for the Ram Tough 200 at the Gateway International Raceway. Wallace will pilot the No. 51 Flanders Beef Patties Billy Ballew Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado Saturday, September 1, 2007.

This will be Wallace’s first NCTS start at the Gateway International Raceway. He has nine previous starts in the Craftsman Truck Series with two top-5 and four top-10 finishes. Wallace has nine previous starts at Gateway in the NASCAR Busch Series at the 1.25 mile oval, with a best finish of sixth place in 2001. (more…)

Bristol native Nate Monteith looked to have a successful run in his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut Wednesday night at the Bristol Motor Speedway in the No. 15 Graceway Pharmaceuticals Billy Ballew Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado.  Unfortunately, rear-end woes ended his night early at the .533-mile short track.

Monteith, new to the trucks, used both Tuesday’s open test and Wednesday’s practice to get comfortable behind the wheel of the Graceway Pharmaceuticals Silverado and felt confident heading into qualifying.  But the truck snapped loose giving Monteith a much slower time then anticipated starting in the 35th place position using a truck owner’s points provisional position for the O’Reilly 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. (more…)

Kyle Busch in the No. 51 Flanders Beef Patties Billy Ballew Motorsports Silverado looked to have the dominant truck at the end of the O’Reilly 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at the Bristol Motor Speedway Wednesday night. But a synchronized spin on lap 181 of the 200 lap race with Travis Kvapil kept them both from Victory Lane sending Busch home in the 15th place position.

Busch, who flew in late on Tuesday afternoon after the NEXTEL Cup race that was a multi-day rainout at the Michigan International Speedway, hopped in the No. 51 Chevrolet Silverado for the remainder of the open test.  Busch struggled with grip on the tracks new surface.  Kenny Wallace substituted for Busch until he could make it from Michigan and had the same troubles on the track.  Wednesday mornings practice session didn’t seem to improve the truck, but by qualifying, the team led by Richie Wauters made the right changes with Busch posting a time of 15.959 seconds at a speed of 120.233 mph placing him in the ninth place on the starting grid for the 16th race of the 2007 NCTS season.

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Billy Ballew Motorsports has signed a one-race sponsorship with Graceway Pharmaceuticals, LLC and Nate Monteith for the running of the O’Reilly 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Monteith will pilot the No. 15 Graceway Pharmaceuticals, LLC Chevrolet Silverado at the Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday, August 22, 2007.

Monteith, 26, whose hometown is Bristol, Tennessee, will be making his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut but has posted two previous starts in the NASCAR Busch Series in 2001(Nazareth and IRP). Monteith has one previous qualifying attempt at Bristol Motor Speedway in the NASCAR Busch Series in 2001. (more…)