NASCAR superstar Kyle Busch will be back behind the wheel of the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Billy Ballew Motorsports Toyota Tundra at the Dover International Raceway for the running of the AAA Insurance 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Friday, May 30, 2008.

Busch will be running in all three NASCAR Premier Touring Series at Dover and is looking to match Mark Martin who is the only driver to ever score at least one win in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, the NASCAR Nationwide Series, and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at the Monster Mile. Busch’s brother and former NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Kurt Busch won the inaugural Craftsman Truck Series event in 2000. (more…)

Another solid run for the No. 15 Ergon race team came to a premature end in this week’s Ohio 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Park. After spending the majority of the race in the top-10, Marc Mitchell had a left-rear tire blow on lap 226. Fortunately, the team was able to quickly service Mitchell’s truck and keep him on the lead lap to collect a 26th place finish.

Mitchell started the race from the eighth position. It didn’t take long and he was knocking on the door of the top-five. By the time the second caution flag waved, lap 46, the Ergon Tundra was in sixth place and running lap times faster than the leaders. During the yellow flag, crew chief Doug George opted to give up his track position and bring Mitchell into the pits for service. This was the team’s only scheduled stop of the day. George wanted to make his pit stop before the leaders so that Mitchell could pick up positions as everyone else began pulling off the track to make their pit stops. After filling the No. 15 truck’s fuel cell to the brim and changing its left-side tires, Mitchell rejoined the field in 19th place for the restart. (more…)

Shane Sieg has a solid point’s day for Billy Ballew Motorsports in the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra after the running of the Ohio 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Saturday, May 24.  Sieg’s 21st place finish kept the 2008 owners point’s championship lead for Ballew.

Sieg, substituting for NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kyle Busch who regularly drives the No. 51 Toyota Tundra, placed the race truck in the 11th place position on the track for the 250 lap event on the .5 mile short track.

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Shane Sieg will once again stand in for NASCAR driver Kyle Busch Saturday at the Mansfield Motorsports Park for the running of the Ohio 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race for Billy Ballew Motorsports. Sieg substituted for Busch in Kansas when conflicts in schedules of the Premier NASCAR Touring Series kept Busch from racing. Sieg will once again fill big shoes as he pilots the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Billy Ballew Motorsports Toyota Tundra in the 250-lap race on the .5-mile short track in Mansfield, Ohio.

Billy Ballew Motorsports heads to the seventh race of the 25 race schedule back in the lead of the 2008 Owners Championship race after Busch put the truck on the pole and finished eighth at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway last week. The team has four previous starts with a best finish of third in 2005. Sieg has one previous start at the Mansfield Motorsports Park with a 16th place finish.

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