The Triple Truck Challenge was introduced in 2019 as a three-race program that provides drivers in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series an opportunity to win up to $500,000 in bonus money.
The Triple Truck Challenge will award a $50,000 bonus to the race winner of any one of the three events; win two of the three races and pocket an additional $150,000; win all three and collect a cool half a million dollars.
For the 2022 season, the Triple Truck Challenge also known as the ‘The Trip’ will be held at the following tracks:
- World Wide Technology Raceway (June 4)
- Nashville Superspeedway (June 24)
- Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (July 9)
The previous winners of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Triple Truck Challenge are:
2019 Season – Greg Biffle (Texas), Brett Moffitt (Iowa), Ross Chastain (WWTR)
2020 Season – Sheldon Creed (Daytona RC), Zane Smith (Dover), Sheldon Creed (WWTR)
2021 Season – Sheldon Creed (Darlington), Todd Gilliland (COTA), John H. Nemechek (Charlotte)
This season will mark the third-time World Wide Technology Raceway has hosted a Triple Truck Challenge NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race (2019, 2020 and 2022).
Camping World Trucks return to World Wide Technology Raceway
No other national series has competed more at World Wide Technology Raceway than the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and this weekend will mark the 22nd running of the Toyota 200 on Saturday, June 4 at 1:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
World Wide Technology Raceway is located in Madison, Illinois just outside St. Louis and was originally built as a road course in 1985 and was known as St. Louis International Raceway Park. The road course was demolished in 1996 to make way for the 1.25-mile oval and accompanying drag strip that are still there today.
The first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway was held on September 19, 1998 and was won by Rick Carelli driving a Chevrolet for truck owner Marshal Chesrown. Carelli won the race after leading 72 laps of the scheduled 160 with an average speed of 99.764 mph (02:00:17).
The 21 previous NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races at World Wide Technology Raceway have produced 12 different pole winners and 19 different race winners. Greg Biffle (1998, 2000) and Ted Musgrave (2001, 2005) lead the Camping World Truck Series in poles at World Wide Technology Raceway with two each.
Sheldon Creed (2020, 2021) and Ted Musgrave (2001, 2005) lead the series in wins at World Wide Technology Raceway with two each. This weekend, just one former World Wide Technology Raceway winner is entered in the Toyota 200 – John Hunter Nemechek (2017).
All of the on-track activity begins for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with practice on Friday, June 3 from 6:05 p.m. – 6:35 p.m. ET, directly followed by Cometic Gaskets Pole Qualifying at 6:35 p.m. ET.
Points leader John Hunter Nemechek is the only former WWTR winner entered this weekend
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver standings leader John Hunter Nemechek returns to World Wide Technology Raceway as the only former winner entered in the field this weekend and will look to become just the third different driver in series history to win multiple races at the 1.25-mile racetrack; joining Sheldon Creed (2020, 2021) and Ted Musgrave (2001, 2005).
Nemechek’s 2022 season got off to a slow start but has since rebounded taking the points lead following Texas. In 10 starts this season, he has put up one win (Darlington), five top fives and seven top 10s.
This weekend, keep an eye on the No. 4 team and Nemechek. The 25-year-old has made six starts at World Wide Technology Raceway posting one win (2017), two top fives and three top 10s.
Playoff Bubble: Six races left to decide five open postseason spots
ThorSport Racing’s Matt Crafton sits in the 10th position in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver standings – the final transfer spot into the Playoffs – as the series heads to World Wide Technology Raceway for the 11th race of the 16-race regular season.
Five drivers have locked themselves into the Payoffs by virtue of their wins this season – Zane Smith (three wins), John H. Nemechek, Ben Rhodes, Chandler Smitha and Stewart Friesen (each have one win). That leaves just five spots still up for grabs with just six races left to decide the postseason field.
Crafton in 10th is 25 points up on Tanner Gray in 11th – the first spot outside the Playoff cutoff – in the driver standings. Crafton is 52 points up on Derek Kraus in 12th in the series driver standings.
Of the drivers outside the Playoff cutoff chasing Matt Crafton in the final postseason transfer spot, Tanner Gray (14.5) has the best average finish at World Wide Technology Raceway; followed by Derek Kraus (16.5), Timmy Hill (18.0), Austin Wayne Self (20.0) and Tyler Ankrum (24.6). Matt DiBenedetto and Colby Howard will be making their series track debuts this weekend at WWTR.
Matt Crafton has made 18 series starts at World Wide Technology Raceway posting three top fives and 10 top 10s. His average finish at the 1.25-mile track is 12.1.
