Camping World Truck Series Live Stream Nascar Race Kansas Speedway O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 June 4, 2011

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Today is the race. For all that went right for Todd Bodine last season in the Camping World Truck Series, about as much has already gone wrong for the reigning series champion in 2011.

Bodine, seeking to become the first driver to claim consecutive Truck titles, finds himself in a huge hole seven races into the season.

The two-time champion has one top-10 finish, has led all of two laps and is a distant 11th in the standings.

Such statistics would have been virtually unfathomable in the preseason for a driver who rolled up 20 top-10s, including four victories, en route to rendering last year's title fight little more than a snooze-fest.

But as Bodine points out, reigning truck champs don't customarily have it easy.

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Nascar Camping World Truck Series Live Stream Kansas Speedway O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 June 4 2011

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In this Race weekend, NASCAR officials announced Tuesday a revision in qualifying procedures for the Nationwide and Truck Series, beginning this weekend.

 
Instead of separating the qualifying order between teams locked in and those which must qualify on speed, the entire field will be sorted based on practice speeds, from slowest to fastest. Starting this season, locked-in teams were set first in the qualifying order, in the inverse order of their best practice speed, followed by those needing to qualify on time. Before 2011, the qualifying order had been set by a random draw.
According to the NASCAR release, the rules change hopes to "level competition between the slowest and fastest cars and provide more of compelling qualifying session for the fans".

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Nascar - Camping World Truck Series Race, Charlotte Motor Speedway Kimi Raikkonen Debut 21 May 2011

Kimi Raikkonen's first appearance on a NASCAR oval has gone ahead, with the former world champion qualifying in 31st position for his first Truck Series appearance at Charlotte.

 Kimi Raikkonen has qualified in 31st position for his first NASCAR Truck Series outing on the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

After two solid practice runs in the morning which saw Raikkonen place a consistent 30th position in both, with few dramas save for the typical power slide and wall scrape that are standard for the series, the 2007 F1 world champion put in another conservative but confident drive to ensure that the #15 Perky Jerky Toyota would make the starting line-up of the evening race.

The pressure on Raikkonen was relaxed somewhat when it was clear that there were fewer entrants than expected. In the end, only one truck - that of Norm Benning - failed to qualify.

Timothy Peters qualified on pole ahead of Sprint Cup regular Clint Bowyer. Raikkonen's team owner, Kyle Busch, qualified in sixth while another formr F1 driver, Nelson Piquet Jr., also qualified in the top ten. Raikkonen was visited in the garage area by his former McLaren etam mate Juan Montoya who offered words of advice and encouragement, at what was their first reunion in several yeas.

At his first NASCAR press conference, Raikkonen was forthright about what he was doing here this weekend: "I wanted to see how it is, how it feels. If I suck, there's no reason to come back. We'll see how it goes." The assembled media were reportedly a little taken aback by the impassive demeanour that F1 fans know well and love from the "Iceman."

The race takes place at 8pm ET, 1am BST and will be carried live and free-to-air on the Sky platform on channel 433 by Premier Sports TV.

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Nascar - Camping World Truck Series Qualifying, Charlotte Motor Speedway 21 May 2011

Kimi Raikkonen's first appearance on a NASCAR oval has gone ahead, with the former world champion recording a steady 30th position in both morning practice sessions at Charlotte.

The 2007 F1 world champion arrived in the strange world of NASCAR ovals, and ... it was all absolutely fine. There were no reported dramas, no incidents, and while Kimi Raikkonen didn't dazzle the paddock with particularly stunning runs, a consistent 30th position in both session timesheets will do very nicely for the new boy, thank you very much.

Another 30th position would comfortably see Raikkonen into the race if repeated in NASCAR Camping World Truck Series qualifying this afternoon at 4pm ET (9pm BST) at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

At his first NASCAR press conference, Raikkonen was forthright about what he was doing here this weekend: "I wanted to see how it is, how it feels. If I suck, there's no reason to come back. We'll see how it goes." The assembled media were reportedly a little taken aback by the impassive demeanour that F1 fans know well and love from the "Iceman."

Also involved in Friday Truck practice was Raikkonen's team owner, Kyle Busch, who was comfortably in the top ten in both sessions, as was Kimi's fellow F1 alumni Max Papis. Nelson Piquet Jr. was 15th in the early practice before moving up into tenth in the later session.

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