NASCAR Truck Series: Championship 4 history
By Asher Fair
This Friday night, the 2018 NASCAR Truck Series Championship 4 is scheduled to take place. Here is a brief history of the Championship 4.
The first 22 races on the 23-race 2018 NASCAR Truck Series schedule have been completed, leaving only the Championship 4 before this year’s champion is set to be crowned. The Championship 4 race is scheduled to take place this Friday, November 16 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The Championship 4 race is the Ford EcoBoost 200. The four drivers who are set to compete to win the 2018 championship in this 134-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Homestead-Miami Speedway oval in Homestead, Florida are GMS Racing teammates Johnny Sauter and Justin Haley, Hattori Racing Enterprises’ Brett Moffitt and Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Noah Gragson.
Before this year’s Truck Series Championship 4 takes place, let’s take a look back at the two Championship 4 battles that have taken place since the playoffs and the Championship 4 were added to the schedule ahead of the 2016 season.
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2016
In the 2016 NASCAR Truck Series season, GMS Racing’s Johnny Sauter, ThorSport Racing’s Matt Crafton, Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Christopher Bell and Red Horse Racing’s Timothy Peters entered the Championship 4 with a chance to win the championship.
Sauter finished the race in third place to secure his first career Truck Series championship. Crafton, Bell and Peters finished the race in seventh, eighth and ninth en route to finishing in second, third and fourth, respectively, in the championship standings.
2017
In the 2017 NASCAR Truck Series season, Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Christopher Bell, GMS Racing’s Johnny Sauter, Brad Keselowski Racing’s Austin Cindric and ThorSport Racing’s Matt Crafton entered the Championship 4 with a chance to win the championship.
Bell finished the race in second place to secure his first career Truck Series championship. Sauter finished behind him in third place en route to a second place finish in the championship standings. Cindric and Crafton finished the race in fifth and sixth en route to finishing in third and four, respectively, in the standings.
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The 2018 NASCAR Truck Series Championship 4 race, the Ford EcoBoost 200, is scheduled to get underway on Friday, November 16 at 8:00 p.m. ET. Be sure to tune it to the live broadcast of this race from Homestead-Miami Speedway on Fox Sports 1.