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2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

The 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was the 28th season of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, a Pickup truck racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season started with the NextEra Energy 250 on February 18 at Daytona International Speedway, and concluded with the Lucas Oil 150 on November 4 at Phoenix Raceway.

Teams and drivers
Complete schedule Limited schedule Notes Changes Teams • On April 30, 2021, Bill McAnally Racing West Series driver Cole Moore revealed that McAnally–Hilgemann Racing, the Truck Series team Bill McAnally co-owns, may expand to two teams full-time in 2022. On September 9, MHR announced that Colby Howard would drive full-time for the team in 2022 and it would most likely be in the team's new second truck. Howard previously drove the No. 15 for JD Motorsports in the Xfinity Series part-time in 2020 and full-time in 2021 until September, the Truck Series part-time in 2019 and 2021 for Young's Motorsports and CR7 Motorsports respectively, and the ARCA Menards Series in 2018 and 2019 for Mason Mitchell Motorsports and Win-Tron Racing respectively. On February 3, 2022, the team announced that they would be fielding two full-time trucks, the Nos. 46 and 47. Matt Jaskol, who made his NASCAR debut in 2021 in the Xfinity Series with MBM Motorsports, would make his Truck Series debut and drive the No. 46 full-time while Viens, Johnny Sauter, Roger Reuse and other drivers would share the No. 47. • On December 2, 2021, David Gilliland revealed in an interview with Dustin Albino from Jayski that his David Gilliland Racing team would field three full-time trucks in 2022. The No. 17, which was previously a part-time truck, will now be fielded full-time with Taylor Gray continuing to drive part-time along with other drivers sharing the ride with him. • On December 7, 2021, it was announced that GMS Racing would be downsizing from 5 full-time trucks to 2 in 2022 as a result of the team expanding into the Cup Series through their acquisition of the majority of Richard Petty Motorsports. The trucks that were closed down are the Nos. 2, 21 and 26. The drivers of those trucks in 2021 (Sheldon Creed, Zane Smith and Tyler Ankrum, respectively) all left the team. The team sold the 2021 owner points from those trucks to GMS-affiliated teams, with the Reaume Brothers Racing Nos. 33 and 43 trucks getting the owner points from the GMS Nos. 23 and 24 trucks and the new McAnally–Hilgemann Racing No. 91 truck getting the owner points from the closed GMS No. 26 truck. GMS transferred the owner points from the Nos. 2 and 21 trucks (which were closed down) to their Nos. 23 and 24 trucks. • On December 23, 2021, CR7 Motorsports announced that their No. 9 truck would run the full season with Blaine Perkins driving. Although the No. 9 truck ran almost all the races in 2020 and 2021, 2022 will mark the first season it has been fielded full-time. On November 4, Niece Motorsports announced that Alan would drive the No. 45 full-time in 2022. • On July 16, 2021, 2020 Truck Series champion Sheldon Creed stated in an interview that he would like to move up to the Xfinity Series full-time in 2022. He has driven full-time for GMS Racing in the No. 2 full-time since 2019. On September 14, it was announced that Creed would drive full-time for Richard Childress Racing in the Xfinity Series in 2022. • On August 8, 2021, Matt DiBenedetto, who lost his full-time Cup Series ride with the Wood Brothers to Harrison Burton for 2022, stated in an interview that he would "entertain anything" when it comes to his 2022 plans, which means that he was open to moving down to the Xfinity or Truck Series full-time. On January 6, 2022, Rackley W.A.R. announced that DiBenedetto would drive their No. 25 truck full-time in 2022. However, the team confirmed on November 9 that Alfredo would not be driving for them in 2022 regardless of series. On November 30, FRM announced that Gilliland would move up to the Cup Series for the team in their No. 38 car while Zane Smith would leave GMS Racing to replace Gilliland in the No. 38 truck in 2022. The goal was reached on October 1, making the deal official. On December 13, it was announced that Bodine would run his six races in a second truck for Stewart Friesen's Halmar Friesen Racing team. On October 29, it was announced that Hill would drive full-time for Richard Childress Racing in the Xfinity Series in 2022. On December 1, 2021, HRE announced that Tyler Ankrum would move over from the GMS Racing No. 26 truck to replace Hill in the No. 16 in 2022. However, on June 10, Garrett had to be replaced due to his drug test results not coming in in time for practice. (As it was his first start of the season, he had to take a drug test beforehand.) Josh Bilicki drove the No. 30 truck in qualifying and the race. On July 1, the team announced that Justin Marks, the owner of the Cup Series team Trackhouse, would come out of his NASCAR driving retirement to drive the No. 41 at Mid-Ohio. On August 9, 2022, Wright parted ways with Niece Motorsports, with Chad Chastain replacing him at Richmond. • On December 22, 2021, Young's Motorsports announced that Jesse Little would run at least 12 races for the team with the possibility of more races being added. He previously drove the No. 78 for B. J. McLeod Motorsports in the Xfinity Series for most of the 2021 season. • On March 22, 2022, AM Racing announced that Logan Bearden would attempt to make his Truck Series debut at COTA in their part-time No. 37 truck at COTA. He failed to qualify for the same race in 2021 for Niece Motorsports in the No. 44 truck. On May 26, the team announced that ARCA and NASCAR Mexico Series driver Max Gutiérrez would make his Truck Series debut in the No. 37 truck at Charlotte in a collaboration with his ARCA team, Rette Jones Racing, and would run additional races later in the season. The two teams collaborated to field the No. 32 car for Gutiérrez in the main ARCA Series season-opener at Daytona. • On June 4, 2022, G2G Racing owner Tim Viens revealed to Mark Kristl from Frontstretch that Mason Filippi and Travis McCullough would both attempt to make their Truck Series debuts at Sonoma in the team's Nos. 46 and 47 trucks, respectively. However, on June 10, McCullough had to be replaced due to his drug test results not coming in in time for practice. (As it was his first start of the season, he had to take a drug test beforehand.) Stefan Parsons was going to replace him in the No. 47 truck for qualifying. On February 3, 2022, ThorSport announced that Jeff Hensley, who was previously a crew chief for the team from 2014 to 2015 and again from 2017 to 2020, would return for a third stint with the team and would be Crafton's new crew chief. However, on February 3, 2022, it was announced that Hensley would instead go to ThorSport Racing to be the new crew chief for Matt Crafton's No. 88 truck. Steven Dawson has served as the interim crew chief for the No. 02 truck, driven by Jesse Little and Kaz Grala, since Tronconis' suspension started. • On June 24, 2022, McAnally–Hilgemann Racing No. 19 truck crew chief Shane Wilson was suspended for that day's race at Nashville due to an improperly installed ballast. It is unclear who filled in for Wilson as Derek Kraus' interim crew chief in the race. • On October 5, 2022, NASCAR indefinitely suspended Young's Motorsports No. 20 truck crew chief Andrew Abbott after he violated the behavioral policy in the NASCAR rulebook. Chevrolet unveiled their new body update on October 29. • On October 13, 2021, it was announced that McAnally–Hilgemann Racing would be switching to Chevrolet and would have an alliance with GMS Racing in 2022. They previously were a Toyota team and had an alliance with Hattori Racing Enterprises. • On December 6, 2021, Hill Motorsports announced that they would be switching from Chevrolet to Toyota in 2022. • On December 23, 2021, it was announced that CR7 Motorsports would have a technical alliance with GMS Racing in 2022. ==Rule changes==
Rule changes
• On November 19, 2021, NASCAR announced the new practice and qualifying formats across all three national series in 2022. The formats are as follows: :* Paved oval races: After a 20-minute practice period, all trucks will run a single qualifying lap (two laps at Martinsville, Bristol, Richmond, and Dover). :* Daytona and Talladega: All trucks run one lap each, with the top 10 transferring to the final round. :* Road courses: After a 20-minute practice period, the field will be separated into two groups, each running a 15-minute timed session. The top five of each group will advance to the final round, which consists of a 10-minute timed session. :* Dirt tracks: Four qualifying races will determine the starting lineup. :* Daytona, Atlanta, Bristol dirt, Knoxville, Sonoma, Mid-Ohio, Nashville, and the Phoenix season ending race will have one 50-minute practice session. • On March 11, 2022, NASCAR announced that the reconfigured Atlanta Motor Speedway will enforce track limits, currently implemented on Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. • The race at Gateway will no longer utilize special restrictions on pit lane, as it will be held jointly with the Cup Series race at the circuit. Pit restrictions will be implemented at Mid-Ohio, a standalone race, and dirt pit restrictions will be in effect at both dirt races. ==Schedule==
Schedule
The 2022 season schedule was announced on September 29, 2021. Note: The Triple Truck Challenge races are listed in bold. Schedule changes There is one more race on the schedule, as it now contains 23 races instead of 22 from 2021. • After a 23-year absence, Sonoma returns to the schedule for the first time since 1998 and after a 10-year absence, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park also returned to the schedule, becoming a playoff race. • Mid-Ohio earned a Truck Series race and will host the Truck Series for the first time in series history, after losing their date in Xfinity Series. Kansas also earned a 2nd date permanently, in the playoff, after being added in 2020 as a replacement due to COVID-19 pandemic. • Homestead Miami returned to the schedule after being removed due to logistical reasons in 2021 after the Auto Club Speedway Cup and Xfinity races were canceled because of state restrictions. • The two pandemic-related changes midway through the season, the second Daytona International Speedway (road course) and Darlington Raceway (playoff) races, which were added because of pandemic-related restrictions, were removed. NASCAR permanently removed the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park event that had been replaced by Darlington each of the past two seasons. • Watkins Glen and the 2nd Las Vegas (the playoff one) races were also removed from the schedule permanently. • As for other slight realignments, Martinsville will go from the fall to the spring date and Richmond will go from the spring to the summer date. ==Results and standings==
Results and standings
Race results Drivers' championship (keyBold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by competition-based formula. * – Most laps led. 1 – Stage 1 winner. 2 – Stage 2 winner. 1-10 – Regular season top 10 finishers. . – Eliminated after Round of 10 . – Eliminated after Round of 8 Owners' championship (Top 15) (keyBold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by competition-based formula. * – Most laps led. 1 – Stage 1 winner. 2 – Stage 2 winner. 1-10 – Regular season top 10 finishers. . – Eliminated after Round of 10 . – Eliminated after Round of 8 Manufacturers' championship ==See also==
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