Matt Crafton Wins Championship While "Bubba" Wallace wins Homestead Race

Homestead, FL – RIS – Matt Crafton won the 2014 NASCAR Camping World Series Championship while Darrell Wallace, Jr. drove to victory at Miami-Homestead Speedway Friday night.  Darrell Wallace Jr. held off Kyle Larson on the last lap to win Friday night’s Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, his fourth NASCAR Truck series victory of the season.

“This is so exciting and cool,” said Wallace, who is expected to move to the Nationwide series next season. “These guys on this team never gave up all season.”

After the race, Wallace, who drives a  Toyota Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports, participated in a duel burnout on the frontstretch with Kyle Busch, who clinched the series owner’s championship for his No. 51 team.

“It’s been a great year. We ran up front, had really fast trucks. I’m so happy for everyone at KBM,” said Busch, who finished fourth in the race.  It’s been a phenomenal year for (Wallace). If it wasn’t for some bad luck early in the season he would have been right there racing for a championship.”

KBM drivers ended up winning 14 of the 22 races this season – Busch had seven, Wallace four and Erik Jones three. Wallace ended up third in the standings.

Matt Crafton, with his ninth-place finish, clinched his second consecutive driver’s championship with ThorSport Racing, which also fields Toyotas. He needed only to finish 21st or better to clinch the title.

Crafton is the first driver in series history to win back-to-back titles.

“To say I made history is definitely very, very cool, but it’s all about the guys that are behind me. Without them, I’m just an average race car driver at best,” he said.

“I wanted to race so much harder tonight. I couldn’t take any chances. I know I could have went further forward, but I said it is what it is.”

ThorSport Racing has fielded at least one truck in 431 races, including 413 consecutive starts since January 1998 – both are series records.

Timothy Peters finished third in the race and Ryan Blaney was fifth. Blaney ended up as runner-up in the points race, finishing 21 points behind Crafton.

Ben Kennedy, who finished ninth in points, was named the series rookie of the year.

Unofficial Results 

Fin, Str, Driver, Truck, Laps, Pts, BPts, TLd, LLd, Notes
1) 8, Darrell Wallace Jr., No. 54 ToyotaCare Toyota, 134, 47, 4, 4, 30, Running
2) 1, Kyle Larson(i), No. 42 ParkerStore Chevrolet, 134, 0, , 5, 96, Running
3) 15, Timothy Peters, No. 17 Red Horse Racing Toyota, 134, 41, , , , Running
4) 5, Kyle Busch(i), No. 51 ToyotaCare Toyota, 134, 0, , 3, 6, Running
5) 2, Ryan Blaney, No. 29 Cooper Standard Ford, 134, 39, , , , Running
6) 4, Tyler Reddick#, No. 19 DrawTite Ford, 134, 38, , , , Running
7) 7, Ty Dillon(i), No. 9 Qore-24 Chevrolet, 134, 0, , , , Running
8) 14, Joe Nemechek, No. 8 swmtx.com Toyota, 134, 36, , , , Running
9) 6, Matt Crafton, No. 88 Jeld-Wen/Menards Toyota, 134, 35, , , , Running
10) 17, Johnny Sauter, No. 98 Nextant/Curb Records Toyota, 134, 34, , , , Running
11) 3, Ross Chastain, No. 35 watermelon.org Toyota, 134, 33, , , , Running
12) 13, Daniel Hemric, No. 20 First Community Bank Chevrolet, 134, 32, , , , Running
13) 9, Jeb Burton, No. 13 Estes/Carolina Nut Company Toyota, 134, 31, , , , Running
14) 16, Spencer Gallagher, No. 23 Allegiant Travel Chevrolet, 134, 30, , , , Running
15) 22, German Quiroga, No. 77 OtterBox Toyota, 134, 29, , , , Running
16) 18, Mason Mitchell, No. 48 NEEM/Wildlife Foundation Florida Ford, 134, 28, , , , Running
17) 11, Ben Kennedy#, No. 31 Heater.com Chevrolet, 134, 27, , , , Running
18) 10, Bryan Silas, No. 99 Congratulation Governor Rick Scott Chevrolet, 134, 27, 1, 1, 1, Running
19) 20, Tayler Malsam, No. 32 Outerwall Chevrolet, 134, 25, , , , Running
20) 26, Austin Hill, No. 92 GoodyearFleetHQ/Wynn/ARCO/A&DWldrs Ford, 134, 24, , , , Running
21) 24, Matt Tifft, No. 45 Chevrolet, 134, 23, , , , Running
22) 27, Justin Jennings, No. 63 MittlerBrosMachine&Tool/LG Seed/SkiSoda Chev, 134, 22, , , , Running
23) 19, Joey Coulter, No. 21 Allegiant Travel Chevrolet, 133, 21, , , , Running
24) 25, Tyler Young#, No. 02 Randco/Young's Building Systems Chevrolet, 133, 20, , , , Running
25) 28, Kyle Martel, No. 59 Hanover Cold Storage Chevrolet, 131, 19, , , , Running
26) 32, Todd Peck, No. 07 Horizon Pharma/Arthritis Foundation Chevrolet, 131, 18, , , , Running
27) 33, Derek White, No. 82 OCR GAZ BAR Chevrolet, 130, PE, , , , Running
28) 21, Ray Black Jr., No. 08 ScubaLife/NASE WorldWide Chevrolet, 130, 16, , , , Running
29) 23, Mason Mingus#, No. 15 Call 811 Before You Dig Chevrolet, 130, 15, , , , Running
30) 31, Jordan Anderson, No. 74 Living Integrity Chevrolet, 129, 14, , , , Running
31) 30, Wendell Chavous, No. 50 Dedicated to Electrical Linemen Chevrolet, 114, 13, , , , Electrical
32) 29, Jennifer Jo Cobb, No. 10 Oohrah! Hydration Drink Chevrolet, 58, 13, 1, 1, 1, Clutch
33) 36, Scott Stenzel, No. 36 MittlerBroMachine&Tool/LGSeed/SkiSoda Chev, 11, 11, , , , Electrical
34) 35, Norm Benning, No. 6  Chevrolet, 7, 10, , , , Rear Gear
35) 12, John Wes Townley, No. 05 Zaxby's Toyota, 6, 9, , , , Accident
36) 34, Caleb Roark, No. 0 Grimes Irrigation & Construction Chevrolet, 5, 8, , , , Vibration

# = Rookie
(i) Ineligible for driver points in this series

Fin = Finish, Str = Start, Pts = Total Points, BPs = Lap Leader Bns Pts, TLd = Times Led, LLd = Laps Led.
Average Speed: 113.791 MPH
Time of Race: 01 Hrs, 45 Mins, 59 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 0.293 Seconds
Lead Changes: 13 among 5 drivers
Cautions: 7 for 28 laps