Last Friday night (May 20) at Texas Motor Speedway, Todd Bodine made his third of six scheduled NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts in a quest to reach 800 across the board in the sport’s three national touring series.
Bodine made his Truck Series debut during the inaugural season in 1995 when he made five starts for RFK Racing. During that short timeframe, he posted five top 10s, including a best finish of fourth in his debut.
After that, it wasn’t until 2004 when he returned to the series to run 10 races that included wins at Auto Club Speedway and Texas for Germain Racing. He returned the following year to run full-time and made 10 starts for Tom Eldredge before returning to Germain Racing where he spent the majority of his Truck Series career. During the 2005 season, Bodine scored five wins, including three straight to close out the year but came up short in the championship battle.
In 2006, Bodine scored the first of two championships he has to his name, but only won three races that year. He started off with a runner-up in the season opener at Daytona International Speedway and never dropped lower than third in the standings. Completing 99% of the laps run that season (4,075 of 4,079), Bodine scored 16 top 10s and an average finish of 8.4 en route to a commanding championship win by 127 points over Johnny Benson.
He won the championship again in 2010, this time with four wins, 17 top fives, 20 top 10s and an even more impressive 6.4 average finish. In fact, Bodine was so consistent that season that he wrapped up the title a week before the season finale.
In 220 career Truck starts, spanning 11 years, Bodine boasts 22 wins, 92 top fives and 124 top 10s.
The last time he raced in the Truck Series prior to this season was in 2013 when he ran a handful of events for ThorSport Racing and a single one for the now-defunct Turner Scott Motorsports. What started as a single-race deal for the season opener at Daytona International Speedway turned into…
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