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Above: Corey Heim leading the field at Kansas, which only saw three cautions in the 134 lap race. Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images

Quiet in Kansas? Only three cautions in the Heartland for Trucks

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If you’re like me and watch Craftsman Truck Series racing, you know that calamity is just around the corner.

But tonight at Kansas, we didn’t exactly see that. While we still saw crazy moves from drivers on the fast 1.5 mile track of Kansas Speedway, the yellow flag only showed its ugly manner just three times during the event. Besides a crash on lap 77 involving Corey Day and Matt Mills, the only time the trucks were restacked were during the stage breaks.

Where did the cautions go? Why were things calm?

The thing is, the numbers say otherwise.

In the last eight Truck Series events at Kansas, the average number of cautions is 4.4, surprisingly one of the lowest on the circuit.

Grant Enfinger, who finished ninth in Friday night’s race was quoted by saying, “The way this track moves around is a lot like Homestead, where you’re really just racing the racetrack a lot. There were a lot of people who were getting in the wall and cutting tires down, but not a lot of cautions.”

The Kansas winner Corey Heim also commented on the lack of yellow flags in the 134 lap race.

“The way NASCAR does its scheduling, they normally make a more chaotic racetrack to be a cutoff race, but I generally don’t feel like Kansas is a chaotic race. This race in our series is typically one of our more cleaner races, as we only sent two trucks home tonight,” referring to the Matt Mills and Corey Day crash. “I didn’t expect it to be a wreck fest tonight.”

One thing is for sure, and that’s when the trucks head to Talladega next Saturday afternoon, the opportunities for a caution are more than the mind can handle.

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