The Victoria’s Voice Foundation 200 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway marks Hailie Deegan’s 25th career start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Deegan had a strong showing during the season-opening contest at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, running within the top-10 before a wreck late in the final stage mired her to a 17th-place finish.
Friday’s race will mark the 20-year-old’s third NASCAR Truck Series start at the 1.5-mile speedway, her first since the reintroduction of practice and qualifying.
Mike Hillman, Jr., Crew Chief of the No. 1 Monster Energy Ford F-150, has seen a plethora of success at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The veteran signal-caller has 19 career races at the track, earning Truck Series victories with Todd Bodine in 2005 and Kyle Busch in 2018.
Tanner Gray will compete in his 50th career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Two weeks ago, Gray kicked off his junior season in the Truck Series with a fourth-place effort at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway; his career best finish at a superspeedway.
Historically, the Ford Performance driver has fared well at Las Vegas. In four career starts, he has one top-five and two top-10s with finishes of eighth, third, 12th and 23rd.
Crew chief Jerry Baxter has a multitude of experience at the 1.5-mile speedway having called four races in the Cup Series, five in the Xfinity Series and 10 in the NCWTS with four top-fives and eight top-10s. Baxter has a best finish of second twice, once with Bubba Wallace in 2014 and once with Brett Moffitt in 2019.
Ryan Preece will make his first of seven starts behind the wheel of the No. 17 F-150 this season at Las Vegas on Friday evening.
In 2021, the Connecticut native made two Truck Series starts with DGR, winning in his series debut June 18 at Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway.
Preece has seven career starts at Las Vegas between the Cup and Xfinity Series with a best finish of sixth in 2018 behind the wheel of a Joe Gibbs Racing Xfinity car.
Chad Johnston will once again serve as crew chief on the No. 17 entry this weekend.
Stewart-Haas Racing and Ryan Preece announced a partnership this morning with United Rentals where the largest equipment rental company in the world will serve as a primary sponsor on the No. 17 for three races – Las Vegas on Friday, March 19 at Atlanta Motor Speedway and May 6 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
