INDIANAPOLIS, I.N. – The first round of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Playoff begins with Friday night’s TSport 200 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (9 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
With three victories this season, Zane Smith is the top seed for the Truck Series postseason, which will be contested in a three-round, seven-race elimination format.
The Truck Series hasn’t raced at the .686-mile paved oval since 2011, when Timothy Peters beat James Buescher to the finish line by 2.645 seconds.
As the Regular Season Champion, Smith enters the Playoffs with a 15-point cushion over second-place Chandler Smith, who won last Saturday at Pocono. But that won’t deter Zane Smith from an aggressive approach to the postseason.
“I think you kind of have to go about it as going for wins,” Zane Smith said. “That points buffer will run out quickly. It doesn’t take much to fill up those spots, so I think we’re just going to do what we’ve been doing for the rest of the year.
“It’s worked out for us, and we’ve shown a lot of consistency, and I think that’s what you need to do in the Playoffs to get to (the Championship 4 race at) Phoenix.”
Source: Reid Spencer / NASCAR Wire Service
