2011 WinStar World Casino 350K
| Race details | |||
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| Race 24 of 25 in the 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season | |||
Simple line diagram of Texas Motor Speedway track layout
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| Date | November 4, 2011 | ||
| Location | Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.5 mi (2.4 km) |
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| Distance | 147 laps, 220.5 mi (350 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 63 °F (17 °C); wind speeds up to 7 miles per hour (11 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 121.275 mph (195.173 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Turner Scott Motorsports | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Kevin Harvick | Kevin Harvick Incorporated | |
| Laps | 61 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 2 | Kevin Harvick | Kevin Harvick Incorporated | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Speed | ||
The 2011 WinStar World Casino 350K was a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event held on November 4, 2011 at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Contested over 148 laps of the 1.5 miles (2.4 km) oval, it was the second-last race of the season, and was won by Kevin Harvick in a green-white-checker finish.
The race became notable for an incident on its fourteenth lap, where Kyle Busch deliberately spun out series regular (and championship contender) Ron Hornaday on a resulting caution after Hornaday caused Busch's truck to slide into a wall. Its aftermath affected the championship contentions of both drivers (in the Sprint Cup Series and the Camping World Truck Series respectively), and NASCAR's response to the incident also led to the first ever parking of a driver across all three races of a race weekend involving all of the association's national series since the original establishment of the Truck Series in 1995.
James Buescher won the pole position for the race, setting a lap speed of 181.062 mph (291.391 km/h). Austin Dillon, Blake Feese, Kyle Busch and Ricky Carmichael started from the top five; Tim Andrews, Norm Benning and Derek White failed to qualify for the event.
In the race, Kevin Harvick won his fourth event of the season; Austin Dillon finished second. James Buescher ran out of fuel on a green-white-checkered finish and dropped from third to 19th. The victory saw Harvick's No. 2 Chevrolet team clinch the series' Owners Championship.
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