Ben Rhodes – No. 99 Campers Inn RV Ford F-150
Charlotte Race Information
Started: 19th
Stage 1: 17th
Stage 2: 7th
Finished: 1st
Laps: 134/134
Laps Led: 37
Status: Running
Driver Points: 5th
Owner Points: 6th
• This is Rhodes’ first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2023.
• This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in eight races at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
• Rhodes gave Ford its first NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway with tonight’s win.
• It also marked the second win (Joey Logano, Bristol Dirt) for ThorSport Racing since re-joining Ford at the start of this season.
• The last time Rhodes won with Ford was on Sept. 6, 2020, at Darlington.
• This marks the third CRAFTSMAN Truck Series win for Rhodes in a Ford F-150.
YOUR FIRST WIN OF THE YEAR AND NOW YOU’RE ALL BUT LOCKED INTO THE PLAYOFFS? “I’m not gonna say I was getting worried, but I was certainly feeling a little bit of the pressure, and it wouldn’t have been like that if it wasn’t for the last three races. We somehow found ourselves getting wrecked. We’d run the high side and get wrecked. We’d run the bottom and get wrecked. Lo and behold, here we are recovering and I can’t think of a sweeter way to do it. These guys have worked their absolute butts off. Again, being up north we have a different set of challenges and my guys work 10 times harder, I think, to fulfill that. They deserve it. I’m just so happy for them. It’s all theirs and I’m happy.”
THIS IS THE FIRST TRUCK WIN AT CHARLOTTE FOR FORD. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO DO THAT? “It means a lot. I spend a lot of time actually in Charlotte even though I live in Kentucky. I come down here to the Ford Performance Technical Center that is right down the road. This is their home track as far as that goes. They’ve got a lot of really hard-working people at Ford and they deserve this as much as anybody, too. To think that they’ve gone this long and not gotten a win in their backyard in that sense, that’s really cool. I’m just happy we could do it. I’m happy for my team, happy for Ford, everybody involved, and, of course, Campers Inn. They flew up from Florida and they’re here with us now and I don’t think they’ve been to a NASCAR Victory Lane before, so we’re gonna show them how they do it.”
World Wide Technology Raceway
Saturday, June 3 at 1:30 p.m. EST
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