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This weekend Brian Ickler will take over the wheel of the No. 51 Miccosukee Resort/Samsung Instinct Toyota in the Camping World 200 at The Milwaukee Mile.
Handpicked by Kyle Busch, Ickler has competed in five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races in 2009 collecting one pole award, two top-5 and two top-10 finishes. Last weekend at Michigan, Ickler grabbed the pole for the event and posted a third place finish in the No. 15 Billy Ballew Motorsports Toyota. With the momentum of last week pushing him into his first career start at the one mile oval in Milwaukee, Ickler is pumped to hit the track on Friday.
"I'm looking forward to going back to a short track," Ickler stated. "It is easier to learn what these trucks do on the short tracks. From what I understand Milwaukee is a race track that you need to have a truck that turns well. It is the complete opposite of the last short track we were at in Dover. Dover has lots of banking and is a fast mile track whereas Milwaukee is probably the slowest short track we go to. You have to have a truck that unloads well and I know that Doug George, Richie Wauters and the rest of the Billy Ballew Motorsports team has done everything they can to get us the best truck we can have when we get there." Aric Almirola will make up the other half of Billy Ballew's stable this weekend, piloting the No. 15 Zaxby's Toyota Tundra. Almirola previously took the No. 15 entry to a 16th place finish at Texas Motor Speedway two weekends ago.
"I'm very excited for the opportunity to get back behind the wheel for Billy Ballew Motorsports and to be able to race at The Milwaukee Mile," Almirola said. Almirola continued, "I've had pretty good runs at Milwaukee and have collected a couple poles there in a Nationwide car. I'm going to be running a double-header weekend, running both the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event on Friday followed by the Nationwide Series race on Saturday night. I can't ask for much more than two nights of racing back-to-back." MORE NASCAR NEWS
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