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Thoughts on Ty Majeski winning his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship after his win at Phoenix

by Sports Benches

First of all, congratulations to 30-year-old Ty Majeski, who not only was the Championship 4 contender to win that season-finale Trucks race, but he also got away with the Trucks season title in his No.98 Ford F-150 as well for ThorSport Racing.

I’ve haven’t forgotten about him after all when he was part of the the shared Project60 Xfinity Series program several years ago at Roush Fenway Racing alongside now current Cup drivers Austin Cindric (Team Penske Ford) and Chase Briscoe (Stewart-Haas Ford for one last time this weekend before he will switch over to Joe Gibbs Toyota next season).

Okay, his results there wasn’t that good for the most part other than just the two Top 10 finishes before he was dumped by Roush at season’s end after the team shut down their Xfinity program at the time. But again, he just made the most out of his opportunities since then including some iRacing work, and good to hear that Ty is finally making his name at Trucks level with wins & decent top finishes along the way. 

And who would’ve thought when iRacing was an important feature to every racers’ life when COVID put a hold to everyone for most of 2020 & some in 2021? Well, Ty Majeski most certainly was one of the drivers who benefitted from this for a long, long time as he wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for iRacing. But hey, ThorSport gave him a chance to start from the bottom and here he is now with the Truck Series championship. He’s so grateful to both of them as what’s next for 2025?

Well, he’s having so much fun getting used to running up front, which is the most important thing everyone needs to know as an inspiring racer of any kind. So I guess he will stay at Trucks as long as he enjoys dominating this every week. If he was to end up in Xfinity and maybe Cup though, then I’d say he will go to a team who can provide him the competitive means to win races & run regular Top 10s. 

Yes, he might not be a young prospect anymore unlike a few others today. But at least he wants to win races for fun and that’s not going to change anytime soon.

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Thoughts on Tickford’s Supercars driver Cam Waters making his NASCAR debut in Trucks for ThorSport next weekend at Martinsville

by Sports Benches

In April 2023, Tickford Racing’s Cam Waters made his way from Melbourne to the paper clip short track called Martinsville Speedway over in the US – having taken a closer look of Riley Herbst’s No.98 Ford Mustang Xfinity Series race car from Stewart-Haas Racing. Then he came back to America again as a spectator during the 2023 regular season finale at Daytona a few months ago and here he is now ready to expand his love of NASCAR this time as a race car driver where he will be returning to Martinsville next weekend by driving the No.66 Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing in the Craftsman Truck Series.

It’s so fitting for Waters to begin his NASCAR debut at a place he first came there a year ago & there wouldn’t be any issues at all to begin his oval racing career since he will be racing on a short track/0.5 mile oval. If he wants to run superspeedways at some point, no problem. But he can go take part in the season-opening ARCA Menards Series round at Daytona in February next year (surely that won’t affect his Supercars commitments short-term) in order to pass the rookie orientation test & race on the big tracks as Shane Van Gisbergen (currently at Kaulig Racing in the Xfinity Series while still being tied up under Trackhouse) had to do 1-2 months ago regardless of his race result (an early crash sadly saw him limping down in 29th).

Looking at Waters’s ambitions with NASCAR, he’s almost age 30 with another good 10-15 years left as we also know that he is on RFK Racing’s radar who might as well give him a partial Cup ride later this year in the 3rd No.60 Ford Mustang race car for three races – most likely in the road course events like the Chicago Street Course & maybe one short oval one. He’d be a great long-term replacement there should the co-boss Brad Keselowski eventually calls it a day in the No.6 team or the team can see the potential 3rd charter happening to expand into three full-time Cup cars someday, but Xfinity would be a great start with a good midfield team like RSS & AM Racing who can give him the resources to run upfront and win races from there.

Now looking at his Supercars record, it’s not bad having finished 2nd twice via the Drivers’ Standings in the Supercars championship before back in 2020 and 2022 to both NZ drivers who now ply their trade in the US such as Scott McLaughlin (Dick Johnson Racing, now at Team Penske in IndyCar) and SVG (Triple Eight, now racing NASCARs full-time as above) respectively. Don’t forget he also finished 2nd twice at the Bathurst 1000 back in 2020-21 as well. Yes, he has won a couple of races there before but still has unfinished business though after an up and down start so far this Supercars season despite a good qualifying run last weekend at Albert Park that saw him win the pole award for Race 2. A Bathurst 1000 win would be great while catching up with the drivers’ standings in the hope of at least walking away with one series championship before he can think real big full-time in the US. For now, we wish him good luck as a Top 15-20 run would be a great start on debut.

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