Waters will once more drive the No. 66 Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing. The 29-year-old has 11 victories as a Supercars driver and has twice been the championship runner-up. He at the moment competed for Tickford Racing.
He made his NASCAR debut within the Truck race at Martinsville, saying that ti was “undoubtedly wild, however I beloved it.” Waters was knocked out of the race after 176 of 200 laps, however walked away from the expertise smiling.
“I had a lot enjoyable tonight and all day as we speak. It’s completely completely different racing from what I normally do, and I simply needed to be taught,” he stated then. “I realized a lot.” He began twenty second and completed thirtieth at Martinsville.
Cam Waters, ThorSport Racing, TRADIE Ford F-150
Photograph by: Danny Hansen / NKP / Motorsport Photos
Waters is a part of a current surge in Supercars drivers making an attempt NASCAR, which incorporates champions Brodie Kostecki and Shane van Gisbergen, who made the full-time change after successful a Cup race on debut on the Chicago Road Course.
Waters stated of his upcoming begin: “It’s nice to be getting one other crack at racing the Ford truck for ThorSport and hopefully I can adapt to the Kansas Speedway fairly rapidly. The observe is sort of 3 times lengthy as Martinsville and has a mean lap-speed of simply on 180-mph, though I’ve heard it’s much less of a bull ring than Martinsville was.
“I’ll spend some extra time within the simulator to speed up the training and stay up for the problem. I additionally recognize some information companies have already point out the Kansas race, however what no person knew on the time was NASCAR have stringent standards they apply to licensing for the high-speed venues, and I wanted to get by way of Martinsville earlier than I might be assessed for approval to run at Kansas. This has now been accomplished.”
TRADIE will once more sponsor the hassle. The race takes place on Saturday, Could 4th.
