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1. About how much did a new fully loaded 2017 F-450 Super Duty Limited pickup truck cost? 2. What was the name of Ford’s first model truck? 3. What are the benefits of a TorqShift transmission?

Do some research on NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series. Then look up the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series, and compare the two based on number of events, race attendance and prize money.

Buck Baker created the National Pickup Truck Racing Association in 1983. Today the NASCAR-run racing series features twenty-three races each season.

After two successful seasons, Baker sold the circuit to hot rod builder and racer Dick Moroso. He renamed the series the Moroso Performance All-Pro Pickup Truck Series. Today NASCAR holds the Camping World Truck Series as one of its three national series, along with the Monster Energy Cup Series and Xfinity Series. Racers Jimmy Smith, Jim Venable, Dick Landfield, and Frank Vessels originally founded the truck series in 1995 as the SuperTruck Series.

Drivers compete in a Camping World Truck Series event in Arizona.

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