McAnally-Hilgemann Racing driver Daniel Hemric is among a group of NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series drivers making use of the ultimate training guide for the series street course debut. He\u2019s been in contact discussing the tight and challenging downtown course with Team Penske\u2019s Scott McLaughlin, who scored his first career IndyCar Series win \u2013 from pole position \u2013 at St. Petersburg in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust tried to lean on Scotty a little bit about the nuances that make this place what it is,\u2019\u2019 said Hemric, who drives the No. 19 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet and has three career top-five finishes on road courses in the series.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, he\u2019s had a lot of success in the past and obviously I have only limited street course experience with the Chicago deal [in the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series]. From what I\u2019ve seen it\u2019s a beautiful layout and I\u2019m jealous we haven\u2019t done it before now. Hope to have some fun and get on track and learn something.\u201d<\/p>\n
McLaughlin said a couple of NASCAR drivers actually reached out to him. In seven starts, the New Zealander has won two pole positions, claimed a pair of top-five finishes and three times has led the most laps in the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s skill in learning your proximities, and that\u2019s different, but the NASCAR guys do that week in and week out running so close to the fence at places like Darlington (S.C.) or Bristol (Tenn.) places like that,\u2019\u2019 McLaughlin said. \u201cSo that\u2019s not really going to be too much of an issue, I think there\u2019s more to lose if you make a mistake and go down an escape road or flat spotting a tire, hitting a fence is something where there\u2019s a little more risk than other tracks.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of good road course drivers in the trucks and I think it\u2019s good for the event to have a little collaboration with NASCAR. I\u2019m really excited to watch it Saturday, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McAnally-Hilgemann Racing driver Daniel Hemric is among a group of NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series drivers making use of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,7574,718,20203,13157,1193,19117,634,582,721,82,5794],"class_list":{"0":"post-504939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chevrolet","11":"tag-craftsman-truck-series","12":"tag-daniel-hemric","13":"tag-group","14":"tag-indycar","15":"tag-indycar-series","16":"tag-nascar","17":"tag-racing","18":"tag-series","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-team-penske"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}