{"id":172259,"date":"2026-02-28T00:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172259\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:43:15","slug":"nascar-truck-series-race-at-st-petersburg-could-be-chaotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172259\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Truck Series race at St. Petersburg could be chaotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the ingredients for a chaotic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR\u00a0<\/a>Craftsman Truck Series race on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, on Saturday are present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s practice session was cut short after drivers got less than 15 minutes of track time due to rain. Qualifying was then canceled, with the starting lineup for Saturday&#8217;s race set by the NASCAR rulebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why Saturday&#8217;s race could be chaotic<\/p>\n<p>Not only will Saturday be the first time the Truck Series has ever raced on a street course, but it will also be the series&#8217; first stop on the streets of St. Petersburg as it joins IndyCar for a doubleheader race weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six-time IndyCar winner James Hinchcliffe and four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti, the latter of whom has seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson as his crew chief, are just a couple of the names in a star-studded field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kaden Honeycutt was fastest during the shortened practice session, while Hinchcliffe and Franchitti were fourth and 19th, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the start of Friday&#8217;s practice session, ThorSport Racing driver Cole Butcher crashed, incurring heavy damage on his No. 13 Ford. That will force Butcher to a backup truck for Saturday&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the ingredients for a chaotic NASCAR\u00a0Craftsman Truck Series race on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-172259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}