The 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was the sixteenth season of the

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highest stock car racing series in the

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. Beginning at

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, the season included twenty-five races, which ended with the

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at Homestead-Miami Speedway. During the 2009 off season,

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announced few calendar changes, returning to

Darlington Raceway Darlington Raceway is a race track built for NASCAR racing located in Darlington, South Carolina. It is nicknamed "The Lady in Black" and "The Track Too Tough to Tame" by many NASCAR fans and drivers and advertised as "A NASCAR Tradition." It is ...

for the first time in six years.

Kyle Busch Motorsports Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. They formerly competed in the CARS Tour, ARCA/CRA Super Series, Southern Super Series, and the ARCA Mena ...

won the owners' championship in their inaugural season, while

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won the drivers' championship during the

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at Phoenix International Raceway, one race before the final.

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won the manufacturers' championship with 193 points.

2010 teams and drivers

Complete schedule

Notes: * Cobb's team purchased the equipment and owner points from the Circle Bar Racing No. 10 truck. *

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purchased the assets of

Xpress Motorsports Xpress Motorsports was a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team. The team won the Truck Series championship in 2002 and 2003 with Mike Bliss and Travis Kvapil, respectively. The team was owned by Steve Coulter until 2004, when he sold the team to then ...

and used their owner points from 2009 (from the No. 16 truck). * RCR purchased the No. 48 Fast Track truck's owner points from 2009 for the No. 3 truck. * Rick Ware Racing purchased the owner points from the former No. 08 SS-Green Light truck for the No. 47 truck. * Carmichael's No. 4 team purchased the owner points from the championship-winning No. 33 Kevin Harvick, Inc. truck in 2009.

Part-time schedule

Schedule

The season marked the return of

to the schedule for the first time since 2004, replacing the

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. The series also raced for the first time at Pocono Raceway. After the closing of

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, a second race was added to

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on the first of two weekends where the Nationwide and Truck Series raced but the Cup Series had off weekends. Kentucky Speedway's stand-alone date on the July Cup Series off weekend was moved to the Friday night of Labor Day weekend in September, the same weekend that the

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had a race there. All 25 Truck races were aired on TV on

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, with all of them being broadcast live except for the race at Dover, which was aired on tape delay by three hours (at 8 p.m.) after the race started at 5 p.m. (noted below with an * asterisk). Unlike the Cup and Nationwide Series

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had the radio coverage for all races.

Results and standings

Races

Full Drivers' Championship

( key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. ''Italics'' – Pole position set by owner's points. * – Most laps led.

Manufacturers

Rookie of the Year

;The top 4

References

External links

Truck Series Standings and Statistics for 2010
{{NASCAR Truck Series Championship * NASCAR Truck Series seasons