Cam Waters got the full short track experience – the good, the bad and the ugly – in his NASCAR debut in Friday night’s Truck Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
Even though Waters got knocked out of the race after 176 of 200 laps, that didn’t negatively affect his experience. “I had so much fun tonight and all day today. It is totally different racing from what I usually do, and I just wanted to learn,” he said. “I learned so much. “There at the end, I just had nowhere to go and knocked the radiator out of it. It is a shame, but I was having fun and learning and had some awesome battles, too.
The final one came on lap 178 when several trucks spun off Turn 2 and Waters slammed into the back of Jake Garcia, who was trying to avoid the accident. The damage to Waters’ No. 66 truck was extensive and he took it right to the garage. “I didn’t really have any expectations. I have watched a lot of races and knew it was going to be pretty crazy,” Waters, 29, said. Shane and Marcos Ambrose told me it was going to be wild out there and even all the drivers when I got here said the same thing.
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