Absence of Familiar Face Will Be Evident at Kansas Truck Race

On Monday the entry list for the O'Reilly 300 Camping World Truck Series race in Kansas was posted. As I read the entry list to myself, usually after Johnny Sauter's No. 13 truck, a huge smile comes across my face to announce my favorite driver in the truck series. "No. 14 Ford driven by LA's Rick Crawford," usually is what I say. Instead I skipped right to Johnny Benson's No. 15 truck. My heart sunk. Where's Rick, I asked. He can't not be in the truck race! It's the first time since the final race of the 1996 season that Crawford will not be in a truck race. His and Tom Mitchell's Circle Bar Racing team started up in the 1997 season, and had success along the way. Crawford was always the staple of the series. It was fun for me, to gro...

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