The Weirdest NASCAR Truck Series Season Nobody Talks About

NASCAR during the early 2010s was a desert for young talent. With all-time bad Cup Series ROTYs like Stephen Leicht, Andy Lally, and Kevin Conway. Due to bushwhacking and teams being comfy with their veterans, leading them not to want to develop talent. Doesn’t mean there was no talent. Looking at the standings and many of the winners shows a plethora of young talents who never lived up to their full potential. Starting with the very first winner of the year, John King. Now, King wasn’t a young talent wasted but a guy who was lucky to be there at all. Before 2012, the man from Kingsport, Tennessee, made only seven starts in the NASCAR Truck Series for three different owners, with his best finish on debut. So, a lot of people were shocked when a top-tier team, Red Horse, signed him for 2012. And he would really shock people when, in his first ever race at a superspeedway, he would win his first ever NASCAR race after he accidentally hooked Sauter to set up a final restart where Joey Coulter, going flying into