Ankrum Chasing Redemption in LiUNA! 150 at Lime Rock
Venue: Lime Rock Park
Event: LIUNA 150
Date: Saturday, June 28th
Location: Lakeville, CT
Track Description: 1.478-mile road course
Distance: 100 laps, 147.8 miles (1:00 p.m. ET, FOX, SiriusXM)
Lime Rock Park … Tyler Ankrum, driver of the No. 18 LIUNA Chevrolet Silverado RST is headed up to Lakeville, Conn. for the inaugural LIUNA 150 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (NCTS) event at Lime Rock Park. This 1.5-mile track is a scenic road course in the state of Connecticut. This is the first time in it’s 68-year history that Lime Rock will hold a NASCAR national touring series event. Loyal partner to the 24-year-old, LIUNA, will hold as title sponsor for the 100-lap NCTS event.
Left and Rights … The San Bernardino, Calif. native has 10 previous NCTS career starts on road courses where he has tallied one pole win (COTA, 2021), two top-five and seven top-10 results with a best of third coming at COTA back in 2021. Ankrum and the No. 18 team and looking forward to the change of pace in hopes to turn their bad luck around Saturday afternoon at Lime Rock.
Spoiler Highlights … Ankrum and the No. 18 team are excited to welcome the LIUNA local contractor Manafort Brothers Incorporated to adorn the left side spoiler of the No. 18 LIUNA Chevrolet for the 100-lap event at Lime Rock. Manafort Brothers Incorporated is a construction and demolition services firm that performs specialty construction and demolition services as well as general contracting services at sites primarily in the northeastern United States, but also at selective projects nationwide. Headquartered in Plainville, Connecticut, they also maintain regional offices in Worcester, Massachusetts and Cumberland, Rhode Island.
Manafort is a 4th generation, family-owned firm. They have an extensive fleet of equipment and a large, highly-skilled, diversified craft workforce and a very experienced management and estimating team that supports their ability to consistently and successfully estimate, plan and execute their projects. Their ability to self-perform allows them to control and execute projects and yield consistently successful results.
Tune In …Television coverage on the LIUNA 150 will begin Friday afternoon with practice starting at 1:05 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 2 and continuing Saturday morning with qualifying at 9:30 a.m. ET followed by green flag at 1:00 p.m. ET on FOX. Stay connected with the No. 18 LIUNA team by following @BMR_NASCAR on Twitter, @bmrnascar on Instagram, and Bill McAnally Racing on Facebook.
Tyler Ankrum Quote:
“Really looking forward to a change of pace this week heading into a road course. We have not had the best of luck the last couple weeks and we need to break that streak at Lime Rock this weekend. Super excited to have LIUNA sponsoring the truck race this weekend and I can’t wait to see all my LIUNA brothers and sisters up there. It will be a great weekend for activation and I am hopeful that we can get everyone to Victory Lane for the inaugural LIUNA 150.”