Former Truck Series-winning owner Steve Turner dies
Former Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series owner Steve Turner died Thursday.
James Buescher won the 2012 Truck Series title driving for Turner. Buescher had four wins, 10 top-five finishes and 14 top-10 finishes and beat Timothy Peters for the title by six points. Buescher is Turner’s son-in-law.
Turner formed his own NASCAR team to break in to the sport and purchased Braun Racing, a longtime Xfinity Series team, in 2010. He then joined forces with Harry Scott to form Turner Scott Motorsports in 2013.
The two parted ways at the end of the 2014 season and Scott is currently the owner of HScott Motorsports. HScott fields cars in the Sprint Cup Series for Clint Bowyer and Michael Annett.
Turner’s teams won 19 races from 2009-2014 in the Xfinity and Truck Series. Mark Martin got the team’s first Xfinity Series win in 2011 (at Las Vegas) and Buescher’s first Truck win in 2012 was the team’s first win in that series.
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