The finish occurred in his 21st career series start. In the Truck Series, it's the 1st for the #50 and the 11th for camshaft issues. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 9th for the #50 and 37th for camshaft issues.
Entering the fourth ever season of the Truck Series, Hathaway had never competed in a SCRL sanctioned race, so he was going to have a lot of pressure as he signed a won year contract to drive for Jack Roush and his two truck team. In his first ever SCRL started, Hathaway would finish 23rd after being involved in the race's Big One on Lap 7. A 36th at Homestead would be his second straight bad run before he scored his first Top 5, a 4th at Phoenix before finishing 24th at Portland, 9th at Evergreen, 13th at I-70, 20th at Watkins Glen, 12th at Texas before scoring a career best 3rd at Bristol, the same race his teammate Darren Allen would score his first win of his career, and the first for Roush Racing in Season 4 of the Truck Series. A 17th at Milwaukee, 29th at Nazareth, 6th at Fontana, 12th at Pikes Peak, 24th at IRP, 9th at Loudon, 15th at Flemington, 4th at Nashville, 28th at Heartland Park, 20th at Louisville before finishing 35th in the last round at Richmond.
The entry list for the 13th time this season, and the second race in a row, would be 37 trucks. Nick Kennedy would collect his first career series pole in qualifying, posting a time of 23.264 seconds, while Hathaway would struggle just a little bit in qualifying, post a time of 23.379 seconds, and while Hathway was only 0.115 seconds behind Kennedy's pole winning time, it would place Hathaway in the 17th position. Posting the slowest time during qualifying was the #89 Precision Automotive Ford of Ryan Pritchard, who was 0.310 seconds behind Kennedy's lap time.
On race day, Pritchard would trail for the first two turns around the 0.750 mile track before knocking Flemington last-place finisher the #5 Llumar Window Films Chevrolet of Chakat Whitelion into the final spot for the first lap, but on the next lap Whitelion would knock the #52 Purolator PureOne Filters Chevrolet of Blaise Zebrataur into last on Lap 2. Blaise would fight back and the very next lap he would put the #87 BellSouth Mobility Chevrolet of Ben Crouch into last on Lap 3, and the next Lap on Lap 4 the #44 Federated Auto Parts Ford of Chase Harris would fall into last before the next lap the #16 NAPA Brakes Chevrolet of Chris Kyle fell into last on Lap 5. Kyle would trail for two laps before he finally was able to knock Pikes Peak last-place finisher the #77 Doran Racing Enterprises Chevrolet of Bob Jenkins into last on Lap 7. Jenkins would trail for one lap before he too would also knock the #28 Federated Auto Parts Ford of Jack Lagasee into the final spot on Lap 8.
The race's lone caution would come out just one lap later for a two truck spin on the Frontstretch, but Lagasee would remain in the final spot. As the field followed the pace truck around under yellow, Hathaway, who had climbed up 7th, suddenly began to start smoking as the field went down the backstretch, with the driver pulling on the access road and then onto the pits and into his stall as the crew looked over his truck briefly before pushing it behind the wall. After several minutes of looking over the truck, it was discovered the truck had broken the camshaft and their day was done, with Hathaway being listed as "out" on Lap 12, but wouldn't take the final spot till one lap later.
The remaining Bottom Five would finish on the same lap as the race leaders; 36th was the #15 Acxiom Ford of Colby Harris, 35th was Loudon last-place finisher the #19 Pennzoil Ford of Chakat Raindancer, 34th was I-70 last-place finisher the #43 Cummins Engines Dodge of Marcus Saatchi and 33rd was the aforementioned #28 of Jack Lagasee.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is the first time the #50 has finished last in a Truck Series race as well at Memphis.
*This is the first time a driver has trailed due to camshaft issues since the Cummins 200 Presented by the Indiana Dodge Dealers at the Indianapolis Raceway Park when Carlos Rodriguez's #88 PBA Tour Chevrolet fell out with camshaft issues after completing 5 of the 20 laps; 7 races ago.
*This is the first time the #50 has finished last in a Truck Series race as well at Memphis.
*This is the first time a driver has trailed due to camshaft issues since the Cummins 200 Presented by the Indiana Dodge Dealers at the Indianapolis Raceway Park when Carlos Rodriguez's #88 PBA Tour Chevrolet fell out with camshaft issues after completing 5 of the 20 laps; 7 races ago.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
37) #50-Cameron Hathaway / 12 laps / camshaft
36) #15-Colby Harris / 20 laps / running
35) #19-Chakat Raindancer / 20 laps / running
34) #43-Marcus Saatchi / 20 laps / running
33) #28-Jack Lagasee / 20 laps / running
37) #50-Cameron Hathaway / 12 laps / camshaft
36) #15-Colby Harris / 20 laps / running
35) #19-Chakat Raindancer / 20 laps / running
34) #43-Marcus Saatchi / 20 laps / running
33) #28-Jack Lagasee / 20 laps / running
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