John Hunter Nemechek escapes carnage to win Atlanta truck race

John Hunter Nemechek survived multiple wrecks during Saturday's Camping World Truck Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway to claim his second career checkered flag in the series in the #8 Chevrolet Silverado. Nemechek, the 2015 CWTS most popular driver and son of veteran racer Joe Nemechek, inherited the lead after Matt Crafton, Daniel Suarez and, for the second straight week, Christopher Bell, plus others got caught in a pair of wrecks, the latter of which brought out the red flag for cleanup. Nemechek then held on to the lead in the closing laps to take the win. It was the second end of a Saturday doubleheader at Atlanta that began with an Xfinity Series race earlier in the afternoon that was won by Kyle Busch.