Waters Steals Top Five In Truck Return With ThorSport

Cam Waters in action at Lime Rock Park. (Rusty Jones/Nigel Kinrade Photography)

LAKEVILLE, Conn. – For the second year in a row, Australian Cam Waters made a trip to the United States from Down Under, and this time produced his first top five in any of NASCAR’s national series.

Waters finished fifth in Saturday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series LiUNA 150 at Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park, the tour’s first visit to the 1.478-mile, seven-turn road course his first Truck Series start since May of 2024 at Kansas Speedway.

Waters would roll off the grid at Lime Rock Park from 16th, but improved throughout the race, before entering the top 10 and eventually the top five late in stage three.

He was one of the benefactors of a scramble-gone-wrong on the final restart with five laps left, avoiding the chaos of the spinning trucks of Jordan Taylor and Rajah Caruth to climb his way up to fifth place.

It comes in Waters’ third Truck Series start and his first at a road course. The top five was a massive improvement on his previous best result, 19th place at Kansas last spring.

“Obviously there was some chaos at that restart which helped me a lot to get some positions, but can’t say enough how much fun this weekend was,” Waters noted afterward. “Hopefully we can do another one.”

Waters is an established driver in Australian Supercars, where he drives the No. 6 Ford Mustang S650 for Tickford Racing. In that series, Waters has 18 wins in 276 starts, including a three-race sweep of the season opening round at Sydney Motorsports Park earlier this season.

He currently ranks 21st on Supercars’ all time wins list.

As far as this season goes, that three race win stretch is where most of Waters’ success ends, as he has only three podiums in the 15 races since. Waters currently sits fourth in the Supercars standings with 15 races to go.

Waters has made all of his three Truck Series starts for Thorsport Racing in their no. 66 entry, coming at a wide variety of tracks. Last season, he made two starts, one on an intermediate oval in Kansas and the other on the short track at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.

He also made a NASCAR Cup Series start for RFK Racing in their No. 60 on the road course of Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway.

Thorsport Racing boasts six Truck Series championships and 48 wins. They field five full-time trucks, with Waters serving as the latest pilot of the team’s ‘all-star’ entry alongside full-time drivers Jake Garcia, Matt Crafton, Ben Rhodes, and defending series champion Ty Majeski.

Waters left Lime Rock expressing a seeming desire to return to NASCAR competition in the future, similar to longtime Supercars rival Shane van Gisbergen, who eventually turned his selected stock car appearances into a full-time tenure in the premier Cup Series.
“Had a lot of fun there. It was awesome,” said Waters of the whole experience. “We had a really pacey truck. It was probably pacey in the wrong areas, so it made it a bit harder to pass, but definitely had some awesome battles out there. It was really so much fun.

“I had a really fast truck to be able to [move through the field], and then everyone ran off in front of me. I was pretty happy when they were all running off,” he added with a laugh. “It’s something I want to do more of, come and do more [NASCAR] racing. To be able to come over here and race at Lime Rock was awesome. I was stoked to be able to do it.

“I did a few races over here last year and had a little bit of bad luck, so I’m happy to put that bad luck aside and jag a result.”

Waters will return to Supercars with Tickford for that tour’s next round, the Townsville 500 at Reid Park Street Circuit on July 11-13.

Meanwhile, the next stop for the Truck Series is Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park for the TSPORT 200 on Friday night, July 25 at 8 p.m. ET, live on FS1, the Motor Racing Network, and SiriusXM NASCAR radio, channel 90.