Hornaday Edges Busch on Restart to Get the Win
Ron Hornaday picked up his 35th career victory in the Craftsman Truck Series on Friday - and, his first at Texas Motor Speedway - as he held off Kyle Busch on a green-white-checkered restart to get the win at the Sam’s Town 400. The restart was setup after rookie, Scott Speed, slammed into the wall with only 2 laps remaining in the scheduled 167-lap event.
Busch had to start in the back of the field because he was not there to qualify his truck himself on Thursday, due to his commitment to run three races over the weekend in three different cities. As the team continually worked on his truck to make it fit Kyle’s style, though, he was able to work his way up to the top-ten after only 53 laps. Busch hadn’t led a lap all night long and trailed Hornaday by more than half a second when the final caution flag came out, but Hornaday pulled away on the restart, and Busch couldn’t capitalize. Kyle will also run the Nationwide race in Nashville on Saturday, and then head back to Pocono for Sunday’s Cup race.
Third place in the race went to the Bill Davis Racing Toyota of Johnny Benson, and Hornaday’s Kevin Harvick Inc. teammate, Jack Sprague, finished fourth. Todd Bodine completed the top-five. Hornaday’s second win of the season was enough to bump him up two spots in the standings, as he now assumes the points lead over Matt Crafton, who finished seventh. Rick Crawford entered Friday’s event with the points lead, but a 21st place finish at Texas has dropped him down to 6th place.
Craftsman Truck Series Standings (from nascar.com):
| RANK |
+/- |
DRIVER |
POINTS |
BEHIND |
STARTS |
POLES |
WINS |
TOP 5 |
TOP 10 |
| 1 |
+2 |
Ron Hornaday |
1302 |
Leader |
9 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
6 |
| 2 |
– |
Matt Crafton |
1257 |
-45 |
9 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
| 3 |
+2 |
Johnny Benson |
1247 |
-55 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
6 |
| 4 |
– |
Todd Bodine |
1237 |
-65 |
9 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
| 5 |
+1 |
Jack Sprague |
1231 |
-71 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
| 6 |
-5 |
Rick Crawford |
1231 |
-71 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
| 7 |
– |
Mike Skinner |
1202 |
-100 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
7 |
| 8 |
+2 |
Chad McCumbee |
1176 |
-126 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
| 9 |
– |
Terry Cook |
1164 |
-138 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
| 10 |
-2 |
David Starr |
1145 |
-157 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
| 11 |
– |
Dennis Setzer |
1122 |
-180 |
9 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| 12 |
– |
Erik Darnell |
1080 |
-222 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| 13 |
+3 |
Kyle Busch |
1059 |
-243 |
7 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
| 14 |
– |
Colin Braun* |
1050 |
-252 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
| 15 |
-2 |
Ted Musgrave |
1050 |
-252 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| 16 |
-1 |
Brendan Gaughan |
1045 |
-257 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| 17 |
– |
Justin Marks* |
977 |
-325 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 18 |
– |
Shelby Howard |
939 |
-363 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| 19 |
+1 |
Donny Lia* |
922 |
-380 |
8 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| 20 |
-1 |
Stacy Compton |
897 |
-405 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
*Credit photo to Newscom
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