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There have been six different race winners in the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season: Kyle Busch (two), Todd Bodine (one), Dennis Setzer (one), Ron Hornaday Jr., Matt Crafton and Donny Lia.Todd Bodine, who led the points following Daytona, moved back into the points lead following Mansfield.
2008 Season Highlights
• Todd Bodine’s victory at Daytona continued the streak of a different Daytona race winner for the ninth consecutive year.
• Todd Bodine, Kyle Busch and Johnny Benson all finished in the top-three in the first two races of the season.
• Kyle Busch won at California to become the sixth different race winner in as many races at California.
• Kyle Busch won at Atlanta, becoming the first repeat winner in eight races at Atlanta.
• Dennis Setzer won at Martinsville, his third victory at the Virginia short track, making him the all-time win leader there.
• Ron Hornaday Jr. won at Kansas – his 34th series victory. Hornaday has won in 11 of his 12 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series seasons.
• Matt Crafton won at Lowe’s Motor Speedway – his career-first victory.
• Donny Lia won at Mansfield – his career-first victory in just eight NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races.
Qualifying
• 66 different drivers have attempted to qualify for at least one race this season.
• There have been five different pole winners in 2008. Qualifying was canceled at Auto Club Speedway.
• Erik Darnell won the Keystone Light Pole Award at Daytona, posting his first pole at Daytona and just the second of his career.
• Ron Hornaday Jr. (Atlanta and Kansas), Jack Sprague (Martinsville), Kyle Busch (Lowe’s) and Johnny Benson (Mansfield) are the other pole winners this season.
• Jack Sprague set a new track record of 96.327 mph, in qualifying at Martinsville – eclipsing the mark set by Mike Skinner one year earlier.
• 26 different drivers have posted top-10 starts this season, led by Colin Braun with seven.
The Races
• 65 different drivers have qualified for at least one race this season.
• Todd Bodine won at Daytona. Not only was it his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory there – it was his first ever at the 2.5-mle superspeedway. Bodine was winless in nine NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and 11 NASCAR Nationwide Series Daytona races. He also competed in six Gatorade Duels and four Budweiser Shootouts – bringing his total number of Daytona races to 33 prior to his first victory there.
• Kyle Busch won the second and third races of the 2008 season, the first back-to-back victories since Johnny Benson won at Bristol and Gateway in 2007.
• Dennis Setzer won at Martinsville – his third victory in 17 races there.
• 26 different drivers have posted top-10 finishes this season.
• There were eight lead changes and 34 cars running at the finish at Martinsville, both tying the track records.
Career Firsts
• Matt Crafton won at Lowe’s Motor Speedway – his career-first victory in his 178th race. He set the record for the most races before a career-first victory ever in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Ryan Reffner held the previous mark of 111 races before his first win ((1996-2000).
• Donny Lia won the following week at Mansfield – the 11th time in series history that drivers posted career-first victories in back-to-back races, and first since 2004. Eight of the 11 instances came during the series’ first three years (1995-1998).
