Todd Bodine remained perfect on NASCAR’s restrictor-plate tracks in the Truck series this season and Ron Hornaday got back something he had lost.
Bodine completed a dramatic last-lap pass of then-leader Kyle Busch to win Saturday’s Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Superspeedway, while a multi-truck wreck erupted far back in the field.
“I knocked him sideways and went on to pass,” Bodine said. “I didn’t mean to do it. Good thing he’s a good driver and saved it.”
Bodine raced to his second victory of the season and won for the second straight year in the 250-mile race on NASCAR’s largest track. Bodine also won the season-opener at Daytona, NASCAR’s other restrictor-plate track.
The trucks raced as many as three- and four-wide over the thrilling final laps, and Busch appeared as if he might hang on for his 20th overall victory this season in the Nationwide, Trucks and Sprint Cup races
Hornaday finished second and Busch was third in the third trucks series race held at Talladega.
“Nothing really I could have done differently,” Busch said. “Bodine’s truck was just real, real strong. He was the best Toyota we had out there today and he just unfortunately got into us coming off the corner and we got a little loose. I got it back down to the bottom but it shot up and around.”
Points leader Ron Hornaday placed second to regain the points lead, while Busch settled for third. Hornaday now leads Johnny Benson Jr. by 39 points with five races left in the season.
Roush Fenway’s Colin Braun led the race and took the white flag with one lap to go, but there was much moving and shuffling in the final 2.66 miles of the race before the last-second dash to the finish.
Braun settled for fourth and Mike Wallace finished fifth. Rounding out the top-10 was Landon Cassill in the Randy Moss Motorsports Chevrolet and he was followed by Brian Scott, T.J. Bell, Mike Skinner and Chad Mccumbee.
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