Saturday’s E-Z-GO 200 Camping World Truck Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway turned out to be an easy go for race-winner Kevin Harvick, who led 100 of 130 laps, including the final 56, to get his first truck win at AMS and his third in his past three races in the series, dating to last year at Phoenix.
The race was a battle among Sprint Cup drivers moonlighting as driver/owners in the truck series, and Harvick, the owner of his Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet, prevailed over Kyle Busch, who was running his second truck race behind the wheel of a Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota. Atlanta Journal Constitution
Four-time and defending series champion Ron Hornaday, who started from the pole, was running third when a blown tire sent him slamming into the wall between Turns 3 and 4, causing severe damage to the rear deck of his truck.
Hornaday is off to a tough start this season, following up a 27th-place finish in the opening race at Daytona by placing 34th out of 36 trucks in Atlanta. NASCAR.com
Harvick is now won three straight starts in the Camping World Truck Series, and five of his last nine. During that stretch of dominance dating back to 2008, he’s finished no lower than fifth.
“A lot of the reason we race trucks is just to make sure Kyle doesn’t win all the races,” Harvick said. “Sometimes, you’ve got to protect your turf. It’s important to us and Chevrolet to score as many bonus points as we can. That’s the honest truth. The reason we started running more trucks races was just to protect from him winning seven or eight races a year. It’s gone well so far.”
“We were not quite as fast as we’d like to have been,” said Busch, who got into a first-lap scrape that did much more damage to pole winner and defending series champion Ron Hornaday Jr. “But we had a decent effort.” The Associated Press
Following Busch at the finish were Aric Almirola, Steve Wallace (in his Truck debut) and Todd Bodine.
Rookie Austin Dillon, running the No. 3 truck for Richard Childress Racing, finished 10th. The finish was a boost for Dillon, who crashed at the start of the Truck opener at Daytona International Speedway last month. “It was a long wait to get back in it again,” Dillon said. “I’ve been thinking all this time about what I could have done differently at Daytona.” FOXnews
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