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.
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.” Auto Racing Daily
RANK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND 1 Todd Bodine 340 Leader 2 Timothy Peters 336 -4 3 Jason White 295 -45 4 Aric Almirola 292 -48 5 Kyle Busch 272 -68 6 Stacy Compton 257 -83 7 Dennis Setzer 246 -94 8 Matt Crafton 242 -98 9 Tayler Malsam 236 -104 10 Donnie Neuenberger 229 -111 11 Brett Butler* 229 -111 12 Ricky Carmichael 226 -114 13 David Starr 224 -116 14 Ryan Sieg 224 -116 15 Austin Dillon* 219 -121 16 Rick Crawford 217 -123 17 Mike Skinner 217 -123 18 Justin Lofton* 212 -128 19 Johnny Sauter 200 -140 20 Kevin Harvick 195 -145 21 Ryan Hackett 191 -149 22 Mario Gosselin 191 -149 23 Donny Lia 188 -152 24 Norm Benning 176 -164 25 Steve Wallace 165 -175 26 Jennifer Jo Cobb* 161 -179 27 Nelson Piquet 150 -190 28 Ron Hornaday 148 -192 29 Johnny Benson 147 -193 30 J.J. Yeley 139 -201 31 Brad Sweet 127 -213 32 Carlos Contreras 126 -214 33 Sean Murphy 124 -216 34 Chad McCumbee 122 -218 35 Chris Fontaine 112 -228 36 Elliott Sadler 108 -232 37 Max Papis 105 -235 38 Geoff Bodine 85 -255 39 Shane Sieg 79 -261 40 Tim Bainey Jr. 70 -270 41 Ted Musgrave 70 -270
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