Mike Skinner won his second straight Camping World Truck Series race in the most unlikely circumstances in Saturday’s Copart 200 at Gateway International Raceway.
“I have to applaud NASCAR,” Skinner said in regards to Crafton’s penalty. “Sometime we got to stop being able to wreck the leader to win these races. Pretty soon you’re just going to have the last 20 laps just going to be the lap this guy wrecking the next guy. I chose not to wreck Ron twice this year when I had the opportunity, and today I think it came back and paid dividends.”
Skinner won last weekend’s inaugural race at Iowa in dominating fashion, leading all but 20 of the 200 laps. MiamiHerald.com
Skinner held off Sauter on the green-white-checkered finish and won by .285 seconds in the 162-lap race, two over the scheduled distance.
Aric Almirola finished fourth, and Tayler Malsam was fifth. NASCAR
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 5 Mike Skinner Toyota 2 13 Johnny Sauter * Chevrolet 3 16 Brian Scott Toyota 4 51 Aric Almirola Toyota 5 81 Tayler Malsam * Toyota 6 88 Matt Crafton Chevrolet 7 117 Timothy Peters Toyota 8 60 Stacy Compton Toyota 9 139 Ryan Sieg Chevrolet 10 14 Rick Crawford Ford 11 129 Mikey Kile Chevrolet 12 8 Todd Kluever Chevrolet 13 184 Chris Fontaine Chevrolet 14 7 Jason Young Chevrolet 15 15 Brian Ickler * Toyota 16 24 David Starr Toyota 17 33 Ron Hornaday Chevrolet 18 30 Todd Bodine Toyota 19 6 Colin Braun Ford 20 23 Jason White Dodge 21 25 Terry Cook Toyota 22 4 Ricky Carmichael * Chevrolet 23 10 James Buescher * Ford 24 11 T.J. Bell Toyota 25 273 Dexter Bean Chevrolet 26 157 Norm Benning Chevrolet 27 144 Tommy Joe Martins Ford 28 85 Brent Raymer * Ford 29 47 Brandon Knupp Chevrolet 30 121 Nick Tucker Dodge 31 8 Butch Miller Chevrolet 32 212 Mario Gosselin Chevrolet 33 148 Wayne Edwards Chevrolet 34 293 Mike Garvey Chevrolet 35 165 Lance Hooper Chevrolet 36 172 John Jackson Chevrolet
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