Kevin Harvick took his No. 4 Longhorn Silverado to victory lane at Phoenix International Raceway for the fourth time in the last five years. At the same time, he celebrated with dual burnouts down the front straightaway alongside his Kevin Harvick, Inc. driver Ron Hornaday, Jr. who made history by becoming the first four-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) champion.
Hornaday secured the unprecedented feat with a fourth place finish in tonight’s race. Heading in to the season’s final race next week at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the battle for the 2009 NCWTS owners’ title is still undecided. DeLana Harvick holds a 60-point lead over second place.
“ I couldn’t think of a better track and I love Phoenix,” said the newly-crowned champion. “This is a compliment to the team. It takes a lot of people to do this, all the guys back at the shop. Just had another great truck Mark Smith with the motor program and what he has done and with Chevrolet and everything they do including the wind tunnel and all their support and Pratt and Miller. It just takes a bunch of people and I am just fortunate enough that my wife and I are old enough that we are just at the race track and having fun.”
Kyle Busch (Toyota) and Aric Almirola (Toyota) finished second and third respectively.
Johnny Sauter, No. 13 Fun Sand/Rodney Atkins/Curb Records Silverado finished fifth in the race scheduled for 150-laps but a caution on lap 149 forced the race in to overtime for a green-white-checkered finish.
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 4 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 2 51 Kyle Busch Toyota 3 15 Aric Almirola Toyota 4 33 Ron Hornaday Chevrolet 5 13 Johnny Sauter * Chevrolet 6 5 Mike Skinner Toyota 7 25 Mike Bliss Toyota 8 88 Matt Crafton Chevrolet 9 24 David Starr Toyota 10 60 Stacy Compton Toyota 11 16 Brian Scott Toyota 12 30 Todd Bodine Toyota 13 11 T.J. Bell Toyota 14 14 Rick Crawford Ford 15 7 Chad McCumbee Chevrolet 16 117 Timothy Peters Toyota 17 81 Tayler Malsam * Toyota 18 231 Ricky Carmichael * Chevrolet 19 171 Kevin Conway Chevrolet 20 161 Brett Thompson Dodge 21 8 Jamie Dick Chevrolet 22 190 Brad Sweet Toyota 23 10 James Buescher * Ford 24 212 Derek White Chevrolet 25 157 Norm Benning Chevrolet 26 250 Wheeler Boys Dodge 27 137 Robbie Brand Ford 28 6 Colin Braun Ford 29 122 Tim George Jr. Chevrolet 30 148 Dan Brode Chevrolet 31 47 Richard Harriman Chevrolet 32 105 Wayne Edwards Dodge 33 23 Jason White Dodge 34 121 Nick Tucker Dodge 35 189 Chris Lafferty Chevrolet 36 102 Terry Cook Chevrolet
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