Elliott Sadler held off Kasey Kahne during a second green-white-checkered finish to win the inaugural Pocono Mountains 125 Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono Raceway.
Sadler, 35, beat Kasey Kahne to the finish line by .445 seconds in a race that went five laps past its scheduled distance of 50 laps at the 2.5-mile triangular track. With his first Truck Series victory, Sadler is the 21st driver to win at least one race in each of NASCAR’s top three divisions.
The inaugural trucks race at Pocono Raceway was a hit with drivers despite a flurry of late mishaps around the 2.5-mile tri-oval. Kahne finished second, Crafton was third and points leader Todd Bodine wound up 12th.
“It was a ton of fun racing this truck for Kyle, and this is a really good team,” Kahne said. “We should have been battling Elliott. I had the best truck, but I didn’t win the race. I’m disappointed in myself for that.”
Aric Almirola finished fourth, followed by rookie Justin Lofton.
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NASCAR Truck Series: Pocono Mountains 125 at Pocono - Race-Results
RANK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND 1 Todd Bodine 1993 Leader 2 Aric Almirola 1844 -149 3 Johnny Sauter 1800 -193 4 Timothy Peters 1791 -202 5 Matt Crafton 1748 -245 6 Austin Dillon* 1730 -263 7 Ron Hornaday 1725 -268 8 Mike Skinner 1724 -269 9 David Starr 1652 -341 10 Jason White 1627 -366 11 Ricky Carmichael 1548 -445 12 Justin Lofton* 1426 -567 13 Mario Gosselin 1406 -587 14 James Buescher 1401 -592 15 Ryan Sieg 1274 -719 16 Brett Butler* 1245 -748 17 Jennifer Jo Cobb* 1198 -795 18 Norm Benning 1168 -825 19 Kyle Busch 1127 -866 20 Stacy Compton 1022 -971 21 Donny Lia 897 -1096 22 Brent Raymer 866 -1127 23 Tayler Malsam 798 -1195 24 Kevin Harvick 755 -1238 25 Johnny Benson 735 -1258 26 Elliott Sadler 692 -1301 27 Brian Ickler 592 -1401 28 Brad Sweet 590 -1403 29 Nelson Piquet 541 -1452 30 Ken Schrader 532 -1461 31 Rick Crawford 527 -1466 32 Narain Karthikeyan 524 -1469 33 Dennis Setzer 504 -1489 34 Mike Harmon 503 -1490 35 Chris Eggleston* 496 -1497 36 J C Stout 483 -1510 37 Chris Fontaine 479 -1514 38 Steve Wallace 477 -1516 39 Max Papis 441 -1552 40 Donnie Neuenberger 439 -1554
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