Todd Bodine stayed in front for two late restarts, including a green-white-checkered finish, to become a six-time winner in the NASCAR Trucks Series at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night.
It was his 18th career victory and his first since winning at Texas last June — a stretch of 24 races. He was already the only driver to win at least five truck races at the same track. The Associated Press
Johnny Sauter finished second in his Chevrolet, ahead of polesitter Austin Dillon, the rookie driver who is the 20-year-old grandson of NASCAR Sprint Cup car owner Richard Childress.
Mike Skinner and Ken Schrader rounded out the top- five.
Bodine extended his season points lead from two to 65 over Aric Almirola, who finished 12th.
RANK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND 1 Todd Bodine 1263 Leader 2 Aric Almirola 1198 -65 3 Timothy Peters 1128 -135 4 Ron Hornaday 1108 -155 5 Johnny Sauter 1058 -205 6 Mike Skinner 1044 -219 7 Matt Crafton 1011 -252 8 Jason White 999 -264 9 David Starr 990 -273 10 Ricky Carmichael 989 -274 11 Austin Dillon* 933 -330 12 Justin Lofton* 886 -377 13 Mario Gosselin 855 -408 14 Tayler Malsam 798 -465 15 Kyle Busch 787 -476 16 Ryan Sieg 781 -482 17 Brett Butler* 751 -512 18 Jennifer Jo Cobb* 740 -523 19 Johnny Benson 735 -528 20 Norm Benning 728 -535 21 James Buescher 719 -544 22 Kevin Harvick 560 -703 23 Brent Raymer 535 -728 24 Rick Crawford 527 -736 25 Stacy Compton 519 -744 26 Donny Lia 476 -787 27 Narain Karthikeyan 421 -842 28 Nelson Piquet 407 -856 29 Chris Fontaine 379 -884 30 Ken Schrader 372 -891 31 Chris Eggleston* 370 -893 32 Elliott Sadler 359 -904 33 Donnie Neuenberger 351 -912 34 Brian Ickler 330 -933 35 Tony Jackson 326 -937 36 Max Papis 323 -940 37 Dennis Setzer 319 -944 38 Shane Sieg 317 -946 39 Steve Wallace 292 -971 40 Terry Jones 279 -984 41 Jack Smith 244 -1019 42 Hermie Sadler 238 -1025 43 Mike Harmon 235 -1028
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