If any two drivers were going to go shoulder-to-shoulder for a trucks victory at Texas Motor Speedway, it figured to be Todd Bodine and Ron Hornaday.
One has more trucks wins at TMS than anyone else. The other has led more laps there than anyone else.
From that twosome, Bodine emerged a runaway winner on the final lap Friday night in the WinStar World Casino 400 before a crowd of 43,000. Dallas Morning News
Bodine drove away from four-time and reigning series champion Ron Hornaday and Timothy Peters on a green-white-checkered restart to notch his sixth career victory on TMS’ 1.5-mile oval, and third in the summer event here. Bodine also snapped a 24-race winless streak dating to June 5, 2009.
Johnny Sauter finished second, followed by rookie polesitter Austin Dillon, former series champion Mike Skinner and super-sub Ken Schrader. Bodine’s margin of victory after 169 laps was 1.007-seconds.
Bodine led a race-high 106 laps en route to his first victory and seventh top-five finish in eight 2010 races. NASCAR.com
“I’m usually not that good on restarts, so I knew, especially with Ron on the outside of me, I had to get a good one, and that last one, I did get a good one, and I didn’t spin the tires, except right before third gear,” Bodine said.
Bodine extended his season points lead from two to 65 over Aric Almirola, who finished 12th.
Even though Bodine hadn’t won before getting back to Texas, he had top-five finishes in six of the first seven races this season. The only hiccup was a 30th-place finish when he had an overheating problem at Martinsville and finished only 173 of 250 laps.
“It’s awesome. It’s good to come to Texas every time,” Bodine said. “This truck was driving good and it was fast wide-open. It was fun to drive. It really was.” The Associated Press
Crew chief Mike Hillman Jr. said his Germain Racing crew tries to treat all the series’ 1.5-mile layouts the same.
“But it seems we get our stuff figured out this time of the year,” Hillman said. “I’m really proud of our guys. We went to work this winter making our trucks lighter and better. I can’t say enough about how hard everyone at Germain works. I’m the lucky guy who gets called the crew chief.” NASCAR.com
Sauter finished second, while rookie Austin Dillon, the pole sitter, had a career-best run of third. Mike Skinner and Ken Schrader rounded out the top- five.
“We weren’t the greatest truck tonight,” Sauter said. “In the long run, we were pretty fast.”
James Buescher took the sixth spot, followed by Timothy Peters and former Formula One driver Nelson Piquet Jr. Hornaday wound up ninth, and Johnny Benson, driving Kyle Busch’s No.18 truck, came in 10th. Busch did not compete at Texas due to his Sprint Cup Series commitments this weekend at Pocono. MiamiHerald.com
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