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Kevin Harvick Inc.'s Ron Hornaday wins chaotic Truck race at Lowe's Motor Speedway
By Jared Turner - SceneDaily Staff Writer
Friday, May 15, 2009
Kevin Harvick Inc.'s Ron Hornaday celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
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CONCORD, N.C. – On a night when chaos lurked all around, Kevin Harvick Inc.’s Ron Hornaday averted major trouble and outlasted a fast Kyle Busch en route to victory in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
Hornaday, who rallied from a lap lost when he pitted a couple laps prior to a midrace caution, powered by Busch and ThorSport Racing’s Matt Crafton to take the lead on lap 106 and held on to lead the rest of the 134-lap distance in the North Carolina Education Lottery 200.
The win, the 40th of Hornaday’s career and his first of the season, propelled the three-time champion to the series points lead by 84 points over Randy Moss Motorsports’ Mike Skinner.
“We had a great Truck,” Hornaday said. “Everybody [has been] asking who you’ve got to race for the championship. This will show it.”
Crafton, the defending race winner, came home third followed by Ryan Newman (KHI) and Terry Cook (HT Motorsports).
Busch overcame two penalties – one for rough driving one and another for having too many men over the pit wall – to snare his runnerup finish, but he was none too pleased with the outcome.
“Frustrating night,” Busch said. “Unfortunate that our night really stunk that bad and we finished second.”
It was a tougher night for Skinner, who finished 29th after a vicious accident ended his night on lap 34. Skinner walked away uninjured after his truck hit the wall, was tagged by the machine of T.J. Bell, flipped and slid on its roof several feet before coming to rest with all four wheels on the ground.
The mishap started when Skinner was pinched down in the grass at the start/finish line by ThorSport’s Johnny Sauter and lost control of his truck coming out of the trioval.
“I knew who I was racing with right there,” Skinner, who led the race's opening 27 laps, said of Sauter. “I probably should let off the gas and waited another lap.”
The wreck, one of several accidents involving frontrunners, forced NASCAR officials to red flag the race for just over 18 minutes.
Two others drivers – Roush Fenway Racing’s Colin Braun and Germain Racing’s Todd Bodine – led late in the race only to crash while out front.
Braun’s accident was the more noteworthy, as it came after a bump from Busch sent his truck into Brian Scott and hard into the backstretch wall.
Busch was subsequently ordered to the tail end of the longest line for rough driving and restarted 10th before a late surge toward the front.
"I was just rolling out of the throttle to allow those guys to race and I veered to the left a little bit and got into the quarter panel of the 6 [Braun] and wrecked him and the 16 [Scott] on accident," Busch said. "And it was my fault, so we will have to let that one roll off our shoulders and try to go on."
2009 Sprint Cup Race for the Chase Standings
Driver Standings after the AMP Energy 500
| 1 | Jimmie Johnson | 6248 |
| 2 | Mark Martin | -184 |
| 3 | Jeff Gordon | -192 |
| 4 | Juan Pablo Montoya | -239 |
| 5 | Tony Stewart | -279 |
| 6 | Kurt Busch | -312 |
| 7 | Greg Biffle | -340 |
| 8 | Ryan Newman | -402 |
| 9 | Kasey Kahne | -414 |
| 10 | Carl Edwards | -437 |
| 11 | Denny Hamlin | -448 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -556 |
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S Beau said:
May 16, 2009 at 9:43 AMCongrats Ron
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» Confirm Abuse Reportjohn gordon said:
May 16, 2009 at 11:57 AMgreat job, ron! i hope that you can get some more victories and stretch out that points lead.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBetty Stoneman said:
May 16, 2009 at 2:34 PMGood job, Ron! As for the shrub, he always lets whatever it happens to be that he has done to another driver "roll off of his shoulders"! NASCAR should have parked him.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJanna w said:
May 16, 2009 at 3:03 PMWay to go Ron. What a win for you. I am so happy it wasn't Kyle that won. He should have been parked for "aggressive" driving. If it had been anyone else, they would have been slapped with a big penalty.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportandee anderson said:
May 16, 2009 at 4:02 PMBush! You lost me as a fan when you turned left into the #6.That was cold.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportHoward Englishman said:
May 16, 2009 at 4:02 PMIt was a boring race at the end. No racing at all. It was a good win for the KHI crew. Kyle did get a penalty. You don't park anyone for racing the way he did. That's what Stock Car Racing is all about.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportGladys Mendez said:
May 16, 2009 at 5:43 PMI JUST LOVE RON WINNING ON FRIDAY, CONGRATULATIONS TO RON, HIS CREW & KEVIN HARVICK INC. I KNOW KEVIN IS NOT SORRY FOR HIRING RON, RON IS A GREAT TEAM PLAYER WITH LOTS OF EXPERIENCE, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportDominic Marocco said:
May 16, 2009 at 5:49 PMAnyone who thinks Shrub did that on purpose and should have been parked for it has little to no racing knowledge.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner Boehmert said:
May 17, 2009 at 11:21 AMi got a chuckle when Ron said that we should go to a GM dealer and buy a Chevy...they're fast he said...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportKeith Johnson said:
May 18, 2009 at 12:15 PMGive me a break! That no driving Kyle was not even close to Hornaday. How can you print he outlasted Kyle when Hornaday drove away from him. Kyle wrecked the #6 truck. I hope Kyle gets wrecked every race he is in and the drivers in all divisons have got to be tired of him wrecking anybody in the way and especially if they have a chance to beat him. He can drive a race car but everything else about him is zero!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportKyle Newton said:
May 19, 2009 at 8:54 AMCarl Edwards made stupid moves like that when he was in here too! So I don't want to here it!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdaviclar38 said:
May 22, 2009 at 8:12 PMRon had the fastest truck. Period!!! I do believe Kyle knew what he was doing. Every driver out there knows that when you turn into another car/truck they way he did it can take two competitors out at the same time, ala Vickers turning Jimmie Johnson into the former #8 at Talladega. I don't believe Vickers did that on purpose but now we all know how to take out two drivers with one bump. Kyle should have been parked because the #6 wasn't even close to clearing pubic hair before the brat punted him.
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