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Kyle Busch boots Ron Hornaday out of lead for Texas-style Truck victory
By Jared Turner - SceneDaily Staff Writer
Friday, November 06, 2009
Billy Ballew Motorsports' Kyle Busch celebrates with a burnout after winning Friday night's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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FORT WORTH, Texas – Kyle Busch booted Ron Hornaday out of the way and held off a hard-charging Matt Crafton en route to victory in Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
Busch, who bumped Hornaday’s Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet down the backstretch and into Turn 3, shot to the outside and completed the winning pass off Turn 4 with 50 laps to go.
Hornaday wiggled from the contact but regained control and hung on to finish third after later losing second to Crafton, his closer pursuer for the series title.
While Crafton finished ahead of Hornaday on the track, he made up just five points in the standings and trails Hornaday by 197 points with two races left.
Busch, who is running a part-time schedule for Billy Ballew Motorsports, scored his fifth victory in as many Truck starts and seventh win of the season in the WinStar World Casino 350. Busch hasn’t lost since being reunited with crew chief Richie Wauters before the race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 19.
“It’s an accomplishment to beat the 33 bunch [of Hornaday] here for sure and we got it done,” said Busch, who led twice for a race-high 54 laps and beat Crafton to the finish line by nearly a full second.
Crafton started from the pole and led the opening 19 laps before falling behind on the first pit stop. The ThorSport Racing driver had to nurse his truck over the final laps as fuel mileage became a concern.
Crafton made it to the finish but has little chance of catching Hornaday for the title; Hornaday has to finish only 22nd or better in the last two races to clinch a record-breaking fourth series crown.
“Honestly, I haven’t even looked at the points,” Crafton said. “I wanted to win tonight. That was the main thing we came here for.”
Following Busch, Crafton and Hornaday in the top five were Germain Racing’s Todd Bodine and Roush Fenway Racing’s Colin Braun.
ThorSport Racing’s Johnny Satuer, Xpress Motorsports’ Brian Scott, Randy Moss Motorsports’ Mike Skinner, HT Motorsports’ David Starr and Circle Bar Racing’s Rick Crawford completed the top 10.
The race was slowed three times, each for single-truck incidents.
That last of them occurred when DGM Racing’s Mario Gosselin spun through the frontstretch grass, setting up a round of pit stops and a subsequent restart with 54 laps to go. Hornaday restarted third and needed a little more than a lap to move past the top two trucks of Jason White and Aric Almirola, who were on a different pit strategy and older tires.
Busch followed Hornaday into second and stayed there until executing the winning pass.
“He can do whatever he wants,” Hornaday said of Busch’s move. “The rear bumper’s caved in so it wasn’t no draft. The back tires were off the ground.”
Busch defended the contact.
"I just bump-drafted him down the backstretch to speed up the process to Turn 3," Busch said. "It wasn't anything intentional to wreck him, to turn him sideways or to wreck him into Turn 3 or anything like that. He's just over-exaggerating the situation a little bit.
"He wanted to make a wreck out of it when we got to Turn 3. When I ran around the outside of him he wanted to come up the race track and dump me, but he didn't achieve his goal there."
Mentioned Drivers: Kyle Busch
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| 11 | Carl Edwards | -520 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -666 |
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ksmith999 said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 12:10 AMLoved that SPEED showed clip of Hornaday bumping Crafton, while complaining about Busch bumping him. Too funny!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportsmartass said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 12:12 AMthe shrub is too snotty for my taste. grow up kid or let the men be.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJrNation_Idiots said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 1:35 AMKyle never booted Ron...Ron sure did sound like a crybaby today...can't wait to see if the kyle haters will call ron a whiner..
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJrNation_Idiots said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 1:51 AM#2...That's pretty ironic that you call kyle snotty, while your name is smartass! Don't you think?
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» Confirm Abuse ReportMeg said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 6:47 AMThat just looked way to easy for Kyle.. His driving was very smooth and flawless..Let's hope that Kyle will be too tired after the Nationwide race today to do his best tomorrow.. He wants three wins so badly on one weekend.
Report as AbuseIMO Hornaday did all he could to try and catch him..I was sure he would wreck himself eventually..
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» Confirm Abuse Reportrosanne_masters said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 7:48 AMView from the Texas Pits....Watched Kyle be his usual snobby self. One day, he'll learn that if the fans turn, he'll be in real trouble. It's amazing when a whole track erupts in "Boos" when a driver is introduced, and the "Boos" definitely outweighed the "yeas" at the finish line.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportRainier said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 8:15 AMI didn't get to see the race, but from the replay of the last laps on NASCAR.com, it looked like the 51 truck was the best and Hornaday did not wreck from the contact, so it couldn't have been that bad. Kyle is the best in the trucks and Nationwide it seems. Maybe he should concentrate on Cup a little more and give the best Cup driver, the 48, some competition.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportdale-jr-is-the-greatest-driver-alive said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 8:36 AMhhahaha its about time the hard charging bumping rubin racer kyle busch showed up. i admit i was one of those that hated him for it but ive missed it tho now that its back nascar feels right again and even tho he pulled the move on my fav driver in truck, he didnt wreck him so its all good cause ron will get his aswell!
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» Confirm Abuse Reportsibbi173 said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 12:50 PMOh I just HATE to see that arrogant little snot win ANYTHING!!!He didn't DUMP Hornaday, but it wasn't because he didn't try....Hornaday recovered because he's such a good driver himself.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmbvoelker said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM:-D I dearly love Grandpa as a racer -- he's not old, he's 18 with a few extra decades of experience -- but I always end up laughing when he complains about someone bumping him because he knows very well how to use his bumper and fenders to make an aggressive pass.
Report as AbuseIf my favorite, Kyle Busch, can't win a truck race I want to see Grandpa in Victory Lane but I do have to laugh at him when the adrenaline sucks all the sense out of him about that issue.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 1:19 PMwhat's up with Waltrip?...Kyle's crew chief said they were good to go on fuel and minutes later MW was wondering if Kyle had enuff fuel to finish....
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 2:26 PMjust saw the short clip on tv...looked like Ron ran up on Kyle in the corner...
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» Confirm Abuse Reportleftturn said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 4:49 PMFor just plain good racing you can't beat the Truck Series. Leave it be NASCAR, it ain't broke so don't try to fix it. If you leave it alone they will come. Need any more mangled quotes?
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» Confirm Abuse Reportaustinh said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 9:49 PMCHEATER CHEATER CHEATER Have a nice day.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJrNation_Idiots said:
Nov 7, 2009 at 10:51 PMAustinH is in love with Kyle....have a nice gay
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» Confirm Abuse Reportsmartass said:
Nov 8, 2009 at 8:16 AMwow! a lot more people agreeded with me than i thought! btw, i don't think it is ironic that i called him a snotty when my name is smartass. i find it rather approiate. i tried to give myself a name that reflected my character =P
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJGR_P1 said:
Nov 8, 2009 at 8:51 AMI missed the pass but it is about time Kyle put the bumper to someone after everyone else has been doing it to him all year especially in the nationwide series. Well Done Kyle! Hornaday is bitter because that is Kyle's 5th win in a row. I seem to remember it was Kyle that stopped Hornaday after he won what was it 6 in a row?
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» Confirm Abuse Reportnascarnutsheeler said:
Nov 8, 2009 at 10:15 AMI do not understand the Bush thinking he is proving anything other than he is like the bully that is always pushing the kids and oldtimers around. I am against cup drivers running for championships in these other classes. In the nationwide first it was Harvick then Carl (sorry Carl)then Klint and now mr. arrogance. If the cup drivers want to drive Nationwide they should be limited to half a dozen races or so. I understand Nascar using them for a drawing card but I don't think they should run for the championship.
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» Confirm Abuse Reportsibbi173 said:
Nov 8, 2009 at 2:43 PMI agree with Nascarnut 100%...
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmrclause said:
Nov 9, 2009 at 1:46 PMJGRP1, Not 5 in a row. 5 in the races he's entered. Check the entry lists. The people around him feed his rudeness. Just like his new crew chief yesterday, "he's handling it good"! Oh he was? Once again running away pouting and blowing off both his fans and the media. Why Gibbs and NASCAR allows him to get away with that amazes me. He could be replaced with someone just as capable. He's a little ego filled tyrant that just needs to be Spencerized! I've lost a lot of respect for Joe Gibbs and the organization because they support the baby's disrespect. Guess they don't understand that it reflects on everyone in the whole organization. The new NASCAR!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBILLFAN50 said:
Nov 9, 2009 at 3:46 PMIt's ok for Busch to bump Hornaday and vica versa, but if Crafton bump them he gets penalized.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportRonSchwalbe said:
Nov 9, 2009 at 9:11 PMA Cup driver "winning" a truck race is the same as the Steelers winning a HIGH SCHOOL football game - -TWO divisions down !!! AmAAAAAAAAAAAAAzing win !!!!
Report as AbuseGee -can he, and them, do it in a COLLEGE game too ?
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NOW - - back to the Pros - - - Yes - Busch has had moderate success where he BELONGS, - - let's all praise his minor league wins, and complain about Johnson's PRO wins - - -
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