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Ron Hornaday wins Memphis Truck race with dominant performance
By Tim Tuttle - Special to Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Kevin Harvick Inc.'s Ron Hornaday (left of trophy) celebrates his win in Saturday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series MemphisTravel.com 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Ron Hornaday took home his second straight Elvis trophy with an overpowering victory Saturday in the MemphisTravel.com 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Memphis Motorsports Park.
Hornaday led 175 of 201 laps on the .75-mile track. The driver of the Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet had a commanding lead over Brian Scott's Toyota before a late-race caution forced a green-white-checkered finish. Hornaday pulled away on the final restart and won by .653 seconds over Scott.
It was the second straight week Hornaday has led almost from start to finish. Hornaday led 180 of 200 laps last week at Milwaukee, where he took the points lead. Hornaday expanded it to 76 over Matt Crafton at Memphis with his third victory of the season and 42nd of his career, tops in the history of the series.
Hornaday also won at Memphis in 1998, but the track didn't begin giving the Elvis trophy until 2005. This was the last year for it to be presented.
"The last Elvis trophy at Memphis, that's pretty cool," Hornaday said. "It was pretty awesome to come here and win the last Elvis trophy. That means a lot."
Hornaday started from the pole and led 108 of the initial 114 laps, and never was passed on the track. He made his final pit stop and restarted second behind Scott, who successfully used a different pit-stop strategy to take the lead.
Scott managed to hold off Hornaday for 18 green-flag laps. On Lap 135, Hornaday cleanly got inside Scott in Turn 1 and they raced almost side by side to Turn 3. Hornaday had the advantage and went to the inside of a lapped truck. Scott went to the outside and Hornaday emerged with a solid advantage. The race stayed green for the next 61 laps and Hornaday steadily built up a sizeable lead.
Scott continued his strong second full season in trucks, moving up to sixth in the points. He finished third at Milwaukee last week and had his first victory at Dover.
David Starr was third, equaling his best finish of the season. Aric Almirola finished fourth and Crafton was fifth.
NASCAR Vice President of Racing Operations Steve O'Donnell addressed the teams in the drivers' meeting Saturday to respond to a media report that there were "concerns" over the future of the truck series.
"I want to assure everybody we're full speed ahead for 2010," O'Donnell said. "We're going forward and looking forward to a 2010."
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Driver Standings after the AMP Energy 500
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| 3 | Jeff Gordon | -192 |
| 4 | Juan Pablo Montoya | -239 |
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| 7 | Greg Biffle | -340 |
| 8 | Ryan Newman | -402 |
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| 10 | Carl Edwards | -437 |
| 11 | Denny Hamlin | -448 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -556 |
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SS396Chevelle said:
Jun 28, 2009 at 8:59 AMAnother Chevy in the winners circle in a series which Toyota fully funds. Big win for Chevy.
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Jun 28, 2009 at 3:51 PManother truck race i lost interest in...
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Jun 30, 2009 at 11:28 PMRemind me how Chevy didn't fully fund the teams before last week... Oh wait, that's right, they DID fully fund the series before pulling out within the last few weeks. Chevy's not at a disadvantage at all in the Trucks series, especially compared with either Ford or Dodge.
Report as AbuseGreat race though. Kinda wish the battle at the end would have been a bit different, though.
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Jul 1, 2009 at 3:58 PMCongrats Ron!
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