Camping World Truck Series – O’Reilly 200 presented by Valvoline
By Sheri Vegas on Aug 19, 2009 in Motorsports, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Racing
It was Kyle Busch’s turn to win Wednesday night at Bristol Motor Speedway!
Busch had to first pass a dominant Jason White and hold off Matt Crafton to score his 12th Camping World Truck Series victory and 2nd straight win at the Tennessee short track.
Photo Credit: John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR
“It’s a fun place to race,” Busch said. “For some reason, I’ve really taken to this track. We knew we had a fast truck. It was great to be able to capitalize tonight.”
Busch snapped Ron Hornaday Jr.’s hot streak as Hornaday has won a record 5 consecutive wins. It was Busch’s third truck win this season. If you combine his wins across NASCAR’s top-3 series, the total equals 12 so far this season.
Jason White jumped out in front to lead once for a race-high 86 laps. Busch battled for the lead until lap 124 when he was able to jump out front. Busch led twice for 82 laps including the final 76 laps.
Crafton finished second followed by Ron Hornaday, Ryan Newman and Brian Scott – rounding out the top-5.
For the (unofficial) race results, click here.
There were 5 cautions for 32 laps and 5 lead changes among 4 drivers: R. Newman 0; M. Skinner 1-31; K. Busch 32-36; R. Newman 37; J. White 38-123; K. Busch 124-200
