Johnny Sauter won Sunday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway!

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“I bet it looked pretty cool on TV,” Sauter said.

Sauter dominated the day leading 101 of 167 laps, however Ron Hornaday Jr. looked like the driver to beat after the green flagged waved. Hornaday started from the pole and lead early for a total of 44 laps. With 13 laps remaining, Hornaday slid into Sauter while trying to challenge for the lead, turning both of them sideways.

“He got into me,” Sauter said. “I couldn’t help but sit there and think as I was trying to save it … that darn Hornaday got me again within a month’s time, but it all worked out. That was good. That was good for the fans.”

“You can’t tell me that Kansas didn’t like that one,” runner-up Hornaday said.

Todd Bodine came home third followed by Brian Ickler, Johnny Benson, Austin Dillon, Aric Almirola, Mike Skinner, Ken Schrader and David Starr completed the top-10.

It wasn’t a good day for the points leader. Timothy Peters finished 23rd, 6 laps down.

For the (unofficial) race results, click here (nascar.com)

Heavy rains delayed the start of the race by an hour and a half.

There were 7 cautions for 37 laps and 16 lead changes among 9 drivers: R. Hornaday Jr. 1-28; C. Long 29; D. Starr 30-31; R. Hornaday Jr. 32-36; J. Sauter 37-89; B. Ickler 90-92; M. Gosselin 93; T. Jackson Jr 94; Jack Smith 95-97; J. Sauter 98-102; B. Ickler 103-105; R. Hornaday Jr. 106-115; D. Starr 116; J. Benson 117-123; J. Sauter 124-146; R. Hornaday Jr.
147; J. Sauter 148-167

Timothy Peters continues to lead the standings by 22 points over 2nd place driver, Todd Bodine.