Todd Bodine won Friday night’s WinStar World Casino 400k after a green-white-checkered finish at Texas Motor Speedway!

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“It’s awesome. It’s good to come to Texas every time,” Bodine said. “This truck was driving good and it was fast wide-open. It was fun to drive. It really was.”

Bodine led a race-high 106 of 169-laps. He spent much of the night fighting Ron Hornaday Jr. for the lead.

“I’m not usually that good on restarts, so I knew, especially with Ron outside me, I had to get a good one,” Bodine said. “That last one, I got a good one.” Hornaday, however, slipped back to finish ninth.

Todd Bodine knows how to get around at the Texas track. It’s his series-leading 6th victory there. It’s the first win for the season for the series points leader, breaking a 24-race winless streak.

“You go there with a little kick in your step knowing that you’ve got the opportunity to win and that you can do it knowing that you’ve had the success in the past there,” Bodine said. “You can’t be cocky, you can’t be overconfident, because you’ve still got to go do it again, but just the fact we know we’ve been there, we can get around good, we’ve had good trucks, we feel like it’s our house and its ours to go win at.”

Johnny Sauter posted a runner-up finish. “On the last restart I knew with Todd and Ron being side by side, there was a good chance they would get together and wreck,” Sauter said. “I could have made it three wide and pushed it but I figured if they did get together we’d get by both of them without having to fight them for it. Somehow Hornaday got loose going into Turn 3 and we didn’t have to fight for second with him. It stinks to be that close to winning and not getting it done. We’re all pretty competitive and we’re here to win races, but it was a good points night.”

First time polesitter, Austin Dillon, led the first twenty laps and settled in to finish 3rd. It’s his best finish to date.

“What a phenomenal job,” said Dillon. “I started off really good and lost it in the middle, but at the end I raced hard and got us a good finish. I just had a little trouble on the restarts.”

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

There were 6 cautions for 29 laps and 6 lead changes among 4 drivers: A. Dillon # 1-20; A. Almirola 21-31; T. Bodine 32-74; R. Hornaday Jr. 75-77; T. Bodine 78-101; R. Hornaday Jr. 102-130; T. Bodine 131-169

Todd Bodine leads the standings by 65 points over 2nd place driver, Aric Almirola.