Ron Hornaday Jr. snapped a 22-race winless streak Friday night at O’ Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis!

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Hornaday lead twice for a race high 129 of 200 laps.

“It’s just a great day,” Hornaday said. “Hopefully, it keeps everybody a little bit quiet. The guys were getting a little anxious. We know we’ve got a winning team. We just had to prove it to them.”

It’s a series leading fourth win at the .686 mile short track and the first for Hornaday since August 1st at Nashville Superspeedway where his streak of five consecutive race wins ended.

“We couldn’t do it without (crew chief) Ernie Cope and all these guys on this Chevrolet (team),” Hornaday said. “They worked their guts out, changing the truck after last weekend. It’s just a great day. Hopefully it keeps a little bit quiet. It took Ernie to come over here and settle everybody down. The guys were getting a little anxious. We know we’ve got a winning team. We just had to prove it to them.”

This is Hornaday’s 46th career truck victory in 262 races.

Kyle Busch rode in the top-5 throughout the night, but failed to lead a lap. He crossed the finish line 2.095 seconds after Hornaday.

“We knew earlier in practice today that we didn’t have enough for the #33 (Hornaday), but man, when you’re that close and you’re fighting that hard for it you wish you could be there and banging a couple doors with him, but we just couldn’t get there in the finals laps,” Busch said. “We just didn’t have enough grip in the truck. I burned the right-front and the right-rear off it trying to keep up with him, so we just didn’t have anything left.”

Timothy Peters was the only other driver besides Hornaday to lead any laps during Friday night’s race. After starting from the pole, Peters lead the first sixty-two laps and jumped back in front before the conclusion for another nine.

“We started off really good and then when the night came, we just got too tight,” Peters said. “Everybody did a great job on our Toyota Tundra. It’s still a great night. We sat on the pole and came home with a top-10 finish. That’s what we needed to do. We’ll just go on to Pocono.” Peters finished 10th.

Matt Crafton came home third followed by Johnny Sauter, James Buescher, Austin Dillon, Todd Bodine, Brad Sweet, David Starr and Timothy Peters completing the top-10.

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

There were 3 lead changes among 2 drivers: T. Peters 1-62; R. Hornaday Jr. 63-143; T. Peters 144-152; R. Hornaday Jr. 153-200

Todd Bodine continues to lead in the standings by 177 points over 2nd place driver, Aric Almirola.