Backstretch Motorsports

By Tim Tuttle

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (June 28, 2008) — Ron Hornaday Jr. led the final 129 laps and survived a green-white-checkered finish to win the O’Reilly 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Saturday night at Memphis Motorsports Park.

Hornaday’s victory in the Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet was his third of the season and boosted him into the points lead, 27 in front of Matt Crafton. It was Hornaday’s 36th career victory in the series, tops all-time.

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Ron Hornaday
No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet Silverado
NASCAR Truck Series Race 12 of 25
Memphis (Tenn.) Motorsports Park

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By Tim Tuttle

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (June 20, 2008) — Johnny Benson won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at The Milwaukee Mile for the third straight year Friday night, taking the Camping World RV Sales 200.

Benson’s victory from the pole position in the Bill Davis Racing Toyota was his first of the season and 10th of his NCTS career — all coming in the past three seasons. He entered the race leading the points and expanded his advantage to 50 over Todd Bodine.

“It feels great,” Benson said. “I could do almost anything I wanted. That last set of tires was awesome. This is way cool. I can’t believe we won three in a row.”

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Craftsman Truck Series finish was the closest in MIS track history among all series

BROOKLYN, Mich. (June 14, 2008) — Popular local driver Johnny Benson, from nearby Grand Rapids, has one consolation. At lease he can say he was a close second today in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Cool City Customs 200 at Michigan International Speedway.

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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
SAM’S TOWN 400
Texas Motor Speedway
Fast Facts

Race Winner: Ron Hornaday Jr.
Age: 49
Team: No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet
Owner: Delana Harvick
Crew Chief: Rick Ren

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Colin Braun, driver of the No. 6 Con-way Freight Ford F-150, heads home to Texas for this weekend’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race. Braun is the only driver in the series to have started every race this season from the top 10. He leads the Raybestos Rookie of the Year standings and is 14th in overall points, just 73 points out of top 10.

COLIN BRAUN – No. 6 Con-way Freight Ford F-150 – “I’m excited to go to back to Texas. Since I lived there and grew up there, I’ve been to a couple of my Dad’s IRL races there at the speedway. I never raced out there myself but I’m definitely excited to go back. Just being in Texas, I love Texas, I know a little bit of the Dallas area and things like that, so it should be a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to it.”

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DOVER, Del. (May 30, 2008) Making the most of his sixth start in NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck Series — and capitalizing on transmission troubles that temporarily sidelined Kyle Busch’s dominant Toyota — former Formula 1 driver Scott Speed ran away from the field after a late restart to win the AAA Insurance 200 on Friday at Dover International Speedway.

Speed, whose previous best finish was eighth at Kansas Speedway, is the third straight first-time winner in the series, following Matt Crafton (Lowe’s Motor Speedway) and Donny Lia (Mansfield, Ohio) to victory lane.

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MANSFIELD, Ohio - Rookie driver Donny Lia battled his way through the field taking the lead on the final lap to win Saturday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Ohio 250 at Mansfield Motorsports Park.

Lia, NASCAR’s 2007 Whelen Modified Tour champion, caught and passed leader David Starr in the second turn of the 250th lap around the 0.5-mile oval.

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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Ohio 250
Mansfield Motorsports Park
Qualifying Fast Facts

Bud Pole Winner: Johnny Benson
Age: 44
Team: No. 23
Owner: Bill Davis
Crew Chief: Trip Bruce

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CONCORD, N.C. (May 16, 2008) ­– It took Matt Crafton 178 starts to snare his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory. It took about 35-crash filled laps at Lowe’s Motor Speedway to set the unlikely win in motion.

A chaotic turn of events that took frontrunner after frontrunner out of contention in the late stages of the North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Crafton hung on and survived for an unlikely triumph in a race that may well be remembered more for who didn’t win than who did.

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