Bodine Bookends Season With Homestead Victory; Benson First Crowned Champion of Homestead Weekend
By Bram • Nov 15th, 2008 • Category: NASCAR, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, News, Notes, Results, Your Series. Your Driver.
Johnny Benson celebrates winning the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship with his No. 23 Bill Davis Racing Toyota team. (Sam Greenwood/Getty Images for NASCAR)
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (November 14, 2008) — Todd Bodine may have won Friday night’s Ford 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but a pair of calls in the pits earned Johnny Benson a seventh-place finish—exactly what he needed to secure the series championship.
After pitting for four tires under caution on Lap 126, Ron Hornaday Jr. chased Benson to the stripe during a green-white-checkered-flag finish that took the race three laps beyond its scheduled 134-lap distance. Hornaday came home eighth, one position behind Benson and one position short of his fourth series championship.
