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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Race
#13 | Built Ford Tough 225
Kentucky Speedway
July
19, 2008
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The 13th race of the 2008 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.
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As Darrell Waltrip is fond of saying, it takes ‘sperience to win, especially at Kentucky Speedway. Look at the list of winners since the inaugural race in 2000: Three NASCAR Craftsman Truck champions; Two NASCAR Nationwide Series champions; Two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competitors — Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle — currently holding spots that would qualify them for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
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Kyle Busch stands a victory away from making NASCAR history as the first driver to win a race in all three of the organization's national series in successive starts. Busch, a two-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series winner in 2008, hopes to add Saturday's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway to last weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup/Nationwide Series sweep at Chicagoland Speedway. Busch already is a member of a select group of drivers who have won in all three national series in the same season, posting a victory each year from 2005-08. Terry Labonte (1995) and Kevin Harvick (2003) also pulled off that triple. The opportunity is just the latest milestone in what any NASCAR driver would consider a milestone season: The Sprint Cup Series championship lead on the strength of seven victories; five Nationwide Series wins and top-five point ranking; and truck wins back-to-back at Auto Club Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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After two weeks off, the truck series gets back at it Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway, where the second half of the 2008 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule kicks off with the Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers, race No. 13 of 25 on the season. There have been eight different winners in the first eight NCTS races at the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway, with just three of the eight entered in Saturday night’s race: Ron Hornaday Jr., Dennis Setzer and Mike Skinner. Skinner crushed the field in last year’s event, leading 135 laps in his No. 5 Toyota Tundra-sponsored Bill Davis Racing Tundra, and he’ll be looking to repeat this year. “We had a great truck there last year and pretty much dominated the race,” said Skinner. “I am confident we are taking a truck that will be as good as last year. We are still in the hunt to be a contender for the championship, but we need to continue to do our jobs.”
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Three-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Jack Sprague led this evening's final practice session for tomorrow night's "Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers" with a 174.059-mph (31.024 seconds) lap in his No. 2 American Commercial Lines Chevrolet. Sprague owns three top-five series finishes at Kentucky Speedway through six career starts, but has not broken into a series top-five at the track since his second-place finish July 10, 2004. The Kevin Harvick, Inc., driver charted an average 20th-place finish in the 2007, 2006 and 2005 Kentucky events. The 2005 NCTS Kentucky Speedway pole award winner will attempt to become the first repeat series pole winner at the track through nine events tomorrow afternoon. Chad McCumbee was second fastest in the session in his No. 8 Malcolmson Construction Chevrolet with a 172.106-mph (31.376 seconds) lap. He owns an average 19th-place finish through two career Kentucky Speedway NCTS starts and placed 20th in the 2007 Kentucky event. (Marc Serota/Getty Images for NASCAR Photo)
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Defending track champion Mike Skinner became the ninth different NASCAR Camping World Truck Series pole award winner at Kentucky Speedway with a 171.499-mph (31.487 seconds) lap in his No. 5 Bill Davis Racing machine this afternoon. Skinner snares his first career series pole at the track, his third Keystone Light pole award of the season and the 46th of his career. He will start from the top spot on the grid for the third time in the past six series races and start an NCTS event on the front row for the fifth time in the past seven events. The 1995 NCTS Champion ranks sixth in the series standings through 12 events and 113 points behind championship leader Ron Hornaday, Jr., after taking three top-five and 10 top-10 finishes this season. Skinner will attempt to become the first series Kentucky Speedway pole award winner to earn a race victory and the first repeat series winner at the track when the 36-truck field takes the green flag for the "Built Ford Tough 225 Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Ford Dealers" at 7:00 p.m. (VPS Motorimages Photo)
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Johnny Benson dominated Saturday night's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway, winning his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race of the year and 11th of his career, cruising to an easy victory in event No. 13 of 25 on the NCTS schedule. Finishing second behind Benson was his Bill Davis Racing teammate, youngster Michael Annett, in just his third NCTS start of the season. Then it was Matt Crafton, Dennis Setzer and David Starr rounding out the top five. Second-qualifier Kyle Busch took the lead on the opening lap in his No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra, ahead of the Toyota Tundra-sponsored No. 5 of Mike Skinner, Skinner's teammate Benson in the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra, and points leader Ron Hornaday Jr. in the Camping World No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado. Shelby Howard spun on Lap 4, bringing out the first caution of the race. Under yellow, Jack Sprague pitted with engine problems in his American Commercial Lines Chevy. He had to pit again for a missing hood pin, which dropped him to the end of the field and he would never be a factor in the outcome of the race. (Ronda Greer/NASCAR Photo)
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Johnny Benson dominated Saturday night's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway, winning his second NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race of the year and 11th of his career, cruising to an easy victory in event No. 13 of 25 on the NCTS schedule. Finishing second behind Benson was his Bill Davis Racing teammate, youngster Michael Annett, in just his third NCTS start of the season. Then it was Matt Crafton, Dennis Setzer and David Starr rounding out the top five. Second-qualifier Kyle Busch took the lead on the opening lap in his No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra, ahead of the Toyota Tundra-sponsored No. 5 of Mike Skinner, Skinner's teammate Benson in the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra, and points leader Ron Hornaday Jr. in the Camping World No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado. Shelby Howard spun on Lap 4, bringing out the first caution of the race. Under yellow, Jack Sprague pitted with engine problems in his American Commercial Lines Chevy. He had to pit again for a missing hood pin, which dropped him to the end of the field and he would never be a factor in the outcome of the race. (Ronda Greer/NASCAR Photo)
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