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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race
#16 | O'Reilly 200
Bristol Motor Speedway
August 20, 2008
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Race 16 in the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season
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Johnny Benson hopes to repeat his 2007 win at Bristol Motor Speedway
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Johnny Benson trying to make NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series history doing something that Greg Biffle, Todd Bodine, Ron Hornaday Jr. and Mike Skinner all tried but couldn't do themselves. Jimmie Johnson trying to make his first NCTS start. Canadian Patrick Carpentier, too. Hornaday trying to retaking the NCTS points lead. Rowdy back behind the wheel. And 36 ornery trucks and even ornerier drivers, all with their respective feet to the floor for 200 high-banked and hell-raising laps. Welcome to Bristol Motor Speedway, site of Wednesday night's O'Reilly 200, race No. 16 of 25 on the 2008 NCTS schedule. And what a race it should be around the fiendishly fast 0.533-mile oval.
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Scott Speed won the first pole of his NASCAR career Wednesday, qualifying fastest for tonight's O'Reilly 200 Craftsman Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Speed's best previous start in eight truck races was fourth at Dover earlier this year in a race he won. Speed's lap of 123.865 mph in Bill Davis Racing's No. 22 Toyota was 0.016 seconds faster than teammate Johnny Benson. Going for his fourth consecutive truck series victory, Benson's lap was 123.738 mph. (Ronda Greer/NASCAR Photo)
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Kyle Busch dominated the O'Reilly 200 presented by Camping World RV Sales at Bristol Motor Speedway Wednesday night, winning his third NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race of the year in his Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra. In the process, Busch survived a green-white-checkered finish to reset his own record for most single-season victories in NASCAR's top three divisions with 17. Points leader Johnny Benson made a valiant charge in his attempt to win his fourth consecutive NCTS race, something that has never been done before. But Benson had to settle for fourth place, behind Busch, Todd Bodine and Scott Speed. Rick Crawford completed the top five.
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Kyle Busch won the battle of Bristol on Wednesday night, but Johnny Benson took one more step towards winning the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series war for 2008. The 23-year-old Busch dominated the proceedings in the O'Reilly 200 Presented by Camping World RV Sales, leading 145 of 203 laps, as he put Billy Ballew's Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra into victory lane for the third time this season. And while Benson failed in his quest to become the first driver to win four consecutive NCTS races, his fourth-place finish allowed him to open a little breathing room over Ron Hornaday Jr. and the rest of the field chasing the 2008 series championship. There's not much new that can be said about Busch, who now has 17 victories in NASCAR's top three divisions, a surreal performance people will be talking about decades from now. On Wednesday night at the 0.533-mile high-banked Bristol track, he took the lead on Lap 71 and never again trailed. "This is definitely a great race team," said Busch. "It's a lot of fun with Billy Ballew (owner), Richie (Wauters, crew chief) and all these guys. We just had a great race tonight. This thing was pretty good when we unloaded it. Same stuff as last year. We just kind of fine-tuned on it a little bit." (SPEEDtv.com Photo)
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Kyle Busch dominated the O'Reilly 200 presented by Camping World RV Sales at Bristol Motor Speedway Wednesday night, winning his third NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race of the year in his Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra. In the process, Busch survived a green-white-checkered finish to reset his own record for most single-season victories in NASCAR's top three divisions with 17. Points leader Johnny Benson made a valiant charge in his attempt to win his fourth consecutive NCTS race, something that has never been done before. But Benson had to settle for fourth place, behind Busch, Todd Bodine and Scott Speed. Rick Crawford completed the top five.
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