Second Consecutive Victory for Busch in a Chevrolet Silverado

Kyle Busch took a trip to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory lane for the second consecutive race behind the wheel of the No. 15 ditech.com Billy Ballew Motorsports Silverado at Dover International Speedway.  Taking the trophy for rain-delayed the MBNA RacePoints 200 was the second career NCTS win for the Las Vegas, NV native.

Starting in fifth, inside of the third row, Busch ran in the top-five the entire race but did not make his move for the win until lap 182 of 200.  On a restart, Busch on lap 182, Busch made his move on leader David Reutimann and held the point to the checkered flag.

Pressuring Busch to the finish was Tony Stewart in the no. 47 Makita Silverado. Stewart, competing in his second NCTS event of 2005, started 11th and made a steady climb through the field but couldn't make the pass and had to settle for second place.

Ron Hornaday in the No. 6 GM Goodwrench Silverado was the class of the field taking the lead on lap 14 and held the point until lap 149.  After pitting under yellow, Hornaday was black flagged and returned to pit road for a lug nut missing from a rear wheel.  He rejoined the field in 13th and fought his way back toward the front to finish in fourth position.

David Starr brought the No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Silverado home in eighth but was taken to the infield car center immediately following the race for inhaling exhaust fumes leaking into the cockpit as a result of damage sustained to the truck early in the race.  Starr was held for observation in the infield care center then transferred to a local hospital for further tests.  He was later released.

Dennis Setzer battled his was from the 27th starting position to running in the top-ten when contact with another truck on lap 193 damaged his No. 46 Chevrolet Silverado.  Setzer held on to the finish to capture 13th in the final order.

Jack Sprague came from the 12th starting position to the top-five.  Contact with another truck on lap 176 sent the three-time champion to the garage with damage too severe to return to competition.  His day ended with a disappointing 29th place finish.

The next event for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is the Chex 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on June 10, 2005.  Practice and qualifying will be held on Thursday, June 9, 2005 with the Friday night race scheduled to take the green flag at 8:00 p.m. CDT (9:00 p.m. EDT).  The 167-lap, 400-kilometer race will be broadcast live on SPEED Channel with radio coverage on MRN Radio and XM Satellite Radio.

KYLE BUSCH, NO, 15 ditech.com SILVERADO, STARTED 5TH, FINISHED 1ST:  "Ron Hornaday was strong there at the beginning and was throughout the whole event. He probably should have won the race today but track position was just about everything.  Once we got our ditech.com Billy Ballew Motorsports Silverado out front, it was easy to sail away from the rest of them.  I knew Tony Stewart was going to be tough especially because it is Tony. He has been successful here and the truck he was driving with Randy Goss as the crew chief was good and I know they always have something up their sleeves.  He wasn't quite as good as we were today.  I don't know if that was because he was behind me in dirty air but it was still cool to get us out front and get a win here.

"We just seem to be having more cautions overall this year.  We can look back at last week and the week before that with all three series at Lowe's Motor Speedway.  Everything is getting so that they are twitchy and hard to drive, the guys are doing all they can.  I wrecked myself earlier today with Kevin Harvick.  It is just a bad deal, you are trying to do all you can to get positions and sometimes it slips out from under you and everyone hits everyone so you have big messes.

"In the beginning of the race it shouldn't be happening, these guys should just chill out for the first 30 laps or so and see what they have and adjust on their truck in the first pit stop but instead they tore up a bunch of stuff today. 

"Dover is a tough track so just being able to get the extra experience here is good.  I am young enough that my body can take it so it is pretty cool to have a shot to run all three. Probably had a shot to win all three.  We had a really good car in the Busch event and it was going to be a lot of fun to race Martin Truex there like we did in 2004 for the championship.  I think we would have had something for them.

"But to be able to come out here today, hopefully it gives me enough advance information for tomorrow's Cup race.  Being able to learn from the beginning of the Busch race to the end of that race and the beginning of the Truck race to the end, that was 400 laps on this track today for us. I think it taught me enough about what I need to know about my race car so we can adjust on it tomorrow."

TWO RACES, TWO WINS IN THE NCTS, IS IT STARTING TO GET BORING: "No, it is not boring. It is definitely great to be able to win in any division. In NASCAR, I never say going to race in Busch or Cup is a step down; they are steps over due to the fact tough competitive nature of NASCAR itself.  You have Ron Hornaday over here, Bobby Hamilton, Sr. and of course many other veterans of this series.  David Starr has been really good as well as some talented newcomers.  In the NASCAR Busch Series is the same way.  A bunch of Cup guys go over and run those events. So it is cool to be able to win in any series given the fact you have Cup veterans in all of them."

WE KNOW YOU HAVE MICHIGAN SCHEDULED, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER TRUCK EVENTS ON YOUR SCHEDULE: "I know Billy (Ballew) is going to be in the Hendrick offices on Monday trying to figure it out what he is going to do.  Hopefully we can develop some kind of driver developmental deal to put Blake (Feese) and Boston (Reid) in the thing and give them a shot to go around.  You know the Truck Series races are short but you can learn a lot and I think the track time is what they need and not through them right into the Busch Series.  In the Busch Series you have those Cup guys that come over every week, which is kind of a tough deal for them to get experience and run well. So I think the Truck Series is a better basis for them.  Also the Trucks handle a little better and if you get everything going, you can have a good strong truck like we have had the past two weeks.  It is all about trying to find anything we can do.  As far as myself, Michigan is planned, nothing after that, so I will have to get in on that meeting and see what I can jot down (Chuckles)."

ANY CLOSE CALLS OUT THERE THIS EVENING? "No, not in the Truck race.  Everyone raced me really clean and gave me a lot of room.  I was able to go through the field pretty well. The lapped trucks were awesome out there today.  They would either point you low, so I would know they were going to run the bottom and they ran the bottom and held it.  I believe everyone did a tremendous job out there. Hornaday was kind of walking away with the race.  I am not glad he had a problem and it is a shame to see that."

DID YOU HAVE TO REPORT TO THE NASCAR TRAILER BETWEEN THE BUSCH RACE AND THE TRUCK RACE AND IF SO, WHAT DID THEY SAY?: "The biggest deal is they were upset with me for driving down the race track backwards.  The world of racing only goes one way in NASCAR and that is to turn left and I made a right hand turn.  I was trying to get back to the garage area the shortest way possible and that was to backwards down the front straight away.  They were upset with me at that.  I came on the radio and told my spotter to drive me down the race track because I couldn't see because my hood was all banged up.  He was telling me 'Keep it straight, Keep it straight" the whole time.  At the time my crew chief was trying to key in and tell me to stop because they needed to release the ambulance and the safety equipment. I never heard that because my spotter was on the transmission already.

WAS IT A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE YOU GOT (DAVID) REUTIMANN ON THE RESTART?  "Reutimann was really strong, I was surprised when he got out front there and take off and I had to go chase him down. We had a caution come out when I was about half way to there to catching him.  I started behind him behind him and we ran about three or four laps when Tony Stewart was able to get by the No. 4 truck and was then on my back bumper and was about ready to pass me when the caution came out again.  He was about ready to pass me because I couldn't seem to get my rhythm, he was holding the bottom really well and I just couldn't get him without a restart. I couldn't just go to the outside and get along side of him because I just didn't have enough momentum. But as soon as that second caution came out, I knew I had a shot on the restart. Once I got by him, I was hoping it would go green the rest of the way, but there were a couple more cautions."

HOW DO YOU PUT AN INCIDENT YOU HAD WITH (KEVIN) HARVICK IN THE BUSCH RACE AND GET READY FOR ANOTHER RACE IMMEDIATELY?:  "It is pretty easy considering who it was with. I was just able to put it behind me and was able to go on and run well in the Craftsman Truck Series race.  You just throw that stuff out the window and focus on my racing. That is what I am here to do.  I have been fast a lot lately and may have put myself in some bad situations.  I did that today, racing too hard with only so many laps to go in the Busch Series race. Wrecked myself and the No. 21 car too but I learned from that and we will go on and do it again.  Not wreck again, but win again (Chuckles). From the point that we wrecked, I think it was three laps before that I had tried getting under him (Kevin Harvick) and had position on him, got underneath him coming out of turn four.  My spotter said "Hold you a little tight, hold you a little tight". And I felt it because I got a little loose, and lost my forward momentum and waited for my spotter to clear me behind him. I pulled in behind him to wait for a chance to take another shot which I took three laps later.  I tried to get a run on him on the outside but he would go in low real hard and then shove up.  By the time I could get there and try to put it in, he was already driving down to the bottom again so I didn't want to wreck him that way.  So I tried again a couple laps later and got my nose under him, then my whole car under him and we were racing off the corner side-by-side.  I don't know if he pinched me again or what happened but I lost all the air off my car.  I don't know exactly what made it happen, whether I hit the apron, don't know.  I have seen any film yet, but lost it and we both wrecked."

TONY STEWART, NO. 47 MAKITA SILVERADO, STARTED 11TH, FINISHED 2nd: "Randy Goss and everyone on this No. 47 Chevrolet Makita All Star truck did a great job.  We had a big problem all weekend at Charlotte that held us up and this team is too good for that so I told them if they didn't have anyone in it at Dover, I would like to come back and give it another ride. These guys did an awesome job putting it back together and bringing a good truck here. We had an awesome day today.  We just couldn't get the track position we needed at the end. 

CAN YOU USE ANYTHING YOU LEARNED TODAY IN THE CUP CAR TOMORROW:  "If I try to run wide open through one and two on a restart like I did in the truck, I will be wrecking my Cup car so I better not try that but it is pretty much the same stuff as always.  We had a good car in practice today. If it stays as good tomorrow as we were as good today, we will have a good day tomorrow and at least duplicate this finish or maybe one spot better. Not really, because they are two different vehicles.  Yes, the tires are the same but you drive my truck drove different than my car and vice versa. You drive one one way and tomorrow we will drive the car another way."

ON THE LAST FEW LAPS OF THE RACE:  "It was pretty uneventful for us.  It is hard when you have a good truck like that (Kyle Busch) leading like that.  It is like Terry (Cook, 2nd place finisher) said; everyone was fighting tight if you were behind somebody.  We had an awesome truck all day.  We played a little different strategy on Thursday.  We actually qualified on eight-lap tires and saved our other three sets of stickers, then NASCAR gave everybody another set for the race, so that kind of threw our strategy out the window of having one more set than everybody else who probably only had two sets and a set they qualified on or scuffs. So that strategy didn't work out but we had a good truck today.  These things are just so fast corner speed wise and have so much drag; you really aren't lifting a lot in the corners.  You can't drive go drive by eight guys very easily; you have to really have to work a guy over to get by him.  We got up there in the top-five but NASCAR did such a terrible job of cleaning off pit lane, after that first deal, we couldn't hardly even get in our pit box very easily because there was so much oil on pit road, we lost all the spots and went from fifth back to ninth or tenth and had to get all those spots back again.  We got to second, we had a great truck. The guys did an awesome job and I think we were a little fast than the No. 15 if we could have got ahead of him, but, that is the thing, he got track position on us and Kyle (Busch) did an awesome job of staying out front."

HOW IMPORTANT WAS IT TO BE IN CLEAN AIR?:  "It was pretty big.  At the beginning, after we pitted, I told the guys not to get all worked about where we were track position wise and the fact there was a big gap between ourselves and the No. 66. I kind of just let him go.  My theory was to keep the nose in clean air where I wasn't pushing the front too early in the run to where hopefully as the run went on in that segment toward the end of the race, I wouldn't be already be tight and that way I could lean on the right front a little harder and I would have to worry about it giving up. It was a big factor.  It is a big factor in all of NASCAR racing; it doesn't matter if it is a Truck, a Busch car or a Cup car.  Air is always a big factor. The teams do such a good job of managing the aerodynamics, when you get behind somebody, it changes the air and makes a big different."

DID YOU FEEL LIKE YOU COULD GET CLOSE ENOUGH AT THE END TO GET THE WIN? "I felt like I could get up to him and try and get him loose but the thing I found out about these trucks is you can't really do that too much.  I could get right up underneath guys all days and not really get them free enough to get by them.  We got a really good run on the second to last restart and I was able to run flat through one and two and get close to him but not really close enough to do anything with him when we got to three. I got tight and couldn't get close enough to him to make him loose."

DID THE LATENESS OF THE TRUCK RACE HERE COST YOU A TRIP TO ELDORA: (Narrator questioned where)"It is a real race track, it has dirt on it. (Chuckles). Just kidding, this is a real race track too, that one is just a more real race track.  No, it didn't cost me a trip there tonight but you guys are holding me up from an RC (Remote control car) race I was going to as soon as I get showered and no, I am not telling you where. (chuckles again)"

CAN YOU COMMENT ON THE INCIDENT WITH TODD BODINE AND BILL LESTER? "I got a big run in one and two and Todd was working over Bill pretty hard.  I was able to go up and diamond the corner and get a run off of it. Actually, Todd had showed me that move; he had done that to Kyle a couple times.  I got a big run on him and would not have normally gone three wide but I been behind Todd quite a bit and really couldn't find an easy way around him. When I got that run, I had to take a chance and I realized I wasn't going to make it when I got there so I started slowing down but as I got there, Todd decided to go from the second lane to the third lane to keep me passing him.  He clipped us and wrecked himself. It is just racing.  He was just trying to protect his position but a the same time I am trying to pass for position so it was just a racing deal I guess."

IS THE EVENT YOU ARE HAVING AT ELDORA WEDNESDAY NIGHT THE BIGGEST EVENT YOU HAVE HAD SINCE YOU PURCHASED IT?  "Yes, it is.  Actually, next weekend will be a bigger event than we are going to have on Wednesday.  We have the World of Outlaws there tonight and the reason we picked this Wednesday to do this event is because a lot of people will stay all week in campers.  There is a huge camping area there and people will stay all week and it will be a good opportunity to break up before the big late model race called The Dream on Friday and Saturday of next week. I am looking forward to it; I think everyone is looking forward to it.  I think about five of the guys that are going out of the 14 call me and ask me if they could come run.  It is normally hard to get your buddies to come run and do an event like this for you but to have five of them call me and say "Hey, I would like to come do that" was I thought a pretty big compliment to us and the track.  We are going to have fun.  I think the only guy that is a little nervous about it is Kevin Harvick, but that is because he has only been on dirt once and he about totaled a guys modified one night when we did a charity deal at (Ken) Schrader's track. I assured him if he runs in the middle of the race track, he will not hit anything. I think we will all have fun Wednesday night."

RON HORNADAY, NO. 6 GM GOODWRENCH SILVERADO, STARTED 3RD, FINISHED 4TH:  "The Gm Goodwrench Silverado was awesome today. We were an absolute rocket ship. This should have been our race but we will take where we finished. I think that everyone saw what we could do today. We had a bad stop but you win and loose as a team so there is no one to blame.

We still had a great day. We gained in the points. I wish my crew chief had been here, but I want to congratulate Wally (Rogers, crew chief) and his wife Rene on the birth of their twin daughters. This was fun and I am happy we get to race next weekend with no time off. I think we have good momentum and the GM Goodwrench team will be back in victory lane real soon.

DAVID STARR, NO. 75 SPEARS MANUFACTURING SILVERADO, STARTED 1ST, FINISHED 8TH: NOTE: David Starr was involved in an incident on lap 44 while running fourth.  Starr sustained damage to the left side of his truck but the crew was able to make repairs on pit road and Starr returned to competition one lap down to the leaders.  On lap 118 Starr received the beneficiary of being the first one-lap down and was allowed to get his lap back putting him 14th, the last truck on the lead lap. Starr inhaled exhaust fumes and smoke in the cockpit and was taken to the infield care for evaluation.

DENNIS SETZER, NO 46 CHEVROLET SILVERADO, STARTED 27TH, FINISHED 13TH: "Unfortunate day for our Silverado team. We started out bad. Did quite a bit of adjusting. By missing wrecks, we gained positions. Our pit stops were awesome so we gained some spots there as well. We were going to take a truck that was off a little and get a decent finish but there was another crash there and we didn't miss that last one."

JACK SPRAGUE, NO. 16 CHEVY TRUCKS SILVERADO, STARTED 12TH, FINISHED 29th: NOTE: Sprague was involved in an incident on lap 174 with No. 66.  The truck was too badly damaged to continue.  "The Chevy Trucks Silverado was awesome today. We had it a little tight, and then we had it a lot loose. We had it a little snug there after that last pit stop but it was a good top five truck and we were going to get a good top five finish. But Bodine wrecked his truck all to heck, beats it all up and can't drive it and he is out of control. Then he comes out across the front of me and he lifts and I touched him a little bit then he takes me out. That is what you get when you race with him. Now you know why he never has a ride."