Dennis Setzer won the Toyota Tundra 200 at The Milwaukee Mile in a dominant performance that saw him lap all but the second, third, and fourth place drivers on Friday night. Setzer took the lead for the first time on lap 43 and only gave up the point during pit stops in a race that saw the first 142 laps run under green flag with only one caution flag on the night to slow the action.

Setzer followed pole-sitter Jack Sprague off the start and stalked the Texas winner until Sprague was boxed in traffic as they caught the tail of the field. Setzer made the pass on the outside down the backstretch to stake the claim on the lead and run off into the distance. Setzer stretched his advantage to well over two seconds at times before the only caution flag of the night waved when Johnny Benson had trouble in turn one and did a half spin. Benson's truck didn't make contact with anything and was pushed back to the pits, but mechanical problems sent him to the garage for the evening.

With weather bearing down, the issue at first was simply making it cleanly to lap 100 in order to reach a distance in which NASCAR could declare the race official. Once in front, Setzer ran off at a record pace and reached the halfway point with lightning striking the ground just over turns three and four.

Setzer picked up his 14th career win and finished ahead of Sprague,last year's winner Ted Musgrave, Ron Hornaday and 2003 Milwaukee winner Brendan Gaughan. Defending series champion Bobby Hamilton was sixth, with Steve Park seventh, Rick Crawford eighth, Tood Kluever ninth, and 2002 Milwaukee winner Terry Cook tenth.

Sezter now unofficially leads Hamilton in the points as the series moves on to the Kansas Speedway for next Saturday's O'Reilly 250.

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