A little NASCAR Camping World Truck Series history was made when the points were tabulated following Saturday's O'Reilly Auto Parts 250.

For the first time, four former series champions appear among the top 10 in the standings.

Bobby Hamilton and Ron Hornaday Jr. are among four drivers occupying a top-10 spot all season. Jack Sprague has been in and out but - until Saturday's fourth-place finish - Mike Skinner was on the outside looking in.

For the record, the quartet represents seven series championships: Sprague, three; Hornaday two and Hamilton and Skinner one apiece.

Dennis Setzer is the point leader for the 13th time. That ranks him No. 6 all-time, a mark shared with Rich Bickle and Scott Riggs.     

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Bill Lester, winner of the Bud Pole at Kansas Speedway, is poised to reach a significant milestone. With $993,586 in career winnings, the 44-year-old Lester will become NASCAR's first African-American million dollar winner by taking the green flag in Saturday's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway.

The Kentucky race, in which Lester finished 12th a year ago, will be the driver's 91st start.

Lester finished fifth at Kansas Speedway to record his first top-five finish on the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He continues to be NASCAR's best-performing African-American competitor since Wendell Scott won on the then-NASCAR Grand National Series (now NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series) in 1963.

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It was a daylong struggle but a 10th-place finish gave Rick Crawford his 100th series top 10. Crawford started 16th and fought a variety of problems before edging into the top 10 - likely on the strength of Jack Sprague's lap 150 engine failure.

"We dug all day to get into the top 10 and there was no track position at all," said Crawford. "One day will be our day. Today it wasn't.

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Thirty-three different drivers have led at least one lap in 2005. That's two shy of the season record set during the 2004 season.

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Jimmy Spencer's sixth-place finish was his first among the top 10 since April 30 at Gateway International Raceway.

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Todd Bodine became the oldest and first forty something competitor to win a series race at Kansas Speedway - a track that has been dominated by youngsters. Former winners Ricky Hendrick, Jon Wood and Carl Edwards all were in their 20s at the time of their victories.

Bodine, age 41 years four months, is four years older than Mike Bliss, the latter age 37 years two months when he won in 2002.

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Toyota's first win of the season ended a 14-race victory drought that followed Bodine's October 2004 win at Texas Motor Speedway. Ford, however, remains this season's odd manufacturer out having failed to record a series victory since Edwards won at Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 25, 2004.

A Ford has been second three times in 2005 - Roush Racing mates Todd Kluever at Kansas and Ricky Craven at Martinsville and Terry Cook at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

There have been 11 different second place finishers in the season's first 12 races. The only repeater is Sprague. Five of the runners-up also have won in 2005.

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Kelly Sutton no doubt will always remember this week's race - her 33rd in series competition - but likely not for the reason she'd hoped. Sutton's start broke Tammy Jo Kirk's record for most series appearances by a female competitor.

What began as a celebration wound up being something of a heart-stopper when, on lap 153, Sutton's Chevrolet slammed into Chris Fontaine's spinning Dodge and slid down the track on the roof of its cab before righting itself. Happily, both drivers emerged from the spectacular accident unscathed.

"I am fine, just a little sore and shook up," said Sutton following her trip to the Kansas Speedway care center where she was evaluated and released.

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John Andretti was driver No.6 for team owner Billy Ballew, whose chauffeur de jour program will continue at Kentucky Speedway with Blake Feese. Andretti finished ninth and moved Ballew's No. 15 Chevrolet to fourth in series owner standings.

Saturday's finish also marked the first time the Richie Wauter's led team has showed among the top three of the Clevite Engine Builder rankings. Engine supplier Dale Earnhardt Inc. moved to the No. 3 position behind Richard Childress (Morgan-Dollar Motorsports -Setzer) and Joey Arrington (Ultra Motorsports - Ted Musgrave).

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The margin of victory in Saturday's race was .387 second which ended Kansas Speedway's status as the series' single active track without a finish of less than one second.

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Bell weather race coming up: In three of five seasons, the winner of the Built Ford Tough 225 has gone on to claim the series championship. Greg Biffle was the track's inaugural winner in 2000. Bliss won at Kentucky Speedway in 2002 while Hamilton captured last year's race with a late pass of Sprague.