Ron Hornaday Jr. desperately wanted to win Saturday's City of Mansfield 250 - but not for the obvious reason.

A year ago, Hornaday in NASCAR's view, jumped a late restart handing the victory to Bobby Hamilton. The California native, however, wasn't looking for vindication or redemption.

"In racing, nobody owes you anything," said Hornaday.

Instead, Hornaday was racing in memory of Kevin Harvick Inc. employee Amy Mischler, 21 and rising NASCAR AutoZone Grand National Division, West Series star Spencer Clark, 18.

Mischler, Hornaday's scorer among other office duties, collapsed and died a day after the series' race at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Clark, son of T.J. Clark, who competed with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 1995, was killed in a roll-over traffic accident May 21 in New Mexico while towing a racecar from Charlotte to his home in Las Vegas.

"We had some extra drive," said a somber Hornaday.

The winner was all smiles in noting his KHI crew largely is young and untested - at least until Saturday's break-through victory. His 2005 team led by Wally Rogers moved to the NASCAR Busch Series at the end of last season.

"This team is pretty awesome," said Hornaday, 47. "They're a great, young bunch of kids."

Hornaday now has won races in eight different seasons - and every season in which he has been a fulltime NASCAR Craftsman Truck competitor. He joins Dennis Setzer and Jack Sprague in sharing the record.

Setzer, who'll become the fourth different driver to reach 200 starts when he competes Friday at Dover International Speedway, is the only winner of eight seasons in succession.

Hornaday, who won in his second series start at Tucson Raceway Park on April 18, 1995, has gone an amazing 155 races from first to most recent victory.

Speaking of Setzer, the Newton, N.C. resident is working a string of 183 consecutive starts - second to Terry Cook's 204. The latter driver has Rick Crawford's series mark of 209 in his sights.

Setzer made his first series appearance at The Milwaukee Mile in July 1995 and has competed fulltime since Sept. 19, 1998 at Gateway International Raceway.

Sprague had one of the better quips of the weekend when informed that the front-running duo of Todd Bodine and Ted Musgrave had finished 15th and 16th - their worst performances of the season.

"I'm glad they got squashed for a change," said Sprague, a back-to-back second-place finisher after winning the race in 2004.

Matt Crafton moved up two spots to eighth in the championship with a solid finish of sixth - his fourth of ninth or better in the past five races.

Driving for independent ThorSport Racing, Crafton reported his truck was a handful before a trip down pit road under caution for adjustments. The No. 88 Menards/Energizer Chevrolet then came to life, advancing from 22nd over the remaining 206 laps.

"We really had a solid top-five truck if we could have had some longer runs," said Crafton. "Another top 10 for us so we are getting a good rhythm started."

Saturday's finish was the 29-year-olds 60th among the top 10 good for a share of 13th-place on the all-time list. Sprague extended his top 10 record to 163 - 36 more than Setzer, his closest pursuer.

Toyota swept positions two through five but did it with four different teams: Wyler Racing (Sprague), Red Horse Racing (Starr), Bill Davis Racing (Benson) and Darrell Waltrip Motorsports (Joey Miller).

Miller, the top-finishing Raybestos rookie of the year contender, experienced a career afternoon bettering a previous best of 10th last October at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Miller, 21, snake-bitten to say the least since landing the Waltrip ride, had a top finish of 13th in 2006 with four runs outside the top 20.

For once, luck was on the freshman's side. Black-flagged to repair flapping body panels on lap 115, Miller made his own luck when the metal broke loose and triggered caution.

"We were playing catch-up all day," said Miller, who started 29th and was 31st after an early stop.

The race's 18 caution periods set a series record, two more slow-downs than were recorded April 1 at Martinsville Speedway. An oddity: the 85 laps run under yellow were the fewest in three races at Mansfield. The track's inaugural race saw 94 laps run at reduced speed.

Rain washed out qualifying for the second time in three races at the mid-Ohio facility. While 2004's qualifying day merely was wet, Friday was one for the books as the final wave of storm cells inundated the infield through which streams of water flowed a foot deep in places.

Michel Jourdain Jr. and Ashland, Ohio racer Todd Shafer must wait for another day to make their series' debut. Their teams were odd-man-out when the field was set by the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Rule Book.

West Coast late model star Auggie Vidovich wound up in the seat of the No. 6 Scotts Ford after David Ragan smashed up one of Roush Racing's trucks during Thursday's open test. Although Ragan is entered in this week's race at Dover, it's unclear whether he'll drive the team's No. 50 as Mark Martin reclaims the Scotts ride.

Vidovich finished 19th in his first series start since 1999 as an 18 year old. Raybestos rookie point leader Erik Darnell was 11th in the third Roush entry, his sixth finish of 11th or higher in seven starts.