Terry Cook celebrates in victory lane after taking his first win in nearly 4 years. (Nate Mecha/High Sierra Photo)

It had been since August 2002 that Terry Cook scored a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory. After his fourth win of 2002 at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, Cook would embark on a 94-race streak that spanned nearly four full years without taking the checkered flag. After a flat tire just 18 laps into Saturday's O'Reilly 250 at Kansas Speedway, it appeared Cook's winless streak would stretch at least one more race. But Cook kept calm, used superb pit strategy, and rode a fast truck to claim his sixth career series victory.

Cook led a Ford 1-2-3 sweep at the finish, with Rick Crawford coming home second and Australian Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate Marcos Ambrose crossing the line third.  Ambrose, who became the first Australian to lead a series event, charged through the top ten late in the going to pick up his first career top five finish.

The race was red flagged for 9 minutes and 25 seconds after a hard crash on the backstretch involving Kelly Sutton. Sutton got loose off turn four and struck the inside retaining wall with the driver's side of the No. 02 Sutton Motorsports Chevrolet. With the relative drought conditions in Kansas, the accident started a grass fire in the infield which took several minutes to contain as safety officials cut the roof off the truck to remove Sutton from the wrecked truck. She was awake and alert following the crash, and has been admitted to the KU Med Center in fair condition where she will be kept overnight for evaluation.

There were a total of eight caution flags for 36 which held the average speed to a record low 111.581 miles per hour. Ryan Moore, Kraig Kinser, Mike Bliss, Joey Miller, Justin Allgaier and Boston Reid were all involved in incidents throughout the afternoon. Cook's margin of victory was 2.040 seconds.