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Sprague Breaks 29 Race Drought in Memphis
Charles Krall, TrackSide Editor
Sprague Breaks 29 Race Drought in Memphis

With fireworks in the background race
winner Jack Sprague celebrates.
(Nate Mecha/High Sierra Photo)

Jack Sprague had been winless in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for 29 races dating back to June 2005 when he went to the Winner's Circle at Texas Motor Speedway. That streak finally came to an end for the three-time series champion after Sprague capitalized on Dennis Setzer's misfortunes to win the O'Reilly Auto Parts 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park.

Matt Crafton stayed near the front all night long, bringing the No. 88 Menards Chevrolet home in third, tying his season best set earlier this season at Martinsville. Crafton didn't want the last caution flag as he was quickly closing on the top two.  Ron Hornaday, who won last week at Kentucky, picked up the fourth spot after an early race scrape that left second-place point man Johnny Benson's truck wounded.

Mike Bliss was fifth in the No. 16 Xpress Motorsports Chevrolet was fifth, ahead of sixth-place David Ragan in the No. 6 Scott's Ford, David Reutimann in the No. 17 Team Tundra Toyota, Terry Cook in the No. 10 Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International Ford, Mike Skinner in the No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota, and Setzer.  Point leader Todd Bodine was 15th, while Benson was a season-worst 32nd and three laps off the pace at the finish.

There were seven cautions for 30 laps, and Sprague averaged 88.367 miles per hour en route to victory. The only significant incidents on the night were Aric Almirola's turn one crash on lap 198 which set up the green-white-checkered finish, and Erin Crocker and Chad Chaffin's crash in turn four coming to the checkered flag. There were no injuries in any of the incidents throughout the day.

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F S # Driver Team Laps Pts Bpts Money Status
1 1 60 Jack Sprague Con-way Freight Toyota 202 190 10 $59,175 Running
2 4 99 Erik Darnell # Roush Racing Ford 202 175 5 $34,900 Running
3 3 88 Matt Crafton Menards/Energizer Chevrolet 202 170 5 $22,650 Running
4 20 33 Ron Hornaday Jr. Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet 202 160   $19,525 Running
5 6 16 Mike Bliss Xpress Motorsports Chevrolet 202 155   $15,925 Running
6 9 6 David Ragan Scotts Ford 202 150   $12,475 Running
7 15 17 David Reutimann Toyota Tundra Toyota 202 146   $12,225 Running
8 27 10 Terry Cook Ford Power Stroke Diesel by Int'l Ford 202 147 5 $12,100 Running
9 10 5 Mike Skinner Toyota Tundra Toyota 202 138   $12,000 Running
10 2 85 Dennis Setzer FlexFuel E85 Chevrolet 202 139 5 $13,250 Running
11 28 11 David Starr Red Horse Racing Toyota 202 130   $11,800 Running
12 12 4 Timothy Peters Dodge Motorsports Dodge 202 127   $11,565 Running
13 11 14 Rick Crawford Circle Bar Truck Corral Ford 202 124   $11,515 Running
14 8 15 Kevin Grubb Spondivits Chevrolet 202 121   $11,465 Running
15 19 30 Todd Bodine Lumber Liquidators Toyota 202 118   $11,915 Running
16 7 02 Brad Keselowski Sutton Motorsports Chevrolet 202 115   $10,815 Running
17 16 77 Brendan Gaughan The Orleans Dodge 202 112   $11,265 Running
18 21 75 Aric Almirola # FedEx Chevrolet 202 109   $11,165 Running
19 13 9 Ted Musgrave Team ASE Toyota 201 106   $12,115 Running
20 24 12 Joey Miller # Curb Records Toyota 201 103   $10,240 Running
21 17 21 Bobby East # State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Dibs Ford 201 100   $9,815 Running
22 26 07 Chad McCumbee # Silverado Chevrolet 201 102 5 $8,790 Running
23 25 50 Peter Shepherd Headz Gamez Ford 201 94   $8,765 Running
24 29 25 Boston Reid # Race-On Driving Experience Dodge 201 91   $8,740 Running
25 18 22 Bill Lester Bill Davis Racing Toyota 201 88   $8,665 Running
26 31 04 Scott Lagasse Jr. # Hemi Dodge Dodge 201 85   $8,640 Running
27 36 46 Kraig Kinser # Centrix Auto Finance Chevrolet 200 82   $8,615 Running
28 30 13 Kerry Earnhardt # Pork The Other White Meat Chevrolet 200 79   $8,590 Running
29 23 59 Chad Chaffin Harris Trucking Ford 200 76   $8,565 Running
30 34 98 Erin Crocker # Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge 200 73   $8,540 Running
31 32 40 Ryan Moore # Key Motorsports Chevrolet 199 70   $8,515 Running
32 22 23 Johnny Benson Exide Toyota 199 67   $8,490 Running
33 35 08 Mike Greenwell Green Light Racing Chevrolet 198 64   $8,465 Running
34 14 20 Marcos Ambrose # Team Australia/Aussie Vineyards Ford 195 61   $8,440 Running
35 5 18 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Fastenal Dodge 143 58   $8,405 Running