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Todd Bodine (Win)
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09-01-2007

CHEVY NOTES: Ram Tough 200 at Gateway Int'l Raceway
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Ron Hornaday, No. 33 Camping World Silverado, Started 2nd, Finished 2nd, his ninth top-five finish of the season:
NOTE:
Unofficially leads the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) standings by four points with eight races remaining in the 2007 schedule. "I will tell you what, Rick Ren (crew chief) and all these guys got this in the pits. Awesome job, we didn't touch this truck all weekend long. Have to thank Todd Berrier (team owner Kevin Harvick's crew chief on the No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil Chevrolet in NASCAR Nextel Cup Series competition), Kevin Harvick, DeLana Harvick, Rick Ren, just everybody involved with this Camping World Chevrolet, they have been working their guts out. Unbelievable. Not a screw all weekend. We tried a spring in the left front and it didn't work so we went right back to where we were. To come out as clean as we did and get to take this truck to New Hampshire is just cool."

"Nothing happened to us late in the race, we knew this would take off fast. If I had known then what I know now that the truck was going to do, I might have freed it up a little bit more. Johnny (Benson) just got us. He got us at the end of the straight. We brought a motor, have to thank Richard Childress Racing for what they are doing to the motors that would come off the bottom; we were killing them off the bottom. He just got us a little at the other end. We put a spring rubber in and that was probably what hurt us at the end of the straightaway. I have to thank Chevrolet--just everybody. It takes a lot to do this. To come out of here and run we have done, that is what it takes."

"This is what it is going to take to beat (Mike) Skinner and those guys, they are tough. I hate to see them have a problems. We saw them cord a tire in practice so we worked on it pretty hard to make it turn better today, but that is how Benson beat me, we weren't turning quite as good as he getting in the corner but we were really good up off. The motor had all the torque we needed off the corner; we just needed a little more at the end."

"Pretty excited. We needed a good points day and we got it. This is the kind of setup Kevin runs in the Busch car and I knew it what it was going to do. We have to settle for second, I gave Johnny everything I had. Congratulations to him."

"I knew he was coming, anybody catching me as fast as he did was going to pass me. He has a bad pit stop, looses a lugnut, goes to the back and catches me that quick had a heck of a truck. I raced with him hard, but gave have him all kinds of room for about three laps, kept pinching him going in to three. He finally got a run on the outside, I was going to give it to him anyone, I knew he was going to run up there. I kept slowing up on the bottom more and more each lap. That is what it takes. He has to be there to do that to help Skinner out. If we could have won, it would have been 10 more points. We will take what we can get and keep working on it a little bit more. I am very proud of everybody on this Camping World Chevrolet."

"We pushed Skinner at the beginning of the race to see if he would wear out his stuff and he did so we will just keep doing what we need to do."

Regan Smith, No. 47 Ginn Resorts Silverado, Started 6th, Finished 5th:
"It wasn't too bad for us today, we just missed it a little bit at the beginning there. I am just really proud of Eric Phillips (crew chief) and all the guys at Morgan Dollar Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado, they have done a great job. I get a little better each time I run this truck. I hope in the next couple of weeks, we are up there messing around with Hornaday and Benson for wins. I am having a lot of fun driving this thing for them and looking forward to the next time, wherever it is."

"The truck liked longer runs, the short runs and all the cautions weren't good for us. We kept on losing a spots on restarts and I would have to fight to get them back. We just didn't have enough time."

Matt Crafton, No. 88 Menards/Johns Manville Silverado, Started 21st, Finished 9th:
NOTE:
Suffered a flat left front tire on lap eight of the 160-lap/200-mile race putting him one lap down to the leaders. Awarded free pass under caution on lap 126 to final truck on lead lap in 20th position: "We had a pretty good truck, fought being free a little bit all day, but these guys never stopped working on it. When we cut that tire early, and went a lap down, it seemed like I could stay with the leaders, but the yellows killed us and the leaders would have put one more guy a lap down and we would miss the lucky dog. Finally, we got it with 30 to go and went from 20th to top-10. Not a bad finish for as bad as it started."

Brendan Gaughan, No. 77 South Point Hotel Silverado, Started 5th, Finished 10th:
"Backup truck is even a top 10 truck. Chevrolet has done everything we have asked of them. They have gotten us to where we can pull a backup out and still finish top 10. Thank you to Bryan Berry and the guys - they didn't give up, and they kept adjusting. It looks like we got a bad set of tires on our second run because we made adjustments and it was the only set of tires that made us tight like that. In the end we ended up being too loose on a set of tires that were probably a little better. All in all it looks like a good points night. It looks like we are close to getting our South Point Chevrolet in the top 10. We'll see how far we can get from there."

Willie Allen, No. 13 ThorSport Racing Silverado, Started 10th, Finished 12th:
NOTE: Was the top finishing Raybestos Rookie of the Year contender and best finish of the 2007 season: "I am really excited, we need to keep doing what we are doing to turn things around. I had a great truck; it was just a little tight on the entrance but our team fought hard all weekend. Lance (Hooper, crew chief) made good calls from the top of the pit box and gaining us track position. We just need to keep doing this every race so we can win the Rookie award. That is what we have to keep doing, taking it one race at a time and moving our Silverado in the top-10."

Kenny Wallace, No. 51 Flanders Beef Patties Silverado, Started 11th, Finished 13th:
"We had hoped to get a top-5 today in the No. 51 Flanders Beef Patties Chevrolet Silverado for Billy Ballew. We should have started with the air pressure up in the tires; it took too many laps to work up the heat in the tires. The track normally goes tight but we were pretty loose there for a little bit. We had a couple bad pit stops that put us back a few spots, which we just couldn't gain. I can't complain too bad we had a great time today, didn't tear up the truck and brought home a 13th place position."

J.R. Norris, No. 15 Flanders Beef Patties Silverado, Started 13th, Finished 16th:
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We struggled with being tight all day. We drove down too hard into the corner and used our brakes up early. I got into Joey Clanton and really didn't mean to do that early in the race. I hate it for those guys. I made a couple rookie mistakes and jammed on my brakes too hard and flat spotted the tires checking up when there was a spin in front of us. I had some vibration and am glad we came down to get two tires there because the left front was shot. I have to thank Chris Huff with Flanders Beef Patties and especially Billy Ballew for the opportunity to run this race. WE accomplished our goal and finished in the top-20."

Other Silverado Finishers:
Chad McCumbee, No. 8 thegpsstore,com/Garmin Silverado, Started 27th, Finished 15th
Dennis Setzer, No. 75 Spear Manufacturing Silverado, Started 28th, Finished 19th
Boris Jurkovic, No. 08 People Against Drugs Silverado, Started 30th, Finished 21st
Brandon Miller, No. 40 Westerman Companies Silverado, Started 19th, Finished 27th
Tim Sauter, No. 07 Lester Buildings/ASI Silverado, Started 9th, Finished 31st:
NOTE: Suffered engine failure on lap 54 after running in the top-10 from the start of the race.
Dana White, No. 86 888Karport.com/Red Line Synthetic Oil Silverado, Started 34th, Finished 33rd



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