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Dover
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Kroger 250
Martinsville
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Too Tough to Tame 200
Darlington
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Sat. March 12, 2011
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06-21-2008

CHEVY RACING: Milwukee 200 Post-Race Notes and Quotes
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Matt Crafton, No. 88 Menards/ Super Clean Silverado, scored this third top-two, fifth top-five and sixth top-10 finish of the season in the Camping World RV Sales 200 at The Milwaukee Mile. The runner-up finish moved Crafton up one spot to third in the standings, just 67 points behind the leader.

Landon Cassill, No. 46 GoDaddy.com Silverado, captured his career-best finish taking the checkered flag in third in just his fifth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCTS) start.

Defending and three-time NCTS champion Ron Hornaday recovered from slight damage to his No. 33 Camping World Silverado in a multi-truck accident on lap 100 of the 200-lap race to finish seventh. Hornaday now sits fourth in the standings, 70 points down to the leader, with 11 of 25 races in the record books.

The race was won by Johnny Benson with Erik Darnell and Todd Bodine rounding out the top-five.

Next on the schedule for the NCTS competitors is Memphis Motorsports Park on June 28, 2008.

MATT CRAFTON, NO. 88 MENARDS/SUPER CLEAN SILVERADO, STARTED 10TH, FINISHED 2nd: (Sits 3rd in the point standings, 67 points behind the leader) "We definitely thought we had something for him (Johnny Benson, race winner). I was begging and pleading to go back racing when we had that little lightning scare there. I was wanting to go back. For some reason, that set of tires, I just got really really tight. Just couldn't get the thing to go, got tight center up off. Our Chevy Silverado, the first two or three runs we put tires on it, it was really really good. I don't know if the track cooled off or what, something changed and we got really tight on that last set of tires.

"I can't thank these guys enough. This was the first time this truck has ever been to the race track. They came with that much confidence; they brought a brand new truck that had never seen a race track until today.

"We are definitely a top-five team, top-three team. We just keep doing what we are doing all year. That is what you have to do to win races and win championships is put yourself in position each and every week. I feel like we are doing that right now. Just don't make mistakes, don't beat yourself, you have to be there at the end.

"This team is awesome; it is all about these guys. These guys just built me an awesome Menards Chevy Silverado, all night it was really good. I can't thank them enough for putting me in this position week in and week out. We had good pit stops all night. We keep doing this all year, come Homestead maybe we will have a shot.

"After practice today if you had told me we were going to finish second, I would have said you are crazy. I thought we had a top-10 truck at best. But the guys didn't give up today. They changed a few springs before the race and quite a few things and said let's go with her there and hopefully she will come around. For the most part they hit a home run. To come out second as bad as it was in practice, to put us where we are tonight, I can't thank them enough.

"Johnny (Benson, race winner) was definitely hard to beat tonight, but clean air is everything at every track we go to. I want to say if we had gotten out in front that last pit stop, we might have been able to beat him. He could run faster than us, but at times we were faster than him. He was just a little bit better than us at the end.  I was in dirty air, if we had been leading the race; I might have been a little bit better with the cleaner air on my nose. I am happy with this but definitely not satisfied."        

LANDON CASSILL, NO. 46 GODADDY.COM SILVERADO, STARTED 23RD, FINISHED 3rd: "This is just awesome. The GoDaddy.com Chevy Silverado was good all night, it drove terribly loose but man, it just rolled the bottom and I think that was something that was a big gain for us. It was a good run for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports. It was a good run for GoDaddy.com. I am real proud of my guys. I am real proud of myself, I mean, it was a good day. I am just happy!

"We just worked really hard on the truck and passed a lot of people all night. The truck was nice and free so I could get to the bottom and just roll by people.

"We weren't too happy with our truck in practice. We really worked on it a lot in that second session. I made a couple of qualifying runs, we just weren't happy with it. It was just like ok. Eric Phillips, the crew chief, and I sat in the hauler after practice and said 'Ok we can a stab at it and make it better and have a good run, or we can take a stab at it and make it worse and I will just have to drive the wheels off of it.

"When I went out and qualified, we thought we made it worse, there was a lot of joking around going on then, but we got in the race and it was free enough you could roll the bottom.  Matt (Crafton) and I were talking about that after the race and, here it doesn't matter how loose you are, if you can put that thing on the curb and ride the bottom, you can just roll by all those trucks that go up the race track. We were loose enough to do that to pass a lot of people all night and had good pit strategy. And here we are."

RON HORNADAY, JR., NO. 33 CAMPING WORLD SILVERADO, STARTED 6TH, FINISHED 7th: SITS 4TH IN THE POINT STANDINGS, 70 POINTS OUT OF THE LEAD)  "We were just tight for most of the race. Rick Ren (crew chief) and the guys made some adjustments during the race and freed our Camping World Silverado up. We lost track position in that deal early in the race but we were able to make that up. At the end, I tried to make a run to the front towards the end, but just couldn't get there.  All the guys on this Camping World crew worked hard today. I can't thank Kevin and DeLana (Harvick) enough for all they do for us.  There is a lot of racing left this season so we will just go get them next week.

OTHER SILVERADO FINISHERS:
JACK SPRAGUE, NO. 2 RVS.COM SILVERADO, Started 5th, Finished 13th
SHELBY HOWARD, NO. 13 BOBCAT SILVERADO, Started 8th, Finished 14th
DONNY LIA, NO. 71 NATIONRIDES.COM SILVERADO, Started 30th, Finished 22nd
SEAN MURPHY, NO. 07 BAIRD CREEK OUTFITTER SILVERADO, Started 26th, Finished 26th.
CHAD MCCUMBEE, NO. 8 MALCOLMSON CONSTRUCTION SILVERADO, Started 16TH, Finished 27TH
T.J. BELL, NO. 7 HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS/HEATHCLIFF'S SILVERADO, Started 18TH, Finished 29th
PAUL POULTER, NO. 40 KEY MOTORSPORTS SILVERADO, Started 35TH, Finished 30th
BRIAN SCOTT, NO. 16 ALBERTSONS SILVERADO, Started 21ST, Finished 32nd
RYAN SEAMAN, NO. 89 LAFFERTY PERFORMANCE SILVERADO, Started 34TH, Finished 35th
JOHNNY CHAPMAN, NO. 0 SILVERADO, Started 33RD, Finished 36th



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