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Ron Hornaday Jr. continued to push the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship fight, as he captured Saturday's Camping World 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, surviving a crash-filled afternoon.

Hornaday took the lead for good on the 156th of 200 laps around the 1.058-mile oval, making one of his patented banzai starts to blast past Travis Kvapil into the lead and propelling him to victory. All told, Hornaday led nearly three-quarters of the laps in scoring his fifth victory of the season and record 38th of his career.

The three-time series champion went on to his second consecutive NCTS victory, but points leader Johnny Benson stayed close, finishing second behind Hornaday and ahead of Kvapil. Unofficially, Benson now leads Hornaday by 74 points with seven laps to go.

With qualifying rained out, the field was set by owner points, with Benson's Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota Tundra on the pole, flanked by the Camping World Chevrolet Silverado of defending series champion Ron Hornaday Jr.

Hornaday took the lead at the start, but by Lap 3 Benson was back up front, with Kyle Busch's Miccosukee Resorts Toyota pressuring Hornaday for second.

The first caution came early, when Brendan Gaughan's International MAXX Force Diesel Ford F-150 going around after contact with Terry Cook's Wyler.com Toyota in Turn 1, sending the yellow waving on Lap 5.

Hornaday and Benson made contact on the Lap 9 restart, with Benson getting the better of it. Two laps later, Mario Gosselin spun to bring out the second caution.

On the following restart on Lap 15, it was Hornaday's turn to get to the front, as he dove underneath Benson to get the lead. But Benson didn't give up, the two points leaders waging a tremendous battle for the point. Busch soon joined the fray, taking second from Benson on Lap 24.

On Lap 49, David Reutimann's Construct Corps Toyota and Mike Skinner's Toyota Tundra-sponsored truck made contact, as Reutimann got loose in the bottom lane in Turn 3, sliding into Skinner and wrecking both trucks.

That sent the field down pit road on Lap 50, with Hornaday winning the race off pit road, followed by Matt Crafton in the Menard's Chevrolet, Benson, Erik Darnell's Northern Tool + Equipment Ford and Cook. Both Busch and Hornaday's teammate, Jack Sprague, got pit road speeding penalties and were sent to the back of the field.

The green flew on Lap 60, with Crafton taking the lead on Lap 31, and Darnell moving to third past Benson on the same lap. Hornaday came back, though, going low into Turn 1 on Lap 70 to take the lead.

At the halfway point, Lap 100, Hornaday led over Darnell, Travis Kvapil in the No. 09 Zaxby's Ford, Rick Crawford's Circle Bar Truck Corral/Power Stroke Ford, Crafron, Todd Bodine's Lumber Liquidators Toyota and points leader Benson.

Kvapil was on a charge, and he took second on Lap 122, setting off after race leader Ron Hornaday.

After a round of green-flag pit stops were completed on Lap 138, the order was Kvapil, who had a 2.7-second lead over Hornaday, Darnell and Crawford, three Fords in the top four. But Kvapil's lead disappeared on Lap 150, when David Starr's Red Horse Racing Toyota drifted up into Donny Lia's Randy Moss Motorsports, causing Lia to crash in Turn 2.

On the restart on Lap 156, the lapped truck of Timothy Peters tried to pass Kvapil when he spun in Turn 1, allowing Hornaday to take the lead before the yellow came out.

The green flew on Lap 161, with Hornaday leading the Fords of Kvapil, Darnell and Crawford, with Benson in fifth. Michael Annett's Pilot Travel Centers Toyota then spun in Turn 2 to bring out caution No. 6.

On Lap 175, the track went green again, Hornaday leading Kvapil, Darnell and Benson. Benson soon took third, but on Lap 180, Starr got loose and hit Reutimann, sending the NASCAR Sprint Cup regular into the wall as the yellow flew yet again.

This time the restart was Lap 185, but cautions breed cautions and this time, Colin Braun's Con-way Freight Ford, Crafton, Gaughan and Jack Sprague crashed in Turn 2.

The trucks restarted in Lap 191, with Benson taking second from Kvapil on the restart. Two laps later, Bodine crashed as Starr hit him and drilled him into the Turn 1 wall.

On Lap 197, the track went green and Hornaday was able hold off Benson, Kvapil and Darnell.

Tom Jensen is the Senior NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com, the former Executive Editor of NASCAR Scene and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com.  He is the author of "Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of SPEED," and has appeared on television and radio shows to discuss NASCAR racing. Jensen is the President of the National Motorsports Press Association.  Jensen is the 1997 National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year and has won numerous national and state awards for news reporting, columns and feature writing.