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Ryan Newman passed his Kevin Harvick Inc. teammate Ron Hornaday Jr. on the final lap to score his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory in the E-Z-G0 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Hornaday led the most laps on the day and cut into the points lead of Johnny Benson with three races to go on the 2008 season.

Newman fought off a furious charge by Hornaday over the final two laps to score an impressive victory over his teammate. Newman had taken the lead with eight laps to go, before Hornaday passed him on the race's penultimate lap. But Newman made the high-line work for him as he went around Hornaday on the final lap to win the race.

Denny Hamlin was third in the Ergon Hyprene Toyota Tundra, followed by Todd Bodine's Lumber Liquidators Toyota and Scott Speed in the Red Bull Racing Toyota.

Benson fought through a variety of problems to finish seventh and now leads Hornaday by 31 points.

Benson's Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota Tundra started on the pole of the E-Z-GO 200 flanked by Hornaday's VFW Chevrolet Silverado. The two points leaders were up front because qualifying was rained out.

At the drop of the green flag, Kyle Busch dove to the bottom of the track to take the lead in his Miccosukee Resorts/NOS Energy Drink Toyota, followed by Hornaday and Benson. But Benson quickly fell back and was 10th by Lap 7, as Matt Crafton had his Menards Chevy up to third behind Busch and Hornaday.

Hornaday took the lead for the first time on Lap 10, earning the critical 5 bonus points while Benson at this point was 12th.

Donny Lia brought out the first caution after spinning on the frontstretch on Lap 17. Benson pitted for a chassis adjustment and tires in the hope of tightening up his truck.  The order on the restart at Lap 20 was Hornaday, Crafton, Ryan Newman in the No. 2 American Commercial Lines Chevy, Busch and Erik Darnell's Northern Tool + Equipment Ford.

Newman took the lead on Lap 23, blowing past his Kevin Harvick Inc. teammate Hornaday with ease. Three laps later, NASCAR threw a competition caution, sending the field down pit road. On the restart on Lap 30, Hornaday led Newman, while Mike Skinner lost three laps in the pits to make a spring change.

On Lap 37, Crafton's truck slowed dramatically with suspected engine problems, while one lap later, Busch took second from Newman.

Brent Rayner brought out another caution on Lap 59, when he spun his VehiCare Chevy through the frontstretch lead. Hornaday had a 6-second lead before the yellow, having already put half the field a lap down. Hornaday emerged pit road still in the lead, Benson moving to second on the basis of a two-tire stop that put him ahead of Busch, Todd Bodine's Lumber Liquidators Toyota and Newman when the track went green again on Lap 63.

But Benson again fell back quickly, losing 14 spots to drop to 16th place by Lap 79.

With 47 laps to go in the 130-lap race, Newman took second from Busch, making it an all-KHI show out front, as Hornaday had a lead of about 2 seconds at this point.

The fourth caution, this one for debris, flew on Lap 90, just as Hornaday was about to lap Benson. The leaders all came down pit road under yellow, with Hornaday and Newman holding onto the top two spots in front of Bodine and Darnell, while Busch had a slow stop and fell all the way to 10th.

The race restarted on Lap 95, and Hornaday appeared to be headed to an easy victory until Newman ran him down to win in his first time behind the wheel of a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series entry.

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.