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Ron Hornaday Jr. flashed the form that's made him a three-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, dominating the final 50 laps of the Chevrolet Silverado 350K to win his second NCTS race at Texas Motor Speedway and sixth overall this season.

In the process, Hornaday cut the points lead he's been trading back and forth all season with Johnny Benson, who finished the Halloween night third in the race. With just two races to go in the Truck season, Benson now leads Hornaday by just 6 points.

Finishing second behind Hornaday was Kyle Busch's Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra, followed by Benson, who made a last-lap pass of Todd Bodine's Lumber Liquidators Toyota. Completing the top five was the Con-Way Freight Ford F-150 of Colin Braun.

The race began with Rick Crawford's Powerstroke Diesel by International Ford F-150 on the pole, flanked by Cale Gale in last week's winning truck, the No. 2 American Commercial Lines Chevrolet Silverado out of the Kevin Harvick Inc. stable. Third qualifier Busch grabbed the lead at the start in his fire-damaged Toyota, going beneath Crawford to take the point as the green flew.

On Lap 2, Gale, Crawford, T.J. Bell, Jon Wood, Bodine and Ryan Lawler had a huge crash on the frontstretch that began when Gale was in the middle of a three-wide sandwich between Travis Kvapil on the bottom in the No. 09 Zaxby's Ford and Crawford up top. Kvapil moved up slightly on Gale, who got loose and hit Crawford, and from there, the wreck was on.

The race restarted on Lap 13, Busch ahead of Kvapil and Hornaday's No. 33 VFW Chevy. Two laps later, Max Papis brought out another yellow when his Geico Toyota got a tap from Erik Darnell's Northern Tool + Equipment Ford at the exit of Turn 2, putting Papis into the backstretch wall.

The green flew again on Lap 20, the top three unchanged. Within five laps, Hornaday was up into second, as points leader Benson started edging his way up to the top 10.

Hornaday pitted for the first time on Lap 57, shortly after he had passed Busch for the lead. Seconds later, a caution came out when Jack Smith blew a tire, the caution putting Hornaday at the tail end of the lead lap. Under yellow, the leaders pitted, with Kvapil leading Busch and Darnell off pit road.

Busch immediately took the lead on the Lap 62 restart, as he tried to put 16th-place Hornaday a lap down. It took just three laps for another caution, this one when David Starr's Zachry Toyota moved down, made contact and got spun by Dennis Setzer's Carter County Dodge Ram.

Busch, Kvapil and Darnell led on the Lap 70 restart. They stayed that way until the next caution, which came on Lap 94, when Donny Lia spun the Nationrides.com Chevy out of Turn 4 and onto pit road. During this long stretch of green-flag running, Hornaday began steadily marching back to the top five.

Lia's spin sent the leaders down pit road, Kvapil taking the lead but getting hit by teammate Darnell on the exit after the stop. Busch followed them out in third place.

The race restarted on Lap 99, Busch blowing by Darnell for second place and setting his sights on Kvapil. But it was Hornaday who was charging, passing Busch for second on Lap 107 and then taking the lead one lap later, as he flew by Kvapil. Busch came back to take second on Lap 110, making the order Hornaday, Busch and Kvapil.

From there, Hornaday was never headed as he scored his sixth NCTS victory of the season and set up a whale of title fight that will move to Phoenix International Raceway next week and conclude at Homestead-Miami Speedway in two weeks.

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.