Brian Scott survived a race marred by blown tires to win Saturday night's Dover 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Dover International Speedway. It was his first NCWTS win.
The race was originally scheduled for Friday night, but persistent rain at the one-mile concrete oval forced the event to be delayed by a day.
Three-time NCWTS Champion Ron Hornaday Jr. started from the pole in his No. 33 VFW Chevrolet Silverado, with Colin Braun's Con-way Freight Ford F-150 on the outside of Row 1.
Hornaday made one of his patented great starts and took the lead at the start, with J.R. Fitzpatrick wadding up his Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevy along the backstretch on Lap 2 to bring out the first caution.
By Lap 6, Busch had advanced his Miccosukee Resorts No. 51 Toyota all the way from his 10th-place starting spot to second place, with the second caution coming out two laps later after a bumper bar fell on the track and was run over by Todd Bodine.
The race restarted on Lap 12 with Busch immediately pressuring Hornaday and taking the lead low in Turn 2 one lap later, as Brian Scott's Albertson's Toyota settled into third ahead of Braun.
A third caution flew shortly thereafter, when Brandon Knupp's truck stalled on the track.
Hornaday took the lead back in the Lap 21 restart, but before the lap was over, Busch was back in the top spot.
Things suddenly went bad for Hornaday when he blew a right-front tire on Lap 34 and he hit the Turn 1 wall hard, pancaking the right side of his Chevrolet.
Busch fended off a challenge from Scott on the restart, and the two held the top two spots when NASCAR threw a competition caution on Lap 47. Once the pit stops were complete, the order was Johnny Benson's Red Horse Racing Toyota, Timothy Peters in the Strutmasters.com Toyota, Stacy Compton's SafeAuto Insurance Toyota and Jason White's GunBroker.com Dodge, with Busch back in eighth.
Peters had a flat tire on the left side, that forced him to pit on Lap 58, just as Busch, who had worked his to second place, began to close on Benson for the race lead.
Busch finally got the point on Lap 72, where he relegated Benson to the No. 2 position. Five laps later, a debris caution came out just as James Buescher blew a right-front tire on his No. 10 Maxxforce Ford.
After a round of stops, Mike Skinner led Scott Wimmer on the Lap 85 restart, but Busch made up six spots to take the lead just two laps later. Four laps after that, Bodine lost a left-rear tire, taking him out of contention.
Buescher's truck caught fire next, triggering another round of pit stops and turning the lead over to Chris Fontaine on the Lap 107 restart. Once again, though, Busch shot to the front on the first lap back under green.
On Lap 113, Johnny Sauter took second place from Benson, who 19 laps later blew a right-front on his Toyota. Once again, the entire field pitted, as agitation grew over the multiple tire failures. This time, Braun and Scott won the race off pit road over Busch.
The track went green on Lap 140, with Busch claiming the point on the first green-flag lap back. A fallen front splitter brought out another caution, the eighth of the day.
The green came back at Lap 146, and from there, Busch appeared headed for an easy victory, but with 17 laps to go both Busch and Braun shredded front tires, as did David Starr, throwing the race into chaos.
Scott, Setzer, Compton and White all stayed out, with the rest of the lead-lap trucks pitting for rubber, as concerns mounted over the tire failures.
The green flew with 11 laps to go, Busch charging from the back of the pack as Scott and Setzer held onto the lead. But Busch couldn't run the way he did before his tire blew.
Scott held on to win over Setzer, Starr, White and Johnny Sauter.
