Germain Racing's Todd Bodine makes a tire only stop on Lap 123, no fuel stop and stretches his fuel mileage to win the WinStar World Casino 400.
It was his second victory, fourth top-10 of 2009, his 17th career win in 123 Camping World Truck Series and fifth win at Texas.
He becomes the first driver to win five races at the same track and his 10th win on tracks 1.5 miles or bigger.
Johnny Sauter in the No. 13 Funsand/Rodney Atkins Chevrolet starts on the pole and Ron Hornaday in the No. 33 Longhorn Chevrolet starts in the outside pole position.
Matt Crafton in the No. 88 Australian Gold Chevrolet starts third and Brian Ickler in the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Toyota starts fourth.
Dennis Setzer in the No. 8 Malcolmson Construction Chevrolet rounds out the top five starters.
The pit window for the race was 58 to 65 laps. At the start of the race the trucks will run faster and they'll be slower towards the end of the runs.
Johnny Sauter takes the green flag, gets the jump on Hornaday which is rare and heading into turn one has a couple of truck lengths lead on Hornaday.
Hornaday had his hands full with racing Crafton side by side, coming out of turn four Horn would be second with Crafton behind him on his bumper third.
On Lap 4, Sauter would open up a lead of 0.438 seconds on Hornaday in second and close to a second on Crafton in third.
After eight laps, the top five was; Sauter leads, Hornaday second, Ickler third, Chad McCumbee in the No. 07 TIWI Chevrolet fourth and Todd Bodine in the No. 30 Copart.com Toyota fifth.
On Lap 10, Sauter leads, Hornaday has reeled him back in and is on bumper tries to go low for the pass, but Sauter blocks him.
Sauter and Hornaday by lap 12, had separated themselves by 2.5 seconds from Crafton in third and the rest of the field.
By Lap 18, Sauter had opened up a two truck length lead on Hornaday in second.
On the following lap, Bodine would pass Chad McCumbee for fourth place and Crafton was right behind them in sixth.
On Lap 20, Ickler was running third, he's done a great job driving the No. 51 so far.
On Lap 22, last weeks winner, Brian Scott in the No. 16 Albertson's Toyota would be running in 14th place and hasn't picked up any positions yet.
On Lap 24, the top five was; Sauter leads, Hornaday second, Ickler third, Bodine fourth and McCumbee fifth.
On Lap 26, Sauter still leads Hornaday by 0.573 seconds and has been stretching out his lead.
On Lap 29, Sauter has led every lap so far, holds a half second lead on Hornaday in second and over three seconds back is the rest of the field.
After 35 Laps, the top five was; Sauter leads, Hornaday second, Bodine third, Ickler fourth and Crafton fifth.
On Lap 38, Sauter leads Hornaday by half a second and Bodine by four seconds.
On Lap 40, Setzer has dropped back to 16th and the set up they tried today hasn't worked out with it being a long green run.
On Lap 42, the first caution comes out for Brian Scott losing a right front and just kisses the outside wall with his right-side.
Scott got lucky to feel something was wrong with the tire, slowed down and allowed him to keep it from being a worse wreck.
He came to pit road for tires, pull the fender free from the tire and went back out.
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