On Lap 155, Crawford in fourth, starts to get pressure from Benson in fifth.
On Lap 157, Terry Cook in the No. 25 Cajun Industries Toyota would get into the wall, but makes it to pit road and no caution. Benson would pass Crawford for forth.
On Lap 158, Bodine still leads Crafton in second has cut the lead down to under two seconds and the lapped truck of Hornaday is between the two.
On Lap 159, Hornaday would slow come to pit road, unscheduled they'd look under the hood and replace the oil belt that was breaking.
On Lap 160, Bodine still leads, Crafton continues to catch the leader and his spotter tries to rally him.
On Lap 162, Bodine still leads, but Crafton in second has cut the lead to 1.7 seconds.
On Lap 163, Hornaday comes back off of pit road into the race, he's four laps down and was fortunate to get to pit road before he lost the oil belt. It could have hurt him worse in the points and end his race.
On Lap 164, Bodine still leads, but Crafton continues too catch him, but unless Bodine's truck runs out of fuel he won't have enough laps left too catch him.
On Lap 165, Bodine still leads, he's set a blistering pace, but Crafton is 1.5 seconds back.
On Lap 166, Bodine takes the white flag and just needs to make it back around.
Bodine takes the checkers, wins by 1.321 seconds, his fifth win at Texas, and becomes the first driver in the series with five wins on any track.
Bodine would get the checkers, do the victory burnout and head to victory lane.
A very happy crew chief Mike Hillman Jr. was in tears, on pit road when interviewed. Since he just won his first race without his dad at the track. Hillman Sr. was up in Nashville for the Nationwide race.
Matt Crafton would finish second, led a lap, ran a great race all night and takes over the points lead and leads Hornaday by 30 points.
Braun would finish third, tires only stop worked for him and it's great finish after two straight DNF's .
Johnny Benson was fourth, he ran a really good race, nice to see him get a top five and will give him momentum heading into his home track.
Rick Crawford would finish fifth, he ran eighty laps on one stop of tires, had a really good truck and led the race for 17 laps.
Positions six to 10th were; Johnny Sauter, David Starr, Jason White, Tayler Malsam and Mike Skinner.
Ron Hornaday finished 19th, he lead 55 laps tonight, gave the race away losing the tire on pit road and got a lucky break catching that oil belt going bad.
It was a really exciting race, definitely different than what we normally see in the trucks. Can't believe at Texas, they ran the entire with two cautions, no wrecks and had only six lead changes amongst five drivers.
Here's a few race quotes from Bodine the winner;
"It's incredible," Bodine said. "This truck right into that last run we were just too loose the whole race and crew chief Hillman Jr. made some great calls at the end and fixed it up to make it run. This is an awesome night."
"It's incredible to win five races at one track," said Bodine.
"It's hard to win anything, and win five at one (track), I've got to give credit to the team."
"I wasn't concerned," Bodine said, though he admitted he was glad no extra laps were needed for a green-white-checker finish."
"This truck right into that last run, we were just too loose the whole race," Bodine said. "Hillman Jr. made some great calls at the end and fixed it up to make it run. This is an awesome night."
Sources for quotes: racingone.com, speedtv.com, and sports.yahoo.com
Photo Credit: sports.yahoo.com
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