On a sunny Saturday afternoon, you would never have known had it not been a bunch of ponds in the infield. That the heavens opened up over the Milwaukee Mile on Friday and caused the fourth rain delay of the season.
Ron Hornaday who was celebrating his 51st birthday, would dominate the Copart 200 collecting his 41st career win and second career win the trucks at the track.
Hornaday would lead 180 laps of 200 today, he lapped the field up to 14th and for the second time in his career he won on his birthday in the Trucks. (He did it also in 1998 at Bristol.)
Due to qualifying being rained out, the field was set on owner points.
Brian Ickler in the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts/Samsung Instinct Toyota started on the pole, and Matt Crafton in the No. 88 Menards/McGuire-Nicolas Chevrolet starts on the outside pole.
Ron Hornaday Jr. in the No. 33 Copart.com Chevrolet will start third, and Mike Skinner in the No. 5 docbailey.com Toyota will start fourth.
Rounding out the top five, was Todd Bodine in the No. 30 Copart.com Toyota.
There was a late driver change as Gabi Dicarlo who was sick with flu like symptoms was replaced by Jason Leffler in the No. 90 Great Clips truck.
The pit window is 80 to 90 laps, teams should only need to make two stops and sure we'll see a few pit for tires on a late caution.
Some interesting facts about Milwaukee; Ron Hornaday is one of two drivers to have wins at the Milwaukee in both the Trucks and the Nationwide and the other driver is Greg Biffle.
In Trucks since 1995, no one outside of the top eight has won the race, and it'll be exciting to see if that streak gets broken today.
Brian Ickler would take the green on Lap One, pull away from Crafton but only momentarily and would be side by side with Crafton coming out of turn two.
He would get loose coming into turn three, Hornaday would make it three wide for the lead, but Ickler would hang onto too lead lap one.
Crafton on Lap Two, would get the lead passing Ickler and Hornaday would pass him for second and start closing in on the leader.
Hornaday would aggressively pass Crafton for the lead on Lap Three on the low side and pull away.
Ickler would start to fight a loose condition with truck and by Lap Five had dropped back to fourth and has Dave Starr in the No. 24 Zachry/Harris Trucking Toyota in sixth all over his bumper.
On Lap Seven, Hornaday would lead Crafton by 1.083 seconds and growing.
Brian Scott in the No. 16 Albertson's Toyota is running ninth on Lap Nine, he basically using his left hand moving the wheel and has his casted right hand on top of the wheel.
His team modified the steering wheel for him and he also has a special shifter that 30 inches in length. So he doesn't have to move his right hand far to shift.
After 10 Laps, the top five was; Hornaday leading by two seconds, Crafton in second, Skinner in third, Bodine in fourth and David Starr in fifth.
Hornaday by Lap 16, would be leading by 3.383 seconds lead on Crafton in second, who has Skinner in third all over his bumper.
On Lap 17, Skinner would go low, battle side by side with Crafton for half a lap before making the pass stick and taking second. Ickler continues to fall back and is 10th now.
After 20 Laps, the top five was; Hornaday leading by 3.5 seconds, Skinner in second, Crafton in third, Bodine in fourth and Starr in fifth.
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