The best racing on Lap 181, was the battle for second, as Bodine trying to hold onto the position and Setzer in third is trying to pass him.
He's trying to pass going first high, than low but can't make the passes work as Bodine just gets in the way blocking.
On Lap 182, Bodine in second and Setzer in third are side by side most of the lap, coming out of turn four Setzer makes the pass stick on the low side and takes second.
On Lap 184, Bodine in third, gets pressured by Scott in fourth and they have a little contact resulting from Bodine just blocking to hold onto the position.
By Lap 186, Hornaday would be leading by seven seconds over setzer in second. The best racing has been with Bodine in third and Scott in fourth.
The last couple of laps Bodine in third has been able to just block Scott in fourth and just hang onto the position.
Scott's actually running faster, it was just a matter of time before he'd get into Bodine getting him loose and make the pass for third.
The sixth caution comes on on Lap 188, for McCumbee who blew-up, lost his engine and would get into the wall.
Under caution the top five was; Hornaday leading, Setzer second, Scott third, Bodine fourth and Braun fifth.
When pit road opened on Lap 190, Crawford would be the only customer getting a set of scuffed tires to help his handling.
It should be a good restart between Hornaday and Setzer who's always run well on short tracks and been laying back saving his truck.
On the restart on Lap 192, Hornaday would take the green pulls away from Setzer coming out of turn two by several truck length. Scott in third would be right on Setzer's bumper in second.
By Lap 193, Hornaday leads by close to a second, Braun in fifth gets side by side with Bodine for fourth.
On Lap 195, Hornaday leads still pulls away from Setzer in second. Braun in fifth would get under Bodine for fourth, but would get loose save it from hitting the wall and would lose fifth to Buescher.
Hornaday would have a 12 length truck lead on Setzer on Lap 196 and he just couldn't get any closer to him.
On Lap 197, Hornaday lead, the best racing is Buescher in fifth and Malsam in sixth and Compton in seventh.
Hornaday would take the white flag on Lap 198, maintaining the second lead over Setzer in second and Scott in third right there trying to pass him for second.
Malsam would lose sixth, to Compton who passed him on the high side and couldn't get to Buescher for fifth.
Hornaday would make it around the track take the checkers for his second win at the Milwaukee Mile and for the second time in his career in trucks he won on his birthday.
Hornaday's truck was bad during practice on Friday, his crew led by crew chief Rick Ren would gamble making three major changes to the No. 33 Copart Chevy.
The race was originally scheduled to run at night, but due to the rain it was run Saturday afternoon and we saw those changes lead to a dominating victory by Horn.
Rick Ren would be grinning ear to ear post race, excited that they got it right, gambling that the changes made would work and he'd wish Horn a happy birthday.
Hornaday would get the checkers, win by a second over Setzer, take a victory lap saluting the fans, but one thing was missing his signature burnout and he'd arrive at victory lane to the cheers of his crew.
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