Kyle Busch, with a huge push from teammate Aric Almirola, won the Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Superspeedway for his sixth win of the season and the first one-two finish for owner Billy Ballew.
It looked like Todd Bodine was a quarter-mile away from picking up the win, when Busch, with the aid of Almirola, jumped out and made the winning pass.
It was Busch's 15th career win in trucks, it came on Billy Ballew Motorsports combined 300th career team start, and it was his fourth win in his last four starts.
Colin Braun in the No. 6 Con-Way Freight Ford starts on the pole and it's his fourth pole award of the season.
Terry Cook in the No. 25 Cajun Industries/Harris Trucking Toyota starts from the outside pole position.
A interesting note on Cook, he's racing in a truck chassis called "The Freak." It's been racing since 2001, picked up three wins at Daytona, raced under multiple manufactures and poised to propel Cook to another solid finish.
Max Papis in the No. 9 Geico Toyota starts third, Jason White in the No. 23 Gunbroker.com Dodge starts fourth, and Almirola in the No. 15 Graceway Pharmaceuticals/AKawareness.com Toyota starts fifth.
The title contenders, Matt Crafton in the No. 88 Tide/Menard's Chevrolet starts seventh and Ron Hornaday Jr. in the No. 33 Copart Chevrolet starts 13th.
The Set-Up Show's Halloween theme, Batman, was very tame compared to last year and the only scary thing was Batman.
Be sure to read Janelle Jalbert's article: 281313-rules-changes-announced-for-2010-in-nascar-camping-world-truck-series, for all the changes Krista Voda talked about in the Set-Up.
In other news, Memphis Motorsports Park has closed, the 2010 race has been moved to Nashville on April 2 and gives the track two races now.
For the second race in a row, Mother Nature, with a morning full of rain, delayed the race start some 40 minutes.
At race time, it was 54 degrees, and overcast. 36 trucks started the race and the pit window is 30 to 35 laps.
On the Lap One start, Braun took the green, gets the lead by a truck length on Cook in second. Further back in the field, they were three and four wide back through the field.
Coming back to the stripe, Braun would lead lap one, but they were five wide coming through the tri-oval.
On Lap Two, One of the ladies in the race, Jennifer Jo Cobb in the No. 50 Boys Racing Dodge lost her engine, but she got out of the racing groove below the yellow line and made it back to pit road with no caution.
By Lap Four, Hornaday started 13th, but was running fifth by getting to the bottom picking up all those positions.
On Lap Five, the top-10 trucks are nose to tail on the bottom, running next to the yellow line and Skinner in 11th is the first truck in the outside groove.
The first caution came out on Lap Seven, for T.J. Bell in the No. 11 Red Horse Racing Toyota,which lost a right front tire, due to a brake caliber failing and leaving debris on the track.
Under caution the top five was; Braun leading, Almirola second, Bodine third, Tayler Malsam in the No. 81 One-Eighty Toyota fourth and Hornaday fifth.
On Lap Eight, everyone pits, making the first of two stops, and some teams are making just fuel stops.
Mike Wallace in the No. 48 Rockingham Speedway/Polar Bear 150 Chevrolet leads, with his daughter Chrissy Wallace in the No. 08 Fuel-Doctor.com Chevrolet second, but both would pit a lap later.
Both Cook and Busch on the first stop had the hoods up using wrenches to raise the trucks' splitters from hitting on the track.
After pit stops, the top five was; Chris Jones in the No. 41 Mike Berg Trucking Dodge leads, Sean Murphy in the No. 21 Rime Garden Inn & Suites Dodge second, Braun third, Almirola fourth, and Bodine fifth.
On the Lap 11 restart, Jones gets off to a good start, creates a gap between himself and Braun in second, and gets freight trained by the field with Braun leading the way.
Braun leading, Almirola second, Bodine third, and Hornaday fourth have pulled away by three-truck length on the rest of the field on Lap 12.
The lower groove still the place to be, but with trucks further back being three and four wide the upper groove will come into play.
The second caution comes out on Lap 14, for Robert Richardson Jr in the No. 71 Mahindra Tractors/Draco Springs Chevrolet blew up crossing the stripe, leaving fluid and oil all over the track.
Chad McCumbee in the No. 07 tiwi Chevrolet, followed by Dennis Setzer No. 8 Malcolmson Construction Chevrolet did a excellent job not to wreck, driving through it as they were right behind him when it happened.
On Lap 15, the pits open with just a few takers, two that stop Busch got just fuel, then Ricky Carmichael in the No. 4 Monster Energy Drink Chevrolet made two stops for tires and fuel.
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