Mike Skinner won Saturday nights Qwik Liner Las Vegas 350, by beating Erik Darnell by two hundredth of a second. It was a exciting green/white/checkers finish, resulting in his first win of the year and the twenty-fifth win of his career.
Ron Hornaday in the No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet Silverado started on the pole, with Colin Braun in the No. 6 Con-way Freight Ford F-150 starting on the outside pole position.
Mike Skinner in the No. 5 Toyota Tundra sponsored truck would start third and made a incredible save qualifying, enabling him to start where he was. Chad McCumbee in the No. 8 MRD Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado truck started in fourth.
Johnny Benson in the No. 23 Exide Batteries Toyota Tundra truck starts fifth.
Ron Hornaday would take the green flag, having one of his patented great starts and pulls away from Colin Braun by five truck lengths.
But on Lap Three, Mike Skinner would go to the bottom, fight past Ron Hornaday for the lead.
On Lap Four, the first caution flew for Sean Murphy in the No. 07 ASI Limited Chevrolet Silverado. Murphy lost it, would spin down onto pit road without hitting anything.
On the Lap Eight restart, Mike Skinner took the green flag, but Todd Bodine in the No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Toyota Tundra truck would pass Skinner coming off of turn four.
Two laps later, Mike Skinner would catch, re-pass Todd Bodine for the lead of the race.
On Lap 11, Rick Crawford in the No. 14 Circle Bar/Power Stroke Diesel Ford F-150 truck and Chad McCumbee in fifth would pass Ron Hornaday for third and fourth respectively.
On the very next lap, Johnny Benson would pass Ron Hornaday for fifth.
On Lap 16, Colin Braun would pass Ron Hornaday for sixth.
On Lap 22, Todd Bodine would catch, re-swapping the lead with Mike Skinner.
On Lap 23, Johnny Benson is starting too catch the leaders and Ron Hornaday with a rear right spring issue has dropped to 10th place.
On Lap 24, Justin Marks brings out the second caution flag, as he spins the No. 9 Crocs Toyota Tundra flat spoting his tires and not hitting anything.
Sending the leaders, down pit road for the race's first pit stop. Johnny Benson would get only fuel, be the first truck off of pit road, followed by Rick Crawford, Shane Sieg, Colin Braun and Chad McCumbee rounding out the top five.
Ron Hornaday comes out in 16th place, after getting the spring issue fixed and will have his work cut out for him getting back up front.
On the Lap 28 restart, Johnny Benson pulls away, Shane Sieg in the No. 51 Miccosukee Resort Toyota Tundra passed Rick Crawford for second.
Johnny Benson and Shane Sieg used pit strategy taking fuel only on their first stop.
On Lap 32, Ron Hornaday has picked up two positions and currently running in 14th place.
On Lap 34, Rick Crawford and Todd Bodine would pass Shane Sieg for second and third respectively.
On Lap 35, Johnny Bensonhas a 1.165 seconds lead on Rick Crawford in second.
On Lap 37, Ron Hornaday running in thirteenth and Scott Speed in the No. 22 Red Bull Toyota Tundra truck started 17th and is currently running in twentieth.
On Lap 38, Ron Hornaday would pick up three positions, currently running in tenth.
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L.J. Burgess 9 months ago
This is a new style of re-cap...I love it! I wish we could get this coverage all the time. Lap by lap is exciting.
Skinner has been working with the Cup cars so much it had to be taking a lot of focus from the CTS series. It's good that he scored before the season was over.
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S M Napier 9 months ago
Thanks, finally figured out how to go lap for lap and not just switching to the Laps to go after halfway. I'm a genious, nah the coverage by Speed was frustrating the bracket across the top wasn't running most of the time and cutting to commercials after caution pit stops was annoying. Since I trying to figure out the top five off of pit road, also glad the Gunslinger won and Mr. Restart ended up with a top 5.
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Mary Jo Buchanan 9 months ago
Since I missed the truck race - was just too tired after the day of racing at Dover - no excuse I know....but I'm old! - this was a GREAT recap!! Thanks for sharing it - again felt like I was right there - and you probably gave us better coverage than Speed! Speaking of which, was sorry to see our Scott had some issues...oh well - that's racin' as we say. I spent all day Sunday bugging the Red Bull teams for an update on the truck race - but they had all gone to bed early too and didn't know how Scott did! So, as usual have to turn to SM for all the CTS news!!!
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S M Napier 9 months ago
Thanks, glad you liked it. I couldn't figure out the time of the race, seemed a Friday night race would have been better or maybe adding a second Dover Truck race would be better. Since the May 30th Dover Truck race was so good, all three cement track races are always really good and then they could bump the Las Vegas race to this weekend.
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