Todd Bodine would let his crew chief Mike Hillman Jr. know, he had nothing for either Erik Darnell leading or Colin Braun in second. They would need to adjust the truck on their pit stop, so he could challenge them for the lead.
On Lap 19, according to Speed TV commentators, NASCAR was trying to find out which truck lost a passenger side window, reports that one did.
On Lap 20, the second caution flag flew for debris on the track, as a piece of sheet metal came off of one of the trucks and also for the window.
All the drivers would pit, Joey Logano was the truck that lost the window. They would pit and then go behind the wall to replace the window. They couldn't just slide a new one in and lost laps while pop riveting it into place.
Joey Lagano would end the night in 26th, five laps down and would also be involved in a last lap multi-truck wreck.
The top five coming off of pit road was Erik Darnell leading, with Colin Braun in second, Todd Bodine in third, Ron Hornaday in fourth and John Wesley Townley in fifth.
But Hornaday would get caught speeding off of pit road, coming back for his drive-through penalty would stop for left-side tires and restart in 26th place.
On the Lap 23 restart, Erik Darnell took the green flag, followed by Colin Braun, Todd Bodine, John Wesley Townley and Johnny Benson rounding out the top five.
Speed would let everyone know that Ron Hornaday has led 30 percent of the laps this year.
On Lap 24, Joey Logano is back on track, four laps down to the leaders.
On Lap 26, Kyle Busch is running in ninth, Johnny Benson dropped back to 11th, Ron Hornaday is running in 20th and Scott Speed is running in 26th place.
On Lap 28, Colin Braun is in second, his truck starts to overheat and worries his crew. But it would amount to nothing; he probably had paper on his grill.
On Lap 29, Johnny Benson gets help from his teammate Mike Wallace in the No. 9 Geico Toyota Tundra in the outside line and catching up to Rick Crawford in the No. 14 Circle Bar/Power Stroke Diesel Ford F-150 in fifth.
On Lap 32, Bodine will move to the outside line from third, right in front of Johnny Benson. He would pass Colin Braun for second and start battling Darnell for the lead.
On Lap 34, Bodine would receive a push from Johnny Benson getting past Darnell and get credit for leading one lap.
But Bodine on the very next lap was repassed by Darnell for the lead, running three wide with Kyle Busch in the No. 51 Miccosukee Resort Toyota Tundra up top, Bodine the first truck in the center line and Darnell the first truck on the bottom.
On Lap 38, Hornaday would tell his spotter Rick Carelli, you need to get me away from Mike Wallace. He's changed his line six times in two laps and he'll cause a wreck doing that.
On Lap 40, there is great three wide action with big packs of trucks battling for position.
Erik Darnell is still leading; he's led 60 percent of the laps on Super Speedways this year.
At the halfway point on Lap 47, it's still the three Roush-Fenway trucks up front, with Erik Darnell leading, Colin Braun in second, John Wesley Townley in third, followed by Todd Bodine in fourth and Rick Crawford in fifth, rounding out the top five.
Ron Hornaday would be running in 26th, having problems passing trucks after his speeding penalty.
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