Colin Braun with help from T. J. Bell in the No. 7 Home For The Holidays/Heathhcliff's Chevrolet Silverado pushing him would take the lead on the white flag lap.
On the final lap, Todd Bodine would try to push Kyle Busch to victory, but contact gets Busch loose. Meanwhile the big one happens well behind the leaders involving multiple trucks and no caution flag came out.
Todd Bodine moves outside of Kyle Busch, with Ron Hornaday right behind him pushing him, Colin Braun besides Hornaday on the high side, while Mike Wallace is on his other side and Kyle Busch recovers leads the bottom line.
This resulted in a amazing four-wide finish, with Todd Bodine getting the win, by a margin of .075 seconds over Ron Hornaday who finished in second.
Todd Bodine would get his second win of the season, would sweep both restrictor plate races in trucks and would repeat as the Talladega race winner.
Todd Bodine would do the victory burnouts, take the checkers flag and make his way to victory lane. Thanking his team, gave his crew chief Mike Hillman, Jr. a big hug, thanked his sponsors and got congratulated in victory lane by Ron Hornaday. Giving him a hug and thanking him for pushing him to the win.
Ron Hornaday would finish second, over come the speeding penalty, he ran a beautiful race and was their in the end getting a great finish. He also would re-take the points lead from Johnny Benson.
Speed TV, interviewed Hornaday post race, here's the quote of the race from him. "We'll take second, it's like winning at Talladega."
Kyle Busch would finish third, he ran really well and just didn't have the truck to finish as the winner.
Colin Braun would finish in fourth and was happy after the tire issue to get a top five finish.
Mike Wallace would finish in fifth, he was all over the place making multiple lane switches each lap, some that took your breath away, thinking he's going to wreck and cause a very big wreck. But he didn't, which was good and had a great finish.
Was happy to see the truck race, other than Colin Braun's blown tire didn't have the same tire problem's that the ARCA Re/Max race had with tires and that the big one didn't happen till the final lap.
The wreck resulted in no getting hurt, just a bunch of torn up trucks.
Other notable drivers had the following finishes:
Johnny Benson would end up finishing in 11th, he ran pretty well, but didn't have the drafting help some of the other top ten drivers had and would lose the points lead to Hornaday.
Erik Darnell who led 48 laps dominated the first half of the race , had no drafting help and would finish in 12th.
Scott Speed would finish in 15th, he looked good for his first truck race at Talladega, got as high as fifth and just didn't have the tires to get a higher finish.
Matt Crafton would finish in 16th, he ran well early, was affected by no drafting help and old tires.
Joey Logano the overhyped 18-year-old making his NCTS debut would finish in twenty-sixth place, five laps down and was one of the trucks involved in the last lap wreck. He had problems with his passenger side window, never recovered from the problem.
I wasn't impressed with how he drove the first 20 laps, and HT Motorsports No. 59 truck's has been one of the top teams in the series. Just seems like if the kid's not in a JGR equipment he can't do anything and doesn't make all those exciting moves neither.
Now I'm more impressed with John Wesley Townley who finished in 18th place, he's also 18, he looks really good throughtout the race and being under the guidance of Jack Roush. Give the kid a year or two to develop, he's going to be a really great driver.
The top ten drivers at the Mountain Dew 250 are as follows:
1. Todd Bodine
2. Ron Hornaday
3. Kyle Busch
4. Colin Braun
5. Mike Wallace
6. Landon Cassill
7. Brian Scott
8. T. J. Bell
9. Mike Skinner
10. Chad McCumbee
The points battle now has Ron Hornaday leading by a 39-point margin over Johnny Benson and 218 points over Matt Crafton in third.
The next truck race is at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday, Oct. 18.
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