Kevin Harvick holds on beats a hard charging Kyle Busch by 0.941 seconds, records his first win in Kevin Harvick, Inc. equipment and his first truck win, since 2003.
It was his third career win at Phoenix in a truck, he earned the hard fought win and puts KHI in the record books. As they become the first team to win three races in a row with different drivers.
Ron Hornaday in the No. 33 VFW Chevrolet Silverado truck won the pole, he has been fast all weekend at Phoenix and was the fastest in both practices.
Kyle Busch in the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts/NOS Energy Drink stats on the outside pole position. Erik Darnell in the No. 99 Northern Tools and Equipment starts third.
Scott Speed in the No. 22 Red Bull Toyota Tundra truck starts fourth. Brian Scott in the N0. 16 Albertson's Toyota Tundra truck starts fifth and a rookie to pay attention too.
Another young talented driver to also watch is, J.R. Fitzpatrick in the No. 71 Mammoet.com Chevrolet Silverado truck starts sixth, in his second truck race.
Johnny Benson, the points leader, qualified fourteenth, in the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Toyota Tundra truck.
On Lap One, the green flag flies with Ron Hornaday pulling away by a truck length from Kyle Busch coming out of turn two, they are side by side going into turn three.
Coming out of turn three, Busch has the lead by a nose, but Hornaday would get loose, lose it getting slightly into Busch. Hornaday would spin around nose first into the wall, slide back down the track.
Where his truck would be broadsided by J.R. Fitzpatrick who's truck received heavy front end damage, Johnny Benson would also clip the rear of Hornaday's truck and have damage behind the right front and over the number on the side.
Unbelievable it would happen with three wide action right behind Busch and Hornaday. You had Brian Scott, Erik Darnell and Scott Speed three wide battling for third and on back you had similar action happening.
It's not that surprising to see Kyle Busch run that hard on Lap Pne, but nice to see him leaving plenty of room for Ron Hornaday and not pinching him down on the bottom.
Ron Hornaday drove straight behind the wall for repairs, he has extensive damage all around the 33 truck and it will take a lot of work to get him back into the race. He needed a new radiator, the rear end needed a lot of repair, the sway bar, axe housing sheet metal work done and a bunch more needed work.
While the race continued under caution, it was exciting too watch the work in the garage being done on Ron Hornaday's truck, along with the KHI crew, Jack Roush lent some of his teams crew members to help out, the TRG Motorsports crew also helped out.
Even with J.R. Fitzpatrick truck still sitting badly damaged on the track. There were several other teams that assisted the 33, that I couldn't identify off of my TV.
It was just amazing too watch, all these crew guys scramble around the No. 33 repairing the badly damaged truck. Even Ron Hornaday was helping, be it with a hammer, pulling on sheet metal or to hold the deck lid up while work was being done on the rear axe.
Johnny Benson would make several pit stops to repair the damage, change tires and patch the hole in the side of his truck.
Fortunately only six trucks where involved with the wreck and it looked a lot worse.
The Speed commentaries where joking about would they let Johnny Benson charge hard for the positions or drive back to the front being conservative.
The top five under caution, where Kyle Busch leading, Brian Scott in second, Scott Speed in third, Brad Keselowski in the No. 19 Unsponsored Chevrolet Silverado truck in fourth and Erik Darnell in fifth.
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