Kevin Harvick Wins A Wild And Weird Truck Race At Phoenix

S M  Napier by Senior Writer Written on November 09, 2008
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Todd Bodine ran real well all day and finished third. Brian Scott would have a career best fourth place finish and was the Raybestos Rookie of the race. Mike Skinner looked good finishing fifth.

Hornaday would finish in 25th and had the following to say about his bad night:

"The driver was a complete idiot", Hornaday said after the race. "I thought I was going to get fired because that was the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life. Knowing Kyle Busch was on the outside and me driving in there as hard as he is, that was total stupidity on my part. Kyle's got nothing to lose out there but to win the race and I blew it." (nascar.com)

"I really thought I had a half truck on him getting in and I knew I got in really good and he got in that much better. I needed just another couple of inches. I got loose and I just tagged the back of him and spun the rest of the way around. I had a truck that could win the race and I blew it." (nascar.com)

Hornaday would apologize to all the teams that got caught up in his wreck. Jack Roush made the call of the night, when he sent some crew members from his truck teams to help KHIand the 33 team with repairing the damaged truck.

"I think that's the camaraderie you see here in the Truck Series", Erik Darnell said after finishing seventh. "That's what happens here. Ron is a pretty good friend. I know Matt Puccia [Darnell's Crew Chief] and Rick Ren [Hornaday's Crew chief] are pretty good friends, so anything we can do to help them out, we're going to do. That's just the way the series is." (nascar.com)

"The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is just unbelievable", Hornaday said. "When you go out there and wreck a truck and just to see these guys [from other teams] want the 33 truck out there and make a points race out of this thing...My hat's off to everybody and from the bottom of my heart I've got to thank them all because that was so awesome."(nascar.com)

"I can't say enough for the effort of my guys and the effort of Jack Roush's teams and the effort of the TRG Motorsports bunch," Ren said. "All of those people come to our aid and we had Ford guys and Chevrolet guys putting our Chevrolet back together to get into this race and that just shows what this Truck Series is about—there's not really any enemies over here and we're all willing to help each other." (nascar.com)

"We just kept digging. I told Ron don't give up. It's a long night. You never know what's going to happen." (nascar.com)

"After our first deal [on lap one] it bent the rear a little bit and we got it working and felt like we could probably run in the top six or 10," Benson said. "I was really trying to be patient. We ended up being in the right place at the wrong time or something, I don't know. We're just making it exciting. I don't know what else to say." (nascar.com)

Benson would have this to say about his contact with T.J. Bell. "I felt like I was underneath him and felt like he came down," Benson said before seeing a replay. "All of a sudden we bumped and both spun and wrecked and it pretty much ended our day. It took the right front and pretty much destroyed everything up in the right front." (nascar.com)

It was amazing that Johnny Benson's 23 truck would be in worse shape than Hornaday's 33 truck, but it was. His team needed to replace brakes, the track bar and suspension pieces.

"It's just weird and amazing how the points deal has been going on. It definitely makes for a long day, I can tell you that," Benson said. (nascar.com)

The points are now Johnny Benson by three points over Ron Hornaday and 143 points over Todd Bodine.

The Top Ten Results For The Lucas Oil 150 Where As Follows:

1. Kevin Harvick

2. Kyle Busch

3. Todd Bodine

4. Brian Scott

5. Mike Skinner

6. Brad Keselowski

7. Erik Darnell

8. Matt Crafton

9. Rick Crawford

10. Brendan Gaughan

The next race is the Ford 200 on Friday, Nov. 14th, starting with the NCTS Setup at 7:30PM and it will be a classic I guarantee it.

Source: nascar.com for the post race quotes.

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