NASCAR Truck Series at Martinsville 2015 Results: Winner, Standings and Reaction

Joey Logano held off Matt Crafton down the stretch Saturday to seize the checkered flag at Martinsville Speedway, in Ridgeway, Virginia, at the Kroger 250.

As is the case each year, the NASCAR Truck Series at Martinsville event provided a thrilling short-track spectacle right down to the wire—where the race went to overtime when Crafton spun out Cole Custer with two laps left, forcing a yellow flag.

This year's Daytona 500 winner exploded out of the restart and led the final two laps with ease. Fox Sports: NASCAR captured the celebration:

Logano made a bit of history thanks to his late surge too, per NASCAR Trucks:

Close behind Logano was Crafton and Erik Jones, the only other racers to grab a taste of the lead on the day.

As USA Today's Jeff Gluck writes, Saturday's down-to-the-wire spectacle might be the best event of the season so far:

Here is how the top 10 drivers finished the Kroger 250, with a full listing of results available at NASCAR.com:

Position	Driver	LED
1	Joey Logano	150
2	Matt Crafton	100
3	Erik Jones	2
4	Johnny Sauter	0
5	Tyler Reddick	0
6	Daniel Suarez	0
7	James Buescher	0
8	John Wes Townley	0
9	Matt Tifft	0
10	Justin Boston	0

As a result, the standings are as follows, per NASCAR.com:

RK	DRIVER	POINTS	WINS
1	Matt Crafton	128	1
2	Tyler Reddick	126	1
3	Erik Jones	122	0
4	Johnny Sauter	112	0
5	James Buescher	100	0
6	John Wes Townley	90	0
7	Ray Black Jr	89	0
8	Cameron Hayley	84	0
9	Spencer Gallagher	84	0
10	Ben Kennedy	83	0

The half-mile track at Saturday's event produced plenty of caution flags and lead changes, including the thrilling finish highlighted by Crafton hitting Custer.

The two had fought for position most of the day, prompting Darrell Wallace Jr. to offer his perspective on the controversial move by the veteran Crafton:

Over the radio, Crafton offered his opinion on the younger driver, per Jim Utter of The Charlotte Observer:

Despite a competitive field and wild finish, Crafton and Logano dominated most of the day.

The latter came out of the opening gun strong and led the first 54 of 58 laps. Already the owner of Sunday's pole position at the STP 500, Logano wound up leading for 150 laps before winning.

With about 20 laps to go, though, the eventual winner expressed concern about his status and strategy, per ESPN's Bob Pockrass:

Suffice it to say, chaos featuring other drivers gave Logano the opening he needed to steal the win.

Crafton is perhaps the more interesting story. He won the same race last year on his way to a second straight series title and entered Saturday after embarrassing the rest of the field in Atlanta, leading 85 of 130 in the Hyundai Construction Equipment 200.

The 38-year-old veteran dueled Logano most of the day and wound up leading 100 laps before his second-place finish.

Speaking of interesting stories, how about the 17-year-old Custer?

The youngest driver to ever win a NASCAR race by way of a win at New Hampshire last season, Custer made a surprise entrance in the top five Saturday despite numerous pit penalties, as Pockrass pointed out:

The Dale Earnhardt Jr.-backed racer still put on a show and finished 16th after the late restart. Call it mission accomplished, as Custer told TheState.com before the race.

"Martinsville is a place where we have shown speed before, and I feel like we can run fast again this weekend. It's still a learning experience for me. Managing the traffic there will be a challenge. That's something I'll be focused on," he said.

Tyler Reddick, who entered Saturday the leader in the standings thanks to his season-opening win at Daytona, finished fifth. It was a sloppy day overall after he was rear-ended and had to hit pit road to have part of his rear bumper cut off, as explained by Fox Sports: NASCAR: 

At the end of the day, Reddick just wanted to finish the race, if anything, so his final slot is a major feat.

Also of note standings-wise, Jones entered in third place, eight points above the next-closest driver. He remained in the thick of things until the end, leading two laps and finishing third.

As a result of Reddick's sloppy day, he surrendered the top spot in the standings to Crafton—by just two points. Jones remains right in the thick of things, six points behind Crafton.

Next up for Logano and the series is the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Kansas on May 8, an event Kyle Busch won last year and Crafton won two years ago. There, Reddick, Crafton and Jones will continue to jockey for positioning at the top of the leaderboard.

Beforehand, Logano will look to put his Sunday pole position to good use in the Sprint Cup Series at Martinsville.

Stats and information courtesy of NASCAR.com unless otherwise specified.