| Todd Bodine wins Mountain Dew 250 | | Print | |
| Written by KMOO Sports |
| Monday, 06 October 2008 11:48 |
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Todd Bodine was stalking race leader Kyle Busch entering the final lap of Saturday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race and executed a perfect bump-and run, slipping past Busch into first place and then beating Ron Hornaday to the checkered flag for his second consecutive Talladega triumph.
Looking at the big picture, however, Hornaday may have been the day's big winner. His second-place finish lifted him past Johnny Benson and into first place in the championship standings with five races left. Hornaday arrived at Talladega one point behind Benson and left with a thirty-one-point advantage. With Matt Crafton a distant third, more than two hundred points back, it looks like a two-horse race down the stretch. Hornaday is bidding to become the first driver in the fourteen-year history of the series to win back-to-back titles. Bodine's margin of victory over Hornaday on Saturday was less than one-tenth of a second. Busch finished third. Benson was eleventh, one of twenty-one drivers who were running on the lead lap with Bodine. Pole -sitter Erik Darnell led a race-high forty-eight laps, including the first thirty-two. He finished twelfth. Bodine led three times for just ten laps. It was his third straight restrictor-plate victory. After winning last falls race at Talladega, he also won this year's season opener at Daytona. Hornaday recovered from a pit-road speeding penalty early in the race to post his second-place finish. |
