Mike Skinner has had a very difficult NASCAR Craftsman Truck season. He qualifies great, runs fast but something always seems to happen to him. He's only won one race. Skinner was looking to change his luck at Saturday's Built Ford Tough 225 at Kansas Speedway. Australian rookie Marcos Ambrose won the pole.
Marcos Ambrose-#20 Team Australia Ford led the first part of the race but varying pit strategies and a caution at lap 59 put Ambrose back in the pack. He finished 19th.
Green flag pit stops and a subsequent caution led to the turning point of the race. There were only seven cars on the lead lap but there were several cars on the tail end of the lead lap. That meant the leaders were in the middle of the pack. This kind of thing always leads to another caution and that came on lap 129 when Ron Hornaday-#33 Chevy inadvertently squeezed Mike Skinner-#5 Toyota into a collision with Dennis Setzer-#85 FlexFuel Chevy and Skinner was out of the race. Another bad finish.
That set up a battle between Hornaday, Rick Crawford-#14 Circle Bar Truck Stop Ford & Brendan Gaughan-#77 Orleans Casino Dodge. But Hornaday is so good on restarts he had no problem holding off both guys. Todd Bodine finished 10th and still leads the points race.
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