Hornaday WIns The NASCAR Truck Melee

While Ron Hornaday Jr. overcame the adversity of the week regarding his health situations, he went on the win the Camping World 200 at Loudon.

He led Johnny Benson, Travis Kvapil, Erik Darnell and Rick Crawform across the start / finish line.

The fight for the win was the small event as the bigger event was the fight that erupted in the pits between David Starr and Todd Bodine's crew.

Results

David Starr was the star of 3 different yellow flags, all for the same reason: Getting in on the low line and having his truck push up into the outside line, spinning the other truck. At least he's consistent.

The last driver this happened to was Todd Bodine with 7 laps to go. Bodine's crew came out to "chat" with Starr, and according to SPEED, they said Bodine's crew pulled Starr out of his truck, though I can't actually imagine that happening, and the replay included shows what looks like Starr getting out himself...

Todd Bodine stepped away from it all watched. He eventually got together with David Starr and they chatted. Bodine said he likes Starr, and he's a great guy, but when he gets a good truck, he doesn't know when to not push it. We saw that in the 3 cautions he caused. Todd Bodine conducted himself incredibly well. Kudos.

In the end, Starr was summoned to the principals office, or the NASCAR hauler.

Additional info over at NASCAR.com

Check out the NASCAR Videos below (Opens in new window)

Todd Bodine Interview

Pit Crew "Chat"

Bodine Replacing Ward in the 4 Car

Tim Morgan, President of Morgan-McClure Motorsports, Inc. and Larry McClure, Team Manager announced today that Todd Bodine will drive the No. 4 State Water Heaters/Lucas Oil Chevrolet for Morgan McClure Motorsports in the final race of the season this weekend at Miami-Homestead Speedway.

The change in drivers is helping the team fully evaluate the performance of the team.

See a few more details at foxsports.com

An interesting Firesuit Tidbit

A Tidbit by Bruce Simmons

Today, on NASCAR Live, with Eli Gold on Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 128, Todd Bodine was the in-show guest, and a caller asked a pretty good question:
How long is a firesuit good for?

Well, my opinion on the issue would be that they are only as good as the main and associate sponsors sticking around, which, in some cases changes from year to year.

Todd Bodine said that firesuits are only good for about a year.
They have 2 or 3 suits, and they get dry cleaned every week and the chemicals in the dry cleaning process wears out the 'nomex' in the suits.

Now you know!

Bodine Wins Texas Truck Race

Todd Bodine beat Mike Skinner to the checkered flag again at Texas, holding on to win after another green-white-checkered finish in the Craftsman Trucks Series on Friday night.

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