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TRUCKS: Busch, Almirola Sweep Talladega
Written by: Tom Jensen   
11/01/2009
Talladega, AL
 
Kyle Busch celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Superspeedway. (Photo: Getty Images) ยป More Photos

Kyle Busch and Aric Almirola jumped past leader Todd Bodine on the frontstretch of the last lap at Talladega Superspeedway to finish 1-2 in Saturday’s Mountain Dew 250. It was the first 1-2 finish for Billy Ballew Motorsports and the fifth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in a row Busch has won when driving the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra.

NCWTS Talladega Mountain Dew 250 Results

Almirola was second in the Graceway Pharm Toyota, followed by Bodine’s Copart Toyota.

“That was unbelievable,” Busch said. “I owe everything to Aric Almirola. … It was a lot of fun today.”

Colin Braun started on the pole in his Con-Way Freight Ford F-150, flanked by Terry Cook’s Cajun Industries Toyota.

When the green flag fell, Braun took the lead, the field going five-wide on the very first lap.

The first yellow came on Lap 7, when T.J. Bell lost a right-front tire after a brake caliper failed. That sent most of the field down pit road,
with the crews of Cook and Kyle Busch both going under the hood of their respective trucks. The father-daughter team of Mike and Chrissy Wallace stayed out one extra lap and were credited with being 1-2 for that lap.

The race restarted on Lap 11, with Braun still out front. Two laps later, Robert Richardson’s Mahindra Chevrolet grenaded an engine to bring out another caution, though fortunately, everyone avoided his oil.

On Lap 18, the green waved again, as Braun led Aric Almirola and Todd Bodine, the later of whom had won the four prior restrictor-plate truck races. Behind them came points leader Ron Hornaday Jr. and David Starr.

Just past the one-quarter distance in the 94-lap race, Mike Skinner and Busch led a charge to the high line, trying to challenge Braun on the bottom.

Matt Crafton lost a right-rear tire on Lap 27, going a lap down in the process.

Skinner and Busch, running in tandem and working very well in the draft, took the lead from Braun. Bodine and Hornaday soon made it a four-way battle for the lead, as the racing starting to intensify as the laps went on.


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