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07/23/2008 - 11:36 AM
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Mike Skinner and Ron Hornaday Jr. lead the field to start last year's Power Stroke Diesel 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) ยป More Photos
Article written by veteran motorsports Author and Journalist Tom Jensen - Senior NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series teams will tangle at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis Friday night, site of the Power Stroke Diesel 200, race No. 14 of 25 on the NCTS calendar this season.
ORP is a place where the truck drivers definitely don’t play nice together, a claustrophobic 0.686-mile oval where the trucks will be bumping and grinding all race long. If nothing else, Friday night’s battle ought to shuffle the points standings again, given that the top three drivers are separated by all of five points.
If recent history is any indication, the driver to watch for on Friday night will be Ron Hornaday Jr., the defending series champion and defending race winner. Hornaday, who trails Johnny Benson by just five points in the NCTS standings, led 90 laps last year and his No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet Silverado ought to be tough this time, too. Hornaday hasn’t finished worse than third in the last three ORP Truck races.
“ORP is one those tracks that fits
Hornaday’s teammate at Kevin Harvick Inc., Jack Sprague, is also a two-time ORP Truck winner, and his American Commercial Lines No. 2 Chevy ought to run well on Friday night. “ORP is your traditional short track,” said Sprague. “It has narrow corners and it is really hard to pass. Qualifying will be very crucial come Friday.”
The other two-time ORP NCTS winner in the field Friday will be the Toyota Tundra-sponsored No. 5 of Mike Skinner, who is fifth in points and has a streak of nine consecutive top-10 finishes. And his Bill Davis Racing teammates, Johnny Benson and Michael Annett are coming off a 1-2 finish last week at Kentucky Speedway. Benson was runner-up in this race last year in his Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra and as Annett showed last week, he’s already got his Pilot Travel Centers Toyota up to speed.
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