Image via WikipediaRon Hornaday won the WinStar World Casino 400k at Texas Motor Speedway Friday night when Johnny Sauter was black-flagged for changing lanes on the final restart.
Sauter took the lead from Hornaday on Lap 130 (of a scheduled 167), but was penalized for moving down in front of Hornaday on a green-white-checkered restart before crossing the start/finish line. Both Sauter and Hornaday spun their tires on the restart. Sauter finished ahead of the field, but was shown the black flag at the stripe; he was scored with a 22nd-place finish, the last car on the lead lap. Sauter later contended that he left Hornaday a lane to race in, but doesn't have much of a case.
It was Hornaday's 48th career Camping World Truck Series win, the first of the season, and his third at the track. The race went one lap beyond the scheduled distance.
Since this week's Cup race is 1500 miles away in Pocono, this was a exclusively a Truck Series regular affair. Rookie Parker Klingerman, making just his tenth career series start, finished second. David Mayhew was third for a new career-best finish. Brian Ickler recovered from a spin of Lap 50 that put him a lap down to finish fourth in his first start of the season. Rookie Joey Coulter was fifth, matching his career-best finish set last week at Kansas. (Race results)
Sauter still managed to increase his lead in the series points standings by eight points. He now leads Cole Whitt, who finished 28th, by 20 points. Hornaday (-33) jumped three spots into third, followed by Austin Dillon (-35) and Matt Crafton (-41).
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