Image via WikipediaKansas native Clint Bowyer dominated Saturday's O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway. Bowyer led 124 (of 167) laps and cruised to a 1.695-second victory over Johnny Sauter.
Bowyer picked up his third career victory in just his eleventh start in the Camping World Truck Series. It was his first start at Kansas Speedway. It was his first victory in front of his hometown crowd in any NASCAR national series. He has two second place finishes at the track -- one in the 2007 Cup race and one in the 2008 Nationwide race.
Bowyer's only real snag occurred on a restart on Lap 112. Bowyer pitted and took four tires and enough fuel to finish the race. With the cars that stayed out and those that took just two tires, Bowyer was mired back in 11th position on the restart, but he moved quickly through the traffic and regained the lead on Lap 122.
Bowyer led the final 46 laps. He briefly battled for the lead with Sauter on the final restart on Lap 138 before pulling away to the easy victory.
Todd Bodine finished third, followed by James Buescher and Joey Coulter. (Race results)
Sauter takes over the lead in the series points standings after Cole Whitt's 15th-place finish. Sauter leads Whitt by 12 points. Austin Dillon (-30), who finished 12th, moved ahead of Matt Crafton (-32) to take over the third spot. Timothy Peters (-47) rounds out the Top Five.
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