It was a long time coming for the ThorSport Racing team as Matt Crafton brought the No. 88 Menard's Chevrolet to Victory Lane in the North Carolina Education Lottery 200.
It was Crafton's first time to bring the No. 88 truck to Victory Lane and the first time in a decade or more that ThorSport made it to the finish line ahead of the field. And as the No. 88 came off of Turn 4, everyone on the No. 88 crew and their teammates on the No. 13 truck were ecstatic.
For those who don't know, I used to do PR for the No. 13 truck a few years ago, so this was pretty cool. A lot of my old friends were still there and I was on pit road with them while they cheered Matt on.
I asked Matt what he was thinking coming off the green-white-checkered finish,
his response brought laughter to the media center.
"It was checkers or wreckers at that point," he said. "I certainly wasn't lifting and i wasn't looking back. I put the
mirror up and the pedal down. I have been waiting so long for this, I am still kinda numb."
For a while it looked like Kyle Busch was going to run away with it. In fact, to steal a line from MRN's Dave Moody, Busch was in an area code for most of the race. But that all changed when Ron Hornaday got loose on the frontstretch and spun into Bush.
The collision wasn't catastrophic but it did take away any chance that Busch had to visit Victory Lane for a third time this season in the Craftsman Truck Series.
And here is a rundown of how the field ended up:
Matt Crafton
Chad McCumbee
Brendan Gaughan
Erik Darnell
Rick Crawford
Terry Cook
Dennis Setzer
Kyle Busch
Landon Cassill
Mike Skinner
Johnny Benson
Todd Bodine
Ken Schrader
Jack Sprague
Collin Braun
Andy Lally
David Starr
Travis Kvapil
Jon Wood
Shelby Howard
Chad Chaffin
Ted Musgrave
Ron Hornaday
Marc Mitchell
Timothy Peters
Jason White
Scott Lagasse Jr.
Stacy Compton
Brian Sockwell
J.C. Stout
John Mickel
Justin Marks
Scott Speed
Donny Lia
Brian Scott
Drrike Cope
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