Ron Hornaday Jr. held off a late race charge by Kyle Busch to take the checkered flag and win the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Friday.
Hornaday Jr. had a little trouble earlier in the night, getting caught on pit road when the caution came out. But he was able to stay on the tail end of pack in front of the leader and catch back up on an ensuing caution that was brought out when Busch got into the back of the No. 6 truck driven by Colin Braun. Busch was able to go on but Braun ended up crashing and finishing in 26th place.
Hornaday's crew chief Rick Ren said he missed the set-up on the truck, slightly and Hornaday Jr. said he believes he had a 3rd place truck all night.
"Clean air is really big and we had the truck really tight early in the race," Ren said. "I just missed it a little bit today. Our truck was really fast in practice and in clean air."
After the race, Busch, who already has two wins on the season, was complaining that Chevrolet had a motor advantage over the Toyotas
Hornaday fired back, "Why did he go by me on the back straightaway like I was standing still," Hornaday Jr. said. "I have lost four or five races to Kyle Busch. We won he finished second. We will find out when we go to Michigan because I am sure NASCAR will take all the motors and dyno them like the always do"
As for the massive crash between Mike Skinner and T.J. Bell earlier in the night, Hornaday Jr. said he didn't see it but knew that Skinner was upside down and worried if he was okay.
"I hate Mike Skinner on the race track but I love him as a brother outside it," Hornaday Jr. said. "I didn't actually see the wreck but I heard he got upside down."
Finishing up the race in 3rd place was last year's race winner Matt Crafton in the No. 88 Chevrolet. He was followed by Ryan Newman and Terry Cook, respectively, in 4th and 5th places.
Rounding out the field was:
6th David Gilliland
7th David Star
8th Tayler Malsem
9th Stacy Compton
10th Dennis Setzer
11th Rick Crawford
12th James Buescher
13th Johnny Sauter
14th Jason White
15th Chad McCumbee
16th Brian Ickler
17th Mario Gosselin
18th Ryan Hackett
19th Ben Stancil
20th Chris Jones
21st Brain Scott
22nd Brent Raymer
23rd Johnny Benson
24th Norm Benning
25th Todd Bodine
26th Colin Braun
27th Mike Bliss
28th Brandon Knupp
29th Mike Skinner
30th T.J. Bell
31st Timothy Peters
32nd Marc Mitchell
33rd Johnny Chapman
34th John Jackson
35th Donnie Neuenberger
36th Chris Fontaine
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