Catchfence

Mike Skinner, with the green-white-checkered flag laps to go, held off Raybestos Rookie contender Johnny Sauter to win his second consecutive NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, as he took the checkered flag during the Copart 200 at Gateway International Raceway.

This was Skinner’s 28th series career victory, his third of the 2009 season, and his first at Gateway.

In what seemed to be another victory in the series points leader’s grasp, the restart on lap 154 turned ugly for Ron Hornaday Jr. (who led the most laps) as he was sent spinning by second in the points, Matt Crafton, bringing out the 2nd red flag of the race. Crafton, who had just finished spinning out Todd Bodine to bring out the previous red caution, did almost the exact same thing to Hornaday on the restart. NASCAR deemed the move by Crafton to be too aggressive and was sent to the rear of the field, and ended up finishing sixth.

Hornaday now leads Crafton, unofficially, by 197 points.

Following Skinner and Sauter to the drop of the checkered flag were Brian Scott finishing third, Aric Almirola fourth, Raybestos Rookie contender Tayler Malsam fifth, Matt Crafton sixth, Timothy Peters seventh, Stacy Compton eighth, Ryan Sieg ninth and Rick Crawford rounds out the top-10 finishers.

Race Notes:

Average Speed: 89.273 MPH
Time of Race: 02 Hrs, 16 Mins, 06 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 0.285 Seconds
Lead Changes: 10 among 7 drivers
Cautions: 11 for 44 laps
Attendance: 18,000

Unofficial Top-10 in the Points Standings: 1. Ron Hornaday Jr. – 2875 2. Matt Crafton – 2678 (-197 Behind Leader) 3. Mike Skinner – 2662 (-213) 4. Brian Scott – 2457 (-418) 5. Todd Bodine – 2389 (-486) 6. Colin Braun – 2372 (-503) 7. David Starr – 2310 (-565) 8. Timothy Peters – 2307 (-568) 9. Rick Crawford – 2302 (-573) 10. Johnny Sauter – 2297 (-578).

2009 Copart 200 NCWTS at GIR Race Results

Fin	Str	Trk	Driver	Team	Lap	Pts	BPts	Status	TLd	LLd
1	9	5	Mike Skinner	PC Miler Navigator Toyota	162	190	5	Running	1	6
2	3	13	Johnny Sauter #	Fun Sand / Rodney Atkins / Curb Records Chevrolet	162	170		Running
3	4	16	Brian Scott	Albertsons Toyota	162	165		Running
4	15	51	Aric Almirola	Miccosukee Resort / Graceway Pharmaceuticals	162	160		Running
5	17	81	Tayler Malsam #	One-Eighty Toyota	162	155		Running
6	6	88	Matt Crafton	Menards / NIBCO Chevrolet	162	150		Running
7	8	17	Timothy Peters	Strutmasters / Red Horse Racing Toyota	162	151	5	Running	1	10
8	10	60	Stacy Compton	SafeAuto Insurance Toyota	162	147	5	Running	1	10
9	13	39	Ryan Sieg	S & W Services Chevrolet	162	138		Running
10	11	14	Rick Crawford	Circle Bar / International Truck Engine Ford	162	139	5	Running	1	15
11	23	29	Mikey Kile	Greased Lightning Cleaning Products Chevrolet	162	130		Running
12	18	8	Todd Kluever	Malcolmson Construction Chevrolet	161	127		Running
13	30	84	Chris Fontaine	Glenden Enterprises Chevrolet	161	124		Running
14	26	7	Jason Young	ASI Limited / 3BR Chevrolet	161	121		Running
15	22	15	Brian Ickler #	Graceway Pharmaceuticals Toyota	160	118		Running
16	14	24	David Starr	Zachry / Harris Trucking Toyota	159	115		Running
17	2	33	Ron Hornaday Jr.	Longhorn Chevrolet	156	122	10	Accident	4	116
18	7	30	Todd Bodine	Ventrillo Toyota	153	114	5	Accident	2	4
19	1	6	Colin Braun	Con-way Freight Ford	152	111	5	Accident	1	1
20	19	23	Jason White	GunBroker.com Dodge	144	103		Running
21	12	25	Terry Cook	Cajun Industries / Harris Trucking Toyota	123	100		Running
22	20	4	Ricky Carmichael #	Monster Energy Chevrolet	103	97		Accident
23	16	10	James Buescher #	International Maxx Force Diesel Ford	87	94		Accident
24	5	11	T J Bell	Red Horse Racing Toyota	80	91		Accident
25	36	73	Dexter Bean	Steger Lumber Company Chevrolet	77	88		Engine
26	33	57	Norm Benning	PellaMotors.com Chevrolet	61	85		Overheating
27	24	44	Tommy Joe Martins	Martins Racing Ford	33	82		Ignition
28	27	85	Brent Raymer #	CTR Fabrication / BrentRaymer.com Ford	33	79		Ignition
29	34	47	Brandon Knupp	FT 11 Degreaser Chevrolet	22	76		Engine
30	31	21	Nick Tucker	GunBroker.com Dodge	17	73		Vibration
31	32	8	Butch Miller	ASI Limited / P & L Transportation Chevrolet	15	70		Overheating
32	21	12	Mario Gosselin	James Carter Attorney Chevrolet	11	67		Rearend
33	35	48	Wayne Edwards	Rockingham Speedway Chevrolet	4	64		Overheating
34	25	93	Mike Garvey	S & W Services Chevrolet	4	61		Rearend
35	29	65	Lance Hooper	County Building Center Chevrolet	3	58		Brakes
36	28	72	John Jackson	DGM Racing / SponsorTheTrucks.com Chevrolet	2	55		Transmission