Matt Crafton Credits Kyle Busch for Win at Texas

Photo Credit: Boyd Adams
Courtesy of RubbingsRacing.com

Matt Crafton put an old-fashioned Texas-style whuppin' on the field of the WinStar World Casino 400 Friday night.

The driver of the No. 88 Menards Tundra dominated in Kyle Busch-fashion, earning his fifth career victory and the second of the season by leading 118 of the 167 laps, and running 61 laps on his final tank of Sunoco fuel. His margin of victory, 13.302 seconds, set a track record at Texas Motor Speedway.

Polesitter Justin Lofton finished second, his fifth top 10 in eight races at the Great American Speedway.

Joe Nemechek made the most of his first start at TMS; he qualified in sixth place and finished third.

"It's good to be back in the media center," he said. "It's been too long."

Nemechek shares the ride with son John Hunter Nemechek, racing at the tracks where the 16-year-old can't yet. "I want to win a race in a truck this year," the elder Nemechek said. "I've won in everything else I've ever done."

Ryan Blaney finished fourth after leading 45 laps, and John Wes Townley came in fifth, only his second career top five in the Camping World Truck Series.

Crafton gave some of the credit for his dominance to the absent Kyle Busch, saying that the team's efforts to beat Busch made the organization stronger as a team.

Busch turned his No. 51 Hiring Our Heroes / ToyotaCare Toyota over to Erik Jones, whose recent birthday made him eligible for racing on mile-and-a-half tracks. Jones missed his high school graduation to run at TMS, so before the race, Eddie Gossage presented Jones with both his high school diploma and one for his graduation to 1.5 mile tracks.

Fin	#	Driver	Sponsor
1	88	Matt Crafton	Slim Jim / Menards
2	20	Justin Lofton	NTS Motorsports
3	8	Joe Nemechek	smokeandsear.com
4	29	Ryan Blaney	Cooper Standard Performance Products
5	5	John Wes Townley	Zaxby's
6	30	Ron Hornaday, Jr.	Ruud Heating & Cooling
7	98	Johnny Sauter	Nextant / Curb Records
8	99	Bryan Silas	PBG / Bell Trucking
9	21	Joey Coulter	Allegiant Travel
10	54	Darrell Wallace, Jr.	ToyotaCare
11	51	Erik Jones	Hiring Our Heroes / ToyotaCare
12	13	Jeb Burton	Estes
13	32	Tayler Malsam	Outerwall
14	31	Ben Kennedy	Turner Scott Motorsports
15	2	Tyler Young	Standard Structures, Inc.
16	9	Brennan Newberry	Qore-24
17	8	Jimmy Weller III	Geneva Liberty Steel / Integrated Metal Prod.
18	50	T.J. Bell	Electrical Linemen
19	35	Mason Mingus	Call 811
20	10	Jennifer Jo Cobb	Grimes Irrigation & Construction
21	19	Tyler Reddick	DrawTite
22	57	Norm Benning	Boedeker Construction
23	77	German Quiroga	Net 10 Wireless
24	17	Timothy Peters	Red Horse Racing
25	7	B.J. McLeod	ThunderExhaust.com
26	63	Justin Jennings	Randco / Young's Building Systems
27	0	Ryan Ellis	Grimes Irrigation & Construction