Kyle Busch had the dominant NASCAR Craftsman Truck at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway since the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Billy Ballew Motorsports Toyota Tundra was unloaded from the hauler. Not only was Busch fastest in practice but put the Toyota Tundra on the pole with a time of 30.160 seconds at a speed of 179.045 mph. Busch was nearly three miles per hour faster than the second place position with their time of 176.904 miles per hour.

Busch lead 86 laps of the 138 lap race and looked to be the truck to beat until competitor and friend Ron Hornaday got loose underneath sending Busch into the outside wall. Despite heavy damage Busch managed to bring home an eighth place finish and the lead back in 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Owners Championship points.

“I’ve learned in these things, that when you get to the outside of someone you tend to make them loose,” Busch said. “I tried giving him room by getting up the race track. I heard him gas up, and when he did, he drove up the race track a little bit and got right on my door. It took his air away and sucked him around. My truck, I guess, was glued to the race track way better than his, and I could hold it down on the bottom on the white line better. I was able to make passes all night. It’s just unfortunate. I hate it most for these guys at Billy Ballew Motorsports. The guys that work on them and put these things together. We don’t have many of them. It’s good, hard racing, going out there and getting after it, but we still had 30-something laps to go. It wasn’t like it was three laps to go door-to-door for the win. We still had plenty of time to duke it out. I was trying to get to the front, and get up to see those boys and try to race with the rest of the guys when we got behind on track position. Man, that thing was strong tonight. That Toyota Tundra was just awesome.”