Brian Ickler piloting the No. 51 RedTop Auto Auction Toyota Tundra finished in the 21^st-place position Saturday night after an accident late in the running of the Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Kentucky Speedway.

Ickler placed the Billy Ballew Motorsports entry in the fourth place position on the starting grid for the 150 lap, 225-mile race on the 1.5-mile D-Shaped Tri-Oval in Sparta, Kentucky.

 From the beginning of the event Ickler’s Tundra was fast racing three wide for positions on the 1.5-mile racetrack.  Ickler reported in at the first caution on lap 34 that the truck was getting better and better as the tire pressures built up on the race truck.  Ickler came down pit road on lap 35 for tires and on lap 36 for fuel returning to the track in the sixth place position for the restart on lap 41.  Ickler again ran three wide battling for positions as the tire pressures built on the Billy Ballew Motorsports entry. 

Ickler reported in that the truck was beginning to tighten up off the corners of the racetrack dropping him back to the 11^th-place position.  Ickler persevered and worked his way into the ninth place position on lap 92 by arcing the truck into the corners carrying off better speed. 

With a long green flag run on the track the teams started coming down pit road for service.  Crew chief Doug George kept Ickler on the track long enough to lead a lap for the Billy Ballew Motorsports team then bringing him down pit road for fuel only on lap 103.

Ickler returned to the track in the fourteenth place position when the caution came out on lap 124. The team wanting track position took only two right side tires putting the RedTop Auto Auction Tundra  back out on the track in the second place position behind teammate Aric Almirola in the No. 15 Camping World truck.

 Ickler battled to maintain the position but dropped back to the third spot when another caution flag flew.  On the restart at lap 133 the leader, his teammate, spun the tires, causing the second place truck to get into the back of the leader.  Ickler went low to dodge the trucks on the restart but did not advance his position.  NASCAR officials saw the move differently black flagging the driver sending him back to the 17^th-place position. 

Despite the disappointment of the penalty the team focused on advancing to the front when two competitors ahead of him connected giving Ickler no place to go but into the side of the other race truck.  The incident ended the RedTop Auto Auction team’s night early relegating him to a 21^st-place finish in the 150 lap race.

“The 15 (Aric Almirola) spun his tires and it definitely wasn’t his fault – he’s my teammate,” Ickler said.  “It got to be so rough on the outside that he spun his tires the 81 (Tayler Malsam) got into the back of him and I went low to avoid them.  I backed out of the throttle.  Didn’t really pass him, they said I did, gave it back and they still penalized us and put us in the back.  I was trying to get to the front in a hurry but take our time.  Two trucks wrecked off of (turn) two and I came down and t-boned one of them.  It’s just one of those things.  We tore up a really good truck tonight.”

Kyle “Rowdy” Busch will return to the No. 51 Billy Ballew Motorsports entry at O’Reilly Raceway Park Friday, July 24, 2009.