Ron Hornaday Wins the Built Ford Tough 225

Ron Hornaday wins the Built Ford Tough 225 World Camping Truck Series competition

Ron Hornaday has been running hot and fast on the Camping World Truck Series lately. Saturday night he continued his winning ways on the series by taking his third consecutive victory in the Camping World Truck Series Built Ford Tough 225 held at Kentucky Speedway. This win is the fourth of the Camping World Truck Series for Hornaday and extends his overall lead in the series over second place racer Matt Crafton to 96 points. Hornaday was patient and waited for his moment

and then with 24 laps remaining he made his move. The race had to be restarted on lap 127 of this 150-lap competition on a 1.5

mile track that has seen its share of winners and losers. Hornaday’s crew chief made a few more changes during this stop to fine tune a few things he had started tinkering with during the last pit stop and the changes made a difference as Hornaday’s truck was definitely faster after the last stop. Hornaday restarted sixth after the restart and used his racing ability and faster truck to pass Tayler

Malsam on the inside of Turn 2 and then Aric Almirola on the inside of Turn 4 to move into the lead with just 18 laps left in the Built Ford Tough 225.

Mike Skinner stayed close to the leaders in front of him until he saw his opportunity. He was able to pass his Randy Moss Motorsports teammate Malsam with just nine laps remaining and then lady luck helped him out when Todd Bodine had mechanical problems that allowed him to move into second place. Pulling close to Hornaday with just two turns left, he made his attempt to pass, but was unable to get past him on the outside.

Matt Crafton finished third in his Chevrolet, Timothy Peters managed to hang on for fourth, and Aric Almirola took fifth, while Brian Scott finished sixth. Ricky Carmichael had a good race and despite having a car that seemed slow, he managed seventh place, James Buescher finished eighth, David Starr ninth, and Dennis Setzer rounded out the top ten in the Camping World Series Built Ford Tough 225.

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