Benson Won’t Be Denied This Time

Tim Zaegel — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:31:01 +0000

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After losing the race last weekend to Erik Darnell in hearbreaking fashion, Johnny Benson won the Camping World RV Sales 200 at the Milwuakee Mile for the third straight year, also giving he and Bill Davis Racing their first win of the season in the Craftsman Truck Series.

Benson exited the pits with the lead after a caution for light rain on lap 146, and then NASCAR again stopped the race, this time red-flagging it for lightning with only fifty laps remaining. From there, Benson went unchallenged as he raced his way to a 2.5 second win over Matt Crafton, who finished the race in 2nd. Making only his fifth start in the truck series, Landon Cassill finished third, and behind him was last week’s race winner, Erik Darnell. Todd Bodine finished fifth.

Benson started the race from the pole position and had a 3.3 second lead over Rick Crawford 70 laps into the race when the field began cycling through their green flag pit stops. A caution came out on lap 78 as Benson was pulling out of pit road, and because of the timing, only seven lead lap trucks were scored behind him, with the others being considered the tail end of the lead lap and were placed in front of Benson, including Crawford. Crawford would later regain his track position on a lap 96 caution, and then rallied from 16th to 8th in the closing 56 laps of the race.

Other race notables: Michael Annett made his first start of the season for Bill Davis Racing, and finished 6th; Ron Hornaday dropped another spot in the standings after finishing 7th; Mike Skinner finished 10th; Jack Sprague finished 13th; Making only her 2nd start in the series for Germain Racing, Chrissy Wallace finished 20th.

The victory was the 10th in the series for Johnny Benson, all of which have come in the last 3 seasons, and it opens up a 50 point lead now over 2nd place, Todd Bodine.

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Craftsman Truck Series Standings:

RANK	+/-	DRIVER	POINTS	BEHIND	STARTS	POLES	WINS	TOP 5	TOP 10
1	–	Johnny Benson	1617	Leader	11	2	1	6	8
2	–	Todd Bodine	1567	-50	11	0	1	6	7
3	+1	Matt Crafton	1550	-67	11	0	1	5	6
4	-1	Ron Hornaday	1547	-70	11	2	2	5	7
5	–	Rick Crawford	1508	-109	11	0	0	3	6
6	–	Mike Skinner	1483	-134	11	2	0	3	9
7	+2	Terry Cook	1441	-176	11	0	0	2	6
8	+2	Erik Darnell	1435	-182	11	1	1	4	4
9	-1	Jack Sprague	1428	-189	11	1	0	3	5
10	-3	Chad McCumbee	1396	-221	11	0	0	2	6
11	–	Dennis Setzer	1367	-250	11	0	1	1	3
12	–	David Starr	1324	-293	11	0	0	2	4
13	+1	Brendan Gaughan	1315	-302	11	0	0	2	3
14	+1	Colin Braun*	1270	-347	11	0	0	1	4
15	+1	Ted Musgrave	1247	-370	11	0	0	0	3
16	-3	Kyle Busch	1205	-412	8	1	2	4	6
17	–	Justin Marks*	1189	-428	11	1	0	0	1
18	+1	Shelby Howard	1166	-451	11	0	0	0	1
19	-1	Donny Lia*	1146	-471	10	0	1	1	2
20	–	Stacy Compton	1088	-529	11	0	0	0	2

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Benson Won’t Be Denied This Time