“Anything goes,” in Nashville
It took a two lap dustup between NCTS veterans, and race leaders, Todd Bodine and Mike Skinner for Michigan native Johnny Benson Jr to capture his third win of the season at Nashville Superspeedway Saturday.
Skinner was leading on a green-white-checker restart when Bodine pulled the classic crossover maneuver, first looking outside, then crossing over to the inside. Once alongside he pushed Skinner up the track.
Skinner thought turn about is fair play on the white flag lap with the predictable result. The two tangled smacking the wall, allowing Benson to seize the lead and get his third win of the season. “Anything goes,” Benson said. “When I saw those guys go down the front stretch I said all I needed to do was hit my line and I did.”
The most interesting part of the clash was revealed by Todd Bodine: “Skinner and I are supposed to go on vacation in a few weeks. That should be interesting.”
Maybe they should book Dr. Phil on that trip as well.
Jack Sprague was second, followed by Marcos Ambrose giving “The Tasmanian Devil” his best ever NCTS finish. Ted Musgrave was fourth and Brendan Gaughan rounded out the top five.
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Yet another exciting Truck race. It’s great racing to watch, and especially when the cars (in this case trucks) aren’t so aero dependant and can actually race with each other.
It’s this level of competition that played a part into the less aero dependant COT, and the hopes are that it will bring back that level of quality to the top series. Of course its main focus is to be safer, but while they’re at why not fix the whole aero tight/loose/whatever that plagues the current cars.
I think it’s a combination of things Luke. At the top of the list is the shorter events that lead to more action more often. As we both know a 500 mile event lends itself to a bit of strokin’ otherwise the garage would be full of DNF’s due to mechanical gremlins and bent sheet metal.
While the trucks provide less of the aero problems of the Cup cars they aren’t, with a couple exceptions, as fast either. The boxy shape does help but until I see them all in a bunch at 190mph the CoT is nothing but a failed “science experiment” waiting to happen as far as I’m concerned.
And then there is the “tire issue” dealing with both types of cars next year in Cup.