Is This NEXTEL Cup’s Future Foretold via Tundra?
Todd Bodine led a group of five Toyota Tundras across the [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/check-flag.bmp]finish line[/avatar] Saturday night in the Ram Tough 200 at Gateway International Raceway.
With the amount of cash Toyota has dumped into the [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/cts.gif]Craftsman Truck Series[/avatar] it’s not surprising the results they are having. But it does make you wonder if somewhere in the Big Three’s boardrooms they are scratching their collective heads or having dreams of Camry domination within the next few years.
It is Bodine’s fifth victory in the last eight NCTS events going back to last year. He was folowed across the line by Ted Musgrave, David Reutimann, Jack Sprague and Johnny Benson. Rick Crawford was in contention late but had a tire go down with a handful of laps renaining.
There were 13 cautions, setting a Gateway record for the truck series. The previous record for cautions was nine.
Australian superstar, and NCTS rookie Marcos Ambrose was taken out of the race on the 61st lap when Mike Skinner bounced off the outside wall and back into traffic. The impact damaged the right side of Ambrose’s #19 Woods Bros. Ford. Kyle Krisiloff and Justin Martz also were involved in the crash.
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