Todd Bodine Continues Win Streak
FORT WORTH, Texas - Todd Bodine won his second straight NASCAR truck race Saturday, leading the final 38 laps after a lengthy red flag.
Bodine, the 40-year-old former Nextel Cup driver, finished a second ahead of Johnny Benson, another former Cup driver. Bodine, who averaged 115.179 mph in the Silverado 350K, is the first this season to win consecutive races.
“The truck was perfect, absolutely perfect,” Bodine said. “That last run, I was barely lifting out of the throttle. When you can do that, it’s awesome.”
Bodine regained the lead on Lap 109, the first green-flag lap after the race was stopped for 28 minutes because of a crash involving five trucks.
Bill Lester got loose on Lap 104 and slid into Zephyrhills native David Reutimann. Both trucks slammed hard into the wall coming out of Turn 4, and three other trucks were caught in the aftermath.
Lester’s truck came to rest on the frontstretch, and Reutimann slid to the inside wall along pit row. Both drivers were alert when they were taken by ambulance to Harris Methodist Hospital. After the delay, in which debris was removed and repairs were made to the SAFER barrier on the wall that absorbed the impact, Bodine passed polesitter Mike Skinner.
