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[/media-credit]Brian Scott survived the wreck-fest in Phoenix and scored his second Camping World Truck Series victory after a battle with the young Kyle Larson on a green-white-checkered finish. Larson had the lead late before a caution set up the wild finish.
The race itself was great throughout. However; there was a point in the race where there was six consecutive cautions. six green laps were run during that time frame. Cautions breed cautions.
Jeff Choquette hit the wall hard off turn-2 to bring out the first yellow of the race, but then Todd Bodine received major front-end damage after a Jason White spun out.
Parker Kligerman followed suit on the very next green flag as he got loose and Matt Crafton was left helpless as he plowed into the accident. Kligerman was visibly upset with himself, but high-fived his crew and apologized for his mistake.
The chaos ensued as Nelson Piquet Jr. got loose on the very next restart in Turn 3 and wiped out both Ron Hornaday and Johnny Sauter. Piquet was a heavy favorite to pull out a victory here in the desert.
Eventually someone had to lost their temper after another caution. German Quiroga got loose entering turn-1 and plowed the No.2 Chevrolet Silverado of Brendan Gaughan from behind and both hit the wall very hard. Gaughan emerged from the truck and screamed things at Quiroga that probably nobody wants to hear. In Gaughan’s interview, he claimed that he spoke fluent Spanish and the kid simply “screwed up”, but no apology came from Gaughan. Quiroga was very apologetic and admitted to losing the handle of his No.51 truck.
James Buescher came into this race as the points leader and kept it despite losing a tire late in the race. Brian Scott survived the madness for his second Truck Series victory. His last victory came at Dover in 2009 in the AAA Insurance 200.
Tune in for coverage of the Nationwide race tomorrow on my Twitter @SirRyanTheOHara.
| Unofficial Race Results | |||||
| Lucas Oil 150, Phoenix Int’l Raceway | |||||
| http://www.speedwaymedia.com/truckseries/race.php?race=21 | |||||
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| Pos. | St. | No. | Driver | Make | Points |
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| 1 | 3 | 18 | Brian Scott | Toyota | 0 |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | Kyle Larson | Chevrolet | 43 |
| 3 | 17 | 22 | Joey Coulter | Chevrolet | 41 |
| 4 | 8 | 17 | Timothy Peters | Toyota | 41 |
| 5 | 2 | 29 | Ryan Blaney | Ram | 39 |
| 6 | 14 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Chevrolet | 38 |
| 7 | 4 | 33 | Cale Gale * | Chevrolet | 37 |
| 8 | 1 | 30 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Chevrolet | 37 |
| 9 | 11 | 27 | Ryan Truex | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 10 | 22 | 6 | Justin Lofton | Chevrolet | 35 |
| 11 | 23 | 135 | Matt Merrell | Chevrolet | 33 |
| 12 | 13 | 119 | David Mayhew | Ram | 0 |
| 13 | 27 | 9 | John Wes Townley * | Toyota | 31 |
| 14 | 15 | 32 | Miguel Paludo | Chevrolet | 30 |
| 15 | 21 | 3 | Ty Dillon * | Chevrolet | 30 |
| 16 | 32 | 99 | Bryan Silas * | Ford | 28 |
| 17 | 9 | 31 | James Buescher | Chevrolet | 27 |
| 18 | 33 | 8 | Todd Peck | Toyota | 26 |
| 19 | 34 | 57 | Norm Benning | Chevrolet | 25 |
| 20 | 5 | 88 | Matt Crafton | Toyota | 24 |
| 21 | 26 | 23 | Jason White | Ford | 23 |
| 22 | 10 | 9 | Ron Hornaday | Chevrolet | 22 |
| 23 | 19 | 2 | Brendan Gaughan | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 24 | 18 | 151 | German Quiroga | Toyota | 20 |
| 25 | 16 | 13 | Johnny Sauter | Toyota | 19 |
| 26 | 30 | 174 | Brian Weber | Chevrolet | 18 |
| 27 | 7 | 7 | Parker Kligerman | Toyota | 17 |
| 28 | 12 | 11 | Todd Bodine | Toyota | 16 |
| 29 | 36 | 5 | John King * | Ford | 15 |
| 30 | 20 | 297 | Jeff Choquette | Chevrolet | 14 |
| 31 | 24 | 225 | Stephen Leicht | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 32 | 31 | 93 | Dennis Setzer | Chevrolet | 12 |
| 33 | 25 | 7 | Ross Chastain * | Chevrolet | 11 |
| 34 | 35 | 84 | Chris Fontaine | Chevrolet | 10 |
| 35 | 28 | 38 | Chris Jones | Chevrolet | 9 |
| 36 | 29 | 0 | Blake Koch | Ford | 0 |
