NASCAR Truck Series

Ron Hornaday, making his eighth start at Charlotte Motor Speedway, conserved fuel to finish fifth in the N.C. Education Lottery 200 on Friday night. This was Hornaday's sixth top-five finish in eight starts at the 1.5-mile quad-oval and Joe Denette Motorsports' first top-five finish of the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.

Max Gresham and the No. 24 Joe Denette Motorsports team didn't get the results they expected in Friday night's N.C. Education Lottery 200 and, as a result, left Charlotte Motor Speedway with a 24th-place finish in the fifth event on the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule.

Richard Childress Racing teammates finished seventh (Joey Coulter), 10th (Ty Dillon) and 12th (Brendan Gaughan).

Miguel Paludo brought home a hard-fought top-15 in a caution-filled race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, gaining one position in the driver point standings. Paludo surged as high as third and avoided multiple on-track incidents, but tight handling ultimately resulted in a 14th-place finish for the No. 32 Duroline Brakes and Components Chevrolet.

Justin Lofton earned his first career victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway, joining two other rookie winners in the Camping World Truck Series in 2012. It was the 55th start for the Westmoreland CA native. At age 26, Lofton held off a hard charging Brad Keselowski to take the checkers.

Justin Lofton, 26, earned his first Camping World Truck Series win Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, winning the N.C. Education Lottery 200.

Brad Keselowski (No. 19 Cooper Standard RAM) Finished 2nd “We had a great Cooper Standard RAM. I’m really proud of everybody at BKR. This was the truck to beat tonight and they worked their butts off to make it happen."

Tundra driver Todd Bodine (third) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Friday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

NASCAR’s superstars will fight for supremacy in their own backyard this weekend, and while the format is different for the All-Star event, it is a guaranteed fight to the finish. In order to brawl for the big bucks, some of the sports most popular players must make their way to the main event.

David Starr with the Arrington Racing team will head to Charlotte, N.C., with the No. 81 Zachry Toyota Tundra for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race on Saturday, May 19, 2012.