Ron Hornaday dominated at Memphis for his third win of the season and took the points lead away from Johnny Benson.
Mike McKillop takes the win and the points lead at Memphis!
The Truck series champion is back on to again as Mike McKillop wins his first race of the season and second of his career at Memphis. It was a close race between Mike and Daniel Schmittou, each driver had the same picks so the tiebreaker went to the standings position. Mike McKillop had the advantage so he prevailed as the winner.
The winning set of picks were Matt Crafton, Erik Darnell, Johnny Benson, Dennis Setzer, David Starr and Ron Hornaday as the segment driver. It didn't seem to matter that Benson fell out of the race, the other drivers made up for him.
Mike now moves to the top of the standings for the first time this year, a place that he spent many weeks at last season.
He's having a good season to match what he did last year. He already has 3 top 5's and 4 top 10's. He had 5 top 5's and 8 top 10's last year.
Mike's only other win in the series came at Kentucky last July, the very race that we will be headed to next.
Well, Dan Schmittou came close to his 2nd career win but fell just short since he was further down in the standings. Dan has been struggling in the Truck series this year, but does have a few decent finishes to show for it. The third top 5 of the year will help him out big time as he moves up 10 spots in the standings to 33rd place.
Ludwig Hormann, Jr. has quietly been sneaking up the standings throughout the season. He hasn't made a whole lot of noise but has been pretty consistent. Nobody could see him coming but all of a sudden he finds himself up to 2nd place in the standings after finishing third this week. If you haven't noticed, Ludwig now leads all drivers in top 10's after scoring his 5th this week. He is now just 38 points behind Mike for the lead.
Another guy putting up some nice finishes is James Dillon, since his win three races ago at Texas, he backed it up with a top 5 in Michigan. He stumbled just a bit last week at Milwaukee but comes back with a 4th place finish here at Memphis. This is the 4th top 5 for James which pushes him up 6 spots to 8th place in the standings.
Also rebounding nicely from a poor finish at Michigan is Lou Demian who comes in 5th place. Lou has been having a breakout year compared to last year's slow start out of the gate. This is his third top 5 and puts him back up to third place in the standings, 43 points out of the lead.
We had a new player join us this week, David Smith who heads up Draftpack 3 88. David had a nice Truck series debut with a 7th place finish. David is currently our 54th member in the league which brings us to a full field for the first time this year.
Well, after a stretch of Truck races, it's time to take a break while the Cup and Nationwide series head over to Daytona. Enjoy the fourth of July and we'll see you in two weeks at Kentucky!
Erik Darnell keeps the good finishes coming with his third straight top 5.
2008 Lucky Dog Racing: Truck Series Top 10 Drivers
