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Kyle Busch Races To Truck Win

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The Associated Press

Published: November 10, 2007

AVONDALE, Ariz. - Kyle Busch ended two weeks of frustration Friday night by leading the final 42 laps to win the Truck Series race at Phoenix International Raceway.

Championship contender Ron Hornaday finished second, and series points leader Mike Skinner was eighth. Skinner started the race with a 57-point lead over Hornaday, but the margin was trimmed to 29 heading into next week's finale in Homestead.

"I just try to stay positive with everything," Skinner said. "We'll go to Homestead and hammer down."

But Skinner was irritated with teammate Johnny Benson, who passed him for seventh place in the closing laps.

"I'm not the boss. I guess we're not a team," Skinner said. "I thought he was taking care of me. I don't know. I don't want to comment on it."

It was Busch's second win of the season and second in three races. But the celebration on his Atlanta win two weeks ago was shortened when he lost the Nextel Cup event two days later because of a slow final pit stop.

He then headed to Texas hoping to rebound, and looked to be headed toward an easy win in the Truck race until his motor blew halfway through the race. He was a disappointing second in the Busch Series race the next day, and faded to fourth in the Cup event after leading 153 laps.

So Busch arrived in Arizona hoping to end what he considered a four-race losing streak.

The race was slowed by a record 13 cautions for 46 laps.

FORMULA ONE: A day after Renault was accused of possessing confidential information belonging to rival team McLaren, Renault acknowledged it suspended an engineer in September.

Renault said Friday it suspended Phil Mackereth on Sept. 6 when officials learned of the leak. Renault said it alerted McLaren and FIA - motorsport's governing body - even though none of the information was used.

CHAMP CAR: St. Petersburg resident Sebastien Bourdais set a track record at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez with a lap time of 1 minute, 24.698 seconds in the first qualifying session for Sunday's Mexico Grand Prix in Mexico City.

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