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Benson Takes Truck Victory

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The Associated Press

Published: July 26, 2008

CLERMONT, Ind. - Johnny Benson survived a late flurry of cautions and held off Ron Hornaday Jr. in a two-lap shootout at the finish to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Power Stroke Diesel 200 on Friday night.

Benson, the truck series points leader, scored his second straight win and third in the past four races, even though Hornaday dominated the early going on O'Reilly Raceway Park's .686-mile oval.

Hornaday had led all but eight of the first 162 laps, but he could never pull away because of the string of yellow flags. Benson finally pulled around him on the 162nd lap after a restart and stayed in front through four more yellows, beating Hornaday to the checkered flag by .484 seconds after the final restart with two laps to go.

INDYCAR: Ryan Briscoe led qualifying for today's Rexall Edmonton Indy with a speed of 116.955 mph.

Second was Helio Castroneves (116.753), followed by Oriol Servia (116.710).

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