TRUCKS Todd Bodine wins second straight



His Toyota ran extremely well and he finished a full second ahead of Johnny Benson.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Todd Bodine won his second straight NASCAR truck race Saturday, leading the final 38 laps after a lengthy red flag.
Bodine, the 40-year-old former Nextel Cup driver, finished a full second ahead of Johnny Benson, another former Cup driver also in a Toyota. Bodine's average speed was 115.179 mph and he became the first driver this season to win consecutive races.
"The truck was perfect, absolutely perfect," Bodine said. "That last run, I was barely lifting out of the throttle. When you can do that, it's awesome."
Bodine regained the lead on the 109th lap, the first green-flag lap after the race had been stopped for 28 minutes because of a crash involving five trucks.
The slam
Bill Lester got loose on lap 104, then slid up into David Reutimann. Both trucks slammed hard into the wall coming out of the fourth turn, and three other trucks got caught in the aftermath.
Lester's truck came to rest on the frontstretch, and Reutimann slid to the inside wall along pit row. Both drivers were alert when they were taken in the same ambulance to Harris Methodist Hospital.
After the delay, during which debris was cleaned and repairs were made to the SAFER barrier on the wall, Bodine passed polesitter Mike Skinner and his Toyota after the green flag waved.
"I knew we had a good-enough truck to get back to the lead," said Bodine, who led 33 other laps just before the big crash.
Bodine also won at California two weeks ago, and has finished in the top-four in four of his five truck races this season.
Series points leader Bobby Hamilton finished third in his Dodge, ahead of the Chevrolets of David Starr and Jack Sprague. Ted Musgrave, the winner at Texas in June, was sixth in his Dodge.
With four races remaining, Hamilton has a 79-point lead over Dennis Setzer. Musgrave is third and Carl Edwards is fourth.