MOTORSPORTS ROUNDUP Saturday's events

Busch Series
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Martin Truex Jr. extended his Busch Series points lead, holding off Greg Biffle in a green-white-checker finish in the Sam's Town 'He Dared to Rock' 250 at the Memphis Motorsports Park. Truex's victory, his sixth of the season, extended his lead over Kyle Busch to 208 points as Busch, who was leading until lap 202, fell off after brushing the wall in the second turn and finished 14th. The race that started after overnight and early morning rain included a race-record 13 cautions, causing complaints from most of the top finishers about poor driving by slower drivers. Truex, whose Chevrolet started from the pole, led 133 of the 250 laps and seemed to be coasting with 10 laps to go, holding a lead of almost two seconds. With Busch dropping back, Biffle started moving in his Ford, getting within 0.127 seconds with three laps to go. But Nextel Cup driver Michael Waltrip got into the wall in the backstretch, setting up the series' third green-white-checker restart of the season. Biffle never got a run on Truex over the final two extra laps. Ron Hornaday's Chevrolet finished third, while Clint Bowyer, also in a Chevrolet, was the top rookie, finishing fourth. Mike Bliss, who won last week's Busch race in Concord, N.C., completed the top five.
Craftsman Trucks
MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- Jamie McMurray held off Dennis Setzer on a restart with 12 laps to go and won for the first time in the NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Series, completing a career hat trick. The Nextel Cup driver, making only his third start in a truck this season, became only the eighth driver in NASCAR history to win in the premier series, the Busch Grand National series and in a truck. Setzer didn't win, but he did erase a 79-point deficit to Bobby Hamilton in the series point standings, going ahead by one with three races left. Hamilton had multiple problems and finished 26th. The race appeared to be shaping up as a battle between Travis Kvapil and Jack Sprague, who were running 1-2 until Sprague tried to change it with 27 laps to go. Heading into the second turn, Sprague saw Kvapil's truck wiggle, tried to nose underneath it and hit him in the left rear. Both trucks lost control and spun into the backstretch wall, allowing McMurray to grab the lead. Bobby Labonte finished third and defending champion John Wood was fourth in a Ford, and early leader Ted Musgrave was fifth in a Dodge.
Formula One
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The hometown favorite won the pole position at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after the seven-time world champion crashed during practice. Rubens Barrichello completed a lap around the 2.678-mile Interlagos circuit in 1 minute, 10.646 seconds Saturday -- 0.204 of a second ahead of Juan Pablo Montoya -- for his 13th career pole and fourth this season. Michael Schumacher, the seven-time world champion and Barrichello's Ferrari teammate, had the eighth-best time at 1:11.386, but will start 18th because of a 10-place penalty for changing engines after crashing. McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen, one of this year's two non-Ferrari's winners, was third with a time of 1:10.892. Schumacher, who already has clinched the season's driver's title, has won eight poles this year and was seeking the 64th of his career, which would have left him one short of Ayrton Senna's record.
Associated Press
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