Racing News Digest

Ron Hornaday and Kyle Busch both win today…again.

Ron Hornaday won today at Memphis Motorsports Park in the Camping World Truck Series. This will be Hornaday’s 3rd win the Truck Series this year with back to back wins after winning last week at the Milwaukee Mile. He had similar performances at both tracks with the same truck.

“It’s a pretty dominant truck, for some reason,” Hornaday said. “I don’t know what we’re doing to it, but we’re going to go back and copy it somehow.”

Hornaday started the race in the pole position and led 175 or the 201 laps today. Last week he led 180 laps of the 2oo lap race.

Kyle Busch grabbed his 5th checked flag of the year in the Nationwide Series at New Hampshire Motor Speedway today after passing teammate Joey Logano for the lead with 36 laps to go. Logano led 108 of the 200 lap race.

“We just kept adjusting on our car all day,” said Busch, who had led the most laps in the last eight Nationwide races while winning only two of them. “Normally, when we’re out front, we don’t adjust on it. Today we didn’t have the winning car, we made the winning car.

[Crew chief] Jason [Ratcliff] and myself, we talked this past week about what we need in order to get better, in order to take this team to Victory Lane instead of finishing second week in and week out. This is a good step in the right direction.”

Kyle is referring to his last 2 races at the Kentucky Speedway and the Milwaukee Mile where he finished second. As well as Nashville Superspeedway and probably Lowes Motor Speedway where he finished 3rd.

But come on, this is his 5th win this year in the Nationwide Series.

Both Kyle Busch and Ron Hornaday are leading the points standings in the Nationwide and Truck series respectively.

Hornaday should now have a 76 point lead over second place Matt Crafton. 149 points separate Ron Hornaday and 4th place Todd Bodine with Mike Skinner sitting in 3rd.

While Ron Hornaday may have a little cushion to work with the Truck Series points, Kyle Busch has put a 162 points gap between him and the 2nd place position held by Carl Edwards in the Nationwide Series after today’s race. The next driver back in the points in 3rd is Brad Keselowski a whopping 243 points back from Kyle Busch.

CHAMPIONSHIP ?
I think both of these guys will get the championship at the end of the year. While Kyle’s current points standings makes him seem like a stronger “for sure thing”, my gut is telling me that Carl Edwards can catch him!?! Carl missed the Nationwide Championship by 21 points last year, I think he is thirsty. Of course he did just win the championship back in 2007.

Ron Hornaday missed the Championship by a mere 7 points last year to Johnny Benson and won it in 2007.