Saturday, February 23 California Speedway Fontana, California

Kyle Busch celebrates his win in the San Bernardino County 200...

Busch Wins California

Kyle Busch won the San Bernardino 250, his seventh victory in 38 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races. That matches Mark Martin for the most wins in the series by an active NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver.

This is his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Auto Club Speedway.
• This is the eighth NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victory for truck owner Billy Ballew.
• Todd Bodine (second) posted his second top-10 finish in 2008, as he and Busch swapped their finishing positions from Daytona.
• Johnny Benson (third).posted his second top-10 finish in 2008 – both third-place finishes.
• Busch took the lead in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship points and now leads Bodine by 20 points.

Race Results - click here

Driver Point Standings - click here

Broadcast Times

• Qualifying: Friday, February 22 (SPEED at 5:30 p.m./AT)
• Race: Saturday, February 23 (FOX at 4 p.m. AT)

Event Stats PDF files unless noted otherwise

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Green Flag Fast Facts
The Race: San Bernardino County 200
The Place: California Speedway
The Date: Feb. 23, 2008
The Green Flag: 4 p.m./AT
Race Distance: 200 miles/ 100 laps
TV: FOX, 4 p.m./AT, 3 p.m./ET
Track Layout: 2.0-mile banked paved speedway
Race Purse: $675,476
2007 Winner: Mike Skinner
2007 Pole: Carl Edwards
Schedule: Thursday – Practice, 12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Final Practice 3:00 p.m.–4 p.m. Friday Qualifying, 1:40 p.m.
Year-To-Date Standings: click here

Track Map



Pre-Race Pit Stops

• Hornaday, Skinner Start The Season In Deep Hole... Last year’s down-to-the-wire championship battle between Ron Hornaday Jr. (No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet) and Mike Skinner (No. 5 Toyota Tundra Toyota) took a bit of a detour in Daytona. Both drivers failed to finish among the top 20, Hornaday’s truck felled by mechanical trouble and Skinner the victim of a lap 18 backstretch melee. The two will have to stage comebacks of dramatic proportions if they intend to reprise their epic 2007 struggle. Hornaday trails Bodine by 102 points while Skinner is 114 back. History shows it can be done. Mike Bliss (No. 07 ASI Limited Chevrolet) left Daytona facing a 121-point deficit in 2002 and won the championship. Hornaday is facing another issue, the elusive back-to-back championship. While he and Kevin Harvick Inc. teammate Jack Sprague (No. 2 RVs.com Chevrolet) have won three titles apiece, neither they nor any other competitors have been able to fashion back-to-back championships. Hornaday is in familiar territory. Only once has a champion gone to the second race of the season with a greater deficit. That would be Hornaday, 107 back in 1997. He wound up fifth.
• Toyota Sweeps Daytona... Todd Bodine wasn’t the only Toyota driver celebrating at Daytona. In fact, the 2006-07 manufacturers’ champion put a Tundra truck in the four top finishing positions. That’s the best Toyota has finished at Daytona since joining the series in 2004. A Toyota also won the Chevy Silverado 250 last year. With the victory, Toyota takes a three-point lead in the 2008 Manufacturers’ Championship. Ford is second followed by Dodge and Chevrolet. Toyota is the defending winner at California Speedway with two victories in the past four races. Dodge counts four wins and could break a victory drought that extends to the early part of the 2005 season.
• 2008 Raybestos Rookie Class Off To Fast Start It’s rare when rookies excel at a track like Daytona International Speedway but this year’s class of Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidates were solid performers in last week’s Chevy Silverado 250. Two drivers – Justin Marks (No. 9 Construct Corps Toyota) and Brian Scott (No. 15 Shark Energy Drink/Albertsons Chevrolet – finished eighth and 10th. Five of the six entered freshman candidates finished 13th or higher, completing all 100 laps of the 250-mile race. Marks is the first week standings leader by two points over Scott. “My initial excitement came from just finishing the race,” said Scott, a 20-year-old native of Boise, Idaho. “We did exactly what we wanted to do and it was great to finish in the top 10. “It was exhilarating over the final laps. My feelings might be different if we had gotten tangled up in something but we didn’t and we got a great finish. I couldn’t be happier how things turned out.” Looking forward to this week, there’s good news and bad for the freshman class. Kurt Busch won as a rookie in 2000 but a Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate hasn’t posted a top-five finish since. The most recent best finish, sixth, was turned in by David Reutimann in 2004.
• California Dreamin’...Three California drivers have won a total of seven races at four tracks since the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series’ inception in 1995. Two are entered in this week’s San Bernardino County 200. Mike Skinner is a three-time winner at California Speedway, the old Mesa Marin Raceway and Infineon Raceway. Ron Hornaday Jr.’s three victories came at Mesa Marin and Infineon.
• California Add...Four of the 1995 schedule’s 20 races were held at facilities in the Golden State. The series no longer competes at Infineon Raceway. Mesa Marin and Saugus Speedway no longer exist.
• Chicken Or Feathers...Last season’s top 10 elite drivers were either at the top or bottom of the finish of the 2008 opener at Daytona. Four finished among the top 10; four finished outside the top 20. Two – Johnny Benson and Rick Crawford – go to the year’s second race occupying the same positions, third and fifth, in which they concluded 2007.
• This Time He’s Old Enough...The last time Kyle Busch showed up for a truck race at California Speedway, in 2001, the then-16-year-old driver was deemed too young to race because of sponsorship restrictions. If he wins, it will mark the second time that siblings have won series races at the same track. Kurt Busch won in 2000. Both Busch brothers have series wins at Dover International Speedway.
• The Daytona-California Two-Step...Since the two tracks went back-to-back on the schedule in 2005, Mark Martin is the only driver to win both races. Martin did it in 2006 and came close to making it three wins in a row a year ago before a late race restart skirmish took the veteran driver out of contention.

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