Hornaday sent spinning at Texas

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Ron Hornaday Jr. looked like he was on his way to his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Texas Motor Speedway. But instead he was sent spinning late in the race and finished 18th.
That coupled with a third-place finish by Mike Skinner and Hornaday heads into the last two races of the year with a 57-point deficit in the Truck Series standings.
"Is that all? That is good," said Hornaday, driver of the No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado for Kevin Harvick Inc. "I see the way they are playing games right now, Bill Davis had another truck in there and it seemed like all he wanted to do is block all day. We know how to play it now, we are going to have fun."
Skinner drives one of the Toyotas for Bill Davis Racing in the Truck Series.
Hornaday is second in the standings and trails Skinner. The next race is at Phoenix International Raceway, followed by the final race of the year at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Hornaday had the lead before the second-to-last restart of the race. He was collected in a late-race collision and suffered severe front-end damage to his truck.
"It was NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series racing at its finest," Hornaday said. "We were racing and I didn't know the 8 truck (Chad McCumbee) was coming up there to make it three-wide and I knew Mike was going to get a good run on me cause he laid back. I thought I got a good enough start, but when you lay back you are going to get a good run and that's part of racing. Two trucks slow each other down and the eight truck got a run under us as and we got three-wide in there and I don't know if Mike's truck sucked me around or the 8 or whatever, but I got wrecked."

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