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Ron Hornaday Jr. is looking to rebound after a disappointing finish in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.
Hornaday, who led the most laps in the race, ran out of fuel with four laps to go. He dropped from second to 29th and lost his lead in the Truck Series standings. He is 65 points behind Johnny Benson with four races left on the Truck Series schedule.
The next race for the Truck Series teams is at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Hornaday won the Truck Series race at Atlanta in 2005.
"Atlanta is a good, smooth track and you have two grooves you can run in," said Hornaday, a former Saugus Speedway champ from Palmdale. "Our last two races at Atlanta have been successful runs, but we weren't able to get the finishes we wanted when we had the strongest truck in the field. This time around, we will have a really good truck. It's only been raced once, but it's a good piece. I think we should be able to pick up where we left off back in March and hopefully be in victory lane at the end of the day."
The truck his team at Kevin Harvick Inc. is bringing to Atlanta is the same truck they raced at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where Hornaday finished fifth.

Jack Sprague will not finish the season driving for Kevin Harvick Inc. in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Kevin Harvick, the owner of the two-truck team and a driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, said he will be in the No. 2 truck for the next race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. "The performance of the No. 2 team was not up to either Jack or KHI's standards," said Harvick, who owns the team with his wife, DeLana. "My main goal now is to prepare the team to run for a championship in 2009. I am looking forward to getting behind the wheel in Martinsville. It should be a lot of fun."
Sprague has five top fives and nine top 10s in 20 Truck Series races this year. His finished second at Kansas Speedway and Dover International Speedway in Delaware, his best results of the year. He finished 27th at Talladega Superspeedway and 26th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in his last two races with KHI.

Ron Hornaday Jr. finished second in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama and moved into first place in the Truck Series standings.
He has a 39-point lead over Johnny Benson with five races to go in the season. Hornaday, driver of the No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado for Kevin Harvick Inc., and a former Saugus Speedway champ from Palmdale, recorded his 12th top-five finish of the year and his fourth in a row.
"I knew we had a fast truck," Hornaday said after the race at Talladega. "We got three wide there. I've got to apologize to Mike Wallace, he pushed me to the front there and Rick Carelli (spotter) cleared me and I thought he was clear with us to go down there so I hate to leave Mike out there. He definitely pushed us."
Hornaday came into the race one point behind Benson for the lead in the Truck Series standings. Benson finished 11thh at Talladega.
"We ran good all day and I saw Johnny all day," Hornaday said. "We'll take it. Coming out here finishing second, that is just unbelievable. This is what this team is all about. Built a brand-new truck, to come here and do this is a lot of fun.
Todd Bodine won the Talladega race. It was his second Truck Series win of the year. Hornaday, who has won five Truck Series races this year, has 12 top five finishes, including the second-place finish at Talladega.
"Bring a brand new truck that has never been tested," Hornaday said. "Chevrolet put it in the wind tunnel with us and Mark Smith doing the motors. We will take a second. It feels like a win here at Talladega for me."

After a fifth-place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Ron Hornaday Jr. is one point behind Johnny Benson in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series standings.
The Truck Series races at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama on Saturday. Hornaday has two top 10s at Talladega in two Truck Series races at the track.
"Racing at Talladega is a lot like racing at Daytona," said Hornaday, a former Saugus Speedway champ from Palmdale. "Daytona is more of a handling track so the driver has to drive the truck a little more there than at Talladega. Talladega is really smooth now with the new asphalt surface they put down a few years ago."

Camping World is one of the companies that could become the title sponsor of what is now the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
Camping World is also one of the title sponsors on Ron Hornaday's No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado for Kevin Harvick Inc.
Harvick, a driver for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, was asked what would happen to Hornaday's truck if Camping World becomes the sponsor of the Truck Series.
The deal Camping World has with Harvick and the No. 33 truck ends in 2009. Harvick said he expects Camping and VFW to be the title sponsors on Hornaday's truck next year.
Camping World also has a stake in Harvick's Nationwide Series team. That team could be affected the most if Camping World becomes the sponsor of the Truck Series, Harvick said.
Harvick was asked before qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Friday if he was upset by NASCAR's apparent cherry-picking of sponsors from teams, especially in light of the current economic climate.
"I don't think they cherry-picked in this situation," Harvick said. "I think if you look at the entitlements that Camping World has, it is definitely something that they obviously look at what works for them and their vendors and the way that they sell product at the race track. It has got to make sense. If something doesn't make sense for me from a business side of it, I don't do it. It has to make sense on that side of it. Camping World has been a great partner and will continue to be a great partner as we roll forward on the No. 33 truck."
In addition to being a sponsor on the No. 33 truck, Camping World is also a sponsor on the No. 33 car driven by Harvick in the Nationwide Series.
"We have a lot of good races on the No. 33 car with me driving," Harvick said. "It is just something that we haven't been selling. We have sold the rest of the car; I don't foresee a problem there."
Harvick said NASCAR has been in communication with him about the negotiations with Camping World.
"We have known that Camping World has been looking at the entitlement," Harvick said. "This has to work for everybody and ... there is definitely not any cherry-picking from a NASCAR standpoint. This is just a company looking at it, one of a few companies looking at something that might make sense for them. That is not something that you can damn anybody for. You just have to stand back. Sponsorship hunting is something that is always going to be a part of NASCAR, the teams and there is going to be some crossover and some things that happen. I just like the fact that there has been good communication and been on the same page with the team from this point."
There is a possibility that Camping World will be the sponsor of the Truck Series and on Hornaday's truck in 2009.
"I don't know the details of how far along they are with NASCAR," Harvick said. "I know that they are under contract to run on Ron Hornaday's truck, it will be the Camping World Chevrolet with six VFW races with Hornaday next year."

Ron Hornaday Jr., days after admitting to taking steroids and HGH to treat an overactive thyroid condition, won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway.
It was his second Truck Series win in a row, his fifth of the year and the 38th of his career. The former Saugus Speedway champ from Palmdale is second in the standings and trails Johnny Benson by 74 points as the Truck Series heads to Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
"I've had some good runs at Las Vegas over the years. I like the track; it's similar to racing at Texas, Atlanta and Charlotte," said Hornaday, driver of the No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado for Kevin Harvick Inc. "They all have the same layout. We put together a decent run last year, but had a tire issue late in the race that cost us a good finish."
Hornaday has never won a Truck Series race at Las Vegas and his team will be bringing a new truck for this weekend's race.
"Our mile-and-a-half program has been great this year," Hornaday said. "I don't see why we cannot have another good run on this type of track. Rick Ren (crew chief) and all the guys on this Camping World Chevrolet Silverado team do an awesome job week in and week out."