CRAFTSMAN TRUCKS

• Bodine looking to extend win record at Texas

  Fort Worth, TX (Sports Network) - Series: NASCAR Camping World Truck. Date: Friday, June 4. Race: WinStar World Casino 400k. Site: Texas Motor Speedway. Track: 1.5-mile tri-oval. Start time: 9:00 p.m. (et). Laps: 167. Miles: 400 (kilometers). 2009 winner: Todd Bodine. Television: SPEED. Radio: Motor Racing Network(MRN)/SIRIUS NASCAR Radio.

  The Camping World Truck Series will run at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway for the 25th time on Friday. Todd Bodine has won a record five truck races at Texas.

  One year ago, Bodine capitalized on a late-race pit strategy to win at Texas. Bodine elected not to pit for fuel during the last round of stops. He grabbed the lead with 43 laps remaining, and then easily held off Matt Crafton at the finish.

  Bodine became the first driver in the series to win five races at the same track.

  The 2006 series champion has not won since last year's spring race at Texas.

  "This Germain Racing team has been working hard," Bodine said. "At Dover, we didn't have a truck to win the race, but we still got a fifth. That's how you win points championships is to take a truck that can't win but still finish in the top-five. Then at Charlotte, we had a good truck and finished second." Ten of Bodine's 17 career truck wins have come at 1.5-mile ovals, making him the series' winningest driver on intermediate tracks.

  Bodine currently leads in the standings by just two points over Aric Almirola. It's the closest battle in series history after the first seven races.

  "This is shaping up to be a close points battle," said Almirola, who won his first career truck race in May at Dover. "Todd and I are really close in the points now, but there are so many good teams in the Truck Series garage. Ron Hornaday Jr., Timothy Peters, Matt Crafton and Mike Skinner are all going to be there at the end." Peters led the standings for the first five races this season, but now sits 86 points out of the lead. Hornaday, the four-time and defending series champion, is 103 points behind.

  While Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick concentrate on their Sprint Cup Series duties at Pocono this weekend, Johnny Benson will drive Busch's No.18 Toyota, and Ken Schrader will be behind the wheel of Harvick's No.2 Chevrolet at Texas.

  Brian Ickler originally was scheduled to drive the No.18 truck at Texas, but Ickler has been offered a partial schedule in the Nationwide Series with Roush Fenway Racing, including this Saturday's race at Nashville. He will drive the No.18 for Kyle Busch Motorsports in some truck races later this year.

  Schrader drove Harvick's truck to a ninth-place finish one month ago at Kansas.

  Thirty-five teams are on the preliminary entry list for the WinStar World Casino 400k.

  06/02 20:09:37 ET