Jack Sprague Takes Chevy Trucks Silverado
to Victory Lane at Texas
SCORES 25TH CAREER NASCAR CRAFTSMAN
TRUCK SERIES WIN IN CHEX 400
FT. WORTH, TX - Jack Sprague captured his 25th career NASCAR
Craftsman Truck Series victory at Texas Motor Speedway in
the No. 16 Chevy Trucks Silverado. The three-time champion
led twice for only 12 laps in the 167-lap Chex 400K to score
his first win of the 2005 NCTS season. It is Sprague's second
victory at TMS, his first in coming in 2001. Sprague started
in the seventh spot of the 36-truck starting line-up and never
ran out of the top-10 all night. Sprague moved to 10th in
the NCTS championship point standings, just 200 points behind
the leader.
Dennis Setzer finished third in the No 46. Chevrolet Z71Silverado.
Setzer, the 2004 race winner, led once for a total of 13 laps.
Coming from the 13th starting spot, Setzer sits fifth in points,
just 87 from the top-spot.
Matt Crafton brought the No. 88 Menard's Silverado to the
checkered flag in fifth followed by Ron Hornaday in the No.
6 GM Goodwrench Silverado in sixth. Hornaday started 14th
and worked his way to the front of the field to lead for 15
laps before green-flag pit stops began. Hornaday is fourth
in the point standings, 66 points out of the lead.
David Starr, who qualified third, finished in ninth after
his No 75 Spears Manufacturing Silverado. The Texas native
sits 11th in points.
The next event for the NCTS is June 18, 2005 Paramount Health
Insurance 200 at Michigan International Speedway.
JACK SPRAGUE, NO 16 CHEVY TRUCKS SILVERADO, QUALIFIED 7TH,
FINISHED 1ST: "The guys gave me a really good
stop the last time we came in. That gave us some good track
position and the truck really came to me. We were really good
on long runs and I think a lot of the guys we had to race
tonight were not as good as we were on the longer runs."
"Skinner raced me really clean tonight, probably as clean
as he has ever raced me before. I want to say hats off to
him, he had a good truck and gave me plenty of room there
at the end for the lead."
You moved a little closer to Ron Hornaday's overall win record
with tonight's win. What does that mean to you?
"Its great, but records are what you look at when you're
eighty years old. In Ron's defense he left the series a couple
of years before me and I was able to close in. But he's also
a lot older than me so I'm going to be racing after he is
gone and I'll catch him, but right now I just want to win
races not for records but for the team."
"It just feels good to get this win and be in victory
lane again and not have any drama out there on the track.
We earned this win tonight and its something that we can really
build on."
