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BENSON EDGES HORNADAY.(NEWS)
Byline: AL PEARCE
The secondclosest championship in 14 years of the NASCAR Truck Series was not decided until the last turn of the last lap of the last race. Johnny Benson held off Ron Hornaday by one positionseventh place to eighthto win his first series title by seven points at Homestead-Miami Speedway. That seemed fitting, since one or the other led the points standings through most of the 25-race season.
Benson, in a Toyota for Bill Davis Racing, took the lead for good at Martinsville in October. But three-time champion Hornaday, in a Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet, made it interesting. Hornaday cut his deficit from 65 points to 31 at Atlanta, to six at Texas and to three in the next-to-last race, at Phoenix. And it wasn't until Benson beat him at turn four on the final lap a week later that the final Craftsman Truck Series champion was crowned. (Camping World becomes the series' title sponsor next year.)
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