Setzer passes Musgrave for O'Reilly 400K win

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Dennis Setzer overtook the ill-handling truck of Ted Musgrave with five laps left Friday night and went on to a record-setting NASCAR trucks win in Texas.

O'REILLY 400K  •  Unofficial Results

Setzer won by 11.817 seconds, the largest margin of victory at the track, in a record speed of 148.946 mph. The race had just three cautions for 12 laps.

Setzer led just 13 laps in his 12th career win, five years to the date after his only other Texas win.

When Setzer made his final pit stop with 32 laps left, his crew opted to change all four tires on his Chevrolet. That came just three laps after Musgrave changed only right-side tires.

Musgrave built a lead of more than seven seconds, but as the laps ticked down, so did his advantage. He said something came loose on the right front of his Dodge.

	Dennis Setzer with the trophy. Credit: Nate Mecha/HSP

"The wheel was coming off, I couldn't run any faster," Musgrave said. "It was just ready to crash, but we came home second. It's not what we're looking for, but the team's back. There was nothing I could do."

Even while moving through lapped trucks, Setzer continued to gain on the lead. Going into the backstretch on the 163rd lap, he tucked his Chevrolet behind the lapped truck of Mike Skinner, following him under and by Musgrave.

"We had a great truck under us," Setzer said. "The call for four tires, that paid big dividends for us on that long run at the end."

Setzer maintained the season points lead by 50 points over Carl Edwards, who finished sixth and led 11 laps. Setzer has two wins and two runner-up finishes his last five races.

Rookie David Reutimann finished third in his Toyota, followed by Jack Sprague in a Chevrolet and Chad Chaffin in a Dodge.

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Musgrave, after his first pole of the season, led four times for 101 laps. It was his best finish of the season, and only second top 10.

Brendan Gaughan had won the last four races at Texas, a trucks series record for most consecutive wins at one track. Since he's now a NASCAR Nextel Cup rookie, he wasn't back to try to extend that streak.

Steve Park was in Gaughan's same Orleans Racing Dodge, aptly named "Lone Star," and finished 10th. It was his first top-10 of the season.

Travis Kvapil had been the last driver other than Gaughan to win at Texas. The defending series champion crashed on the 20th lap Friday.

Kvapil's truck got loose coming out of the third turn. His Toyota snapped around and made contact with hometown favorite David Starr, sending both trucks hard into the wall. Both returned late in the race, Kvapil finishing 27th (87 laps down) and Starr 29th (136 laps down).