Bodine makes it back-to-back victories

Todd Bodine won Saturday's caution-filled Silverado 350K at Texas Motor Speedway to become the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series' first back-to-back winner in more than a year.

Bodine, driving a Toyota, took the lead on the 109th of 146 laps when pole winner Mike Skinner cut a left rear tire and slowed. Bodine, 40, duplicated his Oct. 2 victory at California Speedway, beating fellow Toyota driver Johnny Benson by just over one second.

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship leader Bobby Hamilton finished third in his Dodge, followed by Texan David Starr and Jack Sprague. Bodine won $60,130 and averaged 115.169 mph in an event slowed by a series track record nine cautions.

Following the race, drivers David Reutimann and Bill Lester were awake and alert and undergoing further evalution at a Fort Worth hospital. The pair were involved in a five-truck accident on the 104th lap that halted the race for nearly a half hour. Hamilton holds a 79-point lead over Dennis Setzer, the race's eighth-place finisher, with four races remaining on the season.