The win is Todd Bodine's third of the year. Credit: Autostock

Texas two-step: Bodine repeats in Silverado 350

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Todd Bodine slipped under Mike Skinner with 23 laps to go and then held the lead after a final restart to win the NASCAR truck race Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway.

The Silverado 350 was Bodine's third victory this season, and the fifth in his career. He also won at Texas last fall.

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"I was running basically wide open," Bodine said. "The truck was absolutely perfect."

Skinner, the polesitter, led 80 of the 147 laps and was running in front when one little slip on the backstretch allowed Bodine to get inside of him. Bodine took the lead for the first time, and kept it the rest of the way.

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After the race's sixth and final caution, Bodine led the restart with 10 laps left in his Toyota. With Kyle Busch and Skinner driving side-by-side behind him, Bodine was able to build a gap and won by 1.162 seconds.

The front pack of three drivers quickly put a 2-second gap between them and the rest of the field, and stayed that way for the rest of the race. Skinner finally got his Toyota in front of Busch's Chevrolet again with six laps left and beat him to the finish.

"My hats off to Todd, he ran a good race," Skinner said. "I just finished second, what can you say. We ran really good."

Bodine won with an average speed of 128.259 mph on the 11/2-mile Texas Motor Speedway. There were 26 laps of caution.

Skinner led three times, as did Busch for 26 laps. Bradon Whitt (11 laps) and Johnny Benson (7) also led the race.

Points leader Todd Musgrave finished 14th, but still increased his lead from 51 to 63 points over Dennis Setzer, who was 18th. Bodine moved from fourth to third in the points, 192 behind Musgrave, with two races left.

Bodine has nine top-3 finishes this year, including his three victories. He was second last week at Atlanta, and was driving the same truck he used there and for his win in Las Vegas two races before then.