Bliss, Musgrave have sweet dreams of Calif.

FONTANA, Calif. -- California Speedway seems to be a perfect place for Mike Bliss and Ted Musgrave.

Bliss, from Milwaukie, Ore., has five top-10 finishes in five Craftsman Truck Series starts at California. Musgrave, whose hometown is a suburb of Milwaukee, Wis., can do Bliss one better. He's six-for-six.

Musgrave posted wins in 2001, 2002 and 2003 -- and has never finished worse than fifth at Fontana.

"I don't know if there's any reason for it," Musgrave said. "I like big racetracks like this, where there's a couple of grooves where you can run high or run low, you can draft."

Musgrave backed it up with a ninth-place effort in Friday's qualifying session for the San Bernardino County 200 -- "nine for the No. 9" as he put it, although he tapped the wall in Turn 4 with the right-rear of his Toyota on his final lap.

Bliss won at California in 1997 -- and despite taking time off to run other series -- has never lost his touch at the 2-mile oval.

"I like this place. I like how wide it is, I like how fast it is," he said. "The trucks put on a great show because it's almost like a Daytona all over again, the draft and everything.

"Some places, drivers always run better at and they know exactly what they need in a racecar and I guess this is probably one of the tracks that I guess I have a little more success at."

He'll roll off 13th Friday night in the No. 40 Chevrolet.

Confidence is a key factor as to why both drivers continue to do well at California.

"Anytime you come to a racetrack where you've always run really well, it's got to boost you up," Musgrave said. "And when you go to racetracks that history shows you haven't done anything, you hate going there."

Musgrave said it helps to have a top-notch ride.

"I've always had good equipment underneath me, that's the big thing," he said. "The last few years, I had some really nice equipment and it just played out right. I love this type of racetrack, too."

Bliss said if you can get your truck to handle well in practice, chances are excellent that it'll carry over in the race.

"In practice, we run wide-open, so you get your truck to handle wide-open," Bliss said. "In the race, you back off because the tires give up and a lot of the air disturbance really makes the trucks move around a lot.

"I hope I know what I'm looking for. It'd be good to run another top-10 in this truck."

Carl Edwards -- with two top-10 finishes in two career California truck starts -- won the pole position with a lap of 176.354 mph. He'll be joined on the front row by Mike Skinner.

Daytona winner Jack Sprague will roll off seventh.