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Jack Sprague is the only Truck Series driver to have won on all five short tracks on the current schedule.

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Top 10 and more about Mansfield Motorsports Park

By Jarrod Breeze, NASCAR.COM
May 22, 2008
11:53 AM EDT

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Of all the current tracks in NASCAR, Mansfield Motorsports Park is perhaps the least known. It's currently a half-mile in length, but first opened in 1959 as a three-eighths of a mile dirt track.

More than $17 million in improvements have been made to the facility since 2002, and the Craftsman Truck Series made its debut at Mansfield in 2004. Known as "The Heart of Ohio," Mansfield also goes by another moniker, the "Racing Capital of Ohio."

1Times the race at Mansfield has been won from a top-10 starting position. Jack Sprague won the inaugural race from the pole. In fact, no other winner has started better than 17th. Bobby Hamilton won from the 26th-starting position in 2005, the farthest back of any winner. It was Hamilton's last career victory.

2Drivers out of the nine who have made all four starts at Mansfield to have a top-10 in each of them: Jack Sprague and Dennis Setzer. In fact, Sprague has never finished worse than second, which he has done three consecutive years. Setzer, who was runner-up to Sprague in 2004, won last year. His worst finish is seventh (twice).

3Times a race at Mansfield has had 13 cautions including last year, which produced the most caution laps with 103. Ironically, the race with the most cautions (18 in 2006, a series record) had the fewest laps under yellow (85). In both of those races there wasn't a single DNF due to a crash. The first two races at Mansfield had 10 crash DNFs, seven of those in the series' debut at the track.

4Place of finish in last year's race for Mike Skinner, one of five drivers who posted their first top-10 at Mansfield in 2007: Ken Schrader (third), Travis Kvapil (seventh), Ted Musgrave (eighth), Brendan Gaughan (ninth). Skinner, who started from the pole, and Musgrave were making their fourth start each at Mansfield. Only Schrader was making his track debut.

5Average starting position at Mansfield for Todd Bodine in three career starts. However, Mansfield is the only current track at which Bodine does not have a top-10 and his average finish is 20.7, his worst at any track. Another oddity: Bodine has led 117 laps at Mansfield, third-most in his career at one track, but they all came in 2006 when he started from the pole and posted his best finish (15th).

6Place of finish for Matt Crafton in the 2006 race at Mansfield, his second top-10 and best in four starts. It was Crafton's first top-10 there in three races in the No. 88 Chevrolet of ThorSport Racing, the series' only Ohio-based team. Crafton, coming off his first career victory last week, led a second-most 68 laps in last year's race but finished 35th.

7Hours it took to complete last year's race at Mansfield, which endured three rain delays. The official time of the race was two hours, 11 minutes and 51 seconds. The average speed of 52.873 mph was the slowest in track history, some 13 mph off the track pace set in 2005. Dennis Setzer won but led just 12 laps, fewest of any winner there.

8Combined top-fives at Mansfield for Jack Sprague (four), Johnny Benson (two) and Dennis Setzer (two), the only current drivers with multiple top-five finishes. Bobby Hamilton is the only other driver with more than one top-five, finishing fourth the year before winning in 2005 in his only two starts. Only eight current drivers have a top-five finish there.

9Combined top-10s at Mansfield for Toyota the past two years, most of any manufacturer. Toyota didn't have any in the first two races. Chevrolet has the most top-10s in the four races with 18 including three victories. In fact, Toyota and Chevrolet have combined for 16 top-10 finishes since 2006.

10Current drivers who have led at Mansfield, led by Ron Hornaday with 250 laps. David Starr has led only one lap, but is one of just five drivers who have completed all 1,006 laps at Mansfield. Starr has three top-10 finishes and a career average finish of 10.0. He finished 19th last year.

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Year	Winner	Make	Start	Led	Pole

2004	J. Sprague	Chevy	1	139	J. Sprague
2005	B. Hamilton	Dodge	26	71	R. Hornaday
2006	R. Hornaday	Chevy	17	131	T. Bodine
2007	D. Setzer	Chevy	18	12	M. Skinner

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Pos.	+/-	Driver	Points	Behind

1.	--	Ron Hornaday	874	--
2.	--	Rick Crawford	869	-5
3.	--	Todd Bodine	836	-38
4.	+3	Matt Crafton	829	-45
5.	-1	Dennis Setzer	817	-57
6.	+2	Chad McCumbee	808	-66
7.	-1	Kyle Busch	797	-77
8.	-3	Johnny Benson	796	-78
9.	+4	Erik Darnell	771	-103
10.	+4	Terry Cook	760	-114