FOUNTAIN, Colo. -- Mike Bliss, back in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series after a two-year absence, took the victory and the series point lead as he led Bud Pole winner Jason Leffler to the checkered flag in Sunday's Rocky Mountain 200 by Dodge at Pikes Peak International Raceway.

Bliss, who won $45,435, scored his eighth victory on the series and first since August 1999 at Heartland Park Topeka. He passed Travis Kvapil on the 165th of 200 laps then held off Leffler's final charge which closed to .330 second -- about four lengths of the winning IWX Motor Freight/Knights Inn Chevrolet.

Leffler led a race high 95 laps before his Team ASE Racing/Carquest Dodge lost some steam following the race's final pit stops on lap 112. More