Mike Skinner won the rain delayed and rainy O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 @ Kansas Speedway on Monday. His first win of the season, 26th career and the first for the team since becoming Randy Moss Motorsports last summer. NASCAR called the race after 132 laps, 35 laps short due to persistent rain.
“Randy, we got it buddy,” Skinner said. “We got us one. It’s really, really cool. We’ve got a lot of effort to build this program.”
Skinner led the race-high 67 laps taking the lead on a restart on Lap 119, passing Stacy Compton. Skinner and the rest of the field had stopped under caution. Skinner only took fuel. Ron Hornaday Jr had led the previous 24 laps and had to stop twice, once for four tires and once for fuel. He came out of the pits ninth. Hornaday led twice for 58 laps and looked like he was the one that could give Skinner the biggest challenge for the win.
Johnny Benson finished 2nd followed by Brian Scott, Ron Hornaday Jr and Brian Ickler.
There were 10 cautions for 51 laps and 7 lead changes among 4 drivers: R. Hornaday Jr. 0; M. Skinner 1-6; R. Hornaday Jr. 7-40; M. Skinner 41-87; B. Scott 88-90; R. Hornaday Jr. 91-114; S. Compton 115-118; M. Skinner 119-132.
For complete (unofficial) race results, click here.
Mike Skinner takes over the points lead. Heading into Kansas, Kyle Busch held the lead, but was unable to compete @ Kansas. Skinner leads the standings by 25 points over Ron Hornaday Jr. Kyle dropped 5 positions to 6th, 119 points behind Skinner.
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