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Skinner wins another truck pole

Fri 1st, June 2007

Dover, DE (Sports Network) - Mike Skinner captured the pole for Friday afternoon's AAA Insurance 200 at the Dover International Speedway. It is his sixth consecutive pole victory. The No.5 Toyota circled the one-mile "Monster Mile" oval in 23.163 seconds (155.420 m.p.h.).

The pole victory was Skinner's sixth of the season and series record 38th of his truck career. Skinner's sixth straight poles are still behind his own record of eight consecutive poles which he accomplished in 1995. "I'm really proud of all the guys on our Tundra, the truck was flawless right off the trailer," said Skinner. "It runs really good and is really good in race trim." Starting alongside Skinner will be Nextel Cup driver Clint Bowyer who posted a second-best time of 23.300 seconds. Johnny Benson (23.308) and another Nextel Cup driver, Kyle Busch (23.329), will make up row two. Many people, including some NASCAR drivers will tell you the most exciting racing takes place in the Craftsman Truck Series. It is certainly the most competitive of NASCAR's three National series'. Carl Edwards is running away with the Busch Series and more than 500 points separates first-place Jeff Gordon from 10th-place Bowyer. But in the truck series, less than 375 points separates first from 10th. The series includes six former or current series champions. "When the series first was going, you had (Jack) Sprague, (Mike) Skinner, (Ron) Hornaday Jr. and a couple other guys that pretty much dominated every week, but now you have 15 trucks that could win any week," said 2006 Craftsman Truck Series champion Todd Bodine. Skinner, the 1995 champion, leads the series with six poles, three wins and seven top-10s. With all that, he is still just 121 points ahead of Hornaday Jr. The race is set to drop the green flag at 4:45 p.m. (et).