He can drive a truck too!!!!

AVONDALE, Ariz. – Clint Bowyer didn't lose his touch during a three-year hiatus from NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series.

Driving Kevin Harvick's No. 2 Chevrolet, Bowyer won Friday night's Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix International Raceway in his first start in the series since Oct. 20, 2007 at Martinsville.

Bowyer beat race runner-up Kyle Busch (Kyle Busch Motorsports) to the line by 1.039 seconds. Johnny Sauter (ThorSport Racing) finished third, followed by teammate Matt Crafton and Almirola (Billy Ballew Motorsports).

"Everybody back at the shop did such a great job building this thing," Bowyer said. "They were excited about it before we came down here, and any time these guys get excited about building a truck back at the shop, you know as a race-car driver that you're going to have a good hot rod, and we certainly did.

"I love this series, and I think this is some of the best racing we have in NASCAR. It's fun to be back in it."

Bowyer had the dominant truck in the early going. After taking the top spot from polesitter Austin Dillon (Richard Childress Racing) following a restart on lap 24, Bowyer opened a lead that reached 6.626 seconds before NASCAR called the second caution of the race on lap 53 because of fluid on the track.

Busch led 25 laps in the middle of the race, but Bowyer reasserted his superiority after beating Busch out of the pits for a restart on lap 67.

“It was a good run for us,” Busch said. “I’m real proud of the guys from the way we turned it around – the first run of the race, that came out of nowhere. We didn’t know what happened with the truck or what we did on the start there. But they changed some air pressures, and made some chassis adjustments and got the truck to handling a lot better.

“The last run of the race … just didn’t have it. We didn’t have enough to keep up with Clint.

“He was really good. … He had everything going for him tonight, he had a good truck – that truck’s won here three years in a row here I believe – that’s a tough truck to beat.”

While Todd Bodine wrapped up the driver’s title, Busch holds a 120-point lead over Bodine's No. 30 Toyota, fielded by Germain Racing, in the battle for the owners' championship.

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