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Kyle Busch has been on quite a run for Atlanta's Billy Ballew since winning there this past October.

By the Numbers: Trucks

Top 10 list, additional tidbits from Atlanta Motor Speedway

By Jarrod Breeze, NASCAR.COM
March 6, 2008
11:38 AM EST

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Atlanta Motor Speedway is one of three tracks the Craftsman Truck Series visits twice a year, which it has done since 2005. The first Truck Series race at Atlanta was in 2004 and won by Bobby Hamilton.

Teams took to Atlanta's 1.54-mile quad-oval for two days of preseason testing in January. Some familiar names were at or near the top of the speed charts: Ron Hornaday, Todd Bodine, Mike Skinner and Jack Sprague. Of that quartet, which has accounted for 98 victories and eight series championships, only Sprague has failed to win at Atlanta.

Kyle Busch is the only two-time winner through the first seven races at Atlanta, both for hometown owner Billy Ballew, whose small independent organization is on the rise thanks in large part to Busch (read more).

The American Commercial Lines 200 begins with SPEED's pre-race coverage at 8:30 p.m. ET Friday. The green flag is scheduled to wave at 9:15 p.m. ET. MRN's coverage begins at 9 p.m. ET.

1Points by which Brian Scott leads the rookie standings over three other drivers: Colin Braun, Justin Marks and Philip McGilton, the latter of whom is sixth in the overall driver standings -- and the only rookie in the top 10 in points. Scott and Marks are the only rookies with a previous Truck start at Atlanta: Scott finished 19th, the last driver on the lead lap, and Marks, making his series debut, was 22nd, one lap down, this past October.

2Last-lap passes for the win at Atlanta: Bobby Hamilton beat Mike Skinner in 2004 and Kyle Busch passed Jack Sprague in the first fall race at AMS in 2005. Busch has won both races he has run at Atlanta while the track remains one of eight current venues where Sprague has yet to win.

3Third-place finishes at Atlanta for Johnny Benson, which represent his only top-10s in six starts. Benson has finished third in the first two races this season and is third in points. Benson is one of four drivers -- Todd Bodine, David Reutimann and Mike Skinner -- with three top-fives, most in track history.

4Times the Atlanta winner has started in the top five. Todd Bodine (2006) and Mike Skinner (2007) are the only two drivers to win from the pole, each having done so in the past two spring races. It marked Bodine's first career pole. Skinner is the only driver with multiple poles at AMS with three, and he has never started beyond the second row in seven starts.

5Drivers who have made all seven starts at Atlanta without leading a lap: Matt Crafton, Terry Cook, David Starr, Dennis Setzer and Ted Musgrave, who despite the fact has five top-10s that lead all drivers. Setzer is the only driver of the eight overall who have started all seven races to finish on the lead lap.

6Starts at Atlanta for Ron Hornaday, whose victory in the spring of 2005 is the record for the closest finish on a superspeedway. Hornaday, then driving the No. 6 Chevrolet for Kevin Harvick, beat Bobby Labonte by .008 of a second. Hornaday ran runner-up to Kyle Busch by .971 seconds in the fall of 2007, the widest margin of difference at AMS. The two races represent Hornaday's only top-10s at the track.

7Fords entered in the race at Atlanta. Ford is the only manufacturer without a victory at AMS. Of the seven entries, only three drivers have had a top-10 finish at Atlanta: Rick Crawford (3), Erik Darnell (2) and Jon Wood (1). Ford has had two runners-up, both in 2006 (Mark Martin and Terry Cook). Cook, with two of his three top-10s at Atlanta in a Ford, now drives a Toyota.

8Career wins for Atlanta-based team owner Billy Ballew, seven by Kyle Busch. Two of those wins have come at AMS, where this week Busch will make his eighth consecutive Truck Series start for Ballew, dating back to the last six races of 2007. Busch has three wins and two runner-up finishes in the past six races dating back to last year's fall race at Atlanta.

9Number of leaders in the spring race of 2005 and in the fall of 2006, tied for most at Atlanta. Rick Crawford led the most laps (52) in 2005 (and crashed out) and fewest (1) in 2006 (finished fifth). It's the only two races at AMS in which Crawford has led. Mike Skinner, the all-time lap-leader (196) at Atlanta, was the only other driver to lead in both races.

10Career Truck Series victories for Bobby Hamilton, 10th on the all-time list. Hamilton won the first race at Atlanta in 2004, the first of four wins that season en route to the championship. Hamilton made the final start of his 102-race career at AMS in 2006 after revealing he had cancer. He finished 14th. Hamilton died in January 2007.

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Craftsman Truck Series

Atlanta Motor Speedway

Year	Winner	Make	Start	Led

2004	Bobby Hamilton	Dodge	12	55
2005	Ron Hornaday	Chevrolet	18	19
	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	4	45
2006	Todd Bodine	Toyota	1	38
	Mike Bliss	Chevrolet	16	38
2007	Mike Skinner	Toyota	1	67
	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	3	65