Matt Crafton wins shortened Kentucky truck race

Matt Crafton took the #88 Toyota to his fourth win of the season, and ninth overall, in Thursday night's Camping World Truck Series race in Sparta, Kentucky. Crafton passed fellow Toyota driver Erik Jones in the #4 truck on a late-race restart after Spencer Gallagher hit the wall hard in the #23 Chevrolet. A few laps after that restart, Ben Kennedy in the #11 Toyota had a hard crash, getting airborne and hitting the catchfence, a wreck similar but less severe-looking than Austin Dillon's last-lap Daytona crash last Sunday. Due to the amount of time required to repair the catchfence, the race was called five laps early with Crafton out in front. One notable finish was the eighth-place #05 Chevrolet of John Wes Townley. The two Brad Keselowski Fords of Tyler Reddick (#19) and Ryan Blaney (#29) both had mixed luck throughout the race; Blaney had a loose wheel coming in for one pit stop, lost a lap but got a lucky dog to get back on the lead lap.