Matt Crafton, who has fallen from first to third in the Camping World Truck Series standings over the past couple of months, got a much-needed boost Saturday with a win at Martinsville, the second in four races at the .526-mile paperclip for the driver of the #88 ThorSport Racing Toyota. Crafton had experienced several misfortunes in recent weeks, including running dry on fuel at Las Vegas on October 3 and then allegedly throwing a piece of trash out his window to try to get a caution; followed by involvement in multiple wrecks at Talladega last week. It was his fifth win of 2015 and his tenth overall.
The 200-lap race had its typical short-track share of cautions. Points leader Erik Jones, driving his #4 Kyle Busch-owned Toyota, got caught up in an incident that also involved specialty racer Austin Cindric, competing in his series debut in Brad Keselowski's #29 Ford as a substitute for the injured Austin Theriault. Keselowski's current main driver, Tyler Reddick (#19), at one time the points leader, remains second in the standings heading into next Friday night's event in Fort Worth, Texas. Jones maintains a three-point lead over Reddick.
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