Hornaday, who won last year's race at ORP, led 153 of the first 161 laps. After running second to Hornaday for most of the evening, Benson made the outside pass and grabbed the top spot from the defending series champion with 39 laps to go. Then it was Benson's show from there.

"Ron ran a great race, he really did," Benson said. "But I was kind of watching what he was doing, watching his line, trying not to heat up my Goodyears too bad. So I just waited and bought my time."

The victory was Benson's third of the season and 12th of his truck career. He won last weekend at Kentucky and last month at Milwaukee.

Bobby East won his first career pole in the series earlier in the day, but elected to start the race in the second spot. Jack Sprague led the field to the green flag. East quickly jumped ahead of Sprague on the first lap, but Hornaday moved ahead of East for the top spot by the fifth lap.

T.J. Bell's spin on Lap 39 brought out the first caution. Bell and Todd Bodine were battling for the 13th spot at the time. The top-10 remained on the track, but Bodine and Mike Skinner among others made their first pit stops during the caution. The strategy worked for Bodine as quickly he made it into the top-10 within 10 laps.

Benson moved up to second on Lap 69 when he chased Sprague and then passed him for the position.

Donny Lia nudged Brian Scott from behind on Lap 87, as Scott spun to bring out the caution flag for the second time. Benson beat Hornaday out of the pits and claimed the top spot for the first time. But on the restart a couple of laps later, Hornaday quickly moved up on Benson and then passed him for the lead. Hornaday held off a furious charge from Benson that continued all the way up until the next caution on Lap 114 for debris.

Then the crash-fest began.

On the restart, Brendan Gaughan, Stacy Compton and East were three-wide for position, but the trio made contact on the backstretch, with Compton and East getting the worst of it. Compton was turned sideways and hit the wall. East hit him, but suffered only minor damage to his truck.

Justin Marks spun when he was hit from behind by Michael Annett just after the next restart. Then Kyle Busch tapped Chad McCumbee from behind on Lap 135, sending McCumbee into the wall. Shortly after, Marks and East made contact with each other to put the race under caution for the seventh time.

One lap after Benson grabbed the lead from Hornaday for the final time, Dennis Setzer and Scott made contact with Scott hitting the wall along the backstretch.

Benson pulled away from Hornaday on the restart with relatively no challenge, but several laps later, another caution, this one for Marc Mitchell hitting the wall, wouldn't be as fortunate for Benson on the restart. Hornaday moved up on his rear, but Benson was able to shrug him off.

A four-truck pileup in turn two, involving Matt Crafton, Terry Cook Bodine and Sprague, occurred with 13 laps to go. Crafton got loose and hit Bodine. Bodine slammed the wall and slid down the track. He collected Cook and Sprague in the process. Luckily for Benson, he was able to pull away from Hornaday when the race resumed with eight laps remaining.

But the checkered flag wasn't in sight for Benson just yet as his teammate Michael Annett spun with five laps left to put the event under caution for a track-record 11th time. Annett was running third at the time. His incident set up a two-lap shootout to the finish.

Hornaday made several attempts to catch Benson in the final two laps, but came up 0.484 seconds short of repeating his title at ORP.

"It stinks," Hornaday said. "Our car was good, it was just that much off."

Erik Darnell, Matt Crafton and Shelby Howard completed the top-five.

Benson now holds a 15-point lead over new second-place Hornaday in the championship standings.

The next race in the series is scheduled for Saturday, August 9th at the Nashville Superspeedway.