Rain showers had moved into the area through the night on Thursday and into Friday morning which NASCAR officials were forced to revise the day’s schedule. The first of two scheduled practice sessions was canceled and teams were only given a one-hour practice session once the track had dried. Hornaday and the No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet Silverado team showed everybody just how good and fast they were, posting the fastest time of the session with a lap time of 31.337 seconds (176.915 mph.) 

With track activity back to its original schedule, qualifying came next for the Truck Series teams. Having one of the later qualifying draws and being the 22nd truck to take his qualifying laps, Hornaday turned the fastest lap with a time of 31.577 seconds (175.571 mph), claiming his 15th career pole award. 

As the skies cleared Friday night, the field of 32 trucks roared out of turn four to take the green flag for the 130-lap race. Hornaday and eventual race winner Kyle Busch traded the lead with each other before the first caution of the race came out on lap 18 when Johnny Benson had a tire go flat as he came down the frontstretch. Hornaday, running in the second position when the caution came out, made his way down pit road on the next lap to take four tires and fuel. After a fast stop by the No. 33 Camping World/VFW Chevrolet crew, Hornaday retook the lead coming off of pit road for the green flag on lap 26. 

Hornaday continued his dominance of the race and led the next 15 laps before the caution came out for the second time because of debris on the race track. Hornaday came down pit road again on lap 42 for a scheduled stop to take only. He came off of pit road behind teammate Jack Sprague and restarted the race in the second-position on lap 45 before passing Sprague and retaking the lead on lap 46. 

On what would be a full fuel run, Hornaday and Busch traded the lead for the next 13 laps before Hornaday took a commanding lead and led the next 31 laps before making his next scheduled pit stop on lap 90 for four tires and fuel. Coming out of the pits in the 12th position, Hornaday took the lead again on lap 95 as the round of green-flag pit stops cycled through. Ten laps later, on lap 110, the caution flag was waved as rain drops fell from the sky. Because points were not a factor, the second-place truck of Kyle Busch, who is not running the full Truck Series season, came down pit road for service. Knowing the 51 truck had four fresh Goodyear tires, the other teams on the lead lap, including the No. 33 Camping World team, opted to do the same. 

The race was restarted on lap 115 with Hornaday running in the fifth position. He made the pass for the fourth and third positions before taking the second spot from Chad McCumbee on lap 117. Hornaday continued running in the second position when the final caution of the night came out on lap 121 for rain. NASCAR officials then decided to bring out the red flag for 10 minutes as efforts to dry the track began. The jet dryers made a lap around the track before the drivers re-fired their engines and the race was restarted on lap 126 with Hornaday still running in the second position. Hornaday made a fierce run in the final five laps to try to pass Busch, but crossed the start-finish line in the second position for his second top-five finish of the season. 

“A driver can take all the credit in the world, but it is Rick Ren (crew chief) and all these guys on the Camping World Chevrolet Silverado team that have got to take all the credit,” Hornaday said. “We unloaded fast and it shows. We were fast in practice and fast in qualifying. You have to be happy with the way we ran tonight.”