Hornaday, the most winningist driver in Craftsman Truck history took his 26th checkered flag Friday at Homestead - Miami Speedway in the Ford 200 truck series event.

Hornaday will prepare to take on Homestead one more time for 2002, he will run his #26 Carroll Racing / Dr Pepper Chevrolet in the Busch Series event on Saturday.

Trackside Live Notes, From TruckSeries.com

Ron Hornaday's victory in the Ford 200 is his 26th career win, and the first time he has visited an NCTS winner's circle for a team owner other than Dale Earnhardt Incorporated.  Hornaday's last win was at Evergreen in 1999, the series 100th race.  He won a $100,000 bonus for winning that milestone event, which meant he had won 25% of the series races run to that point. 

"I didn't win that race, the guys did, I just got to drive that rocket ship.  Awesome day that pit stop at the end was the key to it, then that yellow came out.  If you had asked me yesterday if I would take a two tire stop during the race, the answer would be no, but I think that it was the right choice today.  The Cup and Busch guys put enough rubber on the track that it was no problem to only change two tires.  I hadn't driven a truck in awhile, so we decided not to change too much on it, since the guys at IWX Motor Freight set the entire chassis up. Coming in here with a sister truck to Mike Bliss, it made a lot of people nervous.  A lot of people said that I was coming out here to knock people out, and I don't drive like that.  We drove a good clean race, and we were right there at the end to protect what Mike had.  We had been working on getting this put together for three weeks now, and finally it got pulled together.  It worked out great."