AAA Pole Award: Travis Kvapil, running in the #6 K& N Engineering Ford, earned his first pole award of 2007 in morning qualifying. Kvapil posted a best lap time of 40.090 seconds and a top speed of 179.596. He also won the 2004 NCTS race at MIS.

Series Points Leader: Mike Skinner, driver of the #5 Toyota Tundra Toyota, is the 2007 series points leader after nine races. Skinner, with 1,543 points has recorded three wins and seven top-five finishes this season, finishing in the top 10 in all nine races. He has started from the pole in six of the nine truck races this year. The #5 truck will start on the outside of row two for today's race.

Double Duty: A number of NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series regulars will take part in today's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Michigan 200. Mark Martin qualified second for today's race, followed by Kyle Busch, who will start third. A.J. Allmendinger will start on the outside of row eight, Bobby LaBonte will be on the outside of row 11, and Kevin Harvick will be on the outside of row 16.

NCTS Race Records: The fastest 200 mile race was run 7/03 by Brendan Gaughan at 154.044 mph. The closest margin of victory was 7/02 of 0.102 seconds, Robert Pressley over Jason Leffler.

Two trucks were moved to the back of grid: #99 Erik Darnell for missing the drivers' meeting and #2 Kevin Harvick for changing an engine.

Green Flag to start the Michigan 200 at 3:20 p.m.

Lead Change: #21 Mark Martin over polesitter #6 Travis Kvapil

Order after Lap1 - 21 6 5 51 30 08 23 00 15 1 interval of 0.155 second

Lead Change #2: #6 Travis Kvapil leads Mark Martin

In the first 4 laps #2 Harvick has moved from 36th up to 18th position and up to 15th in 67 laps.

Lead Change #3: #21 Martin over #6 Kvapil

Order after 10 laps: 21 6 51 5 9 23 30 60 08 00 171.136 mph

Truck #86 Kevin Lepage drops out with 9 laps complete. Truck #16 Boston Reid is behind the wall, with 10 laps complete.

Order after 20 laps: 21 51 6 5 9 60 00 23 08 4 171.063 mph

Pit stop by #33 Ron Hornaday, Jr on lap 22 for 4 tires and a round down on the track bar.

Yellow Flag #1: Lap 29, debris on the backstretch. Caution laps: 30 - 33.

Order after 30 laps: 51 6 60 30 08 2 14 09 47 13 159.380 #21 truck missing from scoring here, should be in 2nd.

Lead Change #4: #51 Kyle Busch on lap 30 during pit stops by most of the field.

Pit stops under yellow: #5 Mike Skinner for 4 tires and fuel and 1 round down on the left rear. #23 Johnny Benson pitted, with 2 rounds out on the left rear. Matt Crafton #88 will be moved to the back for pitting too soon. #21 Mark Martin pitted for 4 tires and fuel, no adjustments. #33 Ron Hornaday, Jr #33 pits again on lap 32.

Lead Change #5: #21 Mark Martin on lap 31

Lead Change #6: #51 Kyle Busch on lap 38

Lead Change #7: #21 Mark Martin on lap 39

Order after 40 laps: 21 51 6 5 2 9 00 60 30 4 146.752 mph

Leader Lap 45 - #88 Matt Crafton is behind the wall.

LL48 - Leader #21 Mark Martin slows and pulls into the pits

Lead Change #8: #6 Travis Kvapil on lap 48

Order after 50 laps: 6 5 51 9 00 60 77 14 10 4 150.441 mph

LL54: #08 Chad McCumbee pits.

Yellow Flag #2: #00 AJ Allmendinger makes contact with wall between turns 1 and 2, damaging right front on lap 56. #8 Blake Bjorklund is the lucky dog. Caution laps: 57 - 60.

Pit stops during the yellow: #6 Kvapil pitted for 4 tires & fuel and ½ pound of air pressure adjustment. #60 Jack Sprague took 4 tires, fuel, 2 down on the track bar and a tire pressure change. Brendan Gaughan #77 took 2 tires and fuel.

Lead Change #9: #5 Mike Skinner on lap 58

Order after 60 laps: 5 51 6 77 60 9 10 09 1 15 139.653

Lead Change #10: #51 Kyle Busch on lap 66

Lead Change #11: #5 Skinner on lap 68

Lead Change #12: #51 on lap 69

Order after 70 laps: 51 6 77 5 9 60 14 30 4 10 143.537 mph

Yellow Flag #3: #18 Oil on the track probably from Ken Schrader smoking heavily on the front stretch on lap 73. Chad McCumbee #08 is the lucky dog. Caution laps 74 - 77.

Order after 80 laps: 51 6 77 9 5 60 30 14 10 4 134.239 mph

Yellow Flag #4: #60 Jack Sprague made contact with the wall between turns 3 and 4 on lap 82 after losing a right rear tire. #7 Jason White is the lucky dog. Caution laps 82 - 84.

Order after 90 laps: 51 6 9 5 77 30 14 2 23 33 132.366 mph

Lead Change #13: #6 Travis Kvapil on lap 99

Unofficial order of finish: 6 51 77 5 9 14 30 2 23 33 135.369 mph 0.292 margin of victory

Travis Kvapil wins for the second time here. His other win at MIS in the NCTS was in 2004.

POST-RACE QUOTES:

Race Winner #6 Travis Kvapil: (on track) "It's amazing. All of the race car drivers love to come to Michigan like this. I saw Skinner on the bottom. My truck really liked the bottom or the middle. I found that way up on top on 1 and 2 is good and the middle of 3 was good for me. You just had to search around to find the groove on the race track but again. I just have to thank Ford, Jack Ford, K&N (Engineering), CocaCola, Valvoline and everyone involved for putting this deal together. I was just so excited.

Second Place #51 Kyle Busch: "I know I had an extra angel riding with me today. Jim Pearson, a great friend of mine, he helped me get started in racing and he passed away on Monday. This one was for Jimmy. (on the race) "It was just too loose all day. I could never really get the back end of the truck underneath me all day. I'd get a little sideways off the corners, I couldn't put the throttle down and exit the corner. It was a solid effort by these guys and I appreciate their support in helping me run the truck series. I thank all the fans here and back home for supporting the truck series. Hopefully we can get back and try and get Chevrolet another win one of these days. (on handling) I was all over the place. I was to the middle and the top and everywhere. I could never find anywhere that would let me get a good run off the corner. I was just always too loose. (on trying to hold off Kvapil) "I started going a bit higher and getting a bit tighter at the end because it was tightening up my truck, just a little bit, not a lot. Any time that you give the guy on the inside a little more room you give him more room to control his truck. He was really loose on the bottom too. Fighting it down there and I was running down there to try to force him down lower for a while I was just getting too loose down where I couldn't even control my truck. I had to move up a little time and gave him more room and let him get a little bit faster."

Third Place #77 Brendan Gaughan: "I was really proud of our race team. So many bad things have happened that had nothing to do with us. We came here just hoping for a good run. I said in my press release that about Father's Day that I didn't care about winning this dang thing. I just wanted to finish in one piece. I didn't want to give my dad another bill for fixing more Chevrolets. We ran right back where I used to, in the high groove. It worked wonderfully. Brian Barry and the guys on pit road did a great job on our two stops. The first stop we gained one position. On the 4 tire we had 3 adjustments. The South Point guys are fantastic over the wall. At the end we just got too tight. The second stop we took two tires only, tightened up just a little bit and it got a little tight out of turn 2. I think I was running in second place and battling for the win and I got real tight when I sucked up behind him (Kyle Busch) coming out of 2 and had to do a big lift. Great race car driver can do great things and Ted Musgrave and Mike Skinner and everybody got by me without creaming me. That's the difference when you're running in t he top 5 versus running in the back 20 in the Craftsman Truck Series. Those guys would have creamed me where the guys up front don't. So they're fantastic race car drivers but in the end I passed them all back. It was pretty fun to go back around them on the outside.

Johnny Benson #23: "We had a little issue in the pits. We didn't get it full of gas. We had to come in and start from the back there and it was in the middle of the race, not at the beginning. It was just one of those deals you know. All in all our stops were good. Everything was good. We just had that slight mistake there. It was tough coming back up through them, I mean extremely tough. Our truck wasn't quite right. We had to race hard all day to try to get up to the front. We were smoking the right rears, smoking that Goodyear off, it was blistering. . . I was probably a little too hard on the equipment but I had to. I had to go to get up there. I think if we could have stayed up there and not had to run it so hard to try to get there we may have been in a little better shape. I don't think we would have run it in the top 5. Ninth is probably what we deserved today."

Mark Martin #21: "We were getting ready to lose the engine. A great run for the Wood Brothers JTG Group. Awesome on pit road. It was a great Ford F150 here. They sure did deserve to win but I just couldn't get it done for them. " This is only Mark's second DNF in 21 career Truck events.