NEWTON, Iowa -- Austin Dillon held off Johnny Sauter in a green-white-checkered finish and picked up his first career win at Sunday's Truck Series race in Iowa.

The 20-year-old Dillon won from the pole, becoming the second-youngest driver to win a Truck Series race behind Kyle Busch. The grandson of longtime NASCAR owner Richard Childress kept his car clean while a number of top drivers ran into trouble.

The top four in the points standings -- Todd Bodine, Aric Almirola, Timothy Peters and Roy Hornaday, Jr. -- all experienced issues that hampered their shots at catching Dillon.

Sauter finished second for his third top-5 finish this season. He was followed by Matt Crafton, Ken Schrader and James Buescher.

Dillon, the first rookie to win the pole for three consecutive races, opened a healthy edge from the outset. He led Brian Ickler by nearly 3 seconds only 30 laps in, easily surpassing his previous career high of 20 laps led at Texas earlier this year.

Dillon led for 187 laps and appeared ready to cruise to victory until the very end, when a caution forced a late restart. But with his famous grandfather looking on, Dillon rolled past Sauter for the landmark win.

The truck series was making its second annual stop at Iowa Speedway, a 0.875-mile oval about 35 miles east of Des Moines. But the nearly 25,000 fans in attendance didn't get to see much of the circuit's top stars.

Bodine, the series points leader, was among a number of drivers affected by a crash just over halfway through the race. Ickler and Bodine got together, damaging both trucks.

The wreck knocked out Hornaday, who remained winless on the year. Bodine let Ickler know how he felt about the crash by giving his No. 18 truck a bump from behind before the race went green.

Bodine was the only driver among the top four in the standings to finish the race. He wound up 17th but kept his hold on first place in points.

Truck problems ruined the afternoon for both Almirola and Peters -- who entered Iowa in second and third place in the points standings -- before the race was barely half over.

Almirola, who started on the front row with Dillon, blew a front tire 76 laps in and hit the wall, erasing any chance he had at his third win in five races. Peters, who was 165 points behind Bodine, blew his engine halfway through the race and finished 27th.

Any edge Steve Wallace might have had at a track designed by his father, former NASCAR star Rusty Wallace, ended 40 laps in when he blew a tire and skidded into the wall.

Mike Skinner, who won the inaugural race at Iowa from the pole last year, qualified 15th but moved up for a seventh-place finish.

The race Sunday was the first for the Truck Series since June 12 in Michigan. The drivers won't get another break for two months, during a nine-race stretch that will be critical to their championship hopes.

BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Aric Almirola passed Todd Bodine and Kyle Busch three-wide through the middle with seven laps left in Saturday's VFW 200 and held on to win the Camping World Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway.

Bodine finished second and retained his series lead by 55 points over Almirola, who won for the second time this season in Billy Ballew's No. 51 Toyota. Busch ran third, followed by Ron Hornaday and pole-sitter Austin Dillon, who overcame a late pit-road penalty to post his second consecutive top-five.

"I didn't think it was the greatest place to be," Almirola said of his middle position after a restart on Lap 93 of 100. "But I knew we were going to run wide open through the corner. We were either going to crash, or we were going to make it out the other side -- because I knew how important clean air was.

"I knew that was my only shot to get out in the lead, and if I didn't get out in the lead, there was no chance of us winning the race. So I went down in Turn 1, and I knew I was going to run a shorter distance than Todd [who was on the outside], so I just tried to hang tight on Kyle's door and get him loose, which I did.

"By the time we got off Turn 2, I was almost clear of Todd, and then when we went through [Turns] 3 and 4, I cleared him. So I think that was the move of the race, as far as I'm concerned."

In a race that featured a track-record 20 lead changes, Almirola didn't go to the front until his pass on Lap 93. Bodine had held the lead for a restart on Lap 89 and had begun to pull away when Nelson Piquet Jr. spun through the frontstretch grass to bring out the fifth and final caution of the afternoon.

"Maybe it caught me a little off guard," Bodine said of Almirola's pass for the lead. "Aric's a hell of a racer, and they had a good truck when it counted. On a short run like that -- especially as many laps as we rode around under caution, with the tires cooling down -- everybody's handling pretty good for three or four laps, five laps.

"I really believe that, if this race was 10 laps longer, I probably would have beat him -- but, guess what, there weren't another 10 laps."

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Todd Bodine added to his resume as the winningest Truck Series driver at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night with an overtime victory in the WinStar World Casino 400k.

Bodine drove away from four-time and reigning series champion Ron Hornaday and Timothy Peters on a green-white-checkered restart to notch his sixth career victory on TMS' 1.5-mile oval, and third in the summer event here. Bodine also snapped a 24-race winless streak dating to June 5, 2009.

Johnny Sauter finished second, followed by rookie polesitter Austin Dillon, former series champion Mike Skinner and super-sub Ken Schrader. Bodine's margin of victory after 169 laps was 1.007-seconds.

Bodine, 46, scored his 18th career series victory and 11th in 53 starts on a 1.5-mile layout. Bodine and Kyle Busch each have scored six wins at TMS, with Busch working on a five-race Nationwide Series streak. The Sprint Cup regular also has one Truck Series win.

"It's an honor anywhere to say you've won the most races at a track. It's pretty awesome," said Bodine, nicknamed "The Onion" for his bald pate. "We're proud of the fact we can come to Texas and run this well every time. It's someplace we enjoy and being the only six-time [Truck Series] winner ... it was a goal when Kyle won five to come back and win another one. To get that done, I'm pretty proud of that."

Bodine led a race-high 106 laps en route to his first victory and seventh top-five finish in eight 2010 races.

"We've been struggling all year to make the trucks drive good, and this truck was driving fast and wide open. It was fun to drive," Bodine said. "We had a great Tundra. It was an awesome night all around."

Crew chief Mike Hillman Jr. said his Germain Racing crew tries to treat all the series' 1.5-mile layouts the same.

"But it seems we get our stuff figured out this time of the year," Hillman said. "I'm really proud of our guys. We went to work this winter making our trucks lighter and better. I can't say enough about how hard everyone at Germain works. I'm the lucky guy who gets called the crew chief."

Dillon, the grandson of team owner Richard Childress, capped his first series pole with his first top-five finish.

"What a phenomenal job," Dillon said. "I started off really good and lost it in the middle but at the end I raced hard and got us a good finish. I just had a little trouble on the restarts."

Bodine was leading Peters and a pack of only nine trucks on the lead lap when the night's fifth caution waved to remove the slowing truck of Jason White from the field. None of the leaders chose to pit, setting up a seven-lap shootout.

Bodine easily drove away from Peters, who faltered badly on the start from his spot on the outside lane. But Hornaday, who swept both races here in 2008, barged underneath Bodine from third in an attempt to take the lead. Bodine never lifted and had cleared Hornaday's No. 33 Chevrolet when Matt Crafton and David Starr tangled down the backstretch, bringing out the sixth caution on Lap 164 of the scheduled 167.

"That next-to-last restart, Ron got underneath me," Bodine said. "I've not always been the best at restarts, just OK. But when you got Hornaday on the outside you got to get it right. That last one, I didn't spin the tires until I got into third [gear]. And they got racing hard and ended up giving us a good lead."

Bodine leaves Texas with a 65-point lead over Aric Almirola, who finished 12th.

CONCORD, N.C. -- Pole-sitter Kyle Busch survived a scrape with the wall and held off Todd Bodine in a two-lap dash to the finish to win Friday night's North Carolina Education Lottery 200 Truck Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Busch, who owns the No. 18 Toyota he drove to victory, crossed the finish line .228 seconds ahead of Bodine to give Toyota its first Truck Series victory at the 1.5-mile race track. Ron Hornaday was third, followed by James Buescher and Elliott Sadler.

The victory was Busch's second in five starts this season, his third at Charlotte and the 18th of his career. Busch has won three consecutive races in NASCAR's top three touring series, having triumphed in last weekend's Nationwide and Cup series events at Dover.

On Lap 40 of 134, Busch's Toyota broke loose while leading and slammed the outside wall, damaging the front splitter. Initially, Busch slowed after the contact and lost three positions but began working his way back to the front.

As luck would have it, the brush with the wall helped correct a loose handling condition.

"I made it where I could drive it," Busch said. "I knocked some 'tight' into it. This team did a great job in preparing this truck to come here, and I tried to screw it up. I guess the driver owes the car owner a little something [Friday]."

On Lap 65, Busch passed Brad Keselowski for the second spot and regained the lead when Sadler made a green-flag pit stop on Lap 67. Busch stayed out front until Lap 80, when Brent Raymer's truck blew an engine and went up in a ball of fire in the tri-oval to cause the third caution of the race.

After a lengthy pit stop to repair the right-front fender on his Tundra, Busch restarted ninth on Lap 90. He gained two spots on the restart lap before Ryan Sieg blew his right-front tire and slammed the Turn 3 wall to bring out the fourth yellow flag.

Eleven laps after a restart on Lap 95, Busch passed Bodine for the second position and held it until Dennis Setzer's hard contact with the Turn 2 wall slowed the field for the fifth time. With an excellent restart on Lap 118, Busch took the lead from Hornaday but ran only three green-flag laps before Donny Lia spun off Turn 2 and crashed nose-first into the inside wall on the backstretch.

Bodine leads the series standings by two points over Aric Almirola, who finished seventh.

Almirola took advantage of Kyle Busch's empty fuel tank to win the Dover 200 Truck Series race at Dover International Speedway and get his second official victory in one of NASCAR's national series.

The other victory was in name only, as Almirola started Joe Gibbs Racing's Nationwide Series car at Milwaukee in 2007 but was pulled for Cup driver Denny Hamlin during the race. Though Almirola was credited with the victory, he had left the track long before Hamlin took the checkered flag.

At Dover on Friday, though, Almirola had some fun with a smoky burnout, a reverse victory lap and a wild Victory Lane celebration.

"Put it this way, that trophy's not at my house on a mantle," Almirola said of the Milwaukee race. "This one will be tonight. ... It's a dream come true. Track position is so tough here, you have to have a phenomenal truck to do what we did [Friday]. I'm not going to take any credit for that. It's a lot of fun when you have a really good truck here. ... We fought hard [Friday], and it was a good day."

Almirola had fallen two laps down because of a flat tire but rallied to get back in contention. He was one of several drivers to pit for fuel and tires under caution with 54 laps to go.

Busch wasn't one of them, though, as his Kyle Busch Motorsports truck had stopped 30 laps earlier. On the penultimate restart, Busch didn't come up to speed with apparent vapor-lock trouble and slipped back to third. The yellow waved for Austin Dillon's blown engine, giving Busch a chance to reclaim the lead he had held for 172 laps.

But as the field was getting the green, Busch's Toyota headed to pit road.

"Ran out of gas," a frustrated Busch said as he sped off the track. He finished 16th, with fuel pump issues listed as his reason for the DNF.

James Buescher came back from a spin to finish second, passing Justin Lofton on the last lap. Both posted their best career finishes in the Truck Series. Ricky Carmichael also had his best career finish in fourth, giving Turner Motorsports second and fourth. Todd Bodine sputtered on the final restart but finished fifth.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- What simply had to be the two best saves of the Camping World Truck Series season occurred at exactly the same time and within inches of each other Sunday afternoon at Kansas Speedway.

When the two trucks involved finally got pointed back in the proper direction, it was the one driven by Johnny Sauter that had the lead and would go on to win the O'Reilly Auto Parts 250.

The other truck involved, that of Ron Hornaday, finished second but left its driver buzzing like a radio with a bad tube.

"You can't tell me that Kansas didn't like that one," Hornaday, not generally known to be all that excited about a second-place finish, shouted as he entered the post-race interview room.

Sauter, wearing a very large and sticky smear of birthday cake on his fire suit, was equally excited. As well he should be.

"I bet it looked pretty cool on TV," said Sauter, who turned 32 on Saturday.

With 13 laps to go, Sauter had the lead heading down the backstretch, but Hornaday pulled even on his low side. Hornaday's truck suddenly hooked right -- right into Sauter. Both spun simultaneously. With smoke pouring from the wheel wells of both trucks, they turned 60 degrees sideways.

The two drivers, who have a history of roughing each other up on the track and in the pits afterward, cranked the steering wheels and both executed highlight-clip saves.

"He got into me," Sauter said. "I couldn't help but sit there and think as I was trying to save it ... that darn Hornaday got me again within a month's time. But it all worked out. That was good. That was good for the fans."

The victory was the first of the year for Sauter and moved him from 14th to fifth in the points standings.

Sauter said he felt good about his truck before it even arrived at Kansas. It was the same truck he used to win his first Truck race last September in Las Vegas and finish 11th at Nashville the last time out.

Todd Bodine finished third and moved into second in the standings, 22 points behind Timothy Peters, who finished 23rd, six laps back.

Brian Ickler finished fourth and now has two top-five finishes in both of his starts for Kyle Busch Motorsports and rookie Austin Dillon had his best career finish, sixth. The race was stopped after 114 laps for more than 90 minutes by rain and hail.