Kyle Busch rallies to win trucks finale

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Kyle Busch took the lead on a restart with four laps to go, then ran away from Ron Hornaday Jr. to win the NASCAR Camping World Trucks season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Friday.

The win was Busch's series-high eighth of the season and clinched the owners' points title for his first-year team. Busch has 23 victories this year in NASCAR's top three series, also winning 12 Nationwide races and three times in Sprint Cup.

Hornaday was second, followed by Johnny Sauter -- whose collision with Busch earlier in the race appeared to end Busch's chances of winning.

Todd Bodine finished fourth, a week after clinching the series drivers' title with a 12th-place finish at Phoenix.

Busch hopes his team's owner points title can help him with financing for next season; he even made an appeal for sponsorship on a TV interview in Victory Lane.

"We're still looking for sponsors to do it some more for next year," Busch said. "It's real tough, so hopefully we can find some."

In the final owner standings, Busch finished 150 points ahead of Steve Germain, who owns Bodine's truck.

Until Busch's charge in the late stages of the race, it was looking like a rough night for Busch.

He was running with the leaders when Sauter collided with him and sent him hard into the wall with 32 laps to go. Busch continued but got a flat tire a few laps later and had to make a lengthy pit stop, putting him outside the top 20.

The race was red-flagged with 23 laps to go when John Jackson ran into impact-absorbing barrels at the end of the pit wall, leading to a delay of nearly 20 minutes for cleanup. Jackson wasn't hurt.

■ KAHNE TO HAVE SURGERIES -- NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne will have surgery on both knees after Sunday's Sprint Cup season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Kahne said he was born with a condition called plica syndrome that causes irritation of tissue in his knee, and he has been experiencing more discomfort after driving his race car or exercising.

■ GAUGHAN RETURNS TO NASCAR TRUCKS -- Brendan Gaughan will leave the NASCAR Nationwide Series and Rusty Wallace Racing after this weekend and return to the Camping World Truck Series, where he will drive for Germain Racing next year as a teammate to reigning truck series champion Todd Bodine.

Gaughan, 35, a graduate of Bishop Gorman High School, has not competed in the truck division for two years.

■ DESERT RACING -- At La Paz, Mexico, Gustavo Vildosola Sr. and Gustavo Vildosola Jr. were the unofficial winners of the overall and Trophy Truck titles in the SCORE Baja 1000. The father-son team became the first Mexican nationals to win the overall title in the 1,061-mile race that started Thursday in Ensenada.