It was a cold, early spring day at the Martinsville Speedway as the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series took the green flag with Jack Sprague at the point. Sprague was followed by cup regular Denny Hamlin and defending champion Ron Hornaday. The race started out relatively clean and light on cautions as Sprague and his Kevin Harvick Inc. teammate took charge of the race.

After the second caution of the day Brendan Gaughan pitted for adjustments, tires and fuel on about lap 55. Denny Hamlin took charge after the restart leading Sprague and Hornaday for quite a while until no. 9 truck of Justin Marks went around bringing out the caution. After the restart defending series champion Todd Bodine and Colin Braun exchanged blows during the course of getting around the track. No one was wrecked but both made some great saves.

The green flag conditions did not last too long as Andy Lally get wrecked hard after getting hit by Ted Musgrave on lap 72 bringing out the 4^th caution. Pit stops for Jack Sprague saw problems as he missed his pit stall. Chris Wallace, daughter of Nationwide Series driver, Mike got the ‘lucky dog’ pass even though she collided with Ron Hornaday who was forced to pit by NASCAR to make repairs caused by the collision.

The restart on lap 91 saw Denny Hamlin in the lead followed by Kyle Busch, Ken Schrader, Donny Lia, and Chad McCumbee. Leader and teammate Hamlin decided to let points leader Kyle Busch lead a lap after the restart. Then for about 3 laps they battled for the lead until Busch took the lead and took off. The 5^th caution flag flew as the no. 22 truck of  Phillip McGilton got into Phillip McGilton sprinkling debris all over the place. Hamlin pitted with Todd Bodine.

The restart saw Busch in the lead followed by Dennis Stzer and Brendan Gaughan. About lap 118 Busch got into the back of the problematic no. 85 truck of  Brent Raymer causing him to lose the lead. It also brought out the 6^th caution. This allowed Dennis Setzer to inherit the lead. Busch made his pit stop that put him back to the 23^rd position. Ron Hornaday pitted  again and did not repair the damage on his truck’s radiator cover.

Setzer was still leading when Jon Wood tried getting by Brent Raymer causing a spin that also collected Jack Sprague and many others. The yellow turned red shortly thereafter as they tried cleaning up mess on the track.

Setzer was in control when Hamlin got punted by Erik Darnell after slowing when he thought he a flat tire after the restart. Shortly after that it appeared that Gaughan’s fuel strategy was going to work when Phillip McGilton caused leader Setzer  to lose the spot . But Setzer was able to get passed him pretty easily after a couple of more cautions.