A week removed from Kyle Busch's failed efforts of NASCAR's first single race weekend trifecta at Texas Motor Speedway, Kevin Harvick got a start on a possible Phoenix hat-trick after winning the Lucas Oil 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday night.

"To see Hornaday lock up the championship tonight and (me) win the race, I don't think you could script it much better," said Harvick, who at one point slept on Hornaday's black leather couch when he was trying to make a name for himself in racing.

"I thought I had screwed it up there in the beginning. I thought I got in oil. I about spun out in the turn before down there and came down here and just spun out, and (crew chief) Ernie (Cope) said the tire was bald when we came in. It just kind of took me a while to get back in the swing of things. I had lost a little bit of confidence in the truck.

"We got a little tight and made an adjustment there on the last stop and just came on strong."

Busch finished the race in second with Aric Almirola, Ron Hornaday Jr., Johnny Sauter, Mike Skinner, Mike Bliss, Matt Crafton, David Starr and Stacey Compton rounding out the top-ten finishers.

Harvick's late race domination wasn't without some diversity through the first portion of the event. He caused the first caution of the night on lap six after he ran over some oil on the track before sliding into the Toyota of Almirola early in the race. Despite Harvick's slide through the infield grass, he was able to stay on the lead lap and suffered minimal damage.

Hornaday saw some action of his own as well, suffering a penalty for improper fueling during a lap 35 pit stop, under caution. When the field restarted the soon-to-be champion was at the rear of the longest line.

A somewhat gradual climb back up through the field saw the 51-year-old restart on lap 96 in the seventh position. By the end of the race, he was able to break into the top-five. However, he wasn't able to do much more with the green-white checkered finish — which was halted as the field took the white flag for rookie Tayler Malsam, who spun while exiting turn four.

Billy Ballew Motorsports, which fields the trucks of Almirola and Busch, saw another good night of performances. Despite not coming home with the win tonight, the two led a combined total of 82 laps during tonight's event. Almirola led a total of 52 laps in the race, falling just short of Harvick's field-most of 58 laps.

After taking the lead for the first time from Busch on lap 44, Almirola seldom had to look into his rearview mirror. The Tampa, Fla. native opened a lead of more than 3.3-seconds at one point in the night over his BBM teammate.

It was a wonderful night for Kevin Harvick Inc., a team that fielded a truck for race winner Harvick and Hornaday. With his fourth place finish tonight, Hornaday will roll into the season finale race at Homestead-Miami Raceway as the champion.

Hornaday became just the second driver to clinch the Camping World Truck Series trophy prior to the final race of the season. With his fourth Truck Series championship, he joins Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon as the only drivers to win four championships in their career across all three of NASCAR's national touring series.

"We're not done," Hornaday said. "As long as Kevin and DeLana will still have me, we're going to win some more. … When you drive Kevin and DeLana's equipment, you feel like you're 18 years old."

Despite clinching the title tonight, Hornaday will not be officially crowned champion until after next week's race.

Harvick is scheduled to participate in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series events this weekend. If he can pull out a victory in both of those races, he would become the first driver in NASCAR's 61 year history to do so.