# 2011 WinStar World Casino 350K

The 2011 WinStar World Casino 350K was a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event held on November 4, 2011 at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Contested over 148 laps of the 1.5 miles (2.4 km) oval, it was the second-last race of the season, and was won by Kevin Harvick in a green-white-checker finish.
The race became notable for an incident on its fourteenth lap, where Kyle Busch deliberately spun out series regular (and championship contender) Ron Hornaday on a resulting caution after Hornaday caused Busch's truck to slide into a wall. Its aftermath affected the championship contentions of both drivers (in the Sprint Cup Series and the Camping World Truck Series respectively), and NASCAR's response to the incident also led to the first ever parking of a driver across all three races of a race weekend involving all of the association's national series since the original establishment of the Truck Series in 1995.

## Report

James Buescher won the pole position for the race, setting a lap speed of 181.062 mph (291.391 km/h). Austin Dillon, Blake Feese, Kyle Busch and Ricky Carmichael started from the top five; Tim Andrews, Norm Benning and Derek White failed to qualify for the event.
In the race, Kevin Harvick won his fourth event of the season; Austin Dillon finished second. James Buescher ran out of fuel on a green-white-checkered finish and dropped from third to 19th. The victory saw Harvick's No. 2 Chevrolet team clinch the series' Owners Championship.

### Ron Hornaday and Kyle Busch conflict

On Lap 13, Kyle Busch and Ron Hornaday, who was in third in points 15 behind, were battling for second side by side when they approached a lapped truck in Johnny Chapman. Both Busch and Hornaday tried to go around the outside of Chapman while still side by side but Hornaday ended up getting loose and made contact with Busch and both trucks slid up into the wall in turn 2 bringing out the caution. This made Busch angry and Busch went to retaliate Hornaday by trying to turn him with Busch's spotter telling Busch to calm down and to get off of Hornaday. Unfortunately, it was too late as Busch deliberately turned Hornaday into the outside wall under caution, ending Hornaday's title hopes. NASCAR black-flagged Busch, parking him from the event. The next morning, NASCAR announced that Busch would remain parked for the remainder of the weekend, including the 2011 O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge and the 2011 AAA Texas 500. NASCAR took this action under rules that allow it to park a driver in order to ensure the "orderly conduct of the event," an action which is not appealable. Denny Hamlin and Michael McDowell stepped up to replace Busch in both the Nationwide Series and Sprint Cup series races. It was the first time since the Truck Series was launched in 1995 that NASCAR had parked a driver across all three national series, and only the third cross-series sanction in NASCAR's 64-year history. NASCAR's action mathematically eliminated Busch from contention for the Sprint Cup, though any realistic chance of him winning it ended earlier in the Chase.
Later that day, Busch issued an apology to his fans, sponsors and teammates, saying that the Texas incident was "certainly a step backward."
On November 7, NASCAR fined Busch $50,000 for "actions detrimental to stock car racing." While the sanctioning body lifted the parking directive, it placed Busch on probation for the rest of the year, saying that he would be suspended indefinitely if he committed another action "detrimental to stock car racing or to NASCAR" or "disrupts the orderly conduct of an event".

## Race results

| Pos | Grid | No. | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Points |
| 1 | 10 | 2 | Kevin Harvick | Kevin Harvick Incorporated | Chevrolet | 148 | 0$^1$ |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | Austin Dillon | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 148 | 43 |
| 3 | 8 | 21 | Ty Dillon | Kevin Harvick Incorporated | Chevrolet | 148 | 41 |
| 4 | 7 | 8 | Nelson Piquet Jr. # | Kevin Harvick Incorporated | Chevrolet | 148 | 40 |
| 5 | 11 | 88 | Matt Crafton | ThorSport Racing | Chevrolet | 148 | 39 |
| 6 | 14 | 22 | Joey Coulter # | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 148 | 38 |
| 7 | 12 | 13 | Johnny Sauter | ThorSport Racing | Chevrolet | 148 | 38 |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Ricky Carmichael | Turner Motorsports | Chevrolet | 148 | 36 |
| 9 | 17 | 7 | Miguel Paludo # | Red Horse Racing | Toyota | 148 | 35 |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | Justin Lofton | Eddie Sharp Racing | Chevrolet | 148 | 35 |
| 11 | 15 | 17 | Timothy Peters | Red Horse Racing | Toyota | 148 | 33 |
| 12 | 23 | 23 | Jason White | Joe Denette Motorsports | Chevrolet | 148 | 32 |
| 13 | 19 | 5 | Todd Bodine | Randy Moss Motorsports | Toyota | 148 | 31 |
| 14 | 24 | 9 | Max Papis | Germain Racing | Toyota | 148 | 30 |
| 15 | 26 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | RSS Racing | Chevrolet | 148 | 29 |
| 16 | 33 | 66 | Ross Chastain | Turn One Racing | Chevrolet | 148 | 28 |
| 17 | 18 | 60 | Cole Whitt # | Turn One Racing | Chevrolet | 146 | 27 |
| 18 | 20 | 20 | Johanna Long # | Panhandle Motorsports | Toyota | 146 | 26 |
| 19 | 1 | 31 | James Buescher | Turner Motorsports | Chevrolet | 146 | 26 |
| 20 | 36 | 10 | Jennifer Jo Cobb | JJC Racing | Dodge | 144 | 0$^1$ |
| 21 | 25 | 93 | B. J. McLeod | RSS Racing | Chevrolet | 144 | 23 |
| 22 | 27 | 68 | Clay Greenfield | Alger Motorsports | Dodge | 143 | 22 |
| 23 | 16 | 81 | David Starr | SS-Green Light Racing | Toyota | 140 | 21 |
| 24 | 28 | 73 | Rick Crawford | Tagsby Racing | Chevrolet | 101 | 20 |
| 25 | 29 | 55 | Jake Crum | MAKE Motorsports | Chevrolet | 96 | 0$^1$ |
| 26 | 40 | 26 | Jack Smith | MB Motorsports | Ford | 96 | 18 |
| 27 | 3 | 32 | Blake Feese | Turner Motorsports | Chevrolet | 54 | 17 |
| 28 | 13 | 29 | Parker Kligerman # | Brad Keselowski Racing | Dodge | 54 | 16 |
| 29 | 22 | 07 | Johnny Chapman | SS-Green Light Racing | Toyota | 45 | 0$^1$ |
| 30 | 32 | 74 | Mike Harmon | Mike Harmon Racing | Chevrolet | 27 | 0$^1$ |
| 31 | 21 | 62 | Brendan Gaughan | Germain Racing | Toyota | 20 | 13 |
| 32 | 31 | 0 | T. J. Bell | JJC Racing | Ford | 19 | 0$^1$ |
| 33 | 4 | 18 | Kyle Busch | Kyle Busch Motorsports | Toyota | 14 | 0$^1$ |
| 34 | 9 | 33 | Ron Hornaday Jr. | Kevin Harvick Incorporated | Chevrolet | 13 | 10 |
| 35 | 35 | 87 | Chris Jones | LCS Motorsports | Chevrolet | 10 | 0$^2$ |
| 36 | 30 | 38 | Mike Garvey | RSS Racing | Chevrolet | 5 | 0$^2$ |
| # Rookie of the Year candidate / $^1$ Not eligible for series points / $^2$ Late entry Source: ||||||||

## Standings after the race

| Pos | Driver | Points |
| 1 | Austin Dillon | 854 |
| 2 | Johnny Sauter | 834 |
| 3 | James Buescher | 826 |
| 4 | Ron Hornaday Jr. | 806 |
| 5 | Timothy Peters | 796 |
| 6 | Todd Bodine | 775 |
| 7 | Matt Crafton | 759 |
| 8 | Joey Coulter | 757 |
| 9 | Cole Whitt | 742 |
| 10 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | 712 |