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Austin Dillon wins the Nashville NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race

LEBANON, Tenn. - After pulling away with 23 laps to go, Austin Dillon did
not look back and won Friday night's Lucas Deep Clean 200 NASCAR Camping
World Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway for his first trip to
Victory Lane this season.

Dillon, who won two races in 2010, picked up his third career win by a
sizeable margin and his first since September 2010 at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway.

Starting the race from the pole position, Dillon made a gutsy call with 46
laps to go, when on a yellow flag pit stop he opted to take two tires
while much of the field changed all four, and pulled into the lead on the
restart.

Three laps later he was overtaken by Johnny Sauter, the second-place
finisher on the evening, but pulled ahead again on Lap 128 and gained a
wide margin of space to comfortably win the race. He then attempted a
celebratory slide through the grass to a loud and approving grandstand
crowd at Nashville Superspeedway.

Dillon and crew chief Danny Stockman agreed on the two-tire pit stop,
saying tires weren't an issue during the race but track position was.

"It was all about sticking with [Sauter] as long as I could, keep the
pressure on," Dillon said. "I knew he was getting looser and looser and I
finally had to get up in there with him and loosen him up a little more,
and when it happened we just went on."

"I looked at all the tire wears all day and the tires weren't wearing, and
I knew if we had track position and clean air, we were gonna go," Stockman
said. "And we didn't even have clean air and we still win. Tires weren't
an issue tonight."

Sauter, the points leader over Dillon by 18 points in the standings, was
looking for his second win of the season but said at the end of the day
the victor's truck was just better.

"He obviously knew that he had a fast truck, because before that pit stop
he was dogging me lap after lap," Sauter said. "I knew it was just going
to be a matter of time before he got around me."

With the win, Dillon claimed one of the most coveted trophies in the sport
- a Sam Bass custom-painted Gibson Les Paul guitar.

"I've been talking about it all week," he said. "They said in the driver's
meeting today that it was voted one of the 10 coolest trophies by 'Sports
Illustrated.' It's just a beautiful trophy."

Dillon also said the win boosted his confidence moving forward.

"It's just so great to have a win," he said. "When you get a win,
everything just seems to be a lot easier.

Trailing Dillon and Sauter across the finish line were Timothy Peters in
third, Nelson Piquet Jr. in fourth and Parker Kligerman in fifth.

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