The 2006 Racetickets.com 200 Craftsmen Truck Race

Riding around under caution behind Mark and teammate Todd Bodine, waiting for a green-white-checker finish to The 2006 Ford F-150

end Friday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Racetickets.com 200, Ted Musgrave flashed on the film “Groundhog Day” in which the same set of circumstances happened day after day.

And that’s pretty much how things turned out as the trio again finished one-two-three.

Neither Bodine nor Musgrave was able to catch Mark’s dominant No. 6 Scotts Ford even though this week’s event at California Speedway went all the way to the checkered flag – unlike the Feb. 17 Daytona International Speedway opener in which the yellow flag froze the field a lap early and left Mark’s pursuers frustrated.

The victory, worth $57,210, was Mark’s third in just five series starts. He led a race high three times for 63 laps, taking over for good from Bodine’s Germain Motor Co. Toyota on the 83rd of 106 laps.

A track record matching eight cautions held the winning average speed to 121.529 mph.

In winning, Mark became the first driver in California Speedway history to win in all three of NASCAR’s national touring divisions, tossing in a couple of IROC wins for good measure.

Mark’s victory margin over Bodine was .131 second – about two truck lengths.

Musgrave finished third in the Team ASE/Germain Toyota as he did at Daytona. Bud Pole starter David Reutimann took fourth in the Curb Records Toyota with Jack Sprague fifth in the Con-Way Toyota.

Johnny Benson, Mike Bliss, Jon Wood, Rick Crawford and Dennis Setzer finished sixth through 10th.

Erik Darnell, the winner’s teammate, was the top finishing Raybestos Rookie for the second straight race with an 11th-place performance.

Twenty-six of 31 finishing drivers completed all 106 laps – just one shy of the series record.

Eight drivers headed the field swapping the lead 10 times.

Mark, who’ll compete in the March 17 event at Atlanta Motor Speedway before handing over the controls of his Ford to David Ragan, heads the NASCAR Craftsman Truck standings by a 380 to 350 count over Bodine. Musgrave is third with 335 followed by Sprague and Reutimann.