Despite averaging a speed under the commonly posted 65 miles per hour speed limit on interstate highways across the country, a lame Rick Crawford saw the checkered flag first at the end of the Kroger 250 to visit the Martinsville Speedway's victory lane.

It was a complete 360 for Crawford, getting caught up in an accident with Tiny Gordon and Hank Parker Jr. in the Craftsman Truck Series' last race on March 13 at Atlanta Motor Speedway and suffering a broken foot, to being the honored guest in victory lane after his win Saturday at Martinsville.

Parker Jr., who suffered a back injury from the Texas crash, and Tina Gordon, who injured her ankle in the same accident, also were back in action Saturday. Parker Jr. turned in a 12th-place performance while Gordon wound up 30th on the day.

Crawford won the race with an average blistering pace of about 61 and a half miles per hour because of a Martinsville Truck Series record of 83 caution laps.

One would figure that a caution-filled race at the half-mile, paper clip-shaped Martinsville Speedway would produce a high level of attrition, but the opposite was the result of this year's first visit of the year to the Virginia track. The number of caution laps on Saturday wasn't the only record set in this year's Kroger 250. Only two trucks out of the 36 that started the race called in quits early to set the series record for fewest entries to fall out of the race. A large number of the 34 remaining trucks set another Craftsman Truck Series record, the most trucks to finish a race on the lead lap - 24.

Crawford my have been driving with a bad foot, but he held off some strong competitors on his way to his Martinsville win, including two-time Martinsville winner, Dennis Setzer, who finished about a third of a second behind Crawford.

Not far behind Crawford in the closing laps also were a couple of former Craftsman Truck Series champions, Three-time series champion Jack Sprague finished third, and the series' first champion, Mike Skinner, rounded out the top-five. Sandwiched between the two champions was last October's Martinsville winner, Jon Wood.