David Starr used the old-fashioned chrome horn to move past Chad Chaffin on the last lap to take his second-career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory in the Dodge Ram Tough 200 at Gateway International Raceway on Saturday night. Starr was forced to endure four attempts at a green-white-checkered finish at 14 additional laps before he could pull into victory lane.

On the start, Jack Sprague jumped out from the pole to the lead, which he held for the first three laps, however, Bobby Hamilton out-dragged him down the backstretch to take the point coming to complete lap four. Hamilton kept his Dodge up front, but Sprague and Shane Hmiel kept the pressure on for the first 20 laps.

On lap 26, Ryck Sanders spun off turn four to bring out the first caution of the night. All of the leaders pitted for their first scheduled stops of the night, with most of them chosing to take two tires and fuel. Sprague stayed out along with Hmiel, Travis Kvapil, Steve Park, and Hank Parker , while Chad Chaffin led the charge off pit road.

Matt Crafton and point-leader Dennis Setzer came together leaving pit road, with Crafton forced back to pit road to replace a flat left front tire. He restarted from the 28th position.

Hmiel moved to the lead after the restart, while Kvapil moved into position to pressure Sprague for second. In the pack, Hamilton started to drop back from ninth on the restart and settled in to the 15th spot by lap 35.

On lap 39, second-place point man Carl Edwards went three wide with Mike Skinner and Randy LaJoie fighting for eighth position. By the time they reached turns one and two, Edwards snapped loose and collected Skinner, who bounced off the turn two wall to bring out the second caution of the night. Edwards continued on, but Skinner was forced to the garage for repairs.

Hmiel, Sprague, and the rest of the group that stayed out on the first caution took this chance to pit. Rick Crawford and 14 other drivers stayed on the track under the second caution, with Hmiel leading the charge off pit road to restart 16th.

Crawford led from the restart on lap 45 through lap 51, when he was passed for the lead by David Reutimann. Reutimann, who ran the Busch Series race here in May, held the point while Crawford and Setzer battled for second behind him. Hamilton, who had dropped as low as 15th after the second caution of the night, had by time started his march back towards the front. By lap 65, he had cracked the top-10 and was gaining time on the top-5 each lap.

On lap 67, the third caution of the night waved for debris in turns three and four. The timing of the caution was such that the teams would still have to make one more pit stop for fuel regardless, leaving several teams in a dilemma. Eleven drivers elected to stay on the track for track position, led by Setzer, who picked up his five points for leading the race for the first time.

Sprague moved to second on lap 70, and dove inside Setzer for the lead on lap 71. Sprague got loose underneath Setzer and the two made contact, forcing Sprague to slow and dropping him back to fifth. Hamilton jumped at the opportunity and took over second, and pounced on Setzer leaving turn two on lap 73 to retake the lead.

At the halfway point, Hamilton led Setzer by just under one second, followed by Andy Houston, Sprague, and Park. Twenty-nine trucks remained on the lead lap.

Hamilton cruised, building up a lead of nearly one second, over the next few laps. But as his tires continued to wear, Sprague and the field closed back in. On lap 92, Sprague powered past for the lead with Hmiel in tow. Sprague’s time at the top of the scoring pylon was short-lived as Hmiel, who restarted 23rd on lap 70, pulled into the lead down the backstretch to lead lap 95.

Because of the varying pit strategies, green flag stops for several of the front runners started around lap 100. Teams that pitted early then stayed out for track position were running low on fuel and came down for their last scheduled stop of the night. Andy Houston and Jon Wood both gave up positions in the top-10 to make their stops for tires and fuel.

Those strategies went up in smoke just five laps later when Carl Edwards had a right front tire go down and spun going into turn three.

Under the caution, Tracy Hines stayed out to lead the first lap of his NCTS career when all the rest of the lead lap trucks came to pit road. Sprague won the race to the stripe, with Hmiel, Chaffin, Park, and David Starr following.

Again, Sprague jumped out to the lead on the restart, but Hmiel put the DEI power under the hood of his Chevy to good use and powered past to retake the lead for the third time of the evening on lap 113. Hmiel led until the caution flew again when smoke billowed from underneath Steve Park’s Dodge on lap 128.

The green flag came out with 30 laps to go, and Hmiel picked up where he left off, however, Sprague stayed relentlessly on his tailgate. Chaffin stayed in third, with Starr and Hamilton rounding out the top-5.

With 19 laps remaining, Hamilton made the move past Starr for fourth. He moved past teammate Chaffin for third with 10 laps remaining, but with a three-second gap between himself and the leader, he did not have enough time to make up the gap, unless the caution came out.

The break Hamilton needed came within sight of the checkered flag. On lap 156, Sprague had a right front tire go flat and made significant contact with the left front on the inside frontstretch wall, bringing out the caution flag and setting up a green-white-checkered finish. The caution put Hamilton right on Hmiel’s tailgate for the two-lap dash for the finish.

The green flag came out on lap 160, and Hamilton stretched the legs on his Dodge to power past Hmiel, apparently for the lead, but for the last time in NCTS series history, the caution came out before the field reached the white flag, allowing for a second attempt at a green-white checkered. Chase Montgomery drove in too deep into turn one and made contact with Terry Cook, sending both trucks spinning. Cook made hard contact with the turn two wall, then was hit by Robert Huffman, sending both trucks to the garage and both drivers to the care center for a checkup.

On the restart, Hmiel jumped out to a half a truck length lead before they reached turn one, but Hamilton again jumped to the outside, but as they exited turn two, both trucks made contact with Hmiel nosing into the wall and Hamilton going up on two wheel and nearly turning over.

On the third attempt to finish the race, Andy Houston got loose and made contact with Rick Crawford, sending Crawford up on his side in a carbon-copy of the Hmiel-Hamilton incident. Crawford slid halfway down the backstretch on his driver’s side door, sending up a shower of sparks.

NASCAR red flagged the race to get the wrecked vehicles cleared and to cool the emotions on the track. Once the track was cleared, Chaffin led the field to the green for a record-setting fourth attempt at the green-white-checkered finish. Chaffin led the field to the white flag, but Starr put the bumper to him coming out of turn two to take over the lead on the last lap, and came home to score his first win since 2002 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Following Starr at the finish were Setzer, Ted Musgrave, Chaffin, and Hank Parker, Jr. Rounding out the top-10 were Crafton, Kvapil, LaJoie, Reutimann, and Lester.