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For the first time since the end of the 2012 Camping World Truck Series, Matt Crafton isn't leaving Homestead-Miami Speedway celebrating a championship. Instead he's celebrating his career high sixth win on the season and his first ever at the South Florida 1.5 mile track.

Crafton started from the pole and led 99 of the race's 134 laps. While he knew the championship slipped out of reach, the two time champion wanted to finish what one could argue his most successful season in the series.

"Tonight's win was awesome," Crafton said. "The last two years we haven't been able to race here, and to be able to take the gloves off and don't worry about a championship and just go out and win, and that's all we had to do was worry about winning, and I said nothing else was going to make us happy. So that's what we did tonight."

Crafton knows he had a remarkable season despite not bringing home the ultimate prize.

"We had a phenomenal season," Crafton explained. "Six wins and 700 -- I think they said 780 laps we led. That's a pretty good season. We just had one column that was bad for us: DNFs. I made mistakes and everybody made mistakes.  

"But I promise you one thing, it's going to make us stronger for 2016."

For the second straight week rookie phenom John Hunter Nemechek grabbed a runner up finish. The finish for Nemechek, who won earlier this season at Chicagoland, is his 10th top 10 finish of the season. 

Tyler Reddick finished in third place; his second top 10 finish in two races at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Reddick finished the 2015 campaign with a runner up finish in the points standings.

"Going into this year, our standards were set very high," Reddick said. "We wanted to win the championship. And obviously a lot of people -- I feel like a lot of people didn't think we were capable of that. We didn't end up being capable of it. As you see, we were runner-up. We were always very strong throughout the season. We were always right there. Unfortunately we were just a little too short there coming into Homestead to really mix it up in the last race.  The 4 (Erik Jones) had quite a comfortable points gap."

Reddick admits he's disappointed in the season's finish but knows the future is bright for both he and his team at Brad Keselowski Racing.

"That was a shame, I had a couple bad races on my part that definitely took us out of the points lead and dropped us back there towards the end," Reddick explained. "Just learning and understanding what's worth the risk and what's your reward.  We picked up on a few things.  We definitely got more consistent toward the end of the season.  Not always were we the fastest, but we'd always run clean races and be there at the end to have a shot at winning the races.  

"Unfortunately that only happened for us twice this year, but I feel like if we play our cards right and do things right like we did this year that we'll have shots like that again in the future."

Rookie Ben Kennedy came home in fourth place with Timothy Peters grabbing the fifth place finish. 

Erik Jones piloted his No. 4 Toyota to a sixth place finish which clinched the series championship for the 19 year old Michigan native. The championship is the fourth for Kyle Busch Motorsports but the team's first driver's championship.

Johnny Sauter grabbed a seventh place finish in his last race as a member of ThorSport Racing. 

Daniel Hemric finished eigth with Cameron Hayley and John Wes Townley rounding out the top ten finishers.

Daniel Suarez led 10 laps and was leading when he appeared to make contact with the lapped car of Ray Black, Jr. The contact sent Suarez spinning, an incident which Suarez could not recover from; Suarez would finish in 30th place.

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race Number 23
Unofficial Race Results for the 20Th Annual Ford Ecoboost 200 - Friday, November 20, 2015
Homestead-Miami Speedway - Homestead, FL - 1.5 Mile Paved
Total Race Length - 134 Laps - 201 Miles - Purse: $686,721

Leader
Fin    Str    Trk    Driver    Team    Laps    Pts    Bns    Driver Rating    Winnings    Status    Tms    Laps
1    1    88    Matt Crafton    Ideal Door/Menards Toyota    134    48    5    146.7    $53,598    Running    6    93
2    2    8    John H. Nemechek #    Chevrolet    134    43    1    126.6    $32,308    Running    5    24
3    4    19    Tyler Reddick    Broken Bow Music Group Ford    134    42    1    114.6    $30,084    Running    1    1
4    3    11    Ben Kennedy    Florida Lottery Toyota    134    40        106.0    $25,597    Running        
5    12    17    Timothy Peters    Red Horse Racing Toyota    134    39        94.8    $22,449    Running        
6    5    4    Erik Jones #    Toyota Toyota    134    38        97.2    $20,382    Running        
7    10    98    Johnny Sauter    Nextant/Curb Records Toyota    134    37        99.9    $20,164    Running        
8    7    14    Daniel Hemric #    California Clean Power Chevrolet    134    36        89.8    $19,945    Running        
9    11    13    Cameron Hayley #    Mattei/Carolina Nut Toyota    134    35        79.3    $19,727    Running        
10    13    05    John Wes Townley    Zaxby's Chevrolet    134    35    1    84.4    $20,458    Running    1    1
11    8    23    Spencer Gallagher #    Allegiant Chevrolet    134    33        82.8    $19,399    Running        
12    18    29    Austin Theriault #    Cooper Standard Ford    134    32        74.6    $19,206    Running        
13    14    31    Rico Abreu    GunBroker.com Chevrolet    134    31        69.8    $19,070    Running        
14    19    97    Jesse Little    Protect The Harvest Toyota    134    30        70.8    $16,710    Running        
15    16    0    Scott Lagasse Jr.(i)    Florida DOT/Boy Scouts of America Chevrolet    134    0        62.5    $17,201    Running        
16    15    92    David Gilliland(i)    Blacks Tire & Wheel Distributors Ford    133    0        63.2    $16,464    Running        
17    22    59    David Levine    Furman University/MOMO Ford    133    27        55.2    $16,355    Running        
18    27    07    Ray Black Jr. #    ScubaLife.com Chevrolet    133    26        55.5    $18,496    Running        
19    23    02    Tyler Young    AKL Insurance Group/Young's Chevrolet    133    25        50.7    $18,386    Running        
20    20    15    Mason Mingus    811 Call Before You Dig Chevrolet    132    24        59.8    $18,755    Running        
21    25    94    Timmy Hill    Testoril/ChampionMachinery.com Chevrolet    132    23        46.5    $18,032    Running        
22    28    50    Travis Kvapil    CorvetteParts.net Chevrolet    132    22        43.8    $17,758    Running        
23    21    58    Kyle Weatherman    LifeXist/Massage LUXE Ford    131    21        47.0    $15,372    Running        
24    32    1    Dexter Stacey    Maddie's Place Chevrolet    131    20        40.3    $16,044    Running        
25    9    54    Christopher Bell    JBL Toyota    130    20    1    68.5    $15,976    Out Of Fuel    1    5
26    24    10    Jennifer Jo Cobb    UTA.org Chevrolet    128    18        34.3    $14,607    Running        
27    31    08    Korbin Forrister #    Tilted Kilt Chevrolet    127    17        31.3    $14,389    Running        
28    29    63    Garrett Smithley    NIMITZ/Adama Chevrolet    126    16        33.5    $12,799    Running        
29    30    74    Jordan Anderson    Simmons & White/Columbia SC Chevrolet    115    15        30.8    $12,553    Running        
30    6    51    Daniel Suarez(i)    ARRIS Toyota    84    0        98.0    $11,553    Accident    1    10
31    17    33    Brandon Jones #    Lucas Oil Chevrolet    67    13        27.0    $11,053    Accident        
32    26    86    Brandon Brown    Coastal Carolina University Chevrolet    2    12        23.2    $9,553    Transmission        
 Race Comments:    Matt Crafton won the Ford EcoBoost 200, his 11th career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory. Prior to the start of the race, no trucks dropped to the rear of the field. 
 Failed to Qualify:    (4) 18 Ross Kenseth(i), 36 Bobby Pierce, 45 Todd Peck, 6 Norm Benning.
 Time of Race:    01 Hrs, 35 Mins, 10 Secs.    Average Speed:    126.725 MPH    Margin of Victory:    2.942 Seconds
 Caution Flags:    4 for 18 laps: Laps: 5-8 (#86 Stalled On Track [50]); 62-66 (#51 Spin Turn 4 [31]); 75-78 (#33 Spin Turn 2 [92]); 84-88 (Debris Turn 2 [02]).
 Lead Changes:    14 among 6 drivers: M. Crafton 1-30; J. Nemechek # 31-48; T. Reddick 49; J. Townley 50; D. Suarez(i) 51-60; J. Nemechek # 61-62; M. Crafton 63; J. Nemechek # 64-65; M. Crafton 66-67; J. Nemechek # 68; M. Crafton 69-78; J. Nemechek # 79; M. Crafton 80-83; C. Bell 84-88; M. Crafton 89-134.
Top 10 Driver Points:     (1) E. Jones # 899;(2) T. Reddick 884;(3) M. Crafton 877;(4) J. Sauter 809;(5) T. Peters 804;(6) C. Hayley # 766;(7) D. Hemric # 733;(8) J. Townley 730;(9) B. Kennedy 690;(10) S. Gallagher # 677.
Keystone Light Pole Award    : Matt Crafton, #88 167.551 mph    Mahle Clevite Engine Builder of the Race    : Triad Racing Technologies (TRT), #88 
Mobil 1 Driver of the Race    : Matt Crafton, #88     Sunoco Rookie of the Race    : John Hunter Nemechek, #8 
(i) Ineligible for driver points in this series
Next Race:    Feb. 19, 2016 - Daytona International Speedway
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