The Winning Pass:  Fuller (#85) Gets Around Hudlemeyer (#46) on Lap 62

FULLER WINS IN 80th ATTEMPT!

Bill Fuller captured the Bluegrass 200 at Kentucky Speedway on Monday, giving him his first IRC Cup Series win.  Fuller passed rookie Darrell Hudlemeyer on lap 62 of the 80 lap event and went on to lead to the checkered flag.  This was his 80th start in the Cup Series, putting an end to the record of consecutive starts without a victory at 79.

"I owe all of this one to Alan Johnson," said an exuberant Fuller in Victory Lane, "He did a lot of testing here and gave us a setup that I knew was going to be tough to beat on the long runs.  I hated to see him and almost all of my teammates wreck out of the race because we were all running the same base setup, and any of those guys could have won it."

The event saw 6 cautions on the night, many of which occurred on early restarts under the slick track conditions on cold tires. 

Darrell Hudlemeyer finished a strong 2nd, while series veterans Gilles Mourette, Jeff Trowbridge, and Chris Blalock rounded out the top 5.