[BGN Fan]

By one position on the racetrack in the season finale Nov. 14 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Johnny Benson won the Craftsman Truck Series championship, 13 years after claiming his only title in the Nationwide Series.

A look back at what was a dramatic '08 Truck season

[jks812]

I have to say the truck championship was by far the most exciting of them all. Not only did it come down to the last race of the season, it came down to who crossed the finish line first. I thought that was awesome.

[Bob Tanner]

I think the really BIG story in the Truck Series was the large increase in viewers for 2008. This is especially significant in light of the facts that:
(a) Cup and Cup Lite viewing was down significantly.
(b) Cup gets the vast majority of the advertising
(c) The Cup and Cup Lite races are televised on the major networks and/or on ESPN, an established sports network. The Truck Series is televised solely on what some might term a secondary cable network, Speed, a channel many don't get in their basic cable package.

Yeah, the races were almost uniformly exciting. The championship was a nail-biter and not decided until the last race of the season. Seriously folks. Isn't this only what we expect from the Truck Series? Why was it news? It's just normal. If they would have had this type of action in Cup... Now THAT would have been worthy of a new story.