FanHouse Ron Hornaday

Just as we've settled into NASCAR's "Modern Era" -- a time of network television, million-dollar sponsors, the COT and mega-teams fighting for the championship in the most competitive atmosphere the sport has ever had -- Ron Hornaday and Kyle Busch have delivered a refreshing retro-NASCAR interruption.

The two drivers have been setting records and notching consecutive finishes more reminiscent of the sport's early glory days.

We're still a few months away from learning who the first five inductees into the NASCAR Hall of Fame will be, giving us a little time to banter back and forth about who should be in that critical first class.

I'm curious to see how everything plays out with the criteria for induction. With three premier but separate series – the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series – how do you arrive at the finalists given the dominant success several drivers have enjoyed across the three different divisions?

Anybody catch the NASCAR Craftsman Series Truck race last night? What a wild finish.

I only caught the last 17 or so laps--when I tuned in championship battlers Mike Skinner and Ron Hornaday were running 7th and 8th with only three points separating them in the standings. I almost kept the remote moving ... nothing to see here. But I know better than that.

With four laps to go, Hornaday and Skinner were leading the field on a restart--rookie Chad McCumbee put the moves on both veteran drivers passing them three wide on the low side. Chaos ensued. McCumbee led the next restart and, with a two-lap green / white checker finish, appeared on track to collect his first series win.

McCumbee spun his tires on the restart, though, collecting Jack Sprague and making way for Ted Musgrave to score his first win since his 2005 championship season.