NASCAR.com: Ted Musgrave finished seventh, losing second place to Craven by eight points. He also had a post-race run-in with Shane Hmiel that saw Musgrave put the younger driver into the grass in Turn 1.
"I guess I forgot to send him a Christmas card or something last year," Musgrave said. "I wanted to make sure I had the right post office to send it to. We were just racing hard, but the last couple of laps I was on the outside racing clean.
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Ted Musgrave Credit: Autostock
"I never touched him. I jumped to the outside trying to make a pass, and we ran about a lap like that, and it looked like I was going to get him, but coming off Turn 2 he acted like I wasn't even there. He just drove his truck up into the whole groove."
Musgrave said he did everything he could do to avoid contact.
"If I hadn't hit the brakes, I'd have been up into the wall," Musgrave said. "I jumped back outside of him and he tried to do it again, but I forced him to give me room. Afterward, I just wanted to let him know that whether it's the first lap or the last lap, if somebody is on the outside of you, completely on the outside of you, he's got the right to race you.
"In years to come, if he's still racing, he'll learn. Maybe I don't have much time left either. He'll probably say I'm old, too. We'll show him the old guys can still get the job done.
"It gets down to the last lap and you try to protect yourself, but you can't wreck the other guy to keep your position."
Jimmy Spencer, who wound up eighth, had a similar experience.
"Every time I tried to pass Shane Hmiel, he'd turn into me," Spencer said.
