(Sports Network) - Kyle Busch got a perfect push from his Billy Ballew Motorsports teammate Aric Almirola to pass Todd Bodine for the lead a couple of hundred yards away from the finish line for the victory in Saturday's Mountain Dew 250 Camping World Truck Series race at Talladega Superspeedway.

An eleven-truck pileup in the closing laps set up a green-white-checkered finish. Bodine moved around Busch for the lead just after the restart, but Busch got plenty of help from Almirola on the final lap to deny Bodine a fifth straight superspeedway win in the series.

"That just happened, unbelievable," Busch said. "I owe everything to Aric Almirola today, sticking behind me from the last pit stop to the end. I told him if he would just stay with me they wouldn't be able to beat [us]. Awesome job to Aric. He can keep my half of the pay after today. I don't get paid anything. I don't know what [team owner] Billy [Ballew] will work out with him."

Busch recorded his sixth win of the season and the 15th of his truck career. He has won in his last four starts.

Almirola's second-place finish gave Ballew his first one-two finish in his 300th start.

"I'm just disappointed," Almirola said. "I told Billy before the restart that I wanted it to be a one-two finish, but I wanted to be one."

Almirola has yet to win a race in the series.

Bodine wound up third. The 45-year-old driver had won the last two races at Talladega and Daytona -- the two superspeedway tracks on the circuit. During an early-race caution, Bodine spun around while exiting his pit stall, but managed to move back into the lead shortly after.

"I'm definitely disappointed," Bodine said. "I made the right move at the end, but I just didn't have a teammate to carry it out at the end. That's the way it goes."

Terry Cook finished fourth, and David Starr was fifth.

Mario Gosselin, Stacy Compton, Dennis Setzer, Justin Hobgood and Matt Crafton completed the top-10.

Crafton slightly trimmed Ron Hornaday Jr.'s lead to 202 points with just three races remaining. Hornaday was one of the drivers involved in the late-race pileup, and finished two laps down in 17th.

Mike Skinner, currently third in points (-327), Rick Crawford, Brian Scott, Timothy Peters, last weekend's winner at Martinsville, and Max Papis were among those also involved in the accident.

For the first time in NASCAR (web | news) , a father and daughter competed in a national touring series race. Mike Wallace finished 28th, while his 21-year-old daughter, Chrissy, drove to a 13th-place run.

The 98-lap race featured a new track record 21 lead changes among 10 drivers. Colin Braun started on the pole and led the most laps with 26. Braun faded midway through the race and then was involved in an incident with Skinner. He finished 12th.







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