Burton acme accumulated Trucks convenance at Texas

Jeb Burton fabricated his way to the top of the leaderboard on his sixth lap Cheap New Era Hats Thursday afteoon in the alone convenance for the WinStar World Casino 400 and captivated his arena for the abstract of the session.

Burton angry a best acceleration of 180.971 mph in a accumulated convenance affair afterwards rain delayed the alpha of the aboriginal practice. The No. 4 Arrowhead Chevrolet aswell fabricated the a lot of circuits on the track, alive 52 convenance laps.

Burton, who already has three poles in his aboriginal abounding Camping World Truck Alteation season, will accomplish his chase admission at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday evening.

Johnny Sauter, who swept both contest on the 1.5-mile clue abide year, M&N Snapback Caps was the alone added disciplinarian to about-face a lap aloft 180, hitting 180.656 mph on his third lap for a best lap of 29.891 seconds.

Timothy Peters took the final atom in the top three on his abide lap of 25, with Chad Hackenbracht and accepted credibility baton Matt Crafton rounding out the top five.

The accumulated convenance affair saw two chicken flags, both for a dribble from the clouds that hovered over the clue throughout the afteoon. At the time of the aboriginal caution, Brendan Gaughan captivated the third-fastest acceleration abaft Burton and Sauter. Gaughan has the a lot of wins at Texas a allotment of alive drivers, accepting swept two years in a row at the clue in 2002-03. Ron Hoaday Jr., who able 13th, has three wins at the track, a lot of afresh in 2011.

Last week's pole winner, Darrell Wallace Jr., Obey Snapback Caps     was 18th-fastest. Reigning alteation Best James Buescher able 14th on the leaderboard.

Qualifying for the WinStar World Casino 400 will yield abode Thursday at 7 p.m. ET.