the san bernardino county 200 was held february 23 at the newly renamed auto club speedway. as all of friday's activities were cancelled due to rain, truck qualifying and the race were both cancelled, with the race being pushed back to saturday morning. based on the 2007 owners points, defending champion ron hornaday, jr. was on pole. however, the race would mostly be dominated by kyle busch, coming out of a frustrating speedweeks. busch would dominate, leading the first 51 laps. however, daytona winner todd bodine ran down busch and passed him on the backstretch just after the halfway point. after the final round of green flag pit stops, busch regained the lead by 3.5 seconds over bodine and never looked back, cruising to his first truck series win of the season.