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Wes Banks (3) flashes under the flag stand during the first practice session at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. (Kevin W. Green/NASCAR)

Lap By Lap: King Taco 200

Lap 200 -- Top Ten Bowles, Barkshire, Harraka, Long, Pursley, Holmes, Mayhew, Koch, Smith, Johnson 

Lap 200 --  CHECKERED FLAG: Bowles captures third consecutive win at his home track, Toyota Speedway    

Lap 199 -- WHITE FLAG  

Lap 188 -- GREEN FLAG 

Lap 181 --  Top 10 Bowles, Barkshire, Harraka, Holmes, Pursley, Long, Mayhew, Koch, Smith, Johnson 

Lap 180 --CAUTION NO. 5:  Wong accident turn 1 

Lap 179 -- GREEN FLAG 

Lap 176 -- Mayhew pits for chassis adjustment

Lap 172 -- CAUTION NO. 4: Dugan Spins turn 2 

Lap 163 -- Borneman to pit lane with flat right front 

Lap 160 -- Top 10 Bowles, Barkshire, Harraka, Pursley, Long, Holmes, Mayhew, Koch, Wong, Johnson 

Lap 147 -- Long battles Holmes for 5th  

Lap 140 -- Top 10 Bowles, Barkshire, Harraka, Pursley, Holmes, Long, Mayhew, Koch, Wong, Johnson 

Lap 133 -- Harraka closes in on Pursley and passes him for 3rd 

Lap 120 -- Top 10 Bowles, Barkshire, Pursley, Harraka, Holmes, Long, Mayhew, Koch, Wong, Johnson 

Lap 112 -- Top 3 nose to tail Bowles, Barkshire, Pursley 

Lap 102 -- GREEN FLAG 

Lap 101 -- Crews are making routine service to cars during 10-minute midway break   

Lap 101 -- Field run down Bowles, Barkshire, Pursley, Harraka, Homles, Mayhew, Long, Johnson, Koch, Smith, Wong, Borneman, Bennett, Myers, Banks, Dugan, Dick, Thompson 

Lap 101 -- CAUTION NO. 3 midway break  

Lap 88 -- Myers makes quick pit stop 

Lap 87 -- Bowles moves by on outside for the lead 

Lap 86 -- Bowles Barkshire side by side for lead 

Lap 85 -- GREEN FLAG

Lap 81 -- top 10 Barkshire, Bowles, Pursley, Harraka, Holmes, Mayhew, Long, Koch, Johnson, Myers 

Lap 80 -- Warn out - Engine

Lap 78 -- CAUTION NO. 2: Warn smoke turn 4, rolls to a stop behind the wall 

Lap 60 --  Top 10 Barkshire, Bowles, Pursley, Holmes, Harraka, Mayhew, Long, Koch, Johnson, Myers 

Lap 45 -- Spangler out - Transmission, Milburn out - Accident 

Lap 41 -- Jamie Dick to pit lane with flat right front tire 

Lap 40 --  top 10 Barkshire, Bowles, Holmes, Pursley, Mayhew, Harraka, Long, Koch, Warn, Myers

Lap 30 -- Barkshire and Bowles pull away by about 20 car lenghths

Lap 20 -- top 10 Barkshire, Bowles, Holmes, Pursley,Harraka, Mayhew, Long, Koch, Warn, Thompson 

Lap 20 -- Barkshire into lead on restart 

Lap 19 -- Green Flag  

Lap 16 -- CAUTION NO. 1 Milburn into turn 3 wall, keeps rolling

Lap 8 -- Brian Wong black flagged for window net down comes to pits to get fixed 

Lap 1 --Bowles into the lead 

8:51 p.m. -- Green flag King Taco 200

 8:49 p.m. -- Cars on warm up lap 

8:45 p.m. -- Command to fire engines. 

8:42 p.m. -- National anthem. 

8:36 p.m. -- Cars roll to grid on front stretch. 

8:32 p.m. -- Pre-race activities begin for King Taco 200.  

6:35 p.m. -- Driver autograph session along the front stretch comes to an end and fans begin to filter back into the grandstands. 

5:28 p.m. -- Jason Bowles captures his third Coors Light Pole Award of the 2009 season and the ninth of his career with a lap of 96.185 mph. Jeff Barkshire was second quick, followed by David Mayhew.

5:27 p.m. -- Jeff Barkshire is the final car to qualify and jumps to second place on the list.  

5:22 p.m. -- Qualifying delayed momentarily while the safety crew checks the track for oil. 

5:17 -- David Mayhew, 17th car to take to the track, turns in the second quickest time. 

5:12 -- Top three in time after 14 cars have qualified are: Jason Bowles, Eric Holmes and Greg Pursley. 

5:05 p.m. -- Tenth car on track is Greg Pursley, who jumps to third on the chart. 

4:53 p.m. -- Jason Bowles is the third driver to take time and jumps to the top of the list with a lap of 96.185 mph. 

4:50 p.m. -- Qualifying begins, with Blake Koch taking the first time. 

1:48 p.m. -- Final practice session concludes, with Jason Bowles turning the fastest lap and topping the speed charts for the day with a lap of 94.762 mph

1:05 p.m. -- Final practice session begins. 

12:18 p.m. -- First practice session concludes with Eric Holmes atop the speed chart. Final practice session is slated to begin at 1 p.m. 

11:35 a.m. -- First practice session begins. 

8:00 a.m. -- Garage opens and NASCAR Camping World Series West teams beginning streaming in under a blue Southern California sky and plenty of sunshine.

Saturday, 7:30 a.m. PT -- Registration opens at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale for the King Taco 200