Sprague sat eighth in points, 489 behind Hornaday, after his second consecutive DNF Saturday at Talladega, Ala. He crashed with 24 laps to go at the superspeedway and finished 27th, his second-worst finish of the season, two weeks after crashing out in 26th at Las Vegas. "We didn't have the results. It was no one thing, but every week it was something. It's been a miserable year for everybody involved," Sprague said. "It's just getting to the point where enough's enough. I've got nothing bad to say, I have a lot of respect for Kevin and what he's built there, just sometimes it doesn't work." Sprague, 44, questioned the timing of the decision with five races remaining but said he understood the team's need to put the #2 in a position to land sponsorship for next season with current sponsor American Commercial Lines not expected to return. Whether he has made his final start in the Trucks remains to be seen. "I've contemplated retirement. I've had a very, very rough year and a half," he said. "This business has a lot of ups and downs, the downs are very tough to take when you want to win as bad as I do.