ERIE, Colo.  — Eric Holmes keeps winning races, but Mike David keeps turning in consistent performances.
The combination by the two most recent champions in the NASCAR Camping World Series West makes for another tight championship battle this season.
Holmes, who won the 2006 title, scored his third win in five races this season with a victory in the Toyota/NAPA 150 at Colorado National Speedway on Saturday.
With David, the defending champion, finishing in the runner-up spot, however, Holmes was only able to shave 15 points off his point lead.
The pair started side by side on the front row for the battle around the three-eighths-mile oval at CNS. Holmes, who nabbed his second Coors Light Pole Award of the season, led initially,  but lost the top spot to David on a lap-26 restart. Holmes demonstrated the strength of his No. 16 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota, however, in charging back past David one lap after a subsequent restart. He paced the field through the final 100 laps that went green to the finish.
“I got him on the first restart, but I tried something a little different and he got me,” Holmes said. “He was doing a good job of protecting his line. The next restart, I changed my restart to how I did the first one and got him on that one.”
Holmes crossed the finish line with a margin of victory of 7.060 seconds, while setting a record average speed for the event of 62.888 miles per hour.
With the win, he garnered $8,050 in prize money and posted awards. He added to his series stats, with his seventh-career pole and his fifth-career triumph.
David took the runner-up spot in the No. 2 Bennett Lane Winery Toyota, with second-year driver Jason Bowles third. Mike Gallegos and Daryl Harr rounded out the top five.
The finish:
Showing driver, car, laps completed and money won: 1. Eric Holmes, Toyota, 150, $8,050; 2. Mike David, Toyota, 150, $4,100; 3. Jason Bowles, Ford, 150, $3,000; 4. Mike Gallegos, Chevrolet, 150, $2,600; 5. Daryl Harr, Chevrolet, 150, $2,000; 6. Moses Smith, Toyota, 150, $3,750; 7. Jim Inglebright, Chevrolet, 149, $2,150; 8. Austin Cameron, Toyota, 149, $2,050; 9. Jeff Barkshire, Dodge, 149, $2,290; 10. Brett Thompson, Chevrolet, 149, $2,450; 11. Jason Patison, Ford, 149, $1,900; 12. Eric Hardin, Chevrolet, 148, $1,875; 13. Jim Warn, Chevrolet, 147, $1,850; 14. Billy Kann, Chevrolet, 147, $1,325; 15. Jamie Dick, Chevrolet, 147, $1,300; 16. David Mayhew, Chevrolet, 146, $1,775; 17. Jeff Jefferson, Chevrolet, 146, $1,750; 18. Jack Sellers, Chevrolet, 121, $1,200; 19. Jonathan Hale, Chevrolet, 53, $1,175; 20. Johnny Borneman, Ford, 19, $1,650; 21. Lloyd Mack, Ford, 11, $1,125.