Kyle Busch dominated Friday night’s NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series SFP 250 at Kansas Speedway, starting from the pole
and leading a race-high 104 laps en route to a three-second victory over
defending series champion Matt Crafton.
“Kansas?
I'm a winner at Kansas?” asked an incredulous Busch in Victory Lane, after
finally conquering a track that has
yielded an average finish of 23rd and four DNFs in Busch’s Sprint Cup Series
starts.
The race was caution-plagued, with nine
cautions for a total of 46 laps. It featured 15 lead changes among six
different drivers, and the win was Busch’s 37th in 117 career
Truck starts, raising his lifetime winning percentage to a hefty 32%. He has
now won his last three Truck Series races, after scoring in the season-opener
at Daytona International Speedway and the 2013 finale at Homestead Miami Speedway.
He has also visited Victory Lane in seven of his last 11 Truck starts.
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| Point leader Peters (L) crashed early. |
Busch’s
crew chief, Eric Phillips, claimed his 29th career Truck Series
victory, making him the winningest crew chief in the history of the NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series.
Point
leader Timothy Peters was involved in a first-lap crash and finished nine laps
down in 14th place, forfeiting the championship lead to Crafton by
eight points.
Matt
Crafton, Joey Logano, Austin Dillon and Taylor Malsam completed the Top-5, with
Malsam equalling his career-best finish in his first start of the year for
Turner Scott Motorsports. Jeb Burton, German Quiroga, Ron Hornaday Jr., Joe
Nemechek and rookie Mason Mingus completed the Top-10.
First off I must say that I'm a true blue Jr fan. Starting out with his dad in the late 80's.With that said I just want to say Kyle is and probably will be for the the future one of the great wheelmen in this sport. If you remember at first he had no clue how to drive the cup cars. He even said. Once he gets all his ducks in a row he will dominate in cup like he does in the lower series.
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