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Kyle Busch sped away from the rest of the field after a restart with 33 laps left in Saturday night’s Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and collected his second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory.
What’s more, Busch won his fourth straight NASCAR national series race, having swept last week’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup events at Martinsville Speedway and having won Friday night’s NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Texas.
It’s quite obvious that Kyle has caught fire as he did last year when he came back from a devastating injury occurring in the Xfinity Series opener at Daytona, It seems we are witnessing a new era in the interesting Kyle Busch saga as he seems composed as ever.
Quite simply, the prodigious numbers continue to pile up for the driver of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Busch posted his 36th victory of his Sprint Cup career and his second at Texas, having also swept the spring weekend at the 1.5-mile speedway in 2013. With the victory, Busch also virtually secured a spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, as he will look to defend the title he won last year.
Dale Earnhardt Jr came home second after passing eventual third-place finisher Joey Logano for the runner-up spot with eight laps left. Johnson ran fourth, despite a succession of pit road issues, the first of which involved contact with Busch’s Toyota during the first pit stops of the race on Lap 30. Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate Chase Elliott scored a career-best fifth-place finish.
It was evident early on that Edwards and Truex were the obvious favourites to hold the six-shooters at the end of the night but just like last week the guys who early on seemed to be the strongest were subject to failure and opening the door for “Rowdy” Kyle Busch to seal his victory.
Edwards had a late race problem with a loose wheel, ruining his shot at claiming the checkered but coming back to finish P7, one spot behind of Martin Truex Jr, who led a race-high 141 laps but lost ground on old tires during the final 33-lap green-flag run.
They say everything is bigger in Texas and this came to be true on Lap 293 when Austin Dillion slid up the track coming out of Turn Two making contact with Jimmie Johnson, and both the inside and outside walls. Johnson somehow regained control to his car only suffering minimal damage.
What was really a piece of art was how all the drivers seemed to avoid the three car, until chaos ensued behind him ending all of the RCR cars nights and involving 13 cars in total. This was quite an impressive wreck considering Texas is an intermediate 1.5 mile track, wrecks like these are typically seen at Superspeedways like Talladega and Daytona.
Top 10:
1. Kyle Busch
2. Dale Earnhardt Jr
3. Joey Logano
4. Jimmie Johnson
5. Chase Elliott
6. Martin Truex Jr
7. Carl Edwards
8. Kasey Kahne
9. Kurt Busch
10. Kevin Harvick
Next weekend the boys (and Danica) travel to the Mountains of Tennessee to do battle at the Last Great Coliseum and we get to witness the unveiling of their new monster video screen.
This will be the second short track race of the year and unlike Martinsville there will be multiple lines to run, be sure to tune in next week when NASCAR runs the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway
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