Kyle Busch Wins 1st Truck Race with Chevy at Hometown Track

Well, Kyle Busch is still Kyle Busch.

Just days after winning his first NASCAR Cup Series race with Richard Childress Racing at Auto Club Speedway, Busch won his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race since his team, Kyle Busch Motorsports, switched to Chevrolet.

Even better, the win came at his hometown track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The win is Busch’s 63^rd in the Truck Series, and it came in dominating fashion as he led 85 of the 134 laps.

Zane Smith finished second, followed by Ben Rhodes in third. Corey Heim and Ty Majeski rounded out the top five in fourth and fifth, respectively.

Top Storylines of the Race

• Max Gutierrez returned to the track for the first time since he was involved in a car accident that injured himself and took the life of his brother, Fico, on Jan. 29, causing him to miss the first race of the season at Daytona International Speedway. His No. 22 AM Racing truck was adorned with decals and tributes to his brother. Gutierrez finished 21st.
• Jake Garcia is now 18-years old and will run the rest of the season with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing. After missing Daytona due to being underage, Garcia pulled off a top-10, finishing in 10th.
• Heim had a strong showing for TRICON Garage, finishing fourth in his No. 11 Toyota. The next highest finishing TRICON truck was Tanner Gray in 13th.
• The race had a staggering 10 cautions on the night. Bret Holmes brought out the first caution of the night after crashing his No. 32. Matt Mills and Lawless Alan (in his first race of the season after failing to qualify at Daytona) spun their trucks out on separate occasions. In perhaps the most notable wreck of the night, Hailie Deegan got squeezed in the middle on the last lap of stage two and ended up spinning into John Hunter Nemechek, who crashed into the outside wall and collected Ross Chastain. Both Deegan and Nemechek’s trucks were totaled, and for Deegan, it was her second straight DNF. She needs to look to turn her season around quickly.
• Smith and Carson Hocevar won stages one and two, respectively. Hocevar won the stage under caution due to the Deegan/Nemechek/Chastain crash.

Winning Move of the Race

Despite the caution-filled race, the last stage went mostly green, and the final pit stop was under green-flag conditions. Some people tried to bank on a late caution shaking up the strategy, so drivers stayed out a lot later than others hoping for that caution that would never come.

One of…