Kyle Busch won the Fr8 208 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday (Feb. 24), emerging victorious in his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start of 2024. Busch passed Grant Enfinger late after the No. 9 Chevrolet experienced a flat tire from the lead, eventually beating ThorSport Racing’s Ty Majeski by .187 seconds. The win extended Busch’s record for most wins in the series to 65.
Corey Heim crossed the line third, side by side with Majeski. Heim’s TRICON Garage teammate Taylor Gray finished fourth after flipping last weekend at Daytona International Speedway, while the winner of that race, Nick Sanchez, rounded out the top five.
Kaden Honeycutt finished a career-best sixth in the No. 45 Niece Motorsports Chevrolet. Tyler Ankrum crossed the line seventh after leading the most laps of the race, at 46, while Rajah Caruth, Daniel Dye and Dean Thompson completed the top 10.
Dye and Ankrum lined up the front row to start the race, and Ankrum took early control of the top while the NASCAR Cup Series veteran Busch kept pace on the bottom. The two traded the lead for the first 10 laps until Christian Eckes took the lead on lap 11.
The first caution of the race flew on lap 16 when the first lapped car the leaders encountered, Keith McGee, spun while three-wide with Busch.
Majeski put up a fight on the restart, but Eckes maintained the lead and won stage one over teammate Ankrum and the No. 38 of Layne Riggs. Unfortunately for Eckes, during the caution, he experienced problems with his brakes. He ended up going the garage, finishing last in 33rd.
To start stage two, Ankrum took control on the high side, continuing to battle with Busch. Busch got the better of Ankrum on lap 43 to take the lead. Shortly after, the second caution for a wreck flew on lap 48. The incident involved Thad Moffitt, Jake Garcia and Riggs, splitting pit strategy.
Busch maintained the lead on the restart, and stage two finished prematurely after Jack Wood went sliding in the infield, damaging his splitter and involving the No. 32 of Bret Holmes. Busch won stage two ahead of Ankrum and Enfinger.
Matt Mills stayed out and held the lead briefly, but on the drop of the green flag, the aggressiveness ramped up, and Ankrum found his way back to the lead by lap 71.
The caution came out once again on lap 79 for debris, which occurred after contact between Stewart Friesen and Taylor Gray on the backstretch. That incident happened around the same time that
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