Kyle Busch didn’t have the fastest truck Saturday, and he had barely enough fuel to make it to the finish line. Neither circumstance prevented him from winning his third consecutive start in the Camping World Truck Series and his fifth race of the season.
Busch took the checkered flag in the Heluva Good! 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, as points leader and runner-up Ron Hornaday and his team owner and third-place finisher, Kevin Harvick, battled for position behind him. NASCAR
“I was going to be all right with a second or a third,’’ Busch said. “I think that’s the truck we had today. But sometimes you’ve got to let these things play out and today we did . . . It left the door open for me to win the race, so I don’t care. I’m glad I didn’t have to race Harvick, because he had the better tires and the better truck.
A three-lap caution allowed him to preserve fuel, and he ended up with just enough to finish the race, run a cooldown lap, and do a mini burnout before running out as he drove into victory lane. Boston Globe
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 51 Kyle Busch Toyota 2 33 Ron Hornaday Chevrolet 3 2 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 4 88 Matt Crafton Chevrolet 5 13 Johnny Sauter * Chevrolet 6 60 Stacy Compton Toyota 7 16 Brian Scott Toyota 8 5 Mike Skinner Toyota 9 6 Colin Braun Ford 10 14 Rick Crawford Ford 11 8 Dennis Setzer Chevrolet 12 11 T.J. Bell Toyota 13 24 David Starr Toyota 14 98 Michael McDowell Chevrolet 15 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 16 25 Terry Cook Toyota 17 10 James Buescher * Ford 18 4 J.R. Fitzpatrick * Chevrolet 19 117 Timothy Peters Toyota 20 81 Tayler Malsam * Toyota 21 15 Aric Almirola Toyota 22 9 Max Papis Toyota 23 157 Norm Benning Chevrolet 24 30 Todd Bodine Toyota 25 171 Rob Fuller Chevrolet 26 23 Jason White Dodge 27 148 Richard Harriman Chevrolet 28 41 Chris Jones * Dodge 29 7 Chad McCumbee Chevrolet 30 0 Tim Bainey Jr. Chevrolet 31 142 Mike Harmon Dodge 32 101 Charles Lewandoski Dodge 33 47 Chris Lawson Chevrolet 34 121 Nick Tucker Dodge 35 102 Andy Ponstein Chevrolet 36 8 Brandon Knupp Chevrolet
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