NASCAR Truck Series: Kyle Busch earns 52nd career win, breaks all-time record

Kyle Busch broke the all-time NASCAR Truck Series wins record by earning his 52nd career victory in the second race of the 2019 season, the Ultimate Tailgating 200, at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

After winning two races in five starts throughout the 23-race 2018 NASCAR Truck Series season, Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Kyle Busch entered the 2019 season tied with NASCAR Hall of Famer Ron Hornaday Jr. for the most victories in Truck Series history.

Busch’s victories in last season’s March race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and July race at Pocono Raceway were his 50th and 51st career Truck Series victories, respectively.

With the 33-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada native set to drive the #51 Toyota in five of the 23 races on this season’s schedule, it appeared likely that he would become the first driver in Truck Series history to earn his 52nd career victory.

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After all, Busch has only gone on a three-race Truck Series win drought once since he earned the first of his five victories in the series in the 2013 season.

But even with five chances to pull it off this season, he only needed to utilize the first one to do so.

In his first Truck Series start of the season in the Ultimate Tailgating 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Busch dominated, leading 92 of the race’s 130 laps around the four-turn, 1.54-mile (2.478-kilometer) high-banked oval in Hampton, Georgia, en route to securing his 52nd career Truck Series victory.

Busch has earned his 52 Truck Series victories in just 146 career starts, meaning his win percentage in the series is a whopping 35.62%. Hornaday Jr., meanwhile, earned his 51 victories in 360 starts, making his win percentage in the series 14.17%.

The next closest drivers on the all-time Truck Series wins list to Busch and Hornaday are Mike Skinner and Jack Sprague, both of whom earned 28 victories over the course of their careers.

Busch’s 52nd career Truck Series victory is also his 195th career victory across NASCAR’s top three series, as he has also earned 51 Cup Series victories and 92 Xfinity Series victories over the course of his NASCAR career. He is now just five wins away from tying Richard Petty’s all-time NASCAR wins record of 200, and he is just six wins away from breaking it.

Throughout the remainder of the 2019 Truck Series season, Busch is set to compete in the race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday, March 1, the race at Martinsville Speedway on Saturday, March 23, the race at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday, March 29 and the race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday, May 17.

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Will anybody ever break Kyle Busch’s all-time NASCAR Truck Series wins record? How many more Truck Series victories will Busch add to his resume before he retires? He is still set to compete in four more races throughout the 2019 season, so don’t be surprised to see him add to his career win total.

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