NASCAR Truck Series: Will Kyle Busch earn his fourth consecutive victory?

Kyle Busch has won each of the last three NASCAR Truck Series races in which he has competed. Will he earned his fourth straight victory this Saturday?

Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Kyle Busch is set to make the third of his five scheduled starts for the 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season in this Saturday’s race, the Martinsville 250, at Martinsville Speedway.

The 33-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada native is set to enter this 250-lap race around the four-turn, 0.526-mile (0.847-kilometer) Martinsville Speedway oval in Ridgeway, Virginia having won each of the last three Truck Series victories in which he has competed.

In his fifth and final start of the 2018 Truck Series season, Busch drove his #51 Toyota to victory lane after winning the July race at Pocono Raceway. He earned victories in his first two starts of the 2019 season as well, as he won the season’s second race at Atlanta Motor Speedway as well as the season’s third race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his home track.

Will Busch earn his fourth consecutive Truck Series victory in this Saturday’s race?

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Busch is by far the most successful driver in Truck Series history. His 53 career victories are an all-time record, and only one other driver has earned more than 28 career victories in the series. This driver, NASCAR Hall of Famer Ron Hornaday Jr., won 51 Truck Series races in 360 career starts.

Meanwhile, Busch has earned his 53 victories in the first 147 starts of his career. But only twice in his NASCAR career has he gone on a winning streak of more than three races in any series. He won five consecutive Truck Series races during the 2009 season, and he won six consecutive Truck Series races from the 2013 season through the 2014 season.

While there is no driver who is performing at a higher level than Busch is in the Truck Series at the moment, it is hard to imagine him doing something that even he has only been able to pull off twice over the course of his highly successful NASCAR career, specifically over the course of his highly successful Truck Series career.

On top of that, Martinsville Speedway has not been one of the best tracks for the 2015 Cup Series champion in the Truck Series. In nine starts at the track, he has earned just one victory, and his average finish there is, by his standards, a rather mediocre 10.44. That said, he earned his lone at the track in his most recent start there back in March of 2016.

With all things considered, Busch is the clear favorite to win this Saturday’s Martinsville 250. That said, it will still be challenging for him to earn what would be his fourth consecutive Truck Series victory at a track that has featured eight different winners in its last nine Truck Series races.

After leading 202 of the 264 combined laps in his first two Truck Series starts of the 2019 season, Busch should not expect to coast to what would be the 54th victory of his Truck Series career this Saturday. Him holding off the entire field to earn yet another victory is not nearly as likely as it was in the races at the intermediate tracks of Atlanta Motor Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Be sure to tune in to Fox at 2:00 p.m. ET this Saturday, March 23 for the live broadcast of the Martinsville 250 to see whether or not Kyle Busch can earn his fourth consecutive NASCAR Truck Series victory.