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NASCAR: Kyle Busch breaks Richard Petty’s all-time record with 201st win

By Asher Fair

MARTINSVILLE, VA - MARCH 23: Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 Cessna Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series TruNorth Global 250 at Martinsville Speedway on March 23, 2019 in Martinsville, Virginia. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)
MARTINSVILLE, VA - MARCH 23: Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 Cessna Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series TruNorth Global 250 at Martinsville Speedway on March 23, 2019 in Martinsville, Virginia. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) /
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Kyle Busch broke Richard Petty’s all-time NASCAR wins record of 200 by earning the 201st victory of his career in Saturday’s Truck Series race, the TruNorth Global 250, at Martinsville Speedway.

Kyle Busch, who drives full-time for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series, part-time for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Xfinity Series and part-time for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the Truck Series, entered the 2019 NASCAR season with 194 career victories across these three series.

The 33-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada native entered the year with 51 career Cup Series victories, 92 career Xfinity Series victories, an all-time record, and 51 career Truck Series victories, which was tied for the all-time record.

Busch entered the season set to compete in each of the 36 races on the Cup Series schedule, seven of the 33 races on the Xfinity Series schedule and five of the 23 races on the Truck Series schedule.

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Busch needed to win six of these 48 races to tie the all-time NASCAR wins record and seven of them to break that record, which was held by Richard Petty. Petty earned 200 victories, all Cup Series victories, over the course of his NASCAR career.

In his 10th start of the 2019 season in the Cup Series race, the Auto Club 400, at Auto Club Speedway, Busch tied Petty’s all-time record of 200 career NASCAR victories, as his victory in this race was his sixth victory in his first 10 starts of the season. In his 11th start of the season, he broke that record with his 201st career victory.

Busch entered his 11th start of the 2019 NASCAR season, which he made in the fourth Truck Series race of the season, the TruNorth Global 250, at Martinsville Speedway with two victories in his first two Truck Series starts of the season, two victories in his first three Xfinity Series starts of the season and two victories in his first five Cup Series starts of the season.

His victory in this 250-lap race around the four-turn, 0.526-mile (0.847-kilometer) Martinsville Speedway oval in Ridgeway, Virginia was his third victory in three Truck Series starts so far this season, allowing him to extend his all-time Truck Series wins record to 54, and it was his seventh victory in 11 NASCAR starts so far this season. He is now on a two-race overall win streak and a four-race Truck Series win streak.

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How many more races will Kyle Busch win in NASCAR as a whole, the Cup Series, the Xfinity Series and the Truck Series before he retires? Will his all-time NASCAR wins record ever be broken?

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