NASCAR Truck Series: Kyle Busch dominates 2019 TruNorth Global 250
By Asher Fair
Kyle Busch earned his third victory of the 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season by winning the season’s fourth race, the TruNorth Global 250, at Martinsville Speedway.
For the third time in his three starts through the first four races of the 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season, Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Kyle Busch drove his #51 Toyota to victory lane, this time doing so in the TruNorth Global 250 at Martinsville Speedway.
Busch, who started the 250-lap race around the four-turn, 0.526-mile (0.847-kilometer) Martinsville Speedway oval in Ridgeway, Virgina in second place, won it by 0.563 seconds over ThorSport Racing’s Brett Moffitt, who finished in second in his #99 Ford.
This victory is the 54th of Busch’s Truck Series career, which is already an all-time record, and it is the 201st victory of his NASCAR career, which is the new all-time record, as he passed Richard Petty for first place on the all-time NASCAR wins list with this victory.
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GMS Racing’s Brett Moffitt, Niece Motorsports’ Ross Chastain and Halmar Friesen Racing’s Stewart Friesen, who started the race from the pole position, were the highest finishing Chevrolet drivers of the race. They rounded out the top five by finishing in third, fourth and fifth place in their #24 Chevrolet, #45 Chevrolet and #52 Chevrolet, respectively.
ThorSport Racing teammates Myatt Snider, Grant Enfinger, Matt Crafton and Johnny Sauter and AM Racing’s Darrell Wallace Jr. rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #27 Ford, #98 Ford, #88 Ford, #13 Ford and #22 Chevrolet, respectively.
The race featured a total of eight lead changes among four drivers. Aside of Busch, who led more laps than anybody else in the field with 174 laps led, three other drivers led at least one lap of the race. These drivers were Chastain, Friesen and Hattori Racing Enterprises’ Austin Hill. Busch won stage one while Chastain won stage two.
The race also featured a total of seven caution flag periods, of which two took place as a result of the engines of stages one and two and five took place as a result of on-track incidents, for 50 laps. Of the 32 drivers who started the race, 31 finished it and 19 finished it on the lead lap.
Here are the full race results of the 2019 TruNorth Global 250 at Martinsville Speedway.
Race Results
1st – Kyle Busch
2nd – Ben Rhodes
3rd – Brett Moffitt
4th – Ross Chastain
5th – Stewart Friesen
6th – Myatt Snider
7th – Grant Enfinger
8th – Matt Crafton
9th – Johnny Sauter
10th – Darrell Wallace Jr.
11th – David Gilliland
12th – Harrison Burton
13th – Austin Dillon
14th – Raphael Lessard
15th – Sheldon Creed
16th – Todd Gilliland
17th – Derek Kraus
18th – Austin Hill
19th – Tyler Ankrum
20th – Spencer Davis
21st – Timmy Hill
22nd – Austin Theriault
23rd – Tyler Dippel
24th – Reid Wilson
25th – Korbin Forrister
26th – Jordan Anderson
27th – Spencer Boyd
28th – Travis Kvapil
29th – Brennan Poole
30th – Daniel Sasnett
31st – Cory Roper
32nd – Gus Dean
The next race on the 2019 NASCAR Truck Series schedule is scheduled to take place this Friday, March 29. This race, the Vankor 350, is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 from Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET.