NASCAR Truck Series: Kyle Busch dominates 2019 NC Education Lottery 200

CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 17: Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 Cessna Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 17, 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 17: Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 Cessna Toyota, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 17, 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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Kyle Busch dominated the NC Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in his final start of the 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season.

Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Kyle Busch dominated his fifth and final start in the 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season at Charlotte Motor Speedway to earn his fifth victory of the 23-race season in the NC Education Lottery 200.

Busch, who started this 134-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Charlotte Motor Speedway oval in eighth place in his #51 Toyota, won it by 1.115 seconds over On Point Motorsports’ Brennan Poole in second in his #30 Toyota.

Halmar Friesen Racing’s Stewart Friesen, who started the race from the pole position, was the highest finishing Chevrolet driver of the race. He finished in third place in his #52 Chevrolet. ThorSport Racing teammates Ben Rhodes and Matt Crafton rounded out the top five by finishing in fourth and fifth in their #99 Ford and #88 Ford, respectively.

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Hattori Racing Enterprises’ Austin Hill, Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland, DGR-Crosley’s Anthony Alfredo, ThorSport Racing’s Grant Enfinger and Niece Motorsports’ Ross Chastain rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #16 Toyota, #4 Toyota, #15 Toyota, #98 Ford and #45 Chevrolet, respectively.

The race featured a total of 19 lead changes among nine drivers. Aside of Busch, who was the only driver who led more than seven laps of the race with 102 laps led, eight other drivers led at least one lap of the race.

These eight drivers were Rhodes, Crafton, Hill, Gilliland, Enfinger, Chastain, ThorSport Racing’s Johnny Sauter and CMI Motorsports’ Stefan Parsons. Crafton won stage one while Busch won stage two.

The race also featured a total of seven caution flag periods, of which five took place as a result of on-track incidents and two took place as a result of the usual endings of stage one and stage two. Of the 32 drivers who started the race, 27 finished it, and of the 27 drivers who finished the race, 18 finished on the lead lap.

Here are the full race results of the 2019 NC Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Race Results
1st – Kyle Busch
2nd – Brennan Poole
3rd – Stewart Friesen
4th – Ben Rhodes
5th – Matt Crafton
6th – Austin Hill
7th – Todd Gilliland
8th – Anthony Alfredo
9th – Grant Enfinger
10th – Ross Chastain
11th – Harrison Burton
12th – Sheldon Creed
13th – Tyler Dippel
14th – Jesse Little
15th – Jordan Anderson
16th – Timmy Hill
17th – Johnny Sauter
18th – Chad Finley
19th – Brett Moffitt
20th – Cory Roper
21st – Austin Wayne Self
22nd – Spencer Boyd
23rd – Angela Ruch
24th – Stefan Parsons
25th – Korbin Forrester
26th – Gus Dean
27th – Tyler Ankrum
28th – Josh Reaume
29th – Codie Rohrbaugh
30th – Camden Murphy
31st – Natalie Decker
32nd – Joe Nemechek

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