NASCAR Truck Series: Kyle Busch goes 5 for 5, wraps up perfect 2019 season

Kyle Busch competed in five of the first eight NASCAR Truck Series races of the 2019 season, and he won all five of them.

Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Kyle Busch entered the 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season set to compete in his maximum allowable total of five races. He entered the season set to compete in five of the 23-race season’s first eight races.

Busch entered the season set to compete in the February race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, the March races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Martinsville Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway and the May race Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Additionally, the 34-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada native entered the season having won in his most recent Truck Series start at Pocono Raceway last July. It was this victory that tied him with Ron Hornaday Jr. on top of the all-time Truck Series wins list with 51 career victories.

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With his 2019 season now in the books, Busch is still on the win streak that he started with this victory at Pocono Raceway.

Busch ended up winning all five of the Truck Series races in which he competed throughout the 2019 season, and he dominated each and every one of them, as he never failed to lead fewer than 65% of the laps in any one of these five races.

Busch started the 130-lap Ultimate Tailgating 200 around the four-turn, 1.54-mile (2.478-kilometer) Atlanta Motor Speedway oval in Hampton, Georgia in seventh place in his #51 Toyota. He went on to lead 92 of the race’s 130 laps (70.77%) en route to earning a 0.932-second victory over ThorSport Racing’s Johnny Sauter in second, and he broke the all-time Truck Series wins record by doing so.

After starting from the pole position in the 134-lap Strat 200 at the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Las Vegas Motor Speedway oval in Las Vegas, Nevada, Busch went on to lead 110 of its 134 laps (82.09%) en route to earning a 1.211-second victory over GMS Racing’s Brett Moffitt in second place.

Busch started the 250-lap TruNorth Global 250 at the four-turn, 0.526-mile (0.847-kilometer) Martinsville Speedway oval in Ridgeway, Virginia in second place, and he went on to lead 174 of its 250 laps (69.60%). He won this race under caution ahead of ThorSport Racing’s Ben Rhodes in second.

Busch then started the 147-lap Vankor 350 at the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Texas Motor Speedway oval in Fort Worth, Texas in fourth place, and he went on to lead 97 of its 147 laps (65.99%) en route to earning a 1.269-second victory over Halmar Friesen Racing’s Stewart Friesen in second.

Finally, after starting in eighth place in the 134-lap NC Education Lottery 200 at the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Charlotte Motor Speedway oval in Concord, North Carolina, Busch led 102 of its 134 laps (76.12%) en route to earning a 1.115-second victory over On Point Motorsports’ Brennan Poole in second.

In total, Busch led 575 (72.33%) of the 795 laps that he completed in the Truck Series this season. He recorded an average starting position of 4.40 and an average finishing position of, you guessed it, a perfect 1.00.

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While Kyle Busch’s 2019 NASCAR Truck Series season is over, 15 of the season’s 23 races remain on the schedule, starting with the SpeedyCash.com 400 in three weeks. This race is the season’s ninth race, and it is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 from Texas Motor Speedway beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET on Friday, June 7.

With Busch no longer in the picture, the full-time drivers can truly start to focus on the tasks at hand, and they are qualifying for this year’s playoffs and winning this year’s championship.

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