NASCAR: Where will Kyle Busch make his final 2020 Xfinity start?

The location of Kyle Busch’s fifth and final start in the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season has not yet been determined following a schedule change.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch has now made four of his five planned starts in the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season. After finishing in third place at Phoenix Raceway and second at Darlington Raceway, he won at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

He then “won” at Texas Motor Speedway before his win was stripped from him because his #54 Toyota failed post-race inspection. His victory was given to Team Penske’s Austin Cindric. Despite this disqualification, his start in this race does still count against his five-start limit.

Busch still owns a record 97 wins at the sport’s second highest level of competition, three shy of the number he wants to hit before he retires.

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The 35-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada native had planned on making his fifth and final start of the season at Watkins Glen International, where he won back in 2017, on Saturday, August 15.

However, that race was scrapped from the calendar since NASCAR was unable to secure a waiver from the state of New York which would have allowed them to forgo the mandatory 14-day quarantine period enforced by Governor Andrew Cuomo on individuals traveling to the Empire State from several states, including North Carolina.

That race was instead moved to the Daytona International Speedway road course. The Cup Series is also set to compete at the track on that weekend now (Sunday, August 16) and the Truck Series is set to run there on that date as well, even though they weren’t scheduled to run at Watkins Glen International at all. The Truck Series race was realigned from Iowa Speedway on Friday, June 12.

The easiest solution on paper would be for Busch to compete at the 12-turn, 3.56-mile (5.729-kilometer) Daytona International Speedway road course, which includes much of the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) high-banked oval as well a whale tail-like section of the infield and a chicane on the oval’s back straightaway.

However, because NASCAR has never run any races at this track, the sport has blocked drivers from competing in more than one series there that weekend so that nobody gains an unfair advantage.

So with Busch being a full-time Cup Series driver, he won’t be able to compete in that weekend’s Xfinity Series race like he would have been had it been contested at the eight-turn, 2.454-mile (3.949-kilometer) natural terrain road course in Watkins Glen, New York.

But there are still six other confirmed races on the 2020 Xfinity Series regular season schedule, and two more have not yet been rescheduled, so don’t expect Busch to settle for just four starts this year, especially since every race counts as he pursues the 100-win mark.

For now, let’s ignore the two races which haven’t been confirmed. Of the six other confirmed races, five are scheduled to take place at tracks where the Cup Series is also slated to be during those weekends.

However, two, one at Darlington Raceway and one at Richmond Raceway, are scheduled to take place during the Cup Series playoffs. Additionally, Busch already competed at the former in May.

The three that aren’t playoff races are scheduled to take place at Dover International Speedway on Saturday, August 22 and Sunday, August 23 and Daytona International Speedway (oval) on Friday, August 28.

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With Busch not being much of a superspeedway racer, don’t be surprised to see him back in action at the Monster Mile, unless he opts to run at Richmond Raceway the night before the Cup Series round of 16 playoff race at the track — if he is even allowed to — considering the April race at the track was canceled altogether.

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