NASCAR: 3 Kyle Busch records that won’t be broken
By Asher Fair
Kyle Busch made his fifth and final start of the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season this past weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Last month, Kyle Busch secured his 100th career NASCAR Xfinity Series victory at Nashville Superspeedway, a mark that he had said many times before would lead him to retire from competing at the sport’s second highest level.
But he was never planning to bail on his remaining Xfinity Series starts in the 2021 season if he hit triple digits with races still to run, and he did complete his schedule this past weekend.
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As a full-time Cup Series driver who has at least five seasons of full-time experience in the Cup Series, Busch is only allowed to compete in a maximum of five Truck Series races and five Xfinity Series races per year.
Every season, he makes sure to use up all of those starts. He hit win number 100 in his third Xfinity Series start of the year, and after competing in two more Xfinity Series races (and a Truck Series race), he has now used up all five of his starts in both series this year.
With Busch done competing in the lower series for 2021, and possibly forever in the Xfinity Series, let’s look at three wins records he holds that aren’t going anywhere.
Records Kyle Busch will always hold: No. 1 – Truck Series wins record
Kyle Busch is the winningest driver in Truck Series history with 61 victories, and he has no plans to stop competing behind the wheel of one of his team’s trucks in as many races as he is allowed to each year, despite having always had plans to retire from the Xfinity Series once he hit 100 wins there.
With 61 wins, he is 10 wins clear of Ron Hornaday Jr. for second place on the all-time list. No other driver has more than 28, and only four others have more than 18.
You simply don’t see this level of dominance from full-time Truck Series drivers, and if you do, they don’t stick around in the Truck Series for long. And unlike Busch, when they move up to the Xfinity Series and/or Cup Series, many don’t tend to moonlight in the lower series for several races per year.
This season, he went two for five with three runner-up finishes in the Truck Series. He finished in second place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Richmond Raceway and Pocono Raceway behind his own Kyle Busch Motorsports driver, John Hunter Nemechek, and he won at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Kansas Speedway.