Busch and Eckes dominated the race, main a mixed 249 of the 250 laps, however Eckes bought a great bounce on the sphere on a restart with 24 laps remaining.
Whereas Eckes constructed his result in greater than a second, Busch was capable of considerably shut the hole on the ultimate lap and near the left rear of Eckes’ No. 19 Chevrolet exiting Flip 4.
Eckes held on for the 0.141-second win on the checkered flag over Busch, who’s the all-time sequence wins chief.
The victory is the primary of the 2024 season for Eckes, who loved a breakout 12 months in Vans final 12 months, successful 4 instances and ending fifth within the sequence standings. He dominated the Truck race right here final fall earlier than shedding the lead within the race.
“It’s so candy. There’s simply a lot behind this win, you recognize, from final 12 months lacking out on making the Championship 4 and shedding the race with 5 to go,” Eckes stated. “To come back again and redeem ourselves was our No. 1 objective.
“Not solely that, however with the primary three races (of the 12 months) and the way terribly they’ve gone, to come back again and run actually good is massive for the workforce.”
Zane Smith completed third, Matt Crafton was fourth and Tyler Ankrum rounded out the highest 5.
Finishing the highest 10 have been Corey Heim, Taylor Grey, Rajah Caruth, Grant Enfinger and Layne Riggs.
Stage 1
Busch took management of the race early and simply held off Eckes to take the Stage 1 win. Nick Sanchez was third, Ty Majeski was fourth and Smith rounded out the highest 5.
Stage 2
Busch accomplished a sweep of the levels by holding off Sanchez by 1.219 seconds to win Stage 2. Eckes was third, Majeski fourth and Smith was fifth.
Stage 3
Following the break between Levels 2 and three, Busch continued to paved the way.
Majeski, who had been in rivalry for the win many of the race, was compelled to take his No. 98 truck behind the wall after 170 laps on account of engine points.
On Lap 159, Eckes bought round Busch to take the lead after the 2 briefly made contact.
With 50 laps remaining, Eckes maintained a few half-second lead over Busch as Crafton moved into third.
With 35 laps to go, Crafton closed the hole and for a number of laps made it a three-wide battle for the lead.
Stewart Friesen spun down the frontstretch after contact with Sanchez to convey out the sixth warning of the race on lap 219.
Though Busch flirted with pitting for tires, the lead-lap vehicles remained on the monitor and Eckes led Busch when the race returned to inexperienced on lap 227.
With 10 laps remaining, Eckes had constructed a greater than 1-second lead over Busch as Smith ran third.
