Kyle Busch holds off Heim to win NASCAR Truck race at Texas

Making his fourth begin for Spire Motorsports within the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado, Busch snagged his second win of the yr after sweeping each levels at TMS.

He regained the lead from Christian Eckes on the ultimate restart earlier than holding off a charging Corey Heim on the ultimate lap of the race. It was Busch’s 66th profession Truck Sequence victory.

“Nice staff, all people right here at Spire,” mentioned Busch post-race. “I admire [crew chief] Brian Pattie and all people that was in a position to work so arduous to arrange us a very quick Silverado … They positively saved my trustworthy, I will give them that.”

He later added: “Corey saved us trustworthy proper there. He began to seek out the highest over there and get some momentum. I attempted it with three to go and I chattered actually unhealthy, so my entrance simply wasn’t working over there. However I wanted extra laps on my tires to stand up there and make that work, however he made it and acquired to my rear bumper in Flip 3. I did not know which technique to go so I ran the center after which darted backside and he slipped up high, so I assume we had sufficient of a niche after that.”

Heim completed second, Nick Sanchez third, Christian Eckes fourth, and Zane Smith fifth. Daniel Dye, Taylor Grey, Tanner Grey, Stefan Parsons, and Ty Majeski rounded out the top-ten.

Stage 1

Sanchez began the race from pole place, however the warning flag shortly flew for a weird incident. Thad Moffitt ended up outdoors of the groove and his entrance wheels gave the impression to be locked to the left. He got here again down the monitor, slamming into Tyler Ankrum. Memphis Villarreal was additionally concerned, and not one of the three drivers had been in a position to proceed.

Rajah Caruth, who narrowly prevented being part of the primary incident, was the reason for the subsequent warning, spinning in Flip 2.

On the following restart, Eckes took the lead after Sanchez acquired put three-wide by Stewart Friesen. It appeared like he might go on to win the stage, however Kyle Busch ran him down and snatched the lead away with just some laps to go.

Busch claimed the Stage 1 victory forward of Eckes, Sanchez, Smith, Friesen, Dye, Layne Riggs, Grant Enfinger, Heim, and Tay. Grey.

Stage 2

The second stage was far cleaner, regardless of a pair tense moments on the preliminary restart. Eckes mounted a short problem in opposition to Busch, however he was unable to go the 2x NASCAR Cup Sequence champion.

Busch ended up sweeping the levels with ease. On the conclusion of Stage 2, it was Busch, Sanchez, Eckes, Heim, Tay. Grey, Riggs, Z. Smith, Dye, Enfinger, and Johnny Sauter.

Stage 3

Whereas an exhilarating battle ensued for second place, Busch skipped away in the beginning of the ultimate stage. Heim, Eckes, Grey, and Sanchez went back-and-forth with Eckes finally prevailing within the runner-up place.

The race settled into a protracted green-flag run and the ultimate spherical of stops started with 46 laps to go. Busch pitted from the lead with 39 laps remaining and shortly after, Riggs crashed out of Flip 2. 

Busch cycled again into the race lead as Smith pitted. There have been simply 26 laps to go on the inexperienced flag.

The sixth warning flew a number of laps later after Kris Wright pushed up in Flip 1 and picked up Friesen in a crash. 

Heim made a daring three-wide transfer to the within of Busch on the next restart, however was unable to maintain the momentum up down the backstretch. As Eckes and Busch battled side-by-side for management of the race, a crash broke out in the course of the pack.

Dean Thomspon spun, accumulating Grant Enfinger and Matt Crafton. Johnny Sauter additionally acquired a bit of it. Eckes was scored because the race chief on the time of warning.

The race resumed with solely 10 laps to go, and Busch was in a position to shortly battle his approach again into the race lead. Because the end drew close to, Heim closed in and was proper on his again bumper as Busch because the checkered flag waved.