Kyle Busch Wins Caution Plagued SFP 250

Kyle Busch threw the monkey off his back at Kansas Speedway by winning the SFP 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race. The race saw a series high number of cautions, with nine. Busch added to his 130 career win tally with the victory.

Busch led a race-best 104 laps winning Friday night’s SFP 250 NCWTS race. The victory was the second of the season in the truck series for Busch. It was his 37th win in the series. The margin of victory came by 3.021 seconds over second-place Matt Crafton.

“Kansas? I’m a winner at Kansas?” Busch said in mock shock in Victory Lane. Yes, it’s true. Thanks, he said, to a terrific Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota Tundra and an Eric Phillips-led team that were in his words, “flawless.”

“Just real proud of Eric and all my guys,” Busch said of Phillips, who by winning his 79th race as a truck series crew chief became the series’ winningest crew chief. “It was really good once we unloaded and we just made some slight changes to it, playing around with some things, trying to make it better in practice.”

Matt Crafton finished second a year after winning at Kansas, and Joey Logano, Busch’s former Sprint Cup teammate at Joe Gibbs Racing, finished third.

Crafton said despite his second-place finish, he had nothing for Busch. “He had a very, very fast truck,” Crafton said. “We were just a little bit scared – we wanted to make a maybe a track bar change – but we were tight center-off all night. We made one adjustment and made it quite a bit better. But then I got a little bit free and tight-off but I was afraid to make any more adjustments to help my off because I knew it was going to hurt my entry.”

The race was halted nine times by cautions. The most serious being a multi-car incident that involved Johnny Sauter and Ryan Blaney. Blaney spun in turn two and Sauter was hit from behind shoving him straight into the wall and then into the truck of Blaney.

“We were three wide.” Sauter said, “and I think another truck ran into me in the back and sent me from the bottom of the race track to the top. When I got there, Ryan was sideways and stopped and there just wasn’t enough room between him and the wall.”

“We were racing hard with Joey and I took it to the fence and they got kind of bottled up there behind me and destroyed our truck,” Blaney, who started the race fourth in points, said.

“Just hard racing. He (Logano) was just too (close) on my door and it just sent me around, that’s how we got on the apron. Just unfortunate, we had a good truck.”

The race was slowed for one more caution when Bryan Silas spun. Austin Dillon would lead the charge out of the pits but Busch would take the lead with 21 laps to go and never looked back.