‘Everything kind of went our way, and we had a fast truck,’ Kyle Busch on securing his first Truck race win this season coming at Sonoma Raceway
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Kyle Busch wins the Sonoma Raceway 2022 Truck Series Race
The NASCAR Camping World Truck series hit the track on Saturday for the Sonoma Truck race event which saw a number of Cup series regulars including the likes of Kyle Busch, Alex Bowman, and Ross Chastain driving alongside the young Truck race stars. The race also marked the return for the first time in two decades as the road course made a return after a long time in the 3ed tier series.
Kyle Busch decides to hope in his own Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota Tundra truck with the main objective of having a run at the track before his cup race outing on Sunday. But the last permitted entry as a Cup series regular for Busch this year wasn’t as easy as expected as his fellow cup driver Ross Chastain made him earn each of the laps he led with strong runs and the ThorSport Racing duo of Ty Majeski and Ben Rhodes also made headway with their stage wins in the race.
But the day belonged to Kyle Busch who also secured his record of at least winning a Truck Race since 2013 as he held Zane Smith, who won the last road course race held in COTA following Busch’s crash, in the final two-lap sprint to secure the win. Kyle Busch led a total of 45 laps in the race 11 of which came during the Red-Flag incident at the end. The win will also make Kyle Busch the only driver to win road course races in all three NASCAR series.
Find out what Kyle Busch had to say about his Sonoma Truck win
Kyle Busch said that when looking into the history of truck racing it can be found that the areas including Bakersfield and Sonoma were the main areas as the races visited the tracks year in and year out. He acknowledged that it was good to come out and knock the rust off a little bit with the road racing. Kyle Busch added that he decided to take up the Truck duty as he didn’t want to run any sim races this week and the diverse track along with the hopes for more wins there made him race at the truck race.
“You look back at the history of the sport and the Truck Series growing up in California, these were their parts. It basically started in Bakersfield and Sonoma on a yearly basis there, so now that it’s back, it was good to come out and knock the rust off a little bit with the road racing and stuff,” Kyle Busch said.
“I didn’t want to run sim this week, so I thought the road course would knock that off. […] Being a part of Kyle Busch Motorsports, and us being in the sport this long, it means a lot to get more diverse tracks on the schedule and get some wins at those places,” Kyle Busch added.
He went on to say that he looks back into his 2011 or 2012 Truck season where he couldn’t secure a win though he was able to get to p2 more than six times. Kyle Busch pointed out that it was frustrating and bitter for him so it is good to secure a win this season, he said. He went on to add that he had close calls early this season at COTA and Vegas but it didn’t went as planned but today they were able to get everything right.
“I look back on the missed the year of 2011 or 2012, where I didn’t get a win. I think we finished second like six times that year or something stupid. That was frustrating. That’s more bitter than this one not winning, but it’s good to be able to score a win,” says Kyle Busch.
“We were in a position a few times this year. We had a couple really, really fast race trucks. Vegas comes to mind, COTA comes to mind, so we didn’t miss by very much, just circumstances, but proud to get one today. Everything kind of went our way, and we had a fast truck,” Kyle Busch added.
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