William Byron wins the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 at Martinsville Speedway as Johnny Sauter incredibly held off Kyle Busch for a runner up finish


William Byron wins the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 at Martinsville Speedway as Johnny Sauter incredibly held off Kyle Busch for a runner up finish

William Byron wins the Gander Outdoors Truck Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 at Martinsville Speedway

Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron who made his return to the Truck Series scene in Spire Motorsports, Hendrick sponsored truck has secured his 8th win in the series. The chaotic race track saw William Byron taking control over the race in the last stages to win the race dominantly.

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The final stages of the race were tormented with multiple crashes starting from Kaden Honeycutt crashing out of his CWTS on his debut and Ben Rhodes knocking his teammate Christian Eckes into Stewart Friesen and sending the latter spinning up the track.

Johnny Sauter finished in P2 and came 1.1 seconds short in the last laps against a well-driven Byron. But the youngster impressed everyone as he made his way up the track and fought hard to hold back the KBM drivers, and did so successfully, even keeping Kyle Busch, who finished p3 at bay in the last laps

William Byron has a lot to thank for his team’s strategy to stay out when the front runners were pitting, to make his way to the grid. With the final cautions subsided Byron cruised unchallenged to the race win ahead of Sauter and Busch, leading 94 of 200 laps.

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Find out what William Byron had to say about his Truck Series win

William Byron
William Byron

William Byron acknowledged that it was a lot of fun for him to race at Martinsville in front of a great crowd. He went on to add that it is awesome for him to get his first win at Martinsville and thanked his boss Rick Hendricks and Spire motorsport for the opportunity.

“Yeah man, it was a lot of fun. Great crowd here at Martinsville. I’ve never won here. Just awesome to get the win tonight. Great truck, thanks to Spire. They don’t have a lot of guys but they do it right, pretty awesome, really excited,” William Byron said.

William Byron and team Hendrick will be hoping that the Atlanta Cup Series Race winner will be able to emulate his wining run in the Cup Series race at the weekend and become the first double race winner of 2022.

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