Busch continues hot streak in truck
The NASCAR series make little difference to Kyle Busch. The hottest driver in the sport always finds a way to victory lane.
Busch made a triumphant return to the Truck Series, pulling away on the final laps Saturday to win at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. His season debut mirrored his recent finishes in the Sprint Cup series, where he’s won three straight races and four of five. Oh yes, of course he’s on the pole for today’s race.
“It’s been unreal,” he said. “Those are the words to put on it. It’s fun. You just try to enjoy it as much as you can.”
He’d had plenty to enjoy this season since his return from a broken right leg and left foot suffered in an Xfinity Series race the day before the Daytona 500. He missed 11 Cup races and was scratched from his scheduled Truck Series debut at Charlotte.
Busch has won at least once race in all three of NASCAR’s national series for the 10th time in his career. The second-winningest driver in Truck Series history, Busch picked up career win No. 43. He won eight times in 2010 and seven times each in 2009 and 2014.
Busch had just enough fuel in an overtime finish to hold off fellow Cup driver Kevin Harvick. Tyler Reddick was third, followed by Tyler Reddick, Cameron Hayley and Austin Dillon.
Reddick took the series points lead from Matt Crafton.
Blaney wins Xfinity
Ryan Blaney survived a flurry of late cautions to win the NASCAR Xfinity race at Iowa Speedway for his first victory of the season.
The 21-year-old Blaney erased the sting of a disappointing runner-up finish last week in Indianapolis by maintaining his lead through a second green-white-checkered finish on the 0.894-mile oval.
Blaney led a track-record 252 laps, winning after finishing second three times in his other six Xfinity starts this season.
Regan Smith was second, followed by Brian Scott, Ty Dillon and Brendan Gaughan
Fifty-one-year-old Kenny Wallace, the career Xfinity starts leader with 547, finished 15th in the last race of his NASCAR career.
Dixon takes Indy pole
Scott Dixon looks as dominant as ever at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio, after winning the pole for today’s IndyCar race and setting a track record in the process.
Dixon has won five times in ten starts at this course, and today is shaping up as a terrific opportunity for him to gain ground in the race for the series title. Juan Pablo Montoya leads by 42 points over Graham Rahal, with Dixon another six points back in third place.
Will Power qualified second and Sebastien Bourdais was third. Montoya was 10th.