Kyle Busch
Truck: Busch turned over the reigns of his truck to Brian Ickler this weekend.
Nationwide: There was no Nationwide race this weekend.
Cup: Running a slick silver Snickers paint scheme, he was 17th at the halfway mark through first practice. He finished 32nd in the first practice. He improved in the second practice, moving up to 25th and dropped two spots to 27th during Happy Hour. Due to rain washing out qualifying, he will start 10th. When the race finally came on Monday due to a rained out Sunday start, he struggled with his car and was nearly lapped until a caution came out on lap 39. He came out 31st from the pits. By lap 86, he moved up to 24th but was still struggling. At the 100 lap mark, he had made his way up to 19th. On lap 115 he was at 15th, slowly making his way to the front and finally was happy with his car. When a caution came out on lap 127, he had made his way into the top 10 (10th place). Quietly, he made his way to sixth at the 200 lap mark. 34 laps later he was in fifth, where he had been for about 25 laps, when a caution came out. Coming off of pit road, he moved up to third. At the halfway mark, he was in fourth. With 200 to go, he was in fifth. On lap 372, after a caution, Busch restarted third. When Kevin Conway spun on lap 420, Busch kept his third place spot coming off of pit road. Busch caught a break when second place Jeff Burton had a right front go down and put Busch in second place with teammate Denny Hamlin leading. When Burton's tire blew, Hamlin and Busch were the only leaders to pit and Busch restarted eighth. Falling back to 19th, Paul Menard got into Busch and sent him into the wall. He took 22nd place at the checkered, one place ahead of his brother.
Kurt Busch
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Photo courtesy of Farrah Kaye.
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