Kyle Busch takes dominant Truck win at Las Vegas

Busch won the first two stages and was able to hold off a spirited challenge from Brett Moffitt to win Friday night’s Strat 200 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, sweeping the stage wins and the race victory for the second straight week.

Busch, who is running in all three races this weekend, picked up his 53rd career win in Trucks, the most of any driver. He led 111 of the 134 laps in the race.

“We were just tight. We fought it in practice a little bit and we worked on it an awful lot to make it better,” Busch said in Victory Lane. “The Tundra was really, really fast. We worked on it all night. Every pit stop, we worked on it.

“It’s cool to win here in my hometown of Las Vegas, starting off a triple weekend. Hopefully, we can keep it going.”

Busch is running in all three races this weekend.

“I think the hardest one may be the second one, but I don’t know,” he said. “We obviously had a really fast truck tonight. We worked really hard to get it there. We didn’t start great in practice but overall, I’m proud to be in Victory Lane.”

Moffitt actually got to Busch’s rear bumper with about 15 laps remaining in the race but lost the handling on the front of his truck and lost considerable ground.

“I got to back of Kyle and I just got loose,” Moffitt said.

Matt Crafton finished third, Stewart Friesen was fourth and Harrison Burton completed the top-five.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Sheldon Creed, Todd Gilliland, Johnny Sauter, Ryan Reed and Ross Chastain, who rallied to 10th after stalling his truck on his final pit stop.

With 30 laps remaining, several drivers headed down pit road to begin a round of green-flag pit stops.

Once the cycle was completed with 18 laps to go, Busch emerged with a small lead over Moffitt. They were followed by Crafton, Friesen and Burton.

With five laps remaining, Busch had opened up a more than two-second lead over Moffitt.

Stage 2

Busch passed Friesen with six laps remaining to take the Stage 2 win.

Friesen finished second, Chastain was third, Gilliland was fourth and Ben Rhodes completed the top-five.

Following the break between Stages 1 and 2, Friesen was the first off pit road and led the way when the race went green on Lap 38.

Moffitt had a prolonged pit stop as his air hose got caught under his right-rear tire. He restarted in 23rd.

With 20 laps remaining in the second stage, Friesen held a small lead over Gilliland. They were followed by Busch and Rhodes.

Busch had made his way to second and was chasing Friesen down for the lead with 10 laps to go in the stage.

On Lap 55, Busch went to the inside and got around Friesen to retake the lead.

Stage 1

Kyle Busch led every lap on his way to the Stage 1 victory.

Moffitt ended up second, Austin Hill third, Burton fourth and Chastain completed the top-five.

Busch, who started on the pole, grabbed an early lead at the green-flag.

On Lap 6, Creed got loose and made contact with Reed to trigger a wreck that also collected Chastain, Cory Roper, Rhodes and Crafton.

The race returned to green on Lap 11 with Busch still in the lead, followed by Moffitt and Burton.

With 15 laps remaining in the first stage, Busch maintained a small advantage over Moffitt and Burton and Hill battling for third.

Busch extended his lead to more than a second with five laps to go in the first stage. Hill was third and Burton fourth.

Grant Enfinger had to start the race from the rear of the field after his team changed engines during practice on Thursday.

Cla	#	Driver	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Laps Led
1	51	Kyle Busch	Toyota	134		111
2	24	Brett Moffitt	Chevrolet	134	1.211
3	88	Matt Crafton	Ford	134	3.595
4	52	Stewart Friesen	Chevrolet	134	6.311	20
5	18	Harrison Burton	Toyota	134	9.626
6	2	Sheldon Creed	Chevrolet	134	11.634
7	4	Todd Gilliland	Toyota	134	17.812
8	13	Johnny Sauter	Ford	134	23.096
9	17	Ryan Reed	Toyota	134	23.646
10	45	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	133	1 lap	1
11	98	Grant Enfinger	Ford	133	1 lap	2
12	44	Timothy Peters	Chevrolet	133	1 lap
13	54	Natalie Decker	Toyota	133	1 lap
14	7	Korbin Forrister	Chevrolet	132	2 laps
15	22	Austin Wayne Self	Chevrolet	132	2 laps
16	8	Angela Ruch	Chevrolet	132	2 laps
17	02	Tyler Dippel	Chevrolet	132	2 laps
18	15	Anthony Alfredo	Toyota	132	2 laps
19	97	Jesse Little	Ford	132	2 laps
20	30	Brennan Poole	Toyota	131	3 laps
21	3	Jordan Anderson	Chevrolet	130	4 laps
22	12	Gus Dean	Chevrolet	130	4 laps
23	33	Josh Reaume	Toyota	129	5 laps
24	04	Cory Roper	Ford	127	7 laps
25	99	Ben Rhodes	Ford	125	9 laps	1
26	34	Jesse Iwuji	Chevrolet	124	10 laps
27	10	Jennifer Jo Cobb	Chevrolet	123	11 laps
28	6	Norm Benning	Chevrolet	121	13 laps
29	20	Spencer Boyd	Chevrolet	108	25 laps
30	16	Austin Hill	Toyota	82	51 laps
31	1	Stefan Parsons	Chevrolet	67	66 laps
32	63	Scott Stenzel	Chevrolet	34	99 laps