Of the 32 drivers entered in Friday night’s Victoria Voice Foundation 200 Presented by Westgate Resorts (9 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), only four have recorded victories at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Foremost among them is Kyle Busch, who won last Saturday at Atlanta and extended his NASCAR CRAFTSMAN® Truck Series record to 65 victories. Busch has a track-record four Vegas wins, three from the pole.
He’s also the defending winner of Friday’s race. In taking the checkered flag last year after switching from Toyota to Chevrolet, Busch broke a streak of seven straight Toyota victories at his home track.
Having sold his eponymous Kyle Busch Motorsports, Busch now drives a Chevrolet for the current owner, Spire Motorsports. As a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver, Busch can compete in only five Truck Series races per season, per NASCAR rules.
“Obviously, my goal every year in the Truck Series is to go five-for-five with the races that I can run,” Busch said. “You can’t be perfect if you don’t win the first one, so we’ve got that one under our belts. Now it’s on to the next one.”
With one victory each, reigning series champion Ben Rhodes (2017), Grant Enfinger (2018) and Christian Eckes (2021) are the other former Las Vegas winners in Friday’s field.
Source: Reid Spencer | NASCAR Wire Service
