Surprisingly, Kyle Busch has never made a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start at Darlington Raceway, but that will change in Friday night’s Buckle Up South Carolina 200 (7:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
The all-time series victory leader with 66 wins, Busch has triumphed in two of his previous four starts this season, at Atlanta and Texas. The driver of the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet is a three-time winner in the Cup Series at Darlington.
“I’m looking forward to Friday night’s Truck Series race at Darlington,” Busch said. “The Truck Series has only raced at Darlington, I think, maybe 10 times or so (actually 11) and just started going regularly the last five years, but it never worked out for me on my truck schedule.”
To win his only Darlington start in a truck, Busch will have to beat defending winner Christian Eckes and the series’ most recent winner, Corey Heim, who took the checkered flag last Saturday at Kansas Speedway.
Eckes is driving a Chevrolet with a throwback paint scheme paying tribute to Brownie King, who raced on the Daytona Beach & Road Course and competed in the inaugural Daytona 500 in 1959.
Heim’s No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota bears a paint scheme memorializing Cale Yarborough’s 1974 Southern 500 Chevrolet.
Source: Reid Spencer | NASCAR Wire Service
