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Kyle Busch Tops Daytona Truck Results

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.— The Daytona Truck Results are in and by the barest of margins, with a bold move to the outside, Kyle Busch overtook Timothy Peters a few feet short of the finish line Friday night to win the season-opening NextEra Energy Resources 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

Busch’s victory was his first at Daytona in the Truck Series and the 36th of his career. The driver of the No. 51 Tundra gave Toyota its eighth straight Daytona win by .016 seconds.

“Certainly I’m going to cherish this one,” Busch said. “It’s a big win for KBM (Kyle Busch Motorsports), not necessarily just myself. Certainly, it’s great for Toyota, too, and having Toyota get on the truck tonight and being in Victory Lane is pretty special.”

In part, though, Busch was already looking ahead toward Saturday and Sunday and the possibility of a weekend sweep that includes Saturday’s Nationwide Series race and Sunday’s Daytona 500.

“We started the trifecta already, and you’ve got to win the first one to be able to win all of them,” Busch said. “We’ll see how (Saturday) goes and see what we can do there.”

Johnny Sauter ran third, followed by Ryan Truex and Ron Hornaday Jr. Ryan Blaney, Jeb Burton, Joe Nemechek, Jimmy Weller III and German Quiroga completed the top 10.

Busch was first off pit road after a fuel-only pit stop on Lap 77, under caution for a 16-truck pileup in Turn 2 that started with contact between the trucks of Parker Kligerman and Ross Chastain on Lap 74. After a subsequent caution and restart on Lap 90, Busch grabbed the lead before Peters took in back on Lap 96 and held it until Busch made the winning pass.

“He had a good run on me coming off Turn 4, and you know—he’s Kyle Busch,” said Peters, who leads the series driver standings, with Busch not competing for a championship in the trucks.

Peters had the only car that could pull the outside line in a side-by-side draft.

“We just built a really fast truck,” Peters explained. “Like I said, it goes back to (crew chief) Marcus Richmond, his ideas, the guys at the fab shop just really being precise on every piece they build on the truck. I believe that our truck, as long as it was leading, was the only one that would pull that outside line.”

Ben Kennedy started on the pole, with the field ordered by practice speeds because of a qualifying rainout earlier in the day. The No. 31 held the top spot until Jennifer Jo Cobb’s No. 10 Chevrolet stalled on the backstretch to bring out the second caution of the race on Lap 51.

During the ensuing pit stops under yellow, Kennedy stalled leaving his pit box. Though he was first across the timing line at the end of pit road, Kennedy did not maintain cautious pace as he re-fired his engine and restarted sixth on Lap 56, with Busch in the lead.

Kennedy’s wasn’t the only snafu on pit road. Ryan Ellis was entering his stall as Blaney was exiting his, and contact between the trucks sent Ellis spinning. Tyler Reddick stalled leaving his pit stall. Defending series champion Matt Crafton overshot his pit box and fell to 28th for the Lap 56 restart.

Busch and Peters swapped the lead as the outside line began to move for the first time in the race, and those two drivers ran side by side until Lap 64, when Peters cleared Busch and moved down in front of the No. 51.

That’s the way they ran until the massive wreck on Lap 74 knocked half the field out of contention.

Note: Kyle Busch is the first driver to win at Daytona in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck Series, as well as the ARCA Series… Busch’s crew chief, Eric Phillips, tied Rick Ren for most wins by a crew chief in the Truck Series with 28.

Author: Reid Spencer ( NASCAR )

 

Full Daytona Truck Results

POS Car # Driver Make Start Laps Led + / – Final Status Points Bonus Points
1 51 Kyle Busch Toyota 7 100 25
0
Running 0 0
2 17 Timothy Peters Toyota 18 100 20
0
Running 43 1
3 98 Johnny Sauter Toyota 9 100 0
0
Running 41 0
4 32 Ryan Truex Chevrolet 14 100 0
0
Running 0 0
5 30 Ron Hornaday Jr Chevrolet 2 100 0
0
Running 39 0
6 29 Ryan Blaney Ford 3 100 0
0
Running 38 0
7 13 Jeb Burton Toyota 11 100 0
0
Running 37 0
8 8 Joe Nemechek Toyota 13 100 0
0
Running 0 0
9 08 Jimmy Weller III Chevrolet 30 100 0
0
Running 35 0
10 77 German Quiroga Jr Toyota 23 100 0
0
Running 34 0
11 39 Ryan Sieg Chevrolet 12 100 0
0
Running 33 0
12 19 Tyler Reddick Ford 10 100 0
0
Running 32 0
13 88 Matt Crafton Toyota 4 100 0
0
Running 31 0
14 5 John Wes Townley Toyota 6 100 0
0
Running 30 0
15 31 Ben Kennedy Chevrolet 1 100 52
0
Running 31 2
16 63 Justin Jennings Chevrolet 32 100 0
0
Running 28 0
17 99 Bryan Silas Chevrolet 25 100 0
0
Running 27 0
18 28 Ryan Ellis Chevrolet 34 100 0
0
Running 0 0
19 84 Chris Fontaine Toyota 27 100 0
0
Running 25 0
20 57 Norm Benning Chevrolet 36 100 0
0
Running 24 0
21 10 Jennifer Jo Cobb Chevrolet 35 98 0
0
Running 23 0
22 50 Travis Kvapil Chevrolet 28 95 3
0
Running 23 1
23 20 John King Chevrolet 19 87 0
0
Running 21 0
24 07 Michel Disdier Chevrolet 33 83 0
0
Running 20 0
25 24 Brennan Newberry Chevrolet 26 81 0
0
Running 19 0
26 54 Darrell Wallace Jr Toyota 16 76 0
0
Accident 18 0
27 75 Caleb Holman Chevrolet 29 74 0
0
Accident 17 0
28 35 Mason Mingus Toyota 22 73 0
0
Accident 16 0
29 58 Parker Kligerman Toyota 15 73 0
0
Accident 0 0
30 92 Ross Chastain Ford 8 73 0
0
Accident 14 0
31 82 Sean Corr Ford 20 73 0
0
Accident 13 0
32 21 Joey Coulter Chevrolet 5 73 0
0
Accident 12 0
33 7 Brian Ickler Toyota 21 73 0
0
Accident 11 0
34 02 Tyler Young Chevrolet 17 73 0
0
Accident 10 0
35 74 Chris Cockrum Chevrolet 24 73 0
0
Accident 9 0
36 93 Jason White Chevrolet 31 45 0
0
Engine 8 0

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