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NASCAR Cup Series

Buschy McBusch Race 400

Kansas Speedway

May 2nd, 2021

Race #11 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 267
Miles Raced : 400.5
Time of Race : 03 Hours 05 minutes 21 seconds
Average Speed: 129.647 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.336 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 36
Lead Changes: 18

Kyle Busch celebrates after winning — Kansas City, Kansas - May 2nd, 2021: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Mix Toyota, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Buschy McBusch Race 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 02, 2021 in Kansas City, Kansas. Photo by James Gilbert | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Kyle Busch	9	7	3	1	1	14	3.7	+8	56	46	+10	46	22	100.0%	20	267	126.8	59
Kevin Harvick	4	12	18	2	2	21	7.4	+2	86	69	+17	58	2	93.6%	0	267	110.2	40
Brad Keselowski	1	8	5	3	1	15	4.2	-2	66	62	+4	53	18	100.0%	72	267	121.7	48
Matt DiBenedetto	5	17	12	4	3	23	12.1	+1	102	106	-4	63	0	82.0%	0	267	91.0	33
Chase Elliott	17	10	7	5	3	21	8.6	+12	106	95	+11	77	5	95.9%	0	267	103.1	43
Martin Truex Jr	15	11	13	6	2	25	9.1	+9	95	92	+3	60	2	99.6%	0	267	93.8	35
Tyler Reddick	11	14	20	7	2	24	9.7	+4	86	92	-6	62	12	88.4%	0	267	97.9	41
Chris Buescher	16	23	17	8	1	25	17.0	+8	79	90	-11	24	1	19.9%	13	267	79.4	29
William Byron	2	18	10	9	1	27	10.1	-7	98	98	+0	53	17	74.5%	0	267	98.0	34
Austin Dillon	6	19	9	10	5	29	12.6	-4	107	99	+8	61	1	78.7%	0	267	85.2	27
Daniel Suarez	21	4	19	11	2	30	19.6	+10	127	130	-3	27	1	18.0%	0	267	68.4	26
Denny Hamlin	20	9	1	12	1	29	8.2	+8	96	81	+15	58	24	87.3%	7	267	106.8	35
Michael McDowell	3	5	21	13	3	33	20.5	-10	102	123	-21	16	0	16.5%	0	267	64.3	24
Ross Chastain	24	21	8	14	3	31	16.4	+10	140	115	+25	32	0	38.2%	0	267	78.7	23
Kurt Busch	28	16	15	15	6	28	13.2	+13	99	99	+0	44	1	81.7%	0	267	81.7	22
Ryan Newman	14	31	25	16	11	33	27.7	-2	64	66	-2	3	4	1.1%	0	267	62.0	21
Joey Logano	29	20	6	17	3	29	16.8	+12	109	107	+2	24	0	24.0%	0	267	71.8	20
Alex Bowman	25	24	22	18	12	31	20.6	+7	104	94	+10	6	1	9.0%	0	267	66.2	19
Kyle Larson	32	3	2	19	1	32	3.2	+13	61	50	+11	43	67	97.8%	132	267	126.8	37
Chase Briscoe	19	26	24	20	7	33	25.0	-1	103	97	+6	5	0	1.1%	0	267	55.3	17
Ryan Blaney	7	13	4	21	2	28	7.6	-14	82	100	-18	56	16	98.1%	0	267	94.7	24
Austin Cindric	38	22	14	22	10	38	18.8	+16	94	79	+15	27	0	33.0%	0	267	67.3	0
Anthony Alfredo	22	2	28	23	2	33	24.3	-1	112	111	+1	9	1	9.7%	0	266	51.6	14
Cole Custer	10	6	27	24	5	31	23.8	-14	84	104	-20	13	0	10.1%	0	266	53.0	13
Erik Jones	27	25	26	25	2	35	26.3	+2	113	104	+9	7	0	2.3%	0	266	48.0	12
Bubba Wallace	13	28	29	26	9	31	21.8	-13	73	96	-23	17	3	32.6%	0	266	67.1	11
Corey Lajoie	26	29	30	27	14	32	26.3	-1	85	86	-1	0	0	0.4%	0	265	47.3	10
Christopher Bell	8	15	11	28	3	28	10.9	-20	103	100	+3	68	19	90.3%	0	265	80.1	12
Aric Almirola	18	27	31	29	17	32	24.7	-11	84	90	-6	0	0	0.0%	0	264	53.5	8
Justin Haley	31	32	32	30	10	35	31.7	+1	13	16	-3	0	0	0.4%	0	263	39.5	0
BJ McLeod	30	33	33	31	29	33	32.8	-1	5	13	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	260	36.8	0
Ryan Preece	12	30	23	32	12	33	27.2	-20	86	95	-9	0	2	1.1%	0	259	42.8	5
Garrett Smithley	36	34	34	33	33	37	34.2	+3	14	11	+3	0	0	0.0%	0	259	35.2	0
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	23	1	16	34	1	29	19.2	-11	107	106	+1	17	1	15.0%	23	258	58.2	3
Joey Gase	35	35	35	35	35	38	36.1	+0	6	9	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	258	29.0	0
Cody Ware	33	36	36	36	31	38	35.4	-3	15	18	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	257	31.5	0
Quin Houff	34	37	37	37	32	38	36.3	-3	7	15	-8	0	0	0.0%	0	256	28.3	1
Matt Mills	39	38	38	38	37	39	38.3	+1	5	3	+2	0	0	0.0%	0	255	24.2	0
Josh Bilicki	37	39	39	39	35	39	38.6	-2	5	9	-4	0	0	0.0%	0	250	24.3	1

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Kansas Speedway
2nd Annual Buschy McBusch Race 400
Race Winner: Kyle Busch
Age: 36
Team : No. 18 - M&M's Mix Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: Ben Beshore
Kyle Busch won the 2nd Annual Buschy McBusch Race 400, his 58th victory in 581 NASCAR Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his second victory and 13th top-10 finish in 27 races at Kansas Speedway.
Kevin Harvick (second) posted his 18th top-10 finish in 31 races at Kansas Speedway. It is his eighth top-10 finish in 2021.
Brad Keselowski (third) posted his 13th top-10 finish in 23 races at Kansas Speedway.
Chase Briscoe (20th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Busch (Kansas, 5/2/2021; Richmond, 5/2/2009) joins NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough (Atlanta, 3/27/1983; North Wilkesboro, 3/27/1977) as the second Cup driver to win multiple times on their birthday.

Race Recap

Kyle Busch gets birthday present with a win at Kansas

May 2nd, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Perhaps it was birthday fate. When the name of the race is the Buschy McBusch Race 400, your name is Kyle Busch and it’s your 36th birthday – you have to figure there’s some serious racing juju in your favor. And Busch took advantage of it.

Busch’s No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota took the lead on a restart with two laps remaining and held off the field by .336-seconds Sunday at Kansas Speedway to give him his first NASCAR Cup Series win of the season – 58th of his career – and his new crew chief Ben Beshore the first win of his career.

It completed a weekend trophy sweep for Busch, who won Saturday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race too.

“Just a great day to be able to put this M&Ms Camry up front,” Busch said smiling, adding “Great to be able to get everyone back in Victory Lane again this early in the season and get those points going our way.

“And,” he said breaking into a grin, “I just remembered it’s the Buschy McBusch race and a Busch won. What do you know?”

It was a dramatic ending to what had been largely a Kyle Larson show up front all day. The Hendrick Motorsports driver led a race best 132 of the 267 laps. But he got shuffled back to the second row on the last restart and had contact with Ryan Blaney’s front-row running Ford after taking the final green flag. The two cars slid up and bounced into the wall and out of the groove, allowing Busch to take off with the help of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. pushing from behind.

Ultimately the Fords driven by Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski – on fresher tires – chased down Truex on the last lap to claim second and third place behind Busch. Keselowski, last week’s Talladega winner, led a season-best 72 of the opening 80 laps.

Matt DiBenedetto was fourth and reigning series champion Chase Elliott finished fifth. Truex was sixth, followed by Tyler Reddick, Chris Buescher, William Byron and Austin Dillon.

Larson, looking to claim his second victory of the season was understandably disappointed after the race. He finished 19th after leading the most laps on the afternoon.

“I had the 2 [Keselowski] behind me and he didn’t get to my bumper and I think he had to protect behind him and it just allowed the bottom [row] to get a good jump on us and the bottom two lanes cleared me,” Larson explained.

“I was back to third and planned on pushing [Ryan] Blaney as good as I could and obviously, I pushed too hard and got him loose and chased both of us back into the wall. I was just trying to help him stay side by side with the 18 [Busch] on the back to allow myself to have some sort of opportunity, but I just pushed too hard.

“That’s really the first time I was behind somebody on a restart. I learned for next time.”

The first 167 laps of the 267-lap race were run with no major incidents – the caution flags came out only for a scheduled competition caution and the two stage breaks. Busch won Stage 1 and Larson won Stage 2.

But there were three cautions in the last 20 laps – making pit decisions and lane choice crucial in that last run to the checkered flag.

Ultimately, the two-time series champion Busch, was able to keep his car up front and make the move when he needed to – his victory obviously a huge boost in confidence for the team, which had only two previous top-five finishes in the opening 10 races of the season.

“It’s hard sometimes when you go through the lulls, you go through the disappointment, you go through dejection and the lack of understanding if you can still do it,” Busch said. “There’s a sense of doubt there for sure. But you just have to keep persevering, keep digging and putting your focus forward.”