Pit Stops : Texas Motor Speedway

• Texas Motor Speedway
• SpeedyCashcom 250
• Pole Winner: Nick Sanchez
• Age: 22
• Team : No 2 - Gainbridge Chevrolet
• Owner: Max Siegel
• Crew Chief: Kevin Manion
• Nick Sanchez won the Pole Award for the SpeedyCashcom 250 with a lap of 29219 seconds, 184811 mph
• This is his sixth pole in 30 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races
• This is his first pole and sixth top-10 start in 2024
• This is his second pole in two races at Texas Motor Speedway
• Christian Eckes (second) posted his sixth top-10 start of 2024 and his fifth in five races at Texas Motor Speedway
• Stewart Friesen (third) posted his seventh top-10 start at Texas Motor Speedway It is his second in seven races this season
• Layne Riggs (seventh) was the fastest qualifying rookie

• Friday, April 12th, 2024
• NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain

Kyle Busch ties Todd Bodine for Truck Series most wins at Texas

A handful of late race cautions only made it more dramatic but veteran Kyle Busch still managed to hold off a hard-charging field to claim a record-tying sixth NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race victory at Texas Motor Speedway, just bettering Corey Heim by a mere .112-second to win Friday night’s SpeedyCash.com 250.

Maybe while competing in Texas Busch should consider changing his nickname from “Rowdy” to the popular Texas greeting, “Howdy” because the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion has absolutely created an unbelievable mark of excellence competing at the Fort Worth 1.5-miler.

Busch’s sixth win in a Texas Motor Speedway truck race ties him with Todd Bodine for most ever. Busch has won the last four truck races he’s entered at the track. And. ..it is Busch’s 20th overall win at TMS – an unprecedented tally that also includes four NASCAR Cup Series victories and 10 Xfinity Series race wins.

He led a race best 112 of the 167 laps in the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet Friday and won both stages.

“Great team, everybody here at Spire [Motorsports],” said Busch, who has won a record 66 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races in his career – two this season.

“They definitely kept me honest, I’ll give them that,” said Busch, who compared the robust competition all night to another inspired win when he had to come from 15th place with two laps remaining to win a race.

“Corey [Heim] kept us honest right there,” he continued. “He started to find that top over there and got some momentum over there with three to go. I chattered really bad, so my front just wasn’t working over there. … he made it and got to my rear bumper getting into [turn] three and I just didn’t know which way to go so I ran the middle then to the bottom and then he slipped up top and I guess we had enough of a gap after that.”

Heim’s runner-up finish in the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota continues his perfect streak of top-10 finishes in every Truck race this season (seven). The margin of victory Friday was the second closest ever at the Texas track.

“It just seemed like a big track position game at the end there,” said the 21-year old Heim. “He’d get really big runs on the straightaways and once you get to the corner it’s really hard to stay behind someone and keep the momentum.

“I did all I could there trying to pick up three [positions] on that last restart but got another caution there unfortunately and just tried to build a run on him, but he’s just too good and does a really good job. Really happy with our run tonight, picked up stage points and finished second.”

Despite Busch’s laps led tally, It was really a highly-competitive race at the front of the field. Christian Eckes led 31 laps and Nick Sanchez led 16. The three drivers – Heim, Eckes and Sanchez – exchanging positions among the top five all evening in pursuit of Busch.

REV Racing’s Sanchez finished third, followed by McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Eckes and former series champion – now a NASCAR Cup Series rookie – Zane Smith, who also competed for McAnally-Hilgemann Friday night.

Daniel Dye, brothers Tayler and Tanner Gray, Stefan Parsons and Ty Majeski rounded out the top-10 finishers.

It was a rough night for early-season championship leader Tyler Ankrum, who was collected in an accident only two laps into the race and finished last, 34th place.

The championship standings changed up with the Texas results and Eckes – the series’ only two-race winner so far in 2024 – takes the lead by two-points over Heim. Majeski, who came into the race leading the points, is now third, 12 points back. Ankrum drops to sixth place, 43 points behind Eckes.

• Drivers Entered: 34
• Laps Scheduled: 147
• Laps Actual: 167 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
• Margin of Victory: 0.112 Seconds
• Time of Race: 2 Hours 6 Minutes 52 Seconds
• Average Speed: 118.471
• Cautions: 7 for 40 laps
• Lead Changes: 7
• Green Flag Passes: 1,146 (9.0 passes per green flag lap)

• SpeedyCashcom 250
• Race Winner: Kyle Busch
• Age: 38
• Team : No 7 - Realtree Chevrolet
• Owner: Spire Motorsports
• Crew Chief: Brian Pattie
• Kyle Busch won the SpeedyCashcom 250, his 66th victory in 174 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races - a winning percentage of 379%
• This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in 2024
• This is his sixth victory and 11th top-10 finish in 15 races at Texas Motor Speedway Busch ties Todd Bodine for the Truck Series most wins at Texas with six each
• Corey Heim (second) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Texas Motor Speedway It is his seventh top-10 finish in 2024
• Nick Sanchez (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Texas Motor Speedway
• Conner Jones (18th) was the highest finishing rookie
• Christian Eckes leads the point standings by 2 points over Corey Heim