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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

CRC Brakleen 150

Pocono Raceway

July 22nd, 2023

Race #15 of the 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 60
Miles Raced : 150.0
Time of Race : 01 Hours 23 minutes 00 seconds
Average Speed: 108.434 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.604 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 20
Lead Changes: 5

Kyle Busch celebrates with crew and family in victory lane — Long Pond, Pennsylvania - July 22nd, 2023: Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 Zariz Transport Chevrolet, celebrates with crew and family in victory lane after winning NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series CRC Brakleen 150 and Kyle Busch Motorsports' 100th win in the NASCAR Truck Series at Pocono Raceway. Photo by Sean Gardner | 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	12	23	2	1	1	23	5.6	+11	26	38	-12	24	12	93.3%	7	60	132.4	0
Corey Heim	9	22	1	2	1	22	4.9	+7	22	37	-15	21	7	93.3%	27	60	125.3	39
Taylor Gray	11	24	3	3	2	24	8.3	+8	27	38	-11	18	4	91.7%	0	60	107.8	35
Christopher Bell	14	31	4	4	3	35	9.8	+10	31	47	-16	24	0	90.0%	0	60	100.8	0
Grant Enfinger	3	5	10	5	3	28	11.8	-2	46	33	+13	21	0	60.0%	0	60	85.3	41
Ty Majeski	34	29	5	6	4	34	13.2	+28	35	43	-8	12	1	61.7%	0	60	79.4	31
Christian Eckes	35	27	6	7	5	35	11.8	+28	50	47	+3	24	0	75.0%	0	60	89.3	30
Dean Thompson	33	34	7	8	4	34	14.9	+25	37	49	-12	14	0	71.7%	0	60	79.7	29
Ben Rhodes	22	6	9	9	4	31	14.9	+13	52	25	+27	19	0	53.3%	0	60	78.8	33
Matt DiBenedetto	8	4	11	10	2	20	9.9	-2	41	18	+23	24	0	93.3%	0	60	91.2	42
Carson Hocevar	4	30	8	11	2	30	12.7	-7	45	62	-17	27	0	80.0%	0	60	79.7	26
Tyler Ankrum	18	7	16	12	5	34	20.6	+6	61	36	+25	8	0	20.0%	0	60	64.0	29
Hailie Deegan	21	12	15	13	10	34	21.7	+8	50	47	+3	7	0	28.3%	0	60	58.8	24
Matt Crafton	25	10	18	14	8	35	22.4	+11	60	39	+21	6	0	20.0%	0	60	57.8	24
Colby Howard	26	9	17	15	7	33	21.0	+11	59	40	+19	4	0	16.7%	0	60	57.8	24
Rajah Caruth	7	8	14	16	6	29	17.4	-9	59	48	+11	14	1	31.7%	0	60	66.5	24
Daniel Dye	20	11	12	17	7	30	18.7	+3	56	45	+11	6	0	28.3%	0	60	62.0	20
Chase Purdy	10	33	13	18	6	33	15.2	-8	39	83	-44	13	0	56.7%	0	60	63.7	19
Nicholas Sanchez	1	3	21	19	1	33	11.4	-18	27	22	+5	7	0	65.0%	7	60	84.0	35
Kaden Honeycutt	17	16	26	20	16	35	28.3	-3	57	36	+21	0	0	0.0%	0	60	45.5	17
Tyler Hill	36	15	22	21	13	36	26.8	+15	39	29	+10	1	0	8.3%	0	60	45.2	16
Parker Kligerman	24	25	25	22	4	32	15.3	+2	35	40	-5	8	0	43.3%	0	60	70.8	0
Cory Roper	31	18	20	23	17	34	28.3	+8	31	27	+4	0	0	0.0%	0	60	38.8	14
Stephen Mallozzi	32	20	19	24	2	35	28.7	+8	23	21	+2	0	0	3.3%	0	60	34.7	13
Spencer Boyd	30	21	23	25	19	35	29.7	+5	23	34	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	60	34.3	12
Josh Reaume	29	19	24	26	19	36	30.6	+3	23	13	+10	0	0	0.0%	0	60	32.5	11
Lawless Alan	27	17	28	27	16	33	27.4	+0	38	37	+1	0	0	0.0%	0	60	38.7	10
Stefan Parsons	19	14	27	28	12	29	23.6	-9	49	37	+12	1	0	8.3%	0	60	56.3	0
Bret Holmes	28	13	29	29	11	35	24.7	-1	37	55	-18	2	0	15.0%	0	60	41.7	8
Ross Chastain	23	28	30	30	6	34	22.4	-7	39	60	-21	4	0	8.3%	0	52	60.8	0
Kaz Grala	15	26	31	31	4	34	17.8	-16	34	48	-14	8	0	45.0%	0	51	67.8	0
Stewart Friesen	16	2	32	32	2	31	12.9	-16	28	14	+14	23	0	78.3%	0	51	93.0	16
Austin Hill	5	35	33	33	4	35	19.6	-28	43	40	+3	9	0	36.7%	0	51	68.7	0
Zane Smith	6	1	34	34	1	29	12.8	-28	25	23	+2	5	8	53.3%	19	51	94.8	23
Jake Garcia	2	32	35	35	2	32	16.0	-33	23	56	-33	19	1	66.7%	0	45	85.5	7
Tanner Gray	13	36	36	36	13	16	35.0	-23	6	9	-3	6	0	3.3%	0	3	23.3	1

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Race Fast Facts

Pocono Raceway
CRC Brakleen 150
Race Winner: Kyle Busch
Age: 38
Team : No. 51 - Zariz Transport Chevrolet
Owner: Kyle Busch
Crew Chief: Brian Pattie
Kyle Busch won the CRC Brakleen 150, his 64th victory in 170 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races.
This is his second victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2023.
This is his third victory and fifth top-10 finish in six races at Pocono Raceway.
Corey Heim (second) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Pocono Raceway. It is his 12th top-10 finish in 2023.
Taylor Gray (third) posted his first top-10 finish in one races at Pocono Raceway.
Taylor Gray (third) was the highest finishing rookie.
Corey Heim leads the point standings by 42 points over Zane Smith.

Race Recap

Kyle Busch Wins CRC Brakleen 150 at Pocono Raceway

July 22nd, 2023

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

In what was both a thrilling and historic afternoon at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway, Kyle Busch earned a hard-fought win in Saturday’s CRC Brakleen 150 with a last lap pass for his Kyle Busch Motorsports team’s milestone 100^thseries victory in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

Busch made a daring move low on series championship leader Corey Heim in Turn 2 “The Tunnel Turn” of the iconic 2.5-mile track, got around cleanly and motored off to a .604-second win in the No. 51 KBM Chevrolet to at last secure that unprecedented 100th victory for his decorated team. It marks the second win of the year in five truck starts for Busch, 38, a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion.

“It’s pretty cool, we’ve been around for a long time, but it’s been fun, said Busch, who contributed 64 of those 100 wins himself and now has three at Pocono.

“A great ride. Obviously, this [Chevrolet] Silvarado today was really really fast, just mired in traffic. Couldn’t find a way to make a clean move so had to make a little bit of a racey one, a little bit of a dicey one there at the end getting into two. Heim ran a great race. We just needed this hundredth win to get it over with.

“Really proud of the guys and everybody at KBM," he said, adding, “It’s a monumental day, a century mark of being able to win a hundred truck races. We’re a small team, just one that performs in the truck series."

Eighteen drivers contributed to that grand win total for Kyle Busch Motorsports – including Heim, who finished runner-up to his former boss on Saturday after leading a race best 27 of the 60 laps.

“Just unreal," said Heim, who holds a 42-point lead over Zane Smith atop the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship heading into the regular season finale next week at Richmond (Va.) Raceway.

“I felt like I did everything right," continued Heim, who drives the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota. “Seemed like we had about five laps in the truck before it started tightened up really bad on me. I really did get the run I wanted out of 1 and knew his straightaway speed was really good. I was a little upset initially but realistically, I would have done the exact same thing. Heat of the moment deal there.

“Looking back on it, I’ve just got a lot of respect for Kyle. I raced for him for two years and he was really good to me and raced me with respect today. He’s a hard racer and didn’t wreck us for the win and I probably would have done the same thing. Really sucks, really thought we had it there."

Heim’s TRICON Garage teammate Taylor Gray finished a career best third place with another NASCAR Cup Series full-timer, Christopher Bell in fourth place in the Hattori Racing Enterprises No. 61 Toyota and Grant Enfinger rounding out the Top-5 in the No. 23 GMS Racing Chevrolet.

Ty Majeski, Christian Eckes, Dean Thompson, 2021 series champion Ben Rhodes and Matt DiBenedetto completed the Top-10 on Saturday.

It was Heim’s closest championship challenger that dominated early at Pocono. Zane Smith, whose 19 laps led was second only to Heim, won both stages (his third and fourth of the season) giving him bonus points to seemingly narrow the championship gap.

That pit strategy, however, left him vulnerable in the rear of the field during that final stage and he was among 10 cars involved in an incident with eight laps remaining that brought out a 13-minute red flag period.

Smith’s truck was too damaged to finish the race, as was another championship hopeful, Stewart Friesen. The reigning series champion now shows up at Richmond a longshot to claim the regular season trophy, but he is one of four drivers with two wins on the season – second best to Heim’s three victories.

Pole winner, 22-year old Nick Sanchez was involved in an accident just prior to the “big one” and took out his fellow front row starter and rookie Jake Garcia.

Heading into the Richmond regular season finale, three-time former series champion Matt Crafton holds an eight-point advantage over Friesen for that final 10^thplace Playoff transfer spot.