Kyle Busch gained Saturday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence Fr8 208 at EchoPark Speedway in a lot much less dramatic trend than he did a yr in the past.
There was no picture end for Busch on Saturday. With time dwindling down as a result of NASCAR attempting to rapidly begin the O’Reilly Sequence race later Saturday night, Busch obtained round Ben Rhodes within the closing laps and held on to attain his 68th profession Truck Sequence win and his ninth at Atlanta.
The victory is Busch’s first in any of NASCAR’s top-three sequence because the 2025 Atlanta Truck Sequence race and his third in a row on the 1.5-mile tri-oval.
“That is cool,” Busch advised Fox Sports activities. “Enormous assist from behind. Carson Hocevar was a terrific teammate immediately. There on the finish, he was my wingman.”
Busch will look to interrupt a 94-race winless streak within the NASCAR Cup Sequence in Sunday’s Autotrader 400.
Notable outcomes
Carson Hocevar, Gio Ruggiero, Ben Rhodes and Stage 1 winner Corey Heim rounded out the top-five, with Chandler Smith, polesitter Jake Garcia, John Hunter Nemechek, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Justin Haley finishing the top-10.
“I had no shot to win the race,” Hocevar mentioned. “If I wasn’t going to have a shot, I needed to verify the corporate had a shot.”
Busch and Hocevar each drove Spire Motorsports vans on Saturday, and Hocevar just lately signed a long-term Cup Sequence contract extension to drive for Spire into the 2030s.
Rhodes recovered from operating out of gas late in Stage 2 to earn a fourth-place end.
Different notable finishers embrace Adam Andretti in twelfth, Brenden Queen in sixteenth, Stewart Friesen in twentieth, Kaden Honeycutt in twenty first and Ty Majeski in twenty eighth.
