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Auto racing | Kyle Busch wins NASCAR Nationwide Series event in Texas
Kyle Busch won his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series race at the 1 ½-mile, high-banked track Saturday.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch keeps extending streaks at Texas Motor Speedway in search of a NASCAR first.
Busch won his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series race at the 1 ½-mile, high-banked track Saturday. The dominating victory came a day after he won his fifth truck race in his last five starts in the NASCAR Camping World series.
Busch will try to complete an unprecedented trifecta today and become the first driver to win in all three of NASCAR's national series on the same weekend.
"I hope it happens; that would be the greatest thing," Busch said. "The hardest one is the last one."
Busch qualified fifth for today's Dickies 500, a Sprint Cup Series event. Busch is 0 for 9 in NASCAR's top series at the Texas track and finished 18th in April.
When Busch was asked about what reaction he expected if he won today, he said, "People would get tired of buying tickets to the Kyle Busch show, I guess. That's two, one more to go. ... If luck is on our side and we play it smart, we could come out of here three for three. That would be pretty special."
Kasey Kahne of Enumclaw was 30th of 43.
After taking the lead on the 11th of 200 laps, when he swung his No. 18 Toyota around pole-sitter Matt Kenseth in the first turn, Busch went on to lead 179 laps and win by 3.154 seconds over Casey Mears, who was filling in for Jeff Burton in the No. 29 Chevrolet.
This is the 28th time in his career Busch has run all three series the same weekend. This is the seventh time this year and twice he won two races without being able to get the third. In California, he won the truck and Nationwide races before finishing third in Sprint Cup event.
"Maybe we can come up two spots better here," he said.
It was Busch's eighth Nationwide victory this year, and extended his points lead to 272 over second-place Carl Edwards with two races left. Busch has to finish 15th or better next weekend in Arizona to clinch his first NASCAR title in any series.
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