Busch, who started the Saturday night Sprint Cup Series race in the sixth position, held off Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch to win the GoBowling 400 at Kansas Speedway. The win for Busch was his first Sprint Cup Series victory at Kansas Speedway.
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“It’s pretty big,” Kyle Busch told Fox Sports from Winner’s Circle. “There have been some rough races at Kansas. At the beginning and through the middle part of the race we weren’t great, but we kept ourselves in the game.”
Matt Kenseth and Ryan Blaney rounded out the top 5.
Pole sitter Martin Truex Jr. led 172 laps but fell back to 20th after a loose wheel on Lap 216 caused him to pit to get all four tires changed. Truex finished 14th in what ended up being a caution-filled race. Carl Edwards, who went wire-to-wire to win at Bristol, is still the only pole sitter to win this season.
A Matt DiBenedetto accident on the 55th lap brought out the race’s second of six cautions at the mile-and-a-half tri-oval track. Paul Menard was involved in a wreck on Lap 102 and did not finish the race.
Joey Logano led three laps, but got caught up in a wreck after Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin spun each other out with 26 laps remaining. Hamlin and Logano were both forced to withdraw after the wreck.
“I just got loose. It’s crazy, there was no contact, but me and (Logano) just got loose,” Hamlin told Fox Sports. “I was just going for it, but caught the wind.”
NASCAR will head to Dover next weekend before two weeks in Charlotte for the All-Star race and the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend.
GoBowling 400 results at Kansas:
- Kyle Busch 2. Kevin Harvick 3. Kurt Busch 4. Matt Kenseth 5. Ryan Blaney 6. Austin Dillon 7. Ryan Newman 8. AJ Allmendinger 9. Chase Elliott 10. Brad Keselowski 11. Carl Edwards 12. Tony Stewart 13. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 14. Martin Truex Jr. 15. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 16. Kasey Kahne 17. Jimmie Johnson 18. Aric Almirola 19. Clint Bowyer 20. Danica Patrick 21. Casey Mears 22. Brian Scott 23. Regan Smith 24. Chris Buescher 25. Trevor Bayne 26. Jamie McMurray 27. Greg Biffle 28. Michael McDowell 29. David Ragan 30. Matt DiBenedetto 31. Landon Cassill 32. Michael Annett 33. Reed Sorenson 34. Joey Gase 35. Kyle Larson 36. Josh Wise 37. Denny Hamlin 38. Joey Logano 39. Cole Whitt 40. Paul Menard
