Kyle Busch received Saturday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence Fr8 208 at EchoPark Speedway in a lot much less dramatic style than he did a 12 months in the past.
There was no photograph end for Busch on Saturday. With time dwindling down attributable to NASCAR attempting to shortly begin the O’Reilly Sequence race later Saturday night, Busch received 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 instructed Fox Sports activities. “Large assist from behind. Carson Hocevar was an awesome teammate at present. 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 stated. “If I wasn’t going to have a shot, I wished to verify the corporate had a shot.”
Busch and Hocevar each drove Spire Motorsports vans on Saturday, and Hocevar not too long ago 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.
