Kyle Busch received Saturday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection Fr8 208 at EchoPark Speedway in a lot much less dramatic style than he did a yr in the past.
There was no picture end for Busch on Saturday. With time dwindling down because of NASCAR attempting to rapidly begin the O’Reilly Collection race later Saturday night, Busch acquired round Ben Rhodes within the closing laps and held on to attain his 68th profession Truck Collection win and his ninth at Atlanta.
The victory is Busch’s first in any of NASCAR’s top-three collection because the 2025 Atlanta Truck Collection 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 an important teammate in the present day. There on the finish, he was my wingman.”
Busch will look to interrupt a 94-race winless streak within the NASCAR Cup Collection 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 ensure the corporate had a shot.”
Busch and Hocevar each drove Spire Motorsports vehicles on Saturday, and Hocevar lately signed a long-term Cup Collection 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 embody Adam Andretti in twelfth, Brenden Queen in sixteenth, Stewart Friesen in twentieth, Kaden Honeycutt in twenty first and Ty Majeski in twenty eighth.
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