In his fifth consecutive victory in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Kyle Busch led the final 50 laps of the WinStar World Casino 350 at Texas Motor Speedway.

The victory was the Las Vegas native’s seventh win 13 starts this season and the 16th of his career. Matt Crafton was the runner-up to Busch, .995 seconds adrift line stripe. Ron Hornaday raced to third thus leaving the Lone Star State with a 197-point lead over second-place Crafton in the series standings.

"It's an accomplishment to beat the 33 bunch [Hornaday] here, that's for sure," Busch said. "And we got it done today. I really hate to see the 88 [Crafton] finish second to me. I wish he could get a win."

Crafton acknowledged it would be difficult to pick up the second victory of his career and his first of the year as long as Busch keeps entering races. "I'm going to lock him in his motor home and take him out of the equation," Crafton mused.

Busch passed Hornaday for the lead on Lap 98 after bumping Hornaday on the backstretch. By Lap 114, Crafton had passed Hornaday for the second position, as Hornaday fought a loose handling condition in his race truck. Crafton gradually closed on Busch, but he maintained a lead of close to one second over his pursuer for the final 30 laps, as Crafton tried to save fuel.

Busch - who has won the last three Nationwide races at Texas - will try for his second of a possible weekend triple play in the O'Reilly Challenge race on Saturday. He'll start sixth on the grid in Sunday’s Dickies 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race.

"It would be pretty awesome to get 'em all three done here at Texas," Busch said. "I've wanted to win a truck race here for a long time, so this is pretty cool, and as soon as I get a Cup win here, another one will get knocked off the list."