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November 7th, 2009 | News Archive

Kyle Busch: "We're going to make it three tomorrow!”

First, last night at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway outside of the metropolis of Dallas, Kyle Busch won the WinStar World Casino 350 round of the 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

Then, on Saturday afternoon, Busch went right back out and won his second consecutive race at Texas, this time the Nationwide Series race. Now, on Sunday at the $250 million raceway, Busch will try to become the first driver to win all three of NASCAR's national series on the very the very same weekend.

After taking the lead from polesitter Matt Kenseth on the 11th of 200 laps, Busch raced on to lead 179 laps and win by the race by 3.154 seconds over Casey Mears.

"We're going to make it three tomorrow," Busch said.

It won’t be easy, though, as the Las Vegas-born driver is 0-for-9 in Sprint Cup races at Texas. This weekend in Texas is the 28th time in his career Busch has run all three NASCAR series during the same weekend. As an interesting footnote, as far as “triple plays” go for Busch this is the seventh time this year and twice he won two races -- at California in February and Bristol in August -- without being able to get the third.

Texas symbolized Busch's eighth Nationwide victory in 2009, and with the win, he lengthened his points lead to 272 over Carl Edwards. Just two races remain on the ’09 Nationwide series schedule. Busch, who has won 29 times in 171 career Nationwide starts, only has to finish 15th next week at Phoenix to clinch the season championship.

Busch has won 19 NASCAR races this season, including seven of his 13 truck starts to go with four Cup victories. It was the sixth time in 10 Nationwide races at Texas that Busch led the most laps.


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