' Truck ' helps Kyle Busch dominant victory in Nashville

HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Sprint Cup series Star Kyle Busch (FSY) ran the second victory of the season, NASCAR truck series passing Ron Hornaday Jr. on a restart and easily holding off Nelson Piquet Jr. on Friday night at Nashville Superspeedway. By Jason Smith, Getty Images for NASCAR

Kyle Busch led 140 150 laps en route to the victory at Bully Hill vineyards 200 truck series Friday at Nashville Superspeedway.

By Jason Smith, Getty Images for NASCAR

Kyle Busch led 140 150 laps en route to the victory at Bully Hill vineyards 200 truck series Friday at Nashville Superspeedway.

Busch, also the winner of Nashville in the spring, led 140 150 laps on oval 1,333-mile concrete. He also won the truck race at Phoenix in February and has 26 victories series in 89 starts. In addition to two victories of Busch, Kasey Kahne (FSY) won the March race in Darlington in Toyota No. 18 of Busch. "I felt like I had a winning truck, a truck, in fact, "Busch said."Would have been a shame not to win here today. "Hornaday slipped in front of Busch in Turn 3 with nine laps remaining. A caution for Max Papis (FSY) spin allowed Hornaday stay in leadership to restart with three laps remaining. Hornaday opened an advantage off the restart, but Busch rebounded quickly and nose of the past the 52-year-old Hornaday before they had completed a lap ".He might have been annoying, I think, for about the first 140 laps more or less, but Ron went upstairs and made things interesting, "Busch said."It is hell of a wheelman, that old man still gets after it. I'll tell you that. It definitely gave us a whirl wind there. "Timothy Peters (FSY) was third, followed by Hornaday, James Buescher (FSY), Matt Crafton (FSY), Johnny Sauter (FSY), David Starr, Craig Goess (FSY) and Parker Kligerman (FSY).Piquet, a former formula one driver who is a newcomer on the circuit of trucks, was fourth on reboot, but charged on the last lap to finish second. "I knew that had tires better than Timothy, "said Piquet. "I knew where I was playing my truck to the outside, it was really exciting. I still don't understand why, so that risked these two last laps. I ran the risk of going abroad and worked ".Busch started from the pole for the second consecutive year in transit to his third Nashville victory, including its controversial Nationwide Series WINS when he smashed Gibson Guitar trophy in Victory Lane .he tries to pull a double Saturday in the race across the country. "I like Nashville, "said Busch. "It is a fun place for me and pure horse racing, a fun racetrack."