Kyle Busch Wins the EnjoyIllinois.com 225

Kyle Busch is starting to get use to driving a racing truck. On Friday night he won his second consecutive race in the Camping World Truck Series by winning the inaugural EnjoyIllinois.com 225. He passed Todd Bodine with just 19 laps remaining in the competition to take his fourth win of the season in 10 starts in the Billy Ballew Motorsports Toyota. With this win Busch also made Chicagoland the fifth track on which he has won a race in each of NASCAR’s three national series. Busch also won the Sprint Cup and Nationwide races at Chicagoland last season and won all three national series races at Phoenix, Fontana, Dover and Bristol.

Kyle Busch is winning in a truck now!

This was a special night for Busch because his parents and girl friend are from just over the border in Indiana. It must have been really cool and nice to come back and win before the home folks in the Midwest.

Bodine took the lead on Lap 98 after Busch made a final pit stop for tires and fuel and after the final restart with just 50 laps remaining he found himself in fifth place. Bodine looked like he was going to win, until the caution flag came out and things started to go bad back for him. There was another restart three laps later that was single file that left a hole on the bottom of the 1.5 mile track for Busch to take advantage of and that’s exactly what he did. Busch stayed on the bottom of the track through Turns 1 and 2 and then was able to pass Bodine as they headed into Turn 3. He was faster through the sprint to the finish and was able to beat Bodine to the line by .580 seconds for the win in the EnjoyIllinois.com 225. This victory marks a great day for Kyle Busch, who probably likes this truck-thing, and a not so nice day for Todd Bodine.

Colin Braun finished third; Rick Crawford managed fourth, while Johnny Sauter held on for fifth place. In sixth place was Dennis Setzer, Chad McCumbee ran seventh, Aric Almirola eighth and Timothy Peters ninth, while Terry Cook rounded out the top ten.

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