Kyle Busch leads 20,000th lap in NASCAR: The Camping World Truck Series Bully Hill Vineyards 200 Review

The rain held off in Nashville in time for NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series and Nationwide Series to share the spotlight this Easter weekend.

Defending champ, Kyle Busch, not only won the Bully Hill Vineyards 200 but has now led 20,000 laps throughout NASCAR’s three National Series.

Busch dominated the night, leading 140 of 150 laps. But as the race came to an end, it was not without challenge for the younger Busch brother. With nine laps to go, Ron Hornaday Jr., in a bold move, squeezed by Busch to steal the lead.

On the last caution, Busch returned the favor, passing Hornaday. Hornaday was hard on his tires earlier and had worn out his front right and Nelson Piquet Jr. and Timothy Peters subsequently passed him.

James Buescher, Matt Crafton, Johnny Sauter, David Starr, Craig Goess and Parker Kligerman rounded out the Top 10.

“It was a really good race,” said Kyle Busch. “The clean air really helped us out most of the race and with about ten to go, Hornaday got a jump on us on the restart and got along-side of our spoiler and took a little air off of me and got around us, but we got a caution and we thought we were in a good position on the restart. So we did the same thing that Hornaday did on the previous restart and we got a good run on him in turns one and two and sailed by him in turn three. It would have been a shame had we lost today.”

The typically caution-filled truck race was calm with only one multi-car wreck on Lap 130 involving the numbers 60, 62, and 63 trucks.

This win is Busch’s second for this season and was his twenty-sixth NCWTS victory overall. He has won both Nashville Superspeedway races he has started and has won ten races driving for his own Kyle Busch Motorsports team.

In Victory Lane, Busch thankfully kept the Gibson guitar in one piece and did not try to do a young Pete Townsend imitation with it as he did last year in the spring Nationwide race when he went a little bit 'rock n' Roll" with the guitar smashing it into several pieces in Victory Lane. This year's 'lower key' celebration was much appreciated by the guitar’s artist, Sam Bass, who valued it at $20,000.

Sauter continues to hold the points lead, with Peters moving to second, three points back. Crafton is third with Hornaday fourth and rookie Cole Whitt sitting in fifth.

The next race on the Truck schedule is in Dover. There have been eleven different winners in eleven different races there with Aric Amirola being the current race champion.