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                           NNS: Kyle Busch Wins At Texas

Kyle Busch's choice to come back to Joe Gibbs Racing autos in the Nationwide Series for this period is looking better and better each week. 

Kyle Busch beat Brad Keselowski over the end miles and won Friday night's O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway no sweat, scoring his third straight Nationwide score by 2.27 supports. 

RESULTS O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 

Busch, who additionally won the shaft Friday for Saturday night's Sprint Cup race, won for the fourth time in the not so distant future in the Nationwide Series. Busch in this way ends up being the first driver in arrangement history to score four of the time of year's first six occasions. 

Following in the top five were Keselowski, Austin Dillon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kevin Harvick. In the second five were Matt Kenseth, Regan Smith, Kasey Kahne, Brian Vickers and Justin Allgaier. 

Busch headed 91 laps, while not a single person else headed more than 33. He overwhelmed the end partition of the race. 

Groups attempted various tire procedures throughout the race, in spite of the fact that alert banners put everybody give or take on the same tire setup in the last miles. 

"It absolutely doesn't come simple, yet the aforementioned fellows at Joe Gibbs Racing make it appear that way," Busch stated. "We unloaded pretty well and continued dealing with the race auto through practice. We made some sharp updates all through practice. 

"Adam (team boss Adam Stevens) made some amazing race calls there and got us certain alterations that gave me some speed. We pressed on to addition speed every single run. Through the center part of the race the tire system bargain was stressing us a bit, yet the alerts all fell fantastically for us, and we were equipped to get our system go into play. 

"I had a genuine quick auto there at the close of the race. It was a joy to drive." 

The night turned dull for succession indicate pioneer Sam Hornish Jr. with 59 laps to go when he and Jeremy Clements crashed, sending both of their autos into the outside divider. Both slid to within the track and hit one another again. 

Hornish's auto managed critical right-side harm, and he came back to his pit various times for the group to make repairs. Hornish drove the auto to the parking space with 44 laps to go, at the end of the day completing 34th. 

The nighttime finished an in number seasonal begin for Hornish, who had fulfills of second, seventh, to start with, fourth and second dropping in the Texas occasion. Hornish kept the focus lead, in spite of the fact that his playing point was sliced from 28 focuses to two (over Regan Smith). 

With the expectation that we continue assembling autos like this and run as we did the first 75% of the race, we're setting off to have an shot at it," Hornish stated. 

Newcomer Kyle Larson had a misfortune close to the race's one-quarter check. 

He slid moving into the frontstretch and then rotated. Numerous different drivers practically hit him before he straightened his auto and headed to the pits. 

In any case that wasn't the closure of the story. After a two-tire change, Larson lost a tire as he thundered down the backstretch under alert. His auto veered to within the track, and Larson scarcely missed impacting a security track as he hit the divider, continuing with left-front harm. 

Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been blanket motorsports for 31 years. He is a six-time victor of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.