FORT WORTH, Texas – Kyle Busch passed German Quiroga off a restart in a two-lap shootout in the Camping World Truck race Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway for his seventh victory in nine series starts this year.
Ninth on a restart with five laps left, Busch moved to third in one lap and was running second behind Quiroga when a caution forced the green-white-checkered finish. Busch restarted on the outside of Quiroga and pulled away easily before another caution ended the race on the final lap.
Quiroga was involved in the last-lap wreck, dropping him to 17th.
Jeb Burton was third, followed by Timothy Peters, Tyler Reddick, points leader Matt Crafton, Joey Coulter, Max Gresham, Joe Nemechek, Ryan Blaney and Cameron Hayley.
Busch led 80 of the 152 laps on the 1 1/2-mile oval.
Racing in the series for the first time since winning at Chicagoland on Sept. 13, Busch has 42 wins in 124 Truck races. He has 140 victories in NASCAR's top three series, winning 29 times in Cup and a record 69 times in Nationwide. He has 14 victories this year, also winning once in Cup and six times in Nationwide.
Kyle Busch Motorsports has won 12 of the first 20 races this season, with Darrell Wallace Jr. winning three times and Erik Jones twice. Wallace, the winner last week at Martinsville, dropped out with a blown engine while racing Busch for the lead with 42 laps left.
Defending series champion Crafton to increase his lead to 23 points over Blaney with two races left. Crafton won the June race at the track.
