{"id":4524,"date":"2011-02-26T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-02-26T20:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T01:19:49","slug":"2011-lucas-oil-150-kyle-busch-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/2011-lucas-oil-150-kyle-busch-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Lucas Oil 150 &#8211; Kyle Busch Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2011 Lucas Oil 150 &#8211; Kyle Busch Wins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jhRkNYyd8yA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>NCWTS Race Recap: Kyle Busch Dominates Truck Race At Phoenix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AVONDALE, Ariz. \u2014 Win the race off pit road. Win the race.<\/p>\n<p>After taking the lead under caution on Lap 44 of Friday night\u2019s Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix International Raceway, Kyle Busch led the final 107 to post his second win at the 1-mile track and his 25th in the Camping World Truck Series.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Busch beat polesitter Clint Bowyer to the checkered flag by .291 seconds, as Bowyer tightened the margin on the final lap.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Hornaday Jr. was third, followed by Johnny Sauter and Austin Dillon.<\/p>\n<p>As full-time Sprint Cup drivers, Busch and Bowyer aren\u2019t collecting points in the truck series. Consequently, seventh-place finisher Matt Crafton left Phoenix with a one-point lead over Clay Rogers (16th Friday) in the series standings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a really good truck, but I was scared there at the beginning,\u201d said Busch, who ran second to a dominant Bowyer at Phoenix in November. \u201cI was like, \u2018Man, it\u2019s going to come down like last fall \u2014 Clint\u2019s going to walk the dog on this one.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut (crew chief) Eric (Phillips) made some changes to this thing that really brought it to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowyer faulted himself for not being able to overtake Busch on six restarts in the final 50 laps of the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhichever one of us had clean air, we were about a 10th (of a second) to a 10th and a half better,\u201d Bowyer said. \u201cFor me \u2014 and I\u2019m not making any excuses; I was screwing up big-time on the restarts \u2014 I\u2019m just not used to a) not having any power and b) I was hitting the rev what sounded like about 5,000 less rpm than it should have been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just messing up. It\u2019s the difference between a Corvette and an Impala\u2014maybe a Volt. \u2026 That\u2019s that electric car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowyer dominated the opening green-flag run, leading the first 41 laps before Chase Mattioli blew his right front tire and scattered debris in Turn 3. After pit stops, Busch was first off pit road and held the top spot through four more cautions, the last of which (and fifth of the race) was caused by a wreck off Turn 4 involving defending series champion Todd Bodine, David Starr and Dusty Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Busch led the field to a restart on Lap 120, having held the point for 76 consecutive laps. Timothy Peters\u2019 spin in Turn 2 on Lap 123 slowed the race for the sixth time.<\/p>\n<p>In the late going, the trucks had difficulty running more than three laps without a caution. Brendan Gaughan spun and backed into the wall in Turn 2 on Lap 128 to bring out the seventh yellow flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 Lucas Oil 150 &#8211; Kyle Busch Wins NCWTS Race Recap: Kyle Busch Dominates Truck Race At Phoenix AVONDALE, Ariz. \u2014 Win the race off pit road. Win the race. After taking the lead under caution on Lap 44 of Friday night\u2019s Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix International Raceway, Kyle Busch led the final 107 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4145],"tags":[15775],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-video","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}