Note: Story Updated at 5 p.m. ET.
Kyle Busch scored his first win at Pocono Raceway in the NASCAR Xfinity Series when he took the checkered flag in Saturday’s Pocono Green 250, but his car failed post race-inspection.
Busch, who led 64 of the 100 laps, came back from a pit road speeding penalty following winning Stage 1 to score his 92nd career series win.
“Feels good for as good as our car was,” Busch said. “This car was on rails this week. It was last week too, but was just able to overcome our deficit that we had this weekend and get back to the front.
“My guys are amazing, Joe Gibbs Racing, everybody in the Xfinity Series shop…We were able to overcome our deficit and get to Victory Lane.”
Busch dominated the race and took the checkered flag 2.8-second ahead of the field.
Busch’s car was found to be too high in the left front in post-race inspection (Read More).
Chase Elliott finished second after a battle with Daniel Hemric over the closing laps.
Hemric, Austin Cindric and pole sitter Cole Custer rounded out the top five.
“We had a really fast Haas Automation Mustang, we just didn’t have really good long run speed,” Custer said. “That was our biggest problem. We just got too tight at the end of a run. It was interesting to run the package and try to learn it throughout the day. I just think we needed a little more there. We were close, we just needed a little more long run speed.”
Elliott Sadler, John Hunter Nemechek, Paul Menard, Tyler Reddick and Ryan Truex completed the first 10 finishers.
Two championship contenders in Christopher Bell and Justin Allgaier were eliminated from the race when they were involved in an accident on lap 61.
“Just restarts at Pocono,” said Bell, who also had to rebound from a pit road speeding penalty. “It’s the bottom line. I feel like our Ruud Camry was exceptional and doing everything I needed it to. I just made a mistake there whenever I followed Kyle (Busch) to Pit Road at the end of the first Stage. He was going really fast and I thought I could, too. And I just ended up speeding.
“There was nothing I could have done there with Justin (Allgaier) for that matter. We were just victims of Pocono restarts. It just got really hairy. It was exciting. That’s why sometimes we love it and sometimes we hate it.”
The race featured the rules package that was in place for last year’s Indianapolis Motor Speedway race including a restrictor plate and aerodynamic modifications.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series now heads to Michigan International Speedway next Saturday afternoon. The same rules package will be used at the two-mile superspeedway.
