Kyle Busch has a chance to win all three NASCAR national series races this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Busch will compete in Friday’s Gander Outdoors Truck Series Strat 200 (MRN, 8:30 p.m. ET), Saturday’s Xfinity Series Boyd Gaming 300 and Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pennzoil 400. He’s accomplished the feat before when he swept all three divisions at Bristol Motor Speedway but doing it again at the Las Vegas native’s home track would be extra special.
“It would be pretty sweet,” Busch said Friday at LVMS. “Every time I run a triple, that’s the only thing you think about. But you have to win the first one to win the second one to win the third one. First things first is the Truck race and I think we have a really great Cessna Toyota Tundra. I am looking forward to that tonight.
“Overall, the opportunity to be able to do that when Las Vegas talked about having a second race here and having both events being triple-header weekends, I was intrigued to have both weekends be triple-headers for me but with the restrictions on the Xfinity and Truck races, I can’t run in the fall race. I have it going on in the spring and will take advantage of it.”
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Busch participated in the Cup Series test at Las Vegas a few weeks ago as one of the drivers putting the new rules package through its paces. At the time, Busch was somewhat critical of the rules and the kind of racing he thought it would produce.
But over time and with a practice session under his belt, Busch is intrigued by what will take place on track in Sunday’s race and believes it’s the right direction for the sport.
“When I talked about the package, we were just doing single-car action and single-car runs when I was brought in the media center,” Busch said. “It was wide open, by yourself. Not having a stress. Not worry about slipping or doing anything.
“There are some tense moments when you’re side-by-side. There are going to be instances and times where we crash. We saw that at the All-Star Race. For as slow as the cars were and easy as we said they were to drive, we’re still going to run out of space eventually and will crash. People are going to be like, they aren’t so easy to drive. Well, yes and no. We run into one another. When two guys want the same real estate. That will happen. Overall, whatever works. Whatever is successful and being able to put more eyes on television and more butts in the seats. That’s what it’s about to put on a show.”
But winning remains the most important thing to Busch every time he straps into a racecar or truck. That’s the goal this weekend and if he can do it more than once in front of his hometown fans, friends and family all the better.
“We want to win every single one of them,” Busch said. “That’s for fact. Overall, when you come into your hometown, and we watched this place get built from nothing. It means that extra more to you.”
