Kyle Busch scored his second consecutive NASCAR Xfinity Series win of the season, and 11th at ISM Raceway, in Saturday’s iK9 Service Dog 200.
Busch dominated the race leading 116 laps to score his 94th series win and the 198th NASCAR national series victory. His 11th win at ISM ties Mark Martin (Rockingham) for the most NXS wins at a single track.
“Can’t say enough about our guys at Joe Gibbs Racing, they build really fast Supras,” Busch said “Christopher (Bell), I hate he got caught up in that mess, it was going to be a really fun to the end.”
Two potential contenders were eliminated late in the race on lap 130 when Stephen Leicht suffered a blown engine and the oil left on the track caught Justin Allgaier and Bell. Both suffered damage to their cars and were eliminated from competing for the win.
“I saw him blow up going into one and I figured it was going to be slick, I saw the 7 (Allgaier) car start sliding and I started sliding and as soon as I entered the smoke wall, I couldn’t see anything,” explained Bell who was the pole sitter for the race.
“I lost my bearings of where I was and the next thing you know, I was in the wall. Frustrating and very disappointing because our Rheem Supra was extremely strong. I don’t know, it was weird.”
Ryan Truex, Tyler Reddick, Cole Custer and Austin Cindric rounded out the top five.
“Just want to thank everyone at JR Motorsports,” said Truex Jr., who made his first start of the season for the team and tied his career-best finish with the runner-up performance. “Look forward to more days like today and hopefully getting a win.
“I guess it’s good when you lose to Kyle Busch. I Just got us too far behind early on, we were too free. We worked hard all day to get it back…Our car was just so good on the long runs.”
Chase Briscoe, Brandon Jones, Michael Annett, John Hunter Nemechek and Ryan Sieg completed the first 10 finishers.
Cindric and Bell won the day’s first two stages.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series now heads to Auto Club Speedway next Saturday afternoon.
