Busch wins twice, DQ’d once

Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Truck Series race at Texas on Saturday night, getting the victory in his second race of the day after a post-race disqualification took away an apparent Xfinity Series win. It was a 1-2 finish for Busch’s Trucks team, with the owner finishing 0.777 seconds in front of 19-year-old rookie Christian Eckes. After he got out of the truck at the start-finish line, Busch quipped that technically he hadn’t won yet. As long as it held up, it was the 212th career win for Busch in NASCAR’s top three series, one that he thought he had earlier in the Xfinity race. After finishing nearly a second ahead of Austin Cindric, the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Toyota failed the inspection because the left rear was too low. Cindric was declared the winner of that race, his third Xfinity win in a row. Busch got his 59th career win in 155 Trucks Series starts. He still has 97 Xfinity wins, to go along with 56 Cup Series wins. The 21-year-old Cindric, son of Team Penske president Tim Cindric, said he already had changed back into street clothes in his hauler when he noticed everybody still around the No. 54 car. Busch had to come back through the field three times in the race, including an early speeding penalty on pit road. He built a 3.3-second lead before a final caution flag when Joe Graf Jr. made contact with the wall. Busch led only 15 of the 201 laps. Justin Allgaier had regained the lead from Cindric when both pitted on Lap 159, but was penalized for a blend line penalty when getting back on the track. After doing his pass-through penalty 10 laps later, he dropped two laps off the pace before recovering for a third-place finish.