Busch wins trucks race

Kyle Busch’s slump wasn’t much of a slump. And it’s over now, anyway. Busch won the NASCAR Trucks Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Saturday night, his 58th career win on the circuit and his eighth victory in his last 10 trucks starts. He’d been winless in his last two outings. Busch hadn’t gone winless in three consecutive trucks starts since 2017. He was about five seconds clear of the field when the second stage ended at Lap 60, part of a dominant night where he led 82 of the 134 laps. There were a few challenging situations, though nothing derailed Busch for long. Busch had to start at the back of the field, then serve a pass-through penalty on top of that, after failing pre-race inspection. But he managed to stay on the lead lap, then worked his way to the front and made it all seem easy. The race was red-flagged for 16 minutes with 26 laps to go after

Sheldon Creed crashed into the yellow protective barrels at the entrance to pit road and caused a huge mess. Once things resumed, it didn’t take long for Busch to reclaim the top spot. And then a late caution sent the field into a high-pressure restart with seven laps left, but Busch just pulled away — this time, for good. Tyler Ankrum was second and Ross Chastain, who won the first stage, held off Chase Elliott for third.