Can Kyle Busch Secure Trifecta?

November 7, 2009 6:48 a.m. EST

Forth Worth, Texas (AHN) - Can Kyle Busch secure a rare NASCAR trifecta? Well, he's one-third of the way there. Busch, driving the No. 51 Toyota of Billy Ballew Motorsports, won the first of three NASCAR races this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway when he captured Friday night's Camping World Truck Series event. With one down and two to go, Busch will start Saturday's Nationwide race out of the sixth position and roll off in the top-10 as well in Sunday's Sprint Cup Series main event. Friday night Busch held off title contenders Matt Crafton and Ron Hornaday to score his fifth consecutive truck win. "These guys brought an awesome race truck and I can't think them enough. It was an awesome truck, I mean my gosh I don't know what we have to do to get one of these wins,'' said Crafton. "Maybe lock Kyle up in his motorhome or something. He was good tonight but I think my Silverado in clean air was probably the best truck and as good as anybody.'' Crafton, who started the race 202 points behind Hornaday, settled for runner-up honors, but gained little ground on Hornaday, who finished third.

Hornaday now leads Crafton by 197 points with just two races left this season. Todd Bodine ran fourth and was followed by Colin Braun, while Johnny Sauter, Brian Scott, Mike Skinner, David Starr and Rick Crawford closed out the top-10 finishers.