Chicagoland: Busch wins another Truck race

After leading 121 laps, Kyle Busch celebrates in victory lane

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Kyle Busch withstood two late challenges for the lead from Todd Bodine and hung on to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Chicagoland Speedway in overtime Friday night.

It was Busch's second straight truck win at Chicagoland, his fourth series victory of the season and 20th of his career. And it comes in the wake of his remarkable three-race weekend sweep at Bristol.

Busch did a tire-smoking victory burnout on the frontstretch, with his crew warning him on the radio to take it easy on the engine.

Bodine finished second, followed by Ron Hornaday Jr., Johnny Sauter and Justin Lofton.

After watching their driver dominate most of the race, Busch's team decided to change all four tires instead of two during pit stops on a late-race caution flag, and it paid off. Despite losing a few spots on the track, Busch only needed two laps to jump back into the lead.

Bodine then caught up to Busch with 15 laps to go and stuck close to his rear bumper. Bodine briefly surged ahead by a nose with seven laps to go, but Busch managed to hang onto the lead and pulled away in the closing laps of regulation.

Timothy Peters then appeared to blow an engine with three laps to go, sending the race into NASCAR's version of overtime and setting up another showdown between Busch and Bodine.

Busch surged ahead on the restart, then pulled away.

It's an off weekend for the Sprint Cup series, but Busch certainly stayed busy. He was coming off a remarkable weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway, sweeping the track's truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup races.

Busch has shown similar versatility at Chicagoland — he just spread it out over a few years. Busch won the truck race at Chicagoland last year. He also has a Sprint Cup and two Nationwide victories at the track.

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