There is no doubt Kyle Busch was on a mission in Saturday’s AAA Insurance 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. After dominating the NASCAR Nationwide Series event earlier in the day only to end in disappointment, Busch set out on a mission to put the frustrating finish behind him the only way he knew how.

Starting from the tenth-spot, the driver known as ‘Rowdy’ wasted no time making his way to the front. Moving to the high side of the track after taking the green flag, Busch was able to move up to the fourth-spot on Lap 1. From then on out, Busch set his sights on the lead. Whenever mired mid-pack on restarts, Busch continued to take the No. 51 Toyota Tundra to the high side, screaming past trucks like he was shot out of a cannon.

After leading 108 laps before a flat right front took him out of contention in the Nationwide Series event, Busch quickly took up the familiar position and remained there for the majority of the Truck Series event. Leading five times for 133 laps, Busch was clearly in a league of his own.

With less than twenty laps remaining, the driver of the No. 51 led a hard-charging David Starr and Colin Braun. Running on old tires, Busch was trying to conserve until a caution would allow him to hit pit road for four fresh sticker tires waiting for him. Busch got the caution on Lap 185; however it was a flat right front on his Billy Ballew machine that brought out the yellow.

Leading the race into Turn 1, Busch backed off knowing the truck had an issue. Starr and Braun moved under the slow truck as Busch tried to keep it off the wall. Driving out of the corner, the tire completely let go sending Busch into the outside wall and bringing out the caution.

Busch limped his ride to pit road as his crew went to work making repairs and putting those four fresh stickers on the truck.

Restarting the race in the fourteenth-spot, Busch was still on the lead lap and had ten laps to make up for the mistake. With damage to the car and stuck in traffic, ‘Rowdy’ was never able to make his way back to the front and ended the day in a very disappointing ninth.

For the second time on Saturday, Busch clearly dominated the event only to come home without the trophy. Just as he did in the Nationwide event just hours earlier, Busch pulled his ride into the garage and simply walked away without addressing the media.

With forty-nine NASCAR victories since the beginning of 2008, Busch seems to be struggling to find the luck needed to finish the job and score that fiftieth victory. Starting Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series race from the sixth-spot, Busch looks to put his poor luck behind him and score his first victory in any series since the Nationwide event at Richmond.

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