{"id":21064,"date":"2015-11-16T09:49:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=21064"},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T00:39:43","slug":"busch-rules-the-nascar-xfinity-series-dav-200-honoring-americas-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/busch-rules-the-nascar-xfinity-series-dav-200-honoring-americas-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Busch Rules the NASCAR Xfinity Series’ DAV 200 Honoring America’s Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NASCAR<\/a>
\nKyle Busch was in a league of his own in Saturday\u2019s DAV 200 Honoring American\u2019s Heroes NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Phoenix International Raceway, winning convincingly after leading 190 of the race\u2019s 200 laps. \u00a0This marked his \u00a076th<\/sup> Xfinity win and eighth at Phoenix in his 19 starts on the one-mile oval.<\/p>\n

About the only place Busch couldn\u2019t drive his Monster Energy Toyota on this day was into victory lane after exploding his rear tires in his post-race donut celebration, needing his team to get the car pointed in the right direction.<\/p>\n

“It wasn\u2019t particularly hard, obviously,” said the pole-sitter, Busch.\u00a0 “I do remember that there was one other time here I think I led 200 of 200 [laps].\u00a0 We\u2019ve done that here before.\u00a0 Today was close.\u00a0 We just weren\u2019t able to get good enough pit stops to come out of the pits with the lead each time and hold the lead that we had.<\/p>\n

“But, all in all, it was a very fast race car \u2014 flawless, really.”<\/p>\n

Brad Keselowski, driving the Penske Racing No. 22 Ford Mustang that won the NASCAR Xfinity car owner championship in 2015, finished second, trailing at the end of the race by 3.097 seconds after a long day of racing.<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

“We had a great effort,” Keselowski said optimistically. \u00a0“We had a great day on pit road. \u00a0The guys on the pit crew did a great job there. \u00a0We gained spots, so that was really cool and real fun, but we just needed a lot more speed to run with the 54 [Busch]. \u00a0Either way, it was a pretty solid day.”<\/p>\n

Finishing third was Erik Jones subbing for Matt Kenseth with his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Daniel Suarez in fourth, followed by Ty Dillon in fifth.<\/p>\n

The NASCAR Xfinity championship will go to Homestead-Miami Speedway to decide it all.\u00a0 Leader, Chris Buescher marches into Florida after finishing 13th<\/sup>, one lap down in Phoenix with now an 18-point lead over Chase Elliott, who finished seventh.\u00a0 Ty Dillon whittled his margin down to 22-points out of the lead while Regan Smith is 24 markers behind.\u00a0 Buescher can claim his first Xfinity title finishing 13th<\/sup> or better in Miami.<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

“In the grand scheme of things, we need to go to Homestead and we need to have a good day and do what we did there last year \u2013 just run around and stay out of trouble,” Buescher said. \u00a0“Run fifth \u2013 that would be just fine.<\/p>\n

“When you look at the averages and points gained versus our needed position to finish, our window is getting bigger as we go through these last four races, so that makes me feel good as we go into Homestead. \u00a0Even though they gained some points, honestly, unless something crazy happens at Homestead it\u2019s just not going to be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The average speed of the DAV 200 Honoring America\u2019s Heroes was 113.583 miles per hour.\u00a0 Three caution flags for 18 laps slowed the race and there were five lead changes among only three drivers.<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

It all comes down to the NASCAR Championship weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway for the running of the Ford EcoBoost 300 starting at 2:30 p.m., Saturday November 21 on NBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Busch took his 76th Xfinity win at Phoenix on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,772,3424,3470,22],"tags":[3701,3053,3109,3111,3105,2951,682,3115,127,3176,3107,3106],"class_list":["post-21064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asphalt-oval-racing","category-circle-track-racing","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-asphalt-oval-racing","tag-brad-keselowski","tag-chase-elliott","tag-chris-buescher","tag-daniel-suarez","tag-erik-jones","tag-kyle-busch","tag-matt-kenseth","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-regan-smith","tag-ty-dillon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/featuredimage19.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-5tK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21070,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21064\/revisions\/21070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}