{"id":25092,"date":"2016-03-14T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=25092"},"modified":"2016-03-14T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:24:37","slug":"kyle-busch-rolls-over-xfinity-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/kyle-busch-rolls-over-xfinity-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch Rolls Over Xfinity Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The all-pervading Joe Gibbs Racing teams in the NASCAR Xfinity Series again reigned supreme on Saturday afternoon for the Axalta Faster Tougher Brighter 200 at the one-mile Phoenix International Raceway with Kyle Busch making it three-in-row after claiming victories at Atlanta, Las Vegas and now in Phoenix, earning his 79th<\/sup> win in the series.<\/p>\n

In only the fourth race of the 2016 Xfinity series, the JGR Toyota organization is totally towering over the other teams in everything from race strategy, fuel mileage and chassis setup, seeing for the first time ever in NASCAR history a second consecutive identical 1-2-3 finish, respectively, with the Gibbs\u2019 team reaching the accomplishment.\u00a0 It had never happened before Saturday.<\/p>\n

Since his comeback from his Daytona accident in June of 2015, consisting of 17 Xfinity races ago, he\u2019s won nine of them.\u00a0 At Phoenix, it was his ninth track victory and the phenomenal feat of winning three in a row for the third time in his already storied career, proving that he\u2019s unstoppable right now.\u00a0 Busch has led 493 of a possible 563 laps in his three 2016 starts.<\/p>\n

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

“It\u2019s just a knack for this place, I guess,” said defending Sprint Cup champion, Busch, of his Phoenix prowess. \u00a0“We\u2019ve been off a little bit on the [Sprint] Cup side for years, but this year we seem to be a lot better, and last year we improved a lot. \u00a0But the XFINITY program has always been good.<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t say enough about [crew chief] Chris Gayle and everyone at Joe Gibbs Racing.\u00a0 Obviously, they did a great job for me, giving me the car that I needed and prepared everything for today\u2019s race.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pole-sitter, Erik Jones, in another JGR Toyota, fought hard in the race mounting a late campaign catching Busch in race traffic.\u00a0 Both entered the pits for a late race green flag pit stop with 28 laps to go for right side tires and refueling.\u00a0 Jones\u2019 JGR crew was outpaced, losing three seconds on the stop with the result being a 2.285 seconds distance between the pair at the checkered flag.<\/p>\n

“I knew we were in a little bit of trouble when he rolled by, right when we were just trying to leave the box,” Jones said. \u00a0“I didn\u2019t know how much time that was going to equal to, but by the time we got up to speed, he was four or five seconds ahead. \u00a0It was too much to run back down in that amount of time.”<\/p>\n

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

The JGR trio of Busch, Jones and Daniel Suarez occupied the top three slots and it was the JR Motorsports teammates of Justin Allgaier in fourth, racing to his first top five finish since 2013, followed by Chase Elliott rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n

Suarez maintains his lead in the NASCAR Xfinity points standings to eight points over Elliott Sadler. \u00a0Third place belongs to Ty Dillon, fourth, Allgaier and in fifth, Brandon Jones.<\/p>\n

The Axalta 200\u2019s average speed was 114.087 mph after being reduced by three caution flags for 16 laps.\u00a0 There were five lead changes among four drivers with Busch again leading the most at 175 circuits of the 200-lap event.<\/p>\n

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

The NASCAR Xfinity tour continues westward stopping at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA, for the TREATMYCLOT.com 300 on Saturday, March 19, airing on FOX Sports 1 at 4 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Busch earned his 79th Xfinity win, and Joe Gibbs Racing set NASCAR history with a second consecutive identical 1-2-3 finish.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25097,"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":[17,3424,3470,22],"tags":[2952,3109,3105,2951,3355,3254,682,3176,3106],"class_list":["post-25092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-column","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-brandon-jones","tag-chase-elliott","tag-daniel-suarez","tag-erik-jones","tag-joe-gibbs-racing","tag-justin-allgaier","tag-kyle-busch","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-ty-dillon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/featureimage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-6wI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092","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=25092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25098,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25092\/revisions\/25098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}