On a cloudy night, Kyle Busch breezed his way to the win in the inaugural EnjoyIllinois.com 225 at Chicagoland Speedway and collected his fourth win of the season.
Busch would win by a margin of .580 seconds over Todd Bodine. It was his 13 career win and he survived two late caution restarts for the win.
Matt Crafton in the No. 88 Menard's/Ideal Doors Chevrolet started on the pole. It was his first pole of the season and his second career pole.
Chad McCumbee in the No. 07 ASI Limited Chevrolet started in the outside pole position, with a truck that Ron Hornaday Jr. previously drove and prepared by Kevin Harvick Inc.
Todd Bodine in the No. 30 Ventrilo Toyota started third, Kyle Busch in the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts/Graceway Pharmacuticals Toyota started fourth, and Rick Crawford in the No. 14 Circle Bar Truck Corral/International Ford started fifth.
At race time it was 67 degrees. 36 trucks started the race with three teams going home, and the pit window was 55 to 60 laps.
From the drop of the green, you had three wide action all over the track and even a attempted four wide pass by Busch.
Crafton would take the green, heading into turn one with a bumper lead on McCumbee but on the back stretch they were side by side and Crafton would get the lead coming back to the stripe.
Meanwhile Bodine, Busch, and Crawford also were racing hard on Lap One, as they were all three side by side and Busch would end up taking third.
On Lap Two, Colin Braun in the No. 6 Con-Way Freight Ford and Brent Sherman in the No. 90 Great Clip Toyota made slight contact coming into turn one and Sherman lost it coming out of turn two spinning.
The first caution flag came out on Lap Three, for Sherman who after spinning, struggled to re-fire the truck. Sherman would be the Aaron's Lucky Dog winner under this caution.
Busch the lap prior to the caution, took second passing McCumbee and was all over Crafton the leaders bumper.
On the Lap Five restart, Crafton would take the green with Busch on his bumper. Busch would attempt a pass on the low-side but wasn't able to make it stick.
Over the next four laps, Crafton the leader and Busch in second would battle it out for the lead. At times they were side by side, even Busch would try low-side in one corner and try the high-side the next corner.
But Crafton would barely hang onto the lead, several laps just by a bumper.
On Lap 11, Busch finally would battle past Crafton on the low-side for the lead and would pull away.
The best racing on Lap 13, was Brian Scott in the No. 16 Albertson's Toyota battling with Crawford for seventh.
Coming back to the stripe Scott would take seventh. He was the fast truck on the track, starting in 12th and picking up five positions to seventh in 13 laps.
After 15 Laps, the top five was: Busch leads by a second, Crafton second, McCumbee third, Bodine fourth and Ron Hornaday Jr. in the No. 33 Turtle Wax Chevrolet was fifth.
The second caution flag came out for debris on Lap 21, as James Buescher in the No. 10 International Maxx Force Diesel Ford lost a tire and left the tread laying in the racing groove.
Buescher came to pit road for new tires. He went a lap down and would need Aaron's Lucky Dog to get back on the lead lap or he might have gotten the chance to race back on the lead lap.
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