Kyle Busch finally found a way to pass Todd Bodine.
Taking advantage of a generous tap from teammate Aric Almirola a few hundred yards from the finish, Busch won the NASCAR Camping World Trucks race at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday to end Bodine's winning streak at restrictor-plate tracks.
Busch and Almirola pulled wide behind Bodine on the final lap and Almirola nudged Busch's No. 51 Billy Ballew Motorsports Toyota to the front. They overtook Bodine just before the finish line in fading daylight at the 2.66-mile oval.
"Two trucks can always beat a single truck and (Almirola) did an awesome job today by sticking with us and being a team player and not trying to go get the win himself," Busch said. "I've been in the position plenty of times."
Not anymore.
The win was Busch's sixth in the Trucks series this season and his fourth in his last four starts. It also ended an impressive run for Bodine, who had won the last four restrictor-plate races.
"He finally beat me," Bodine said. "He'd been trying for the last four and finally beat me."
Bodine said he considered jumping out in front of Busch in an effort to block him but didn't want to take any unnecessary risks, not wanting to duplicate Carl Edwards' wild ride on the final lap of the spring Cup race at Talladega.
"I could have blocked him and who knows if I would have ended up like Carl Edwards into the catch fence," said Bodine, who didn't panic when he spun out trying to leave pit road early in the race. "I wasn't willing to take that chance."
Bodine held on for third. Terry Cook was fourth, followed by David Starr.
Chrissy Wallace, making her first Trucks start of the year, finished 13th, while father Mike wound up 28th. The two, the first father-daughter combination to race in a NASCAR national series event, actually ran first and second for a lap - with dad in front - during a caution early in the race.
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