Kyle Busch dropped down to win the Camping World Truck Series Fr8Auctions 200 a week ago at Atlanta Motor Speedway, at least assuaging his lack of success in the NASCAR Cup Series so far in 2021 with a victory in the lower division. The series continues this week in Bristol, Tennessee, with Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt set for Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway. The race starts at 8:00 pm Eastern time, and you can catch the televised broadcast on FS1 or tune into the Motor Racing Network. Don’t miss our sports betting preview for this week’s event along with their NASCAR odds.
NASCAR News: Camping World Truck Series Pinty’s Dirt Race Preview
| NASCAR Truck Series Drivers | Driver Odds |
| Kevin Harvick | +550 |
| Kyle Larson | +650 |
| Martin Truex Jr | +650 |
| Brad Keselowski | +750 |
| Chase Elliot | +800 |
| Denny Hamlin | +800 |
| Joey Logano | +900 |
| Kyle Busch | +1000 |
| Ryan Blaney | +1600 |
| William Byron | +2000 |
| Christopher Bell | +2000 |
| Kurt Busch | +2200 |
| Alex Bowman | +3300 |
| Aric Almirola | +6000 |
| Austin Dillon | +6000 |
| Matt DiBenedetto | +8000 |
| Tyler Reddick | +8000 |
| Bubba Wallace | +8000 |
| Austin Cindric | +8000 |
| Cole Custer | +10000 |
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr | +10000 |
Kyle Busch won his 60th Camping World Truck Series race last week, extending his own record after leading in 102 of 130 laps. This was his sixth win in the series at Atlanta Motor Speedway, as he beat Austin Hill by 4.33 seconds. John Hunter Nemechek came in third after beating Busch in the previous Camping World Truck Series event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. This made 214 wins overall for Busch in NASCAR.
Busch led for the majority of the race’s first two stages, but Nemechek surged to win both stages, picking up playoff points. However, in the Stage 2 break, Busch pulled away from Nemechek on Lap 63 off pit road, and he took the lead for the duration, except for some green-flag stops that saw Chase Purdy take the lead from lap 102 until lap 105.
There were three overall cautions during the race, a yellow at Lap 15 for a planned competition and then the two stage breaks. The race went green for the last 63 laps, which means that Hill never had an opportunity to push Busch.
Johnny Sauter came in fourth, and then came Sheldon Creed (fifth) and Zane Smith (sixth). The top ten were rounded out by Ross Chastain, Matt Crafton, Brett Moffitt and Stewart Friesen, respectively. Friesen took a penalty on Lap 63 for having an uncontrolled tire in a stop while under caution. Bill Lester made his first start in any NASCAR national series since 2007 and came in 36th.
Ahead of Pinty’s Dirt Race, here are the updated NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standings:
- Ben Rhodes (157 points, 2 wins)
- John Hunter Nemechek (204, 1)
- Sheldon Creed (154, 0)
- Matt Crafton (145, 0)
- Stewart Friesen (122, 0)
- Austin Hill (115, 0)
- Johnny Sauter (103, 0)
- Zane Smith (99, 0)
- Carson Hocevar (93, 0)
- Chandler Smith (92, 0)
~(playoffs cut-off)~
- Todd Gilliland (89, 0)
- Brett Moffitt (88, 0)
- Austin Self (82, 0)
- Derek Kraus (69, 0)
- Ryan Truex (68, 0)
- Tanner Gray (63, 0)
- Raphael Lessard (62, 0)
- Timothy Peters (56, 0)
- Danny Bohn (56, 0)
- Tate Fogleman (53, 0)
- Chase Purdy (52, 0)
- Hailie Deegan (51, 0)
- Tyler Ankrum (49, 0)
- Cory Roper (48, 0)
- Spencer Boyd (44, 0)
- Jennifer Cobb (30, 0)
- Grant Enfinger (97, 0)
- Christian Eckes (62, 0)
- Codie Rohrbaugh (58, 0)
- Parker Kligerman (52, 0)
- Dawson Cram (42, 0)
- Kris Wright (37, 0)
- David Gilliland (34, 0)
- Drew Dollar (27, 0)
- Camden Murphy (24, 0)
- Bryan Dauzat (18, 0)
- Jason White (18, 0)
- Spencer Davis (17, 0)
- Parker Chase (14, 0)
- Bobby Reuse (10, 0)
- Norm Benning (10, 0)
- Jett Noland (8, 0)
- Jesse Iwuji (6, 0)
- Bret Holmes (6, 0)
- Gus Dean (3, 0)
- Tyler Hill (2, 0)
- James Buescher (1, 0)
- Bill Lester (1, 0)
- Alan Lawless (1, 0)
- Akinori Ogata (1, 0)
