Perfection personified: Kyle Busch wins Truck race at Kentucky, now 5-for-5 in 2014 - MotorSportsTalk

Nobody’s perfect – except Kyle Busch.

Busch has started five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races this year and after Thursday night’s UNOH 225 at Kentucky Speedway, he has also won all five of those starts.

Busch won from the pole, leading 91 laps to win the sixth race overall for Kyle Busch Motorsports on the Truck series this season (teammate Darrell Wallace Jr. won the other one, two weeks ago at Gateway Motorsports Park in suburban St. Louis.

Busch has now won 40 NCWTS races in 120 starts, and Thursday’s win actually makes it six triumphs in a row, dating back to the 2013 season-ending race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He’s also led nearly 70 percent of the laps in the five races he’s been in this year.

Wallace started and finished second, the first time a Kyle Busch Motorsports has started on the front row and finished together.

“I’m proud to see the first KBM (Kyle Busch Motorsports) one-two, that’s really cool for me as an owner and (wife) Samantha,” Busch said.

Busch had a nearly four-second lead before the caution flag fell with 12 laps left when Caleb Holman lost power, perhaps for running out of fuel.

On the ensuing restart, Wallace tried to challenge his boss for the first few laps before Busch pulled away and never looked back.

“He knew what he was doing,” Wallace said when asked if he thought he had a chance to beat Busch. “He’s so cool to work with, he’s hard to beat, he’s so good but I wouldn’t want to be with anybody else.”

Ryan Blaney had a strong run and finished third, followed by Timothy Peters and Sprint Cup regular Brad Keselowski.

“Kyle, that whole team, that whole program has been real good all year, they’ve shown it,” Blaney said. “We’re right there, we’re real close to them, we just need that little bit more speed, myself and Brad (teammate Keselowski) both.

“At the end of the day, we’re not happy with a third and we’re not happy to see that same truck in victory lane. We want to beat them and that’ll prove that we’ve really gone to the next step as a whole team.”

Sixth through 10th were Mat Crafton, Austin Dillon, Ron Hornaday Jr., Johnny Sauter and Ben Kennedy.

Sauter retained his lead in the NCWTS points standings, eight points ahead of Matt Crafton, who remains in second place.

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The NTT IndyCar Series will return to the Motor City for the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix but with start times in a new location for 2023.

After a 30-year run on Belle Isle, the Detroit GP has moved a few miles south to the streets of downtown on a new nine-turn, 1.7-mile circuit that runs along the Detroit River.

It’s the first time single-seater open-cockpit cars have raced on the streets of Detroit since a CART event on a 2.5-mile downtown layout from 1989-91. Formula One also raced in Detroit from 1982-88.

The reimagined Detroit Grand Prix also will play host to nightly concerts and bring in venders from across the region. Roger Penske predicts the new downtown locale will be bigger for Detroit than when the city played host to the 2006 Super Bowl.

Here are the details and IndyCar start times for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach race weekend (all times are ET):

CHEVROLET DETROIT GRAND PRIX INDYCAR START TIMES

TV: Sunday, 3 p.m. ET on NBC and streaming on Peacock, the NBC Sports App and NBCSports.com. Leigh Diffey is the announcer with analysts Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe. Dave Burns, Marty Snider and Kevin Lee are the pit reporters. Click here for the full NBC Sports schedule for IndyCar in 2023.

Peacock also will be the streaming broadcast for both practices and qualifying.

POSTRACE SHOW ON PEACOCK: After the race’s conclusion, an exclusive postrace show will air on Peacock with driver interviews, postrace analysis and the podium presentation. To watch the extended postrace show, click over to the special stream on Peacock after Sunday’s race ends.

COMMAND TO START ENGINES: 3:23 p.m. ET

GREEN FLAG: 3:30 p.m. ET

PRACTICE: Friday, 3 p.m. (Peacock Premium); Saturday, 9:05 a.m. (Peacock Premium); Sunday, 10 a.m. (Peacock Premium)

QUALIFYING: Saturday, 1:20 p.m. (Peacock Premium)

RACE DISTANCE: The race is 100 laps (170 miles) on a nine-turn, 1.7-mile temporary street course in downtown Detroit.

TIRE ALLOTMENT: Seven sets primary, four sets alternate. Rookie drivers are allowed one extra primary set for the first practice.

PUSH TO PASS: 150 seconds of total time with a maximum time of 15 seconds per activation (Indy NXT: 150 seconds total, 15 seconds per). The push-to-pass is not available on the initial start or any restart unless it occurs in the final two laps or three minutes of a timed race. The feature increases the power of the engine by approximately 60 horsepower.

FORECAST: According to Wunderground.com, it’s expected to be 80 degrees with a 0% chance of rain.

ENTRY LIST: Click here to view the 27 drivers racing Sunday at Detroit

INDY NXT RACES: Saturday, 12:05 p.m. 45 laps/55 minutes (Peacock Premium); Sunday, 12:50 p.m. 45 laps/55 minutes (Peacock Premium)

INDY NXT ENTRY LIST: Click here to view the 19 drivers racing at Detroit