Kyle Busch wins in Xfinity again with Henry 180 victory

Kyle Busch in the NASCAR Xfinity Series can be summed up with three words from Thanos: “I am inevitable.”

Despite going off course twice in Saturday’s Henry 180 at Road America, Busch took the lead shortly after the final restart with five laps to go and pulled away for his 101st win in the series and in his maiden start at the Wisconsin track.

Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate Ty Gibbs, driving a new #81 car as Busch was in the #54, won his first career Xfinity pole while Busch started fifth. Matt Jaskol, Gray Gaulding, Jeffrey Earnhardt, Colby Howard, Boris Said, Kyle Weatherman, and Bayley Currey failed to qualify.

Gibbs led the first two laps before A.J. Allmendinger, who won at Road America in 2013, sprung to the lead and would take the stage win. Austin Cindric, Jeb Burton, Justin Haley, Noah Gragson, Gibbs, Justin Allgaier, Michael Annett, Josh Bilicki, and Riley Herbst rounded out the top ten.

Allmendinger also won the second stage, a segment that saw Sam Mayer crash out. Allgaier, Daniel Hemric, Haley, Busch, Brandon Jones, Gibbs, Cindric, Harrison Burton, and Herbst finished behind him.

Jones was the leader when Spencer Pumpelly spun off course and became lodged in the tyre barrier, resulting in a caution. Another yellow came for Gibbs’ car stopping. Lap 39 saw the largest incident of the race: after multiple drivers stacked up on the inside lane at the restart, Myatt Snider was clipped and spun, with multiple drivers having to go through the grass to avoid him. Cody Ware took out an advertising signboard while Kris Wright also went around.

The wreck set up a restart with five laps to go, one that saw Busch take the lead before pulling away to win for the first time at Road America.

“It was a challenge,” Busch said. “It was just a different kind of challenge. Thankfully we had that set of tyres there at the end and that was kind of our saving grace. The #16 (Allmendinger) and the #22 (Cindric) getting the damage, the #7 (Allgaier) getting damage, so it kind of fell in my lap a little bit but we still had a fast race car.”

Busch has won all four of his Xfinity starts in 2021, including another road course win at Circuit of the Americas in May.

Race results

Finish	Start	Number	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Status
1	5	54	Kyle Busch*	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	45	Running
2	4	18	Daniel Hemric	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	45	Running
3	12	1	Michael Annett	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	45	Running
4	3	16	A.J. Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	45	Running
5	10	20	Harrison Burton	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	45	Running
6	20	99	Kevin Harvick*	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Ford	45	Running
7	34	98	Riley Herbst	Stewart-Haas Racing	Ford	45	Running
8	2	22	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford	45	Running
9	36	9	Noah Gragson	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	45	Running
10	13	11	Justin Haley	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	45	Running
11	19	68	Brandon Brown	Brandonbilt Motorsports	Chevrolet	45	Running
12	6	7	Justin Allgaier	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	45	Running
13	15	5	Andy Lally	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Toyota	45	Running
14	8	10	Jeb Burton	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	45	Running
15	33	44	Tommy Joe Martins	Martins Motorsports	Chevrolet	45	Running
16	16	90	Preston Pardus	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	45	Running
17	30	92	Josh Williams	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	45	Running
18	7	31	Kaz Grala*	Jordan Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	45	Running
19	21	19	Brandon Jones	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	45	Running
20	29	42	Timmy Hill*	MBM Motorsports	Toyota	45	Running
21	22	36	Alex Labbé	DGM Racing	Chevrolet	45	Running
22	26	39	Ryan Sieg	RSS Racing	Ford	45	Running
23	27	2	Myatt Snider	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	45	Running
24	17	17	Cody Ware	SS-Green Light Racing	Ford	45	Running
25	25	26	Kris Wright*	Sam Hunt Racing	Toyota	45	Running
26	31	13	Stephen Leicht	MBM Motorsports	Toyota	45	Running
27	32	4	Landon Cassill	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	45	Running
28	9	51	Jeremy Clements	Jeremy Clements Racing	Chevrolet	44	Running
29	14	07	Josh Bilicki*	SS-Green Light Racing	Chevrolet	42	Accident
30	28	78	Ryan Ellis	B.J. McLeod Motorsports	Toyota	42	Accident
31	24	02	Brett Moffitt	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	41	Accident
32	35	23	Natalie Decker	Our Motorsports	Chevrolet	38	Accident
33	1	81	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	34	Transmission
34	11	48	Jade Buford	Big Machine Racing	Chevrolet	16	Suspension
35	23	8	Sam Mayer	JR Motorsports	Chevrolet	12	Accident
36	18	6	Spencer Pumpelly	JD Motorsports	Chevrolet	11	Accident

Italics – Competing for Rookie of the Year
* – Ineligible for Xfinity points