Times wires
Friday, April 22, 2011
GLADEVILLE, Tenn. — Sprint Cup star Kyle Busch earned his second NASCAR trucks victory of the season Friday night, passing Ron Hornaday on a late restart and easily holding off Nelson Piquet Jr. at Nashville Superspeedway.
Busch, the Nashville winner last spring, led 140 of 150 laps on the 1.333-mile concrete oval to take the Bully Hill Vineyards 200. He also won the truck race at Phoenix in February and has 26 series victories in 89 starts. In addition to Busch's two victories, Kasey Kahne won the March race at Darlington in Busch's No. 18 Toyota.
Hornaday slipped in front of Busch in Turn 3 with nine laps to go. A caution for Max Papis' spin let Hornaday stay in the lead for the restart with three to go. Hornaday opened a lead off the restart, but Busch rebounded quickly and nosed past Hornaday before they completed a lap.
Piquet, a former Formula One driver, was a career-best second followed by Timothy Peters, Hornaday and James Buescher.
SURGERY FOR KAHNE: Kasey Kahne had minor surgery on his right knee Monday on a torn meniscus but won't need a backup driver next weekend for the Sprint Cup race at Richmond International Raceway.
Kahne had surgery on both knees in the offseason to repair a condition known as "plica syndrome," the result of a buildup of tissue in the knees.
Thursday night, a post on Kahne's Twitter account said he feels fine.
"It actually just about feels better now then it has the last month so yeah I will def be driving Richmond," the tweet said.
It was unclear when Kahne, who has been involved in two hard accidents in the past three weeks, tore his meniscus.