Rowdy Reigns in Monster Mile With Dover NASCAR Truck Win

DOVER, Del. -- The Monster Mile was no match for Rowdy as Kyle Busch swept the stages and won Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Dover Motor Speedway. 

Busch led 147 of the 200 laps run Friday to earn his 69th career NCTS win. It marked his second win of the 2026 season and his first non-drafting track win in the series since Texas Motor Speedway in April 2024. 

After not showing as much dominant speed in recent Truck starts and struggling in the NASCAR Cup Series, Friday was like a return to form for Busch. Even after losing the lead to Ross Chastain at the start of the final stage, Busch stayed calm and confident in the adjustment that cost him positions, ultimately getting the lead and the win after Chastain's made an ill-fated strategy call that played into Busch's hands.

Busch may now have 234 NASCAR national series wins but he celebrated big Friday.

"You never know when the last one is, which I know all too well with the Cup stuff," Busch said.

Busch won by 3.039 seconds over Ty Majeski. The race finished just as it started with Busch and Majeski pacing the field in what was a solid day for the driver of ThorSport's No. 88 Menards Ford.

If Majeski can score a top-10 finish next Friday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, it'll mark his first run of back-to-back top-10 finishes this season. 

In fourth, Kaden Honeycutt rebounded from a speeding penalty that cost him the lead over Kyle Busch with a few laps to go in the first stage.

A week after Kaulig Racing placed multiple trucks in the top-10 finishing order for the first time, at Watkins Glen, they did it again at Dover. Corey LaJoie and Justin Haley finished eighth and 10th after beginning the final restart in 17th and 11th, respectively.

TOP-10 FINISHERS (LAP 200): Kyle Busch, Ty Majeski, Layne Riggs, Kaden Honeycutt, Christopher Bell, Brandon Jones, Christian Eckes, Corey LaJoie, Jake Garcia, Justin Haley. 

THROUGH THE FIELD

William Sawalich (14th) and Ben Rhodes (19th) ran inside the top-10 before running out of fuel late in the race. 

Ross Chastain and Cole Butcher also led multiple laps Friday. Chastain finished 18th, one lap down, after leading 49 laps, while Butcher finished 33rd, out of the race with damage after leading 3 of the 84 laps he completed. 

Kaulig drivers Brenden Queen, Mini Tyrrell and Clint Bowyer finished 13th, 27th and 29th, respectively.

Tyrrell and Bowyer were on track to contend for a top-15. However, Tyrrell finished six laps down after crashing on lap 130 while racing Bowyer, who fell out of the race with a mechanical issue after 181 laps.

A mechanical issue also ended Carson Hocevar's day in 31st after he completed 167 laps. 

On what began as an historic day with promise, Dystany Spurlock unfortunately finished 36th after a crash on lap 41 that marked the only caution in the first stage.

Under caution, Kaden Honeycutt took the lead from Kyle Busch but quickly lost it after getting a speeding penalty.

Meanwhile, Cole Butcher and Brenden Queen stayed out to gain stage points. While the move worked for Butcher, who finished third to Busch in the stage, Queen fell out of the top-10 and failed to earn stage points.

STAGE ONE TOP-10 (LAP 45): Kyle Busch, Ty Majeski, Cole Butcher, Ross Chastain, Carson Hocevar, Gio Ruggiero, Jake Garcia, Christopher Bell, Layne Riggs, Grant Enfinger.

Stage two ran caution-free, allowing Ross Chastain to flex his muscles against Busch, who led 86 of the first 90 laps to take the first two stages.

STAGE TWO TOP-10 (LAP 90): Kyle Busch, Ross Chastain, Ty Majeski, Gio Ruggiero, Christopher Bell, Carson Hocevar, Layne Riggs, Brandon Jones, Kaden Honeycutt, Grant Enfinger.

An adjustment for Busch gave Chastain the lead and put Busch left pit road in third. However, Busch stayed close to Chastain and took second before a lap 119 caution for Luke Baldwin crashing shaped how the race would finish.

Chastain stayed out and impressively kept the lead on 26-lap older tires through two restarts. However, he couldn't hold off Busch for long as he took it back for good on lap 142.

Without clean air, Chastain quickly dropped to 10th and pitted with 23 laps to go, while Busch took the win. 

Busch will be back the next two weeks at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Nashville Superspeedway to try and gets win No. 70 and No. 71.

The Charlotte race goes green next Friday just after 7:30 p.m. ET on FS1, NASCAR Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

Here are the points standings heading into Charlotte and the full race results from Dover. Tyler Ankrum currently holds the final Chase spot by 10 points over Daniel Hemric.