The Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) team returned to Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth hopeful for a better finish than in the spring race, a 30th-place result due to an overheated engine. This time, the driver would be team owner Kyle Busch, who from 2008 to 2010 at TMS swept five consecutive NASCAR Nationwide Series races and was looking for his sixth career victory at the Lone-Star state track, this time as driver of his own No. 54 team.
The weekend started off well when the Monster Energy Camry posted the fastest lap time during the final series practice session, giving the Toyota team the final qualifying spot for Saturday. The 29.50-second lap at 183.051mph resulted in a pole-position qualifying run, placing Busch and team first on the grid for the 200-lap night race. The pole award was Busch’s third in 14 races at Texas Motor Speedway, and second pole for the owner-driver and KBM team in 2012. Busch now has 25 total career pole-awards recorded in 242 Nationwide Series rac...
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