Kyle Busch will pilot the No. 51 Dollar General Toyota Tundra on Saturday in the sixth annual Pocono Mountains 150 at the Pocono Raceway. Busch has yet to strap into a truck this season after making 10 starts in 2014, mostly due to a serious injury incurred in the Xfinity Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway earlier this season.
This weekend will start a four-race stretch in the series for the Las Vegas native. Additionally, Busch confirmed on Tuesday’s teleconference that he will race in the Camping World Truck Series events at Michigan International Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Bristol Motor Speedway later on in the year. He has no plans to run any others at this time.
Busch has found a lot of success in the series after winning in seven of his 10 starts last season. He also started four of those 10 races from the pole with crew chief Eric Phillips on the box. His worst finish came in August where he brought home a 24th-place run at Bristol.
With Phillips moving over to the Joe Gibbs Racing organization at the beginning of the year, Jerry Baxter will try to match that success with Busch. Baxter has taken Christopher Bell, Matt Tifft and Daniel Suarez to five top-five and nine top-10 finishes combined in 2015.
In 125 Camping World Truck Series starts over a span of 12 years, Busch has captured 42 victories, 79 top-five and 99 top-10 finishes in the series. He has also started on the pole in 16 total events during that same timeframe.
