Kyle Busch Wins First NCWTS Race of the Season

Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 ToyotaCare Toyota, leads Timothy Peters, driver of the #17 Valvoline Toyota, to the finishline to win the Camping World Truck Series NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway on February 21, 2014 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photo by Jared C. Tilton Getty Images
Kyle Busch, driver of the #51 ToyotaCare Toyota, leads Timothy Peters, driver of the #17 Valvoline Toyota, to the finishline to win the Camping World Truck Series NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway on February 21, 2014 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photo by Jared C. Tilton Getty Images

Four feet was the distance between the winner and second place in the NextEra 250 at Daytona International Speedway in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS).

Timothy Peters had the lead going into the last four laps but it was a move by Kyle Busch at the last second that enabled him to get past Peters and win the race by .016 seconds!

There were two lines of racing throughout much of the contest with not much movement throughout the race. The top line didn’t work as well as the bottom groove as far as aerodynamics so racing sort of stalled as the laps ticked down.

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