Kyle Busch on last-lap Bristol win: ‘Take ’em how you get ’em’

BRISTOL, Tenn. — After Alex Bowman won earlier this season at Las Vegas, a race Kyle Busch seemed poised to win until a late caution, Busch ranted on the radio about how Bowman “backs into every … win that he ever … gets.”

Sunday night, Busch was running third on the last lap when Chase Briscoe and leader Tyler Reddick tangled, spinning both. Busch slipped by Reddick to win, snapping a 25-race winless drought. 

Busch was asked about the notion of backing into this win.

“I think you take ’em how you get ‘em,” he said. “I feel like we ran up front all night long. Actually, I passed Kyle Larson – write that down (he noted smiling). I ripped the lip, as they say, a few times there on restarts in order to get some spots and stuff like that to get us in better positions, to be in contention to be up where we needed to be.

“Yeah, I think the fastest car tonight was actually (Briscoe’s) car. I think we were faster than (Reddick’s) car once we got a few cycles and heat on our tires. We could not come back after rain delays very well. So, (Reddick) drove away from me. I couldn’t contend there.

“The last restart before that, before the second rain delay happened, I was on his bumper like he was in my way. I was just trying to figure out a way to get by him without doing exactly what Briscoe did and just crash trying.”

The victory marked the 18th consecutive season Busch has had at least one Cup win, tying Richard Petty for the longest consecutive streak in series history. The victory also was the 60th of Busch’s Cup career. That ranks ninth on the all-time Cup victory list.

More important is that the win came in what has been a frustrating season for Busch.

“I don’t think the win here (Sunday) really says anything about our