Kyle Busch expects to use Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as a barometer for intermediate tracks later in the 2026 schedule, but the fit won’t be precise.
“Yeah, just to kind of get a basis, I guess, of where you stack up against the field,” Busch said of Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 (4 p.m. ET on FS1, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). “Your setup here at Vegas is not the same as Kansas, Texas, Charlotte or any of those.
“You’re pretty different at each one of these race tracks that you go to, so trying to pinpoint what allows us to be quicker and what allows us to be further up the pylon to compete—that’s what we’ve got to work on here this weekend to get ourselves in tune with the rest of the year.”
Busch showed excellent speed at Las Vegas in last year’s spring event, before his race fell apart.
“Last year here, this race was really good for us,” said Busch, whose winless streak at Richard Childress Racing has reached 97 races as he comes to his home track. “I thought we had really good speed. I think we qualified in the top 10 (fourth in fact). We were running fourth. We had a bad pit stop, and then we had a loose wheel, lost a tire, all that sort of stuff.
“So it just kind of derailed after the first time we hit pit road. Can’t have all that happen. Hopefully, we can have some of the same speed that we had here and go from there.”
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