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Kyle Busch started from the pole and dominated Saturday's Boyd Gaming 300 from Las Vegas Motor Speedway to capture his first career Xfinity win at his hometrack.

The Las Vegas native led 199 of the race's 200 laps en route to the second victory of his 2016 Xfinity series campaign and his 78th career victory in the series.

The win was monumental for the 2016 Sprint Cup champion.

"It certainly was cool to have the opportunity to win here," Busch said. "I've had many of opportunities in the past and come up short or just haven't had quite the day we've needed to have in order to get it done. But today, this weekend, (Crew chief) Chris Gayle and everyone at Joe Gibbs Racing have been building some really good stuff and JGR engines are fast as well, too.

"The work that goes into everything makes my job today but today was pretty special. To be able to finally get a win here in the hometown and check that one off the list. I'm really excited about that."

In addition to Busch's victory, Joe Gibbs Racing flexed their Xfinity series muscle by placing all their cars in the top three. 

2015's Rookie of the Year Daniel Suarez spent majority of the race running in the runner up position to his teammate. Rookie of the Year candidate Erik Jones overcame penalties for the second straight week to capture a third place finish.

Suarez, who now has two top-ten finishes on the young 2016 season, knows days like Saturday make his job fun.

"It's so much fun to have fast race cars like that," Suarez said. "Everyone works so hard in the winter and now it's paying off slowly. Everyone in the No. 19 Arris Camry did a good job, i think it was a clean day. Right there at the end it took me a while to figure out how to be fast through traffic with a loose racecar. Honestly in the last 10 to 15 laps we were the fastest racecar there. I'm so proud of my guys and I'm looking forward to next weekend."

For Jones the third-place finish is the first top-ten in two career starts at the 1.5-mile Nevada speedway. Jones does have a victory at the track in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series but knows he has to cut down on the mistakes if he wants to compete for wins at this level of racing.

"It was a long day for sure," Jones said. "We put ourselves in a hole and had to fight back all day to put ourselves back in position to at least have a shot at it. I never really did that after we got the lucky dog, we had to race back up to third and by that time I had pretty much burned the tires off of it so I settled in for third at that point and kind of rode the rest of the day out.

"Would've loved another caution, said the same thing last week, but would've loved the caution just to rerack everybody and get some tires on it to make one more adjustment. I had a better idea what I needed out of the car just by getting in some clean air after working through traffic for the last 100 laps or so. We just need to stop making mistakes and go on to next week and hopefully have a mistake free day."

Daytona-winner Chase Elliott piloted the No. 88 TaxSlayer.com Chevrolet to a fourth place finish. Last season's Las Vegas Xfinity winner Austin Dillon took home a fifth place finish followed by Brandon Jones, Ty Dillon, Elliott Sadler, Justin Allgaier and Brendan Gaughan rounding out the top ten.

With the third place finish, Daniel Suarez grabs the lead in the early Xfinity series points standing by just three over Elliott Sadler. The Xfinity series is back in action next Saturday at the one-mile track of Phoenix International Raceway.

NASCAR XFINITY Series Race Number 3
Unofficial Race Results for the 20Th Annual Boyd Gaming 300 - Saturday, March 5, 2016
Las Vegas Motor Speedway - Las Vegas, NV - 1.5 Mile Paved
Total Race Length - 200 Laps - 300 Miles

Leader
Fin    Str    Car    Driver    Team    Laps    Pts    Bns    Driver Rating    Status    Tms    Laps
1    1    18    Kyle Busch(i)    NOS Energy Drink Toyota    200    0        150.0    Running    2    199
2    3    19    Daniel Suarez    ARRIS Toyota    200    39        123.0    Running        
3    2    20    Erik Jones #    Interstate Batteries Toyota    200    38        121.7    Running        
4    4    88    Chase Elliott(i)    TaxSlayer.com Chevrolet    200    0        114.0    Running        
5    14    2    Austin Dillon(i)    RTP/Rheem Chevrolet    200    0        104.0    Running        
6    5    33    Brandon Jones #    Thunder Coal Chevrolet    200    35        100.1    Running        
7    9    3    Ty Dillon    WESCO Chevrolet    200    34        92.7    Running        
8    7    1    Elliott Sadler    OneMain Chevrolet    200    33        105.0    Running        
9    6    7    Justin Allgaier    BRANDT Chevrolet    200    32        103.5    Running        
10    8    62    Brendan Gaughan    South Point Chevrolet    200    31        94.8    Running        
11    11    48    Brennan Poole #    DC Solar Chevrolet    200    30        84.5    Running        
12    10    98    Aric Almirola(i)    Carroll Shelby Engine Co Ford    199    0        85.8    Running        
13    18    16    Ryan Reed    Lilly Diabetes/American Diabetes Association Ford    198    28        80.8    Running        
14    19    39    Ryan Sieg    Big Valley Towing Chevrolet    198    27        76.5    Running        
15    15    22    Brad Keselowski(i)    Discount Tire Ford    197    0        76.7    Running        
16    24    4    Ross Chastain    teamjdmotorsports.com Chevrolet    197    25        65.8    Running        
17    21    43    Jeb Burton    J Streicher Ford    197    24        66.5    Running        
18    20    01    Ryan Preece #    GK Services Chevrolet    197    23        58.6    Running        
19    22    24    Corey LaJoie    JGL Young Guns Toyota    196    22        59.2    Running        
20    23    51    Jeremy Clements    RepairableVehicles.com Chevrolet    196    21        64.3    Running        
21    26    14    JJ Yeley    Toyota    195    20        63.7    Running        
22    16    28    Dakoda Armstrong    WinField Be Greater Toyota    194    19        65.5    Running        
23    30    44    David Starr    Zachry Toyota    194    18        51.5    Running        
24    25    0    Garrett Smithley #    Seven Jet/Cane Tax Chevrolet    194    17        55.9    Running        
25    27    07    Ray Black Jr #    ScubaLife Chevrolet    192    16        54.7    Running        
26    17    11    Blake Koch    LeafFilter Gutter Protection Chevrolet    191    15        67.3    Running        
27    39    78    BJ McLeod #    Batteries Plus Bulbs Ford    191    14        42.5    Running        
28    36    52    Joey Gase    Donate Life Nevada/Nevada Donor Network Chevrolet    189    13        43.0    Running        
29    34    90    Mario Gosselin    BuckedUp Apparel Chevrolet    188    12        41.8    Running        
30    37    15    Stanton Barrett    Ford    182    11        38.0    Running        
31    38    74    Mike Harmon    RaceDaySponsor.com Dodge    182    10        35.5    Running        
32    28    97    Harrison Rhodes    VroomBrands Chevrolet    155    9        46.9    Engine        
33    12    6    Darrell Wallace Jr    Ford EcoBoost Ford    135    9    1    78.1    Accident    1    1
34    13    42    Justin Marks    Katerra Chevrolet    135    7        69.8    Accident        
35    35    25    Cody Ware #    Lilly Trucking/SupportMilitary.org Chevrolet    127    6        41.7    Accident        
36    40    13    Derek White    OCR Gaz Bar Dodge    127    5        30.5    Running        
37    33    40    Carl Long    www.A1Tickets.ca Toyota    24    4        30.3    Suspension        
38    32    93    Josh Reaume    RSS Racing Chevrolet    13    3        26.8    Brakes        
39    29    89    Morgan Shepherd    Chevrolet    12    2        26.5    Overheating        
40    31    10    Jeff Green    Toyota    2    1        23.2    Rear Gear        
 Race Comments:    Kyle Busch won the Boyd Gaming 300 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, his 78th career NASCAR XFINITY Series victory. Prior to the start of the race, the following cars dropped to the rear of the field: No. 15 (driver change) and No. 44 (unapproved adjustments).
 Failed to Qualify:    (2) 70 Derrike Cope, 99 Todd Peck.
 Time of Race:    02 Hrs, 03 Mins, 47 Secs.    Average Speed:    145.415 MPH    Margin of Victory:    0.817 Seconds
 Caution Flags:    3 for 15 laps: Laps: 3-6 (#01, 24 and 43 Accident on the frontstretch [None]); 73-78 (Debris on the frontstretch [42]); 138-142 (#6, 25 and 42 Accident in Turn 2 [Red:19:09] [20]).
 Lead Changes:    2 among 2 drivers: K. Busch(i) 1-54; D. Wallace Jr 55; K. Busch(i) 56-200.
Top 10 Driver Points:     (1) D. Suarez 106;(2) E. Sadler 103;(3) T. Dillon 99;(4) B. Jones # 99;(5) J. Allgaier 95;(6) B. Gaughan 91;(7) E. Jones # 86;(8) R. Reed 79;(9) R. Sieg 73;(10) J. Burton 72.
Coors Light Pole Award    : Kyle Busch, #18 182.698 mph    Duralast Brakes "Brake in the Race"    : Kyle Busch, #18 
Mahle Clevite Engine Builder of the Race    : Joe Gibbs Racing Engines - Mark Cronquist, #18     Mobil 1 Driver of the Race    : Kyle Busch, #18 
Sunoco Rookie of the Race    : Erik Jones, #20 
(i) Ineligible for driver points in this series
Next Race:    Mar. 12, 2016 - Phoenix International Raceway