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KANSAS CITY, KS - MAY 06: William Byron, driver of the #9 Liberty University Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane during the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Toyota Tundra 250 at Kansas Speedway on May 6, 2016 in Kansas City, Kansas. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images)

William Byron gets first Truck Series win at Kansas

May 6, 2016 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service KANSAS CITY, Kan. – William Byron remembers watching NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races when he was six years old. Now 18, Byron has a win in the series he watched as a child. But it took a strong truck and a stroke of good luck for Byron to win Friday night’s Toyota Tundra 250 and reach Victory Lane at Kansas Speedway for the first time in five series starts. Driving the No. 9 Toyota for Kyle Busch Motorsports, Byron was third when frontrunner Johnny Sauter led Ben Rhodes into Turn 3 on…

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Crew Chief Feature: Matt McCall Is Leading the No. 1 Team

By Joseph Wolkin Sitting atop the pit box for Jamie McMurray’s No. 1 team, Matt McCall is adjusting quite well to his new role. The former Robert Yates Racing developmental driver is now a Sprint Cup Series crew chief. Entering his second season with McMurray, McCall is looking to lead the team into the Chase for the second consecutive year. You guys got into the Chase last year, but what is going to be the difference this year? “As an organization, we have put in a pretty big effort to make some gains in areas that we thought we were off at…

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Kansas Preview: Edwards Badly Wants a Win at Kansas

Carl Edwards, who grew up two hours from Kansas Speedway in Columbia, Missouri, has come close but never won in 17 Sprint Cup races at the place he considers his home track. So it's not entirely surprising that Edwards has said before that winning at Kansas would mean as much to him as winning the Daytona 500 -- another race he's never captured. It seems that Edwards would also be willing to part with his most cherished and, yes, expensive possessions to go to Victory Lane at Kansas Speedway. "I can't think of a possession that I wouldn't trade and I, mean, I…

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‘Dega Lessons: Bad Blood Lingers Between Logano, Kenseth

Keselowski is a Talladega master Although not particularly known as a restrictor-plate ace, Brad Keselowski has quietly become a stud at Talladega Superspeedway. With Sunday’s win at the 2.66-mile track, the Team Penske driver has now amassed four wins here in 15 starts. Sunday’s triumph came in convincing fashion, as the 2012 Sprint Cup champion led a race-high 46 of 188 laps and was out front for the final 17 laps. “I'd rather be the guy that nobody talks about who has won here 10 times than the guy that everybody talks about who won here twice,” he said. “I never got…

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