Contrary to popular opinion, Kyle Busch doesn’t race Super Late Models or make the occasional Camping World Truck Series start simply to pad his statistics or suppress younger drivers.

Simply put, Busch owns his own race team because he likes to compete, and who better to assess the state of his own equipment than the Cup Series championship winning team owner himself?

For the second week in a row, Busch will race in the Truck Series, this time at his hometown Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Busch previously stated he will stop running the NASCAR Xfinity Series once he gets to 100 wins. He’s currently at 91 Xfinity victories and 49 in Truck Series -- three away from breaking Ron Hornaday’s all-time record.

But there’s no such shutdown number for his Truck Series tenure because unlike Xfinity, he owns his own equipment.

So why wouldn’t he keep racing?

"No, there’s nothing about hitting 50 that makes it special," Busch said during a press conference at Las Vegas on Friday. "Fifty-two would be special. As far as how many truck races would I continue to run or wins would I like to hit, no, because it’s my own team and I’d like to always get out there and have the opportunity to race with my own team."

Beyond the desire to race his own cars, it’s also a sound business decision -- it’s more practical for Busch to work with new crew chiefs rather than youngsters like Noah Gragson, Todd Gilliland or Spencer Davis.

It’s not that those drivers aren’t capable of properly debriefing, but Busch is a seasoned veteran who knows exactly what his trucks should be doing on a weekly basis. It makes his team better and it shortens the learning curve for a development program that has generated names like Erik Jones, Christopher Bell and Daniel Suarez.

"Everybody thinks I just like to go out there and pad my stats and everything else," Busch said. "It’s not like that. It’s entirely to work with the people and try to educate the people. We’ve got three new engineers -- two new engineers on our team this year and other new crew members and things like that, and so you try to work out the bugs with those guys.

"I feel like every year we go into the season with new guys, and I’m kind of regurgitating the same information sometimes. You have great leadership with the crew chiefs and stuff, but this is (Mike) Hillman’s (Jr.) first full season with us. Last year was Marcus (Richmond)’s first full season with us, so you know it’s hard for Rudy (Fugle) to be able to catch those guys up on exactly everything, and so when I’m there with the team meetings and stuff like that, we always go over stuff to make sure that we’re a professional organization."

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