Christopher Bell earned the pole while Matt Crafton was alongside in second.
40 laps made up stage one, 80 laps in stage two and race ended on lap 167 in stage three.
It was a slow start for the first stage of the night. Six cautions slowed the race in the early going, in fact there was only five laps of green flag racing. Busch started third and led majority of the stage before finally win the first stage. Christopher Bell, Johnny Sauter, John Hunter Nemechek, Matt Crafton, Ryan Truex, Ben Rhodes, Chase Briscoe, Grant Efinger and Brett Moffitt rounded out the top 10 to earn playoff points.
The green flag went back out on lap 47 for the start of stage two. After a caution filled race in stage one, there were some green flag laps ran until lap 53, where a tire carcus came off Noah Gragson's no.18 Kyle Busch Motorsports truck to bring out another caution.
Christopher Bell and Grant Enfinger took the restart on lap 57. It wasn't until lap 71 where Busch retook the lead from Bell in turn four. Busch held on to win stage two.
Stage three began on lap 86. It didn't take long for a caution to come out as Travis Miller spun in turn two one lap later. With 76 laps to go for the restart, Ben Rhodes and Kyle Busch were on the front row. Busch grabbed the lead before heading down the backstretch.
Busch continued to lead until 66 laps to go, when Rhodes started to battle side-by-side with the leader. Pit stops began, however, as Busch pitted with 41 laps to go. On the same lap, a caution was brought out by Ross Chastain when his right front tire went down and he smacked the wall. Rhodes would bring down the other lead lap trucks who did not pit and made a pit stop. This meant Kyle Busch would be the leader for the restart.
With 36 laps to go, Busch and Rhodes were on the front row. Both of them were battling hard, before Matt Crafton spun off turn four in to the grass to bring out the caution with 34 laps to go.
The race started to heat up with 29 laps to go for the restart. The leaders continued to battle side-by-side before Rhodes took the lead from Busch with 25 laps to go. Drama was heated up even more as Matt Crafton had a right rear tire go soft with eight laps to go.
As it looked liked Rhodes had this race won, his truck would blow up as a piece of debris went through the radiator with seven laps to go. After the heart breaker for Rhodes, Busch inherited the lead with five laps to go and stole the win away.
There were four leaders among 15 lead changes.
There were 11 cautions for 46 laps.
Busch led seven times for 91 laps.
Busch also swept all three stages.
This was Busch's first truck win of the year and his 47th career win in the series.
This was Busch's second career track win at Kansas Speedway.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series continues next week as the series heads to Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday May 19th for the N.C. Education Lottery 200.
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