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Kyle Busch Eyes Win No. 5 at AMS, But First With Own Team

Few drivers and teams have dominated a race track as Kyle Busch and Billy Ballew Motorsports. Busch and owner Billy Ballew have won four times at the 1.54-mile track, including three of the past four times the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has competed at AMS. Is a fifth victory in the cards?

Perhaps - but only one member of the combination will find itself in Victory Lane. Busch left his Atlanta owner's team after the 2009 finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He formed his own team, Kyle Busch Motorsports, and will take the green flag in his own No. 18 Toyota Tundra Toyota along with teammate Tayler Malsam (No. 56 One Eighty Toyota). Ballew, meanwhile, returns with Aric Almirola in the defending Atlanta 200 winning No. 51 Graceway Pharmaceuticals Toyota.

BBM's second entry, the No. 15 Red Top Auto Auction Toyota, will be driven by Steve Wallace, a NASCAR Nationwide Series veteran making his truck racing debut. "It's great to race in Billy Ballew's hometown of Atlanta. What better place to bring home a victory for Billy," said Almirola.

Wallace, coming off a 10th-place finish in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Sam's Town 300, said, "This is awesome. It's something I've always wanted to do." His uncle, Mike Wallace, is a four-time NCWTS winner.

Busch, meanwhile, is pleased to return to Atlanta and go for a 17th career victory that would tie him for fifth on the all-time series list with Todd Bodine and Ted Musgrave. "It's a track I really like. It's fast and the truck races are always really good," said Busch. "Obviously, getting a win there would be really huge because it would be the first for Kyle Busch Motorsports." (NASCAR)