For Kyle Busch, winning Sprint Cup races must be akin to going to the movies: an action/adventure flick, perhaps.

Winning Nationwide and Camping World Truck series races may be more like eating popcorn. On Friday night, he was munching again.

The Truck victory at Chicagoland Speedway gave Busch four victories in nine starts this year. In the Nationwide Series, he has won 10 times in 20 tries.

Cup? Still impressive but not as much so. Busch has three victories in 24 races and ranks third in the point standings. Two drivers, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin, have won five times, and the point leader, Kevin Harvick, matches Busch’s total.

To Busch’s fans, he’s the last of the red-hot racers. To his many detractors, it’s just not fair.

Busch doesn’t care. He loves to race. Busch hasn’t just won more races (17). He’s competed in more (53).

There are two remarkable aspects to Busch’s combined total of victories in what NASCAR dubs its “three major touring series.” One is that he has won so often. The other is that he has raced so often.

No one in NASCAR competes as regularly as Kyle Busch. Not Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards and Paul Menard, all of whom compete full-time in Cup and Nationwide. Neither Edwards nor Menard has strapped into a truck this year. Keselowski has raced trucks four times. Robby Gordon competes in a wide variety of events outside NASCAR. Then again, so does Busch. The Truck victory was his fourth night of racing … in a week.

This year, in the aforementioned three series, Busch has won 17 out of a possible 53 races. Cup is mainly dragging his percentage down. In the two lesser series, he has won 14 out of 29. Not even Ted Williams batted .483. The overall winning percentage, .321, would put Busch in the top 10 of either the National or American league. In Cup alone, he’s a pitcher (.125).

Of course, racing isn’t baseball. Averages are usually lower in racing.

“It comes down to a great team and great equipment and stuff like that,” said Busch, failing to note that, in his case, it comes down to three great teams, three sets of great equipment and stuff like that.

“You never know what can really happen ultimately in a race.”

But, in Kyle Busch’s case, you have a pretty good idea.

You may contact Monte Dutton at mdutton@gastongazette.com.