Kyle Busch celebrates winning Saturday's Nationwide Series race in Fort Worth, Texas. He also won Friday's truck race, and is in position to set NASCAR history today.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch keeps extending streaks at Texas in search of a NASCAR first.

Busch won his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series race at the 1 1/2-mile, high-banked track Saturday. The dominating victory came a day after he won his fifth truck race in his last five starts in the series.

He will try to complete an unprecedented trifecta today and become the first driver to win all three of NASCAR's national series on the same weekend.

"I hope it happens; that would be the greatest thing," Busch said. "The hardest one is the last one."

Busch qualified fifth for today's race at Texas, where he is 0 for 9 in Sprint Cup races and finished 18th in April.

When Busch climbed out of the car in Victory Lane on Saturday, he said he was "sorry" he won and would make it three in a row. When asked later about what reaction he expected if he did pull it off, he said he was "messing with the fans" with his comment and wasn't sure.

"People would get tired of buying tickets to the Kyle Busch show, I guess," he said. "That's two, one more to go. … If luck is on our side and we play it smart, we could come out of here 3 for 3. That would be pretty special."

After taking the lead on the 11th of 200 laps, when he swung his No. 18 Toyota around polesitter Matt Kenseth in the first turn, Busch went on to lead 179 laps and win by 3.154 seconds over Casey Mears, who was filling in for Jeff Burton in the No. 29 Chevrolet.

This is the 28th time in his career Busch has run all three series the same weekend. This is the seventh time this year and twice he won two races — at California in February and Bristol in August — without being able to get the third. In California, he won the Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide races before finishing third in Sprint Cup.

"Maybe we can come up two spots better here," he said.

It was Busch's eighth Nationwide victory this year, and extended his season points lead to 272 over Carl Edwards with two races left. Busch, who has won 29 times in 171 career Nationwide starts, only has to finish in 15th place next Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale to clinch his first NASCAR championship in any series.

"Every week, we're right there, we're contending," said Busch, who has 11 runner-up finishes to go with his victories. "The 48 (Jimmie Johnson) makes it look easy on Cup side. We make it look easy on the Nationwide side. … It's an accomplishment."

NASCAR said after the race that the Busch team faces a potential points penalty for an improperly secured weight that was found on the No. 18 during an initial inspection at the beginning of the race week.

Jason Leffler got loose in the closing laps and finished third after being passed by Mears. Kenseth was fourth, Brad Keselowski fifth and Kevin Harvick, the only other four-time Nationwide winner at Texas, was sixth.

Busch has won 19 NASCAR races this season, including seven of his 13 truck starts to go with four Sprint Cup victories.