Martin Truex Jr. needs to look no further than Kyle Busch when he needs to vent about Kansas.

The Furniture Row Racing driver has dominated at the speedway for years, finishing second twice and in the top five on two more occasions. He’s led laps seven times and twice led the most. Yet he has never been to victory lane, fate and fuel mileage and all manner of bad luck conspiring against him.

The most recent slap in the face came Saturday night.

Truex had led 172 of the

first 211 laps when he headed to pit road for a green-flag stop. Everything seemed to go flawlessly and he was back on the track in a blink. But then he started to feel a rattling and knew right away that a wheel was loose, forcing him to come back into the pits.

He lost a lap and didn’t have enough time to run down the leaders. He finished 14th.

“I swear, you watch guys win races that don’t have the fastest car or on fuel mileage and all this stuff and it’s like, ‘Damn,'” Truex said. “Someday I’m going to get on one of those.”

Busch understands that feeling all too well.

He was the disciple of doom at Kansas for years, wrecking out of the Chase race twice and failing to finish twice more. But the Joe Gibbs Racing driver has finally figured things out, finishing in the top five his last three starts and winning his first Sprint Cup race there Saturday night.

“The 78 was probably the fastest car,” he said of Truex, “but we kept ourselves in the game.”