Kyle Busch was one of the best cars in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas. The Richard Childress Racing driver led a race-high 42 laps. Unfortunately, he didn’t lead the most important one.

Kyle Busch's strong bid to end a nearly two-year Cup Series skid ended with a fifth-place run in Sunday's race at Circuit of The Americas.

Kyle Busch and Christopher Bell rekindled their COTA rivalry on Sunday but this time, it was Busch who self-admittedly played the “butthead.” Last year, Busch was sent spinning after Bell went for a dive-bomb move,