Kyle Busch playing second fiddle in a NASCAR Nationwide Series race at his hometown track?

Pardon the pun, but you might bet on it this weekend in Vegas.

Busch, a Las Vegas native and the 2009 series champion, did win his second consecutive spring race at Phoenix last Saturday, the 44th victory in his 204-race career. He’s now four wins from tying Mark Martin’s all-time series record of 48.

But therein lies the rub.

Martin’s last NASCAR Nationwide Series win came at LVMS in 2008. And his last series win before that? Vegas in 2005. He’s tied with Jeff Burton for the most series wins there with three. In his two other series starts at LVMS, Martin placed sixth and second. And guess who’s entered in a series race for the first time since he ran one event in 2009?

Martin will run four races this year for Turner Motorsports in the No. 32 Dollar General Chevrolet. Saturday’s race at LVMS is the first of those four. (Reed Sorenson, who will drive the bulk of the season in the No. 32, will be in the No. 30 Chevrolet at LVMS).

Surprisingly, Busch has yet to win in NASCAR Nationwide Series competition at Las Vegas, and has only one top-five finish in seven series starts at the 1.5-mile track.