CONCORD, N.C. — Kyle Busch has won a Cup points race at every track on the NASCAR circuit except one – Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Twenty-eight starts, no checkered flags – and plenty of frustration.

Busch, 33, is looking to check off that final box on his racing resume Sunday in the Coca-Cola 600, considered a crown jewel race in NASCAR.

Busch will start from the pole in the No. 18 Toyota, just as he has two other times at this track.

Bad breaks, often entirely out of his control, have kept him from making a trip to victory lane in Cup races and has become a source of irritation for him.

“It’s important to me, but I’m not sure it’s important in the grand scheme of things,” Busch said Thursday night after turning a lap 191.836 mph on the 11/2-mile track. “It’s certainly important to me and I would love to get that knocked out of the way and to be finished with it until another new track comes up on the circuit.”

While there is the matter of completion in winning at every track, Busch is quick to point out that he has won a Cup race here.

He captured the All-Star race here in 2017 and the $1 million prize that comes along with it. But the All-Star race is considered an exhibition and does not count toward season points.

“The last time I checked I have a trophy at home that says, ‘winner at Charlotte Motor Speedway,’ so I’ll take that to my grave with me if I do never get a points win here,” Busch said. “That will be my saving grace I guess.”

INDY LIGHT: Colton Herta held off on kissing the bricks when his father won the Indianapolis 500.

He finally did it after winning the Freedom 100.

After winning both Indy Lights races on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the son of longtime IndyCar driver Bryan Herta completed a May sweep by winning the Carb Day feature. Herta went to the lead on the final lap and managed to hold off a pair of teammates.

“It’s so cool, and I didn’t realize how cool until I kissed the bricks,” Herta said. “I held off both my dad’s IndyCar wins here. I held off because I didn’t deserve it. I finally deserve it.”

Herta drives for Andretti-Steinbrenner Racing, and was congratulated after the win by longtime IndyCar owner Michael Andretti and George Steinbrenner IV, the grandson of the late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. He also got a big hug from his dad as he headed to victory lane.

“Obviously this win is massive. I was so psyched for the two before but yeah, it’s cool,” Herta said.

Steinbrenner, 21, grew up around racing, going to his first Indy 500 in 2008. He attended a few more before getting involved in team ownership, and called winning the Freedom 100 surreal.

“I’m not sure what to say, really. Just look at this place. It’s amazing,” Steinbrenner said.

Herta jockeyed for the lead with Andretti teammates Patricio O’Ward and Dalton Kellett the final 10 laps of the 40-lap race, and ultimately went around Santi Urrutia down the backstretch with a lap to go.

Ward finished second and Kellett was third. That gave Andretti a podium sweep and capped a strong showing all month by its program for Indy Lights, a developmental series for open-wheel racing.

“The guys did a great job all week. I can’t complain,” said Kellett, who started on the pole before finishing third for the third straight year.

The sweep of the Indianapolis races was enough to push Herta into the series lead, and perhaps bigger things down the road. Steinbrenner was asked whether their future lay in IndyCar and, like his father Hank Steinbrenner, was perfectly pragmatic in delivering his answer.

“That would be pretty awesome for me. That’s the goal we’re setting for ourselves,” Steinbrenner said, “but we really want to make sure all the pieces fit together from an operational standpoint.”