Spencer Boyd had a stellar performance in his NASCAR Truck Series debut Saturday, but a late accident helped shorten his run. 

Boyd, driving the MB Motorsports’ No. 63 truck, wound up 28th at the famed paperclip-shaped, .5-mile track at Martinsville Speedway. He qualified 27th. 

Boyd worked his way through the field and spent most of the race inside the top 15. With 79 laps to go, Boyd was running in the fifth position. He was attempting to gain another spot when he made contact with another truck and spun out. He completed 237 of 255 laps in the race. 

“This past weekend has been one that I have dreamt of since I was 5 years old,” Boyd said in a release. “To get to run at Martinsville Speedway in a NASCAR Camping World truck for the hometown team Mittler Brothers Motorsports was amazing. These guys put in a ton of late nights to get the No. 63 Go-Parts.com Ram ready for my debut. From arriving at the track to leaving on Saturday night, it was a learning process from driving the track to knowing where to change clothes.”

Sprint Cup regular Kyle Bush, who led race-high four times for 123 laps, captured his first win of the season. John Hunter Nemechek finished second, followed by William Byron, Kyle Larson and Timothy Peters.

Foristell-based MB Motorsports will be back in action at the Truck Series’ next race May 6 at Kansas Speedway.

The team announced this week 19-year-old dirt track phenom Bobby Pierce will drive the truck in three races next month. Besides Kansas, he will race May 13 at Dover and May 20 at Charlotte. Last year, Pierce captured the pole and wound up second in the series’ lone dirt track race at Eldora Speedway.