Sun, 11/21/2010 - 10:30 by Rakhi
Homestead, Fla. -- Kyle Busch took the season-ending Ford 300 race in Florida Saturday, handing Joe Gibbs Racing the Nationwide Series owner's championship.
Busch was dominant at Homestead-Miami Speedway, leading for 153 of 200 laps. He took the lead from Kevin Harvick just after the final restart with 23 laps remaining and bested him by 0.85 seconds at the finish.
Busch extended his record for most Nationwide wins in a season with his 13th victory of 2010 -- his 43rd career crown. His latest triumph puts him five victories shy of tying Mark Martin's career wins record of 48.
The Homestead win also gave Busch's No. 18 JGR Toyota team the owner's title by 71 points over Brad Keselowski's No. 22 Penske Racing Dodge team.
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Wed, 11/10/2010 - 11:09 by Prince damin
Daytona Beach, Fla. -- NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was fined $25,000 and put on probation Tuesday for making an inappropriate gesture and verbally abusing officials.
The actions came after a tough Sunday for the veteran driver at Texas Motor Speedway during which he gave "the finger" to officials while in the pits to serve a drive-through penalty.
Busch ended in 32nd place.
The fiery driver had also angrily stormed out of a press conference Saturday following his close loss to Carl Edwards in last weekend's Nationwide Series event.
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Sun, 11/07/2010 - 10:26 by Prince damin
Fort Worth, Texas -- Carl Edwards edged Kyle Busch during a two-lap overtime and Brad Keselowski won his first Nationwide Series title Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway.
Edwards denied Busch his sixth Nationwide title and instead handed it to Keselowski with his first-place finish at the O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge.
Edwards took over the lead after passing Trevor Bayne following a late-race restart. A green-white-checkered finish was set up after separate incidents involving Brian Scott and Clint Bowyer in the closing laps.
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Sun, 10/10/2010 - 06:37 by Prince damin
Fontana, Calif. -- Kyle Busch extended his record Nationwide Series winning streak to 12 races Saturday with his victory in the CampingWorld.com 300.
Busch easily pulled away in the final five laps after a restart at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., overcoming an earlier speeding penalty to nail down the 42nd win of his career.
Busch is now only six victories shy of tying Mark Martin's all-time record for most wins in the series.
Current Nationwide points leader Brad Keselowski came in second.
Kevin Harvick, meanwhile, led for the most laps Saturday but blew a potential victory thanks to two pit stop blunders, eventually settling for third.
Carl Edwards came in fourth and Joey Logano rounded out the top five.
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Sun, 09/26/2010 - 10:53 by Rakhi
Dover, Del. -- Kyle Busch won his NASCAR-record 11th Nationwide Series race of the season Saturday, edging Joey Logano to take the Dover 200 at Dover International Speedway.
Busch held the lead for all but eight of the 200 laps and was able to fight off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Logano down the stretch to win by 0.4 seconds.
Busch broke the old record of 10 Nationwide victories in a single season originally set by Sam Ard in 1983 and then equaled by Busch in 2008. In the process, he claimed his third career win at the one-mile Dover track.
Third place went to Carl Edwards while Reed Sorenson and Kevin Harvick rounded out the Top 5.
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Sun, 09/05/2010 - 09:14 by Prince damin
Hampton, Ga. -- Jamie McMurray held off a determined Kyle Busch in the closing laps Saturday, notching a win in the Great Clips 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
McMurray took his first Nationwide Series win since November 2004, grabbing the lead from Brad Keselowski with 23 laps remaining and hanging on to best Busch.
Busch, who was attempting to win his record 11th Nationwide race of the season, ended up in second place.
Carl Edwards finished third. Defending Atlanta champ Kevin Harvick came in fourth and Matt Kenseth rounded out the top five.
Keselowski ended in 12th place. His points lead over Edwards stood at 332 points.
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Sun, 08/22/2010 - 09:36 by Prince damin
Bristol, Tenn. -- Kyle Busch easily won Saturday's Sprint Cup NASCAR race at Bristol Motor Speedway to cap an historic, three-win week in Tennessee.
Busch's victory in the 500-lap event made him the first driver in NASCAR history to win all three of its national touring series races in the same week -- he also won the Camping World Truck race and the Nationwide event at Bristol earlier this week.
Busch held the lead in Saturday's event for 284 laps and bested David Reutimann by 0.68 seconds at the finish to gain his third victory of the season and the 19th of his Sprint Cup career.
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Sat, 08/21/2010 - 09:34 by Prince damin
Bristol, Tenn. -- Kyle Busch equaled the Nationwide Series record with his 10th victory of the year Friday at the Food City 250 at Bristol, Tenn.
Busch sent Brad Keselowski into a spin by bumping him from behind with 31 laps remaining and then defeated Jason Leffler by less than a second to claim the victory.
Busch also won 10 times in 2008 and Sam Ard did so in 1983.
Elliott Sadler, who started from the pole, wound up third, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Carl Edwards.
Keselowski finished 14th and had his points lead over Edwards trimmed to a still healthy 313.
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Sun, 08/01/2010 - 10:04 by Rakhi
Newton, Iowa -- Kyle Busch had little trouble winning Saturday's U.S. Cellular 250 Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway, dominating for 208 of its 250 laps.
Busch temporarily lost the lead after a late-race restart in which he took four tires while Kevin Harvick took only two and briefly grabbed the top spot.
But Busch charges through the crowd from seventh place, passed Harvick with 25 laps left and finished 2 seconds ahead, capturing his ninth Nationwide Series race of the year.
Jason Leffler ended up in third place, Brad Keselowski finished fourth and pole sitter Trevor Bayne claimed the fifth spot.
Keselowski's fourth-place finish enabled him to increased his points lead over Carl Edwards to 231. Edwards finished 10th Saturday.
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Sun, 07/25/2010 - 09:43 by Rakhi
Indianapolis -- Kyle Busch dominated most of the way and held off a late Carl Edwards challenge Saturday to win the Kroger 200 Nationwide Series event in Indianapolis.
The race went into a two-lap overtime finish after an incident involving Joe Nemechek in the closing laps at O'Reilly Raceway Park. It was then that Edwards tried to pass Busch several times, but Busch ended up finishing first by 0.2 seconds.
Busch, who led for 142 of 201 laps, collected his eighth victory of the season and 38th of his Nationwide career while winning at ORP for the third time. The victory tied him with Morgan Shepherd for most Nationwide Series wins at O'Reilly.
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Sat, 06/05/2010 - 09:48 by Rakhi
Long Pond, Pa. -- Kyle Busch, who will make his 200th Sprint Cup start Sunday, won the pole Friday for the Gillette Fusion 500 at Pocono Raceway.
Busch turned his qualifying lap in 169.485 mph for his second pole of the season and the seventh of his career.
"To start on the pole for race 200 is going to mean a lot, and of course, it will mean even more if we can win this thing," said Busch, who is second in the points race behind Kevin Harvick.
Clint Bowyer qualified second at 169.138 mph. Dale Earnhardt Jr. qualified third, followed by Kurt Busch and Denny Hamlin. Kurt Busch won last week's 600-mile race in Charlotte.
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Mon, 05/17/2010 - 10:59 by Rakhi
Dover, Del. -- Kyle Busch took advantage of a late penalty assessed to Jimmie Johnson Sunday to register a win at the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway.
Johnson was the leader for most of the race, holding the advantage for 225 of the 400 laps, but he was cited for speeding on the pit road and Busch grabbed the lead for good with 35 laps remaining.
Busch, who also won Saturday's Dover Nationwide Series event, crossed the finish line 7.5 seconds ahead of Jeff Burton, winning his second race in the last three Sprint Cup Series contests.
Burton claimed second place after passing Matt Kenseth as the race wound down, relegating Kenseth to third.
Denny Hamlin and David Reutimann completed the top five and Johnson ended up finishing 16th.
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