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NNS: Kyle Busch Scores Bristol Victory
Kyle Busch now has 44 NASCAR Nationwide Series race...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted March 19, 2011   Bristol, TN
Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Z-Line Designs Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Scotts EZ Seed 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)
While Saturday’s Scotts EZ Seed 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway was filled with intriguing subplots and crazy storylines, one thing stayed the same: Kyle Busch royally kicked everyone’s butts yet again.

Busch put his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota on the point on Lap 32 of the 300-lap race, and as he has done so often before, cruised to a dominating victory, his second of the year and 44th in just 206 career Nationwide starts.

“It’s cool to come to Bristol and see this place,” said Busch. “There were a lot of people here. Hopefully there will be more tomorrow.”

For his NASCAR Nationwide Series career, Busch has now led more than 10,000 laps and was won three Nationwide races at Bristol, including two in a row.

“It’s a lot of laps led, but hopefully we have time to lead a lot more,” said Busch.

NASCAR Sprint Cup regulars swept the top three positions, with Busch followed to the checkered flag by the No. 38 Turner Motorsports Chevrolet of Kasey Kahne and Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 5 JR Motorsports Chevy. Elliot Sadler in the No. 2 Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevy and Busch’s teammate, Joey Logano completed the top five.

The second five was Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Jason Leffler, Brad Keselowski and Aric Almirola.

There was plenty of potential controversy in the race — the teams had to change the right-side tires they were using on Lap 25, resulting in them starting on one type of Goodyear tire compound and finishing on another.

Danica Patrick, in her final Nationwide race until June, made contact with Ryan Truex on Lap 247 and hit the Turn 1 wall. Afterwards, she stalked out on the track and gestured in Truex’s direction when he drove by under yellow.

And then there was Jennifer Jo Cobb, who got in a beef with her 2nd Chance Motorsports team over starting and parking and quit 10 minutes before the race.

But up front it was all Busch, as he led 268 of 300 laps to utterly trounce the field.















Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100
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