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NNS: Busch Rallies For Fifth Win
Kyle Busch wins the NASCAR Nationwide Series TECH-NET Auto Service 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway....
Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 NOS Energy Drink Toyota, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Tech-Net Auto Service 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)
Now it’s going to be even harder for Kyle Busch to drive away from the Nationwide Series.
LINK> UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: TECH-NET Auto Service 300 - CHARLOTTE
PDF> UNOFFICIAL DRIVER POINTS: TECH-NET Auto Service 300 - CHARLOTTE
Busch outran Brad Keselowski in a two-lap green-white-checkered finish and won Saturday’s Tech-Net Auto Service 300 Nationwide race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The win was Busch’s fifth of the year in NASCAR’s No. 2 series. Saturday’s race was the series’ 12th this season, and Busch has been in every race. He’s leaving the tour now, however, giving up second place in points (Keselowski has a one-point lead over Busch) to concentrate on the Sprint Cup series, where he’s also second. The two series take separate roads next week, Sprint Cup moving to Long Pond, Pa. and Nationwide to Nashville, Tenn.
Keselowski is going to continue running both series, but Busch, last year’s Nationwide champion, has chosen to concentrate on Sprint Cup.
“It’s a bummer,” Busch said. “I’d love to race them all, but we’ve got bigger and better things to do.”
The win was Busch’s sixth in the series at CMS, tying him with Mark Martin for the Nationwide victory record at the 1.5-mile track.
The race was pushed into overtime by a late caution flag, and Busch, Keselowski and Joey Logano led the field into the green-white-checkered.
Busch stayed in front throughout the final two laps, and Keselowski wasn’t able to make a serious challenge. Logano stayed on Busch’s bumper and wasn’t able to make a run toward the front.
Later, Keselowski said the probably would have not a shot at Busch with one more lap.
“We had a great race car,” Busch said. “In the beginning, it was really, really tight. We made changes, but it got really loose. I was trying to fight it and find out what I needed.”
Busch was nailed with a pit-road speeding penalty one-quarter into the race and eventually rallied from two laps down to take first place with 64 laps to go.
A meeting with the wall by Scott Lagasse Jr. brought out the caution flag with three laps to go and pushed the race into overtime.
The race verdict came down to pit decisions inside the final 15 laps.
A caution flag flew with 14 laps to go as Trevor Bayne hit the turn-four wall. Busch and Keselowski, the two leaders, did not pit. Most of the lead group pitted for two tires, and a few took four.
Busch was not challenged from that point forward.
Driver Brendan Gaughan climbed out of his car late in the race after apparently becoming ill because of fumes in the cockpit. He was given oxygen on pit road.
Gaughan was replaced by Mark Green.
LINK> UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: TECH-NET Auto Service 300 - CHARLOTTE
PDF> UNOFFICIAL DRIVER POINTS: TECH-NET Auto Service 300 - CHARLOTTE
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com and has been covering motorsports for 28 years. He has written several books on NASCAR, including "NASCAR: The Definitive History of America's Sport" and "Then Tony Said To Junior: The Best NASCAR Stories Ever Told". He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
LINK> UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: TECH-NET Auto Service 300 - CHARLOTTE
PDF> UNOFFICIAL DRIVER POINTS: TECH-NET Auto Service 300 - CHARLOTTE
Busch outran Brad Keselowski in a two-lap green-white-checkered finish and won Saturday’s Tech-Net Auto Service 300 Nationwide race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The win was Busch’s fifth of the year in NASCAR’s No. 2 series. Saturday’s race was the series’ 12th this season, and Busch has been in every race. He’s leaving the tour now, however, giving up second place in points (Keselowski has a one-point lead over Busch) to concentrate on the Sprint Cup series, where he’s also second. The two series take separate roads next week, Sprint Cup moving to Long Pond, Pa. and Nationwide to Nashville, Tenn.
Keselowski is going to continue running both series, but Busch, last year’s Nationwide champion, has chosen to concentrate on Sprint Cup.
“It’s a bummer,” Busch said. “I’d love to race them all, but we’ve got bigger and better things to do.”
The win was Busch’s sixth in the series at CMS, tying him with Mark Martin for the Nationwide victory record at the 1.5-mile track.
The race was pushed into overtime by a late caution flag, and Busch, Keselowski and Joey Logano led the field into the green-white-checkered.
Busch stayed in front throughout the final two laps, and Keselowski wasn’t able to make a serious challenge. Logano stayed on Busch’s bumper and wasn’t able to make a run toward the front.
Later, Keselowski said the probably would have not a shot at Busch with one more lap.
“We had a great race car,” Busch said. “In the beginning, it was really, really tight. We made changes, but it got really loose. I was trying to fight it and find out what I needed.”
Busch was nailed with a pit-road speeding penalty one-quarter into the race and eventually rallied from two laps down to take first place with 64 laps to go.
A meeting with the wall by Scott Lagasse Jr. brought out the caution flag with three laps to go and pushed the race into overtime.
The race verdict came down to pit decisions inside the final 15 laps.
A caution flag flew with 14 laps to go as Trevor Bayne hit the turn-four wall. Busch and Keselowski, the two leaders, did not pit. Most of the lead group pitted for two tires, and a few took four.
Busch was not challenged from that point forward.
Driver Brendan Gaughan climbed out of his car late in the race after apparently becoming ill because of fumes in the cockpit. He was given oxygen on pit road.
Gaughan was replaced by Mark Green.
LINK> UNOFFICIAL RESULTS: TECH-NET Auto Service 300 - CHARLOTTE
PDF> UNOFFICIAL DRIVER POINTS: TECH-NET Auto Service 300 - CHARLOTTE
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com and has been covering motorsports for 28 years. He has written several books on NASCAR, including "NASCAR: The Definitive History of America's Sport" and "Then Tony Said To Junior: The Best NASCAR Stories Ever Told". He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
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