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NASCAR Camping World Trucks Series
TRUCKS: Busch Recovers To Win At New Hampshire
Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series TheRaceDayRaffleSeries.com "175" at New Hampshire Motor Speedway...
Mike Hembree  |  Posted September 18, 2010   Loudon, NH
Kyle Busch celebrates in victory lane after he won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series TheRaceDayRaffleSeries.com 175 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. (Photo: Getty Images)
Kyle Busch lost the lead late in the day but rebounded in the closing two miles to reclaim first place and won Saturday’s TheRaceDayRaffleSeries.com 175 Camping World Truck Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Busch and Kevin Harvick battled for first most of the race but almost lost a shot at the win because of a late run by 20-year-old James Buescher, who was searching for his first series win.

Buescher slipped into the lead with 11 laps to go when Busch and Harvick made contact and slowed, allowing the Plano, Texas driver to dive to the inside and roar into first.

Buescher pulled out to a five-truck-length lead but lost the advantage when Ron Hornaday Jr., who had run in third place much of the race, spun in turn four, bringing out the day’s final caution.

That bunched the field and gave Busch another chance, and he took it. On the restart, with two laps to go, Busch squeezed past Buescher on the first lap and held on to win the race.

“It was a tight battle with me and Harvick the whole race,” said Busch, who won in the Truck series for the fifth time this year. “He was beating my back bumper and ran me up the track and let Buescher get by. I had to work back around him.”

Buescher finished second, followed by Harvick, Matt Crafton and Austin Dillon.

“I had a pretty good restart, but Kyle raced hard in one and two and about squeezed us in the fence off two,” Buescher said.

Series point leader Todd Bodine finished ninth.

Busch and Harvick, who will join 10 other drivers in the run toward the Sprint Cup championship Sunday, were easily the top guns in Saturday’s field. They raced side by side at the front for lap after lap, one edging ahead at the start-finish line, then the other.

But Busch’s truck had the advantage on most of those laps, and he rolled into the closing miles with a clear edge over Harvick.

Then Buescher stepped in to change the nature of the finish.

Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.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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