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VIDEO: All-Star - Kurt Busch Wins At Charlotte
The NASCAR Sprint All-Star race was won by Kurt Busch...
Rick Minter  | http://www.RacinToday.com  |  Posted May 23, 2010   Charlotte, NC
VIDEO: Last Lap All-Star - Kurt Busch Wins At CMS Kurt Busch in victory lane at Charlotte. (Image: SPEED)
VIDEO: Last Lap All-Star - Kurt Busch Wins At CMS

Just when you thought it was safe to write off polesitter Kurt Busch after a couple of encounters with the wall in the Sprint All-Star race, he came storming back to take the checkered flag and the million dollar payday.

LINK>Unofficial Race Results: Sprint All- Star Race - CHARLOTTE

Busch appeared to have the dominant car early on, but his rim-riding saw him slip into the outside wall twice and drop out of the top five as Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin emerged as the top contenders.

But Busch’s crew patched up his No. 2 Dodge, changed a couple of shocks and sent him out 11th for the final 10-lap dash for the cash. Hamlin faded, Kyle Busch crashed after a questionable encounter with his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Hamlin, then Johnson spun, leaving only Martin Truex Jr. and Joey Logano to challenge Busch over the final few laps.

Neither had anything for him in a trio of late-race restart and Busch sped away to his first-ever win in a NASCAR special, non-points-paying event. “We had a rough third segment,” Busch said of his wall-banging experiences. “But we took a deep breath, changed two front shocks and it was a rocket ship at the end.”

Busch’s performance also made a late-day trip from Indianapolis well worth it for his car owner Roger Penske, who earlier in the day saw one of his IndyCars take the pole for the Indianapolis 500. Truex, who won the Sprint Showdown to advance to the main event, finished second over Logano, Hamlin and Tony Stewart, who made a late-race charge after being a non-factor for most of the race.

LINK>Unofficial Race Results: Sprint All- Star Race - CHARLOTTE

VIDEO: Last Lap All-Star - Kurt Busch Wins At CMS

Rick Minter is a veteran, award-winning sports journalist who joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1991 covering motorsports as well as serving as a bureau chief. From 2000-2008 Minter focused on racing exclusively, traveling the NASCAR circuit as the paper’s motorsports writer.


Rick can be reached at rminter@racintoday.com

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