Kyle Busch finally delivered the Nationwide Series victory he has been promising all season in Saturday's O'Reilly 300 at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Busch led 126 of 200 laps around the 1.5-mile Texas oval for his 12th win in 115 Nationwide Series races despite starting 31st after qualifying on Thursday was rained out.
Busch beat Jeff Burton to the chequered flag by more than a full second while Burton's RCR teammates Clint Bowyer and Bobby Labonte were third and fourth, respectively. Jamie McMurray came home fifth, while Brian Vickers, Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Ragan, Jason Leffler and Stewart rounded-out the top-10 with Leffler one of only two non-Cup drivers to complete all 200 laps.
Dario Franchitti finished eleventh, veteran Jason Keller twelfth and then defending series champion Carl Edwards and David Reutimann the last two unlapped runners in 13th and 14th.
“This feels so good because this place is so hard to win at,” said Busch, who now has six top-10 finishes in seven career Nationwide Series races at Texas. “For me, it's extra-special to bring DLP their first NASCAR victory and to bring Toyota here to victory lane at Texas. All of these guys work so, so hard on these things and I've torn a couple of them up.
“I also want to thank my fans for sticking with me. It's been tough time in the Nationwide Series so far this year. Finally, we were able to stay out of trouble and win one. It would be great if we could just keep it going now that we got the first one.”
Bowyer continues to lead the point standings by nearly 60 points over Edwards with Reutimann, Ragan and Busch rounding out the top five.
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