Newly crowned champion Kevin Harvick scored his eighth NASCAR Busch Series win of the year at the three-quarter mile Memphis Motorsports Park oval on Saturday but all the talk was about one Juan Pablo Montoya.

Harvick's penultimate lap pass on Carl Edwards for yet another win in a wholly dominant year for the Richard Childress Racing driver was part of the main story on Saturday while Montoya's progress in his first officially sanctioned NASCAR race was the other.

Montoya finished a praiseworthy eleventh in his first NBS race, completing all 252 laps of a caution riddled Sam's Town 250, starting from fifth on the grid and running inside the top ten for the first half of the race.

However no less than three separate incidents with other drivers, at least two of which Montoya took full responsibility for, stymied the Colombian drivers progress although he was running strongly at the end of the race and could well have made it back into the top ten had the race been slightly longer.

Nevertheless Montoya was just the fourth non-Nextel Cup driver home as Harvick, Clint Bowyer and Edwards annexing the top three positions with Johnny Sauter and Shane Huffman upholding Busch honours in fourth and fifth positions.

Denny Hamlin, Reed Sorensen and Kasey Kahne were sixth, seventh and eighth with rookie Danny O'Quinn and JJ Yeley rounding out the top ten.