Hamlin wins again in Nationwide

Once again the Toyota-powered cars emerged as the class of the field in restrictor-plate racing, with the No. 20 car that Hamlin drove to victory taking three out of three wins at NASCAR's biggest tracks.

Hamlin first emerged in the lead on lap 61 and was in contention from then on. He swapped positions at the front with Dale Earnhardt Jr, teammate Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards, but ten laps from the end he grabbed the lead for one last time.

With about eight laps to go it looked like he was going to break away from the field only chased by Busch, but two laps from the end a caution came out when Colin Braun lost control of his car at the exit of turn four, crashing into the outside barrier.

The incident forced a green-white-chequered finish but Busch didn't attempt anything and stayed in line to protect as safe one-two for Joe Gibbs Racing, giving the Virginia native his third victory of the season and the eighth of his career.

"Kyle kind of got back there on that last restart and it worried me a little bit he was going to get a run," said Hamlin, who had started the race from 17th place. "I knew he was going to have a huge head of steam but he was a great teammate and it's a great example of team work. We had a one-two-three last week and a one-two this week."

Busch came home in second place ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr and Clint Bowyer, while Brad Keselowski rounded up the top-five as the best among the Nationwide series regulars, leading 28 laps during the night, only one less than the race-winner.

"The 20 car was definitely the fastest car out there," Busch said. "We had the best handling car and were able to keep it wide-open pretty much the whole race.

"Obviously the No. 20 team has been strong all year. It was fun to race there with (Dale Earnhardt) Junior and Denny and the No. 2 car was coming back there towards the end for what it was worth.

"We had a green-white-chequered and just felt like it was better staying in line rather than try to go for something and fall back more spots. I just had to play the teammate game there and help Denny."

The last restart saw some action at the front of the pack when Carl Edwards ran in the grass trying to take evasive action when one of the front-runners was slow on the green flag.

He was upset at the end of the race because he felt he wasn't on the right position for that last restart, due to a problem with the timing and scoring.

"When Colin Braun wrecked on the back straightaway, I was 100 feet in front of Clint Bowyer and then on the restart, because I drove through the grass, I didn't go through their timing loop there, so they scored me behind Clint, which was very frustrating," he said.

"I felt like we had a chance to win. And then on the restart, it just didn't work out for us. Very, very frustrating."

Pole-sitter Bryan Clauson looked set for a top-ten finish but lost many positions in the last restart. He crossed the finish line in 19th place but was still the highest-finishing rookie in a race that finished with the caution flags waving when Mike Wallace crashed out of the final turn.

Bowyer continues to lead the points ahead of Keselowski.

Pos  Driver                 Make       Laps
 1.  Denny Hamlin           Toyota      105
 2.  Kyle Busch             Toyota      105
 3.  Dale Earnhardt Jr      Chevrolet   105
 4.  Clint Bowyer           Chevrolet   105
 5.  Brad Keselowski        Chevrolet   105
 6.  Kasey Kahne            Dodge       105
 7.  Scott Wimmer           Chevrolet   105
 8.  David Stremme          Chevrolet   105
 9.  David Ragan            Ford        105
10.  Mike Bliss             Chevrolet   105
11.  Carl Edwards           Ford        105
12.  Kevin Harvick          Chevrolet   105
13.  Steve Wallace          Chevrolet   105
14.  David Reutimann        Toyota      105
15.  Bobby Hamilton Jr      Ford        105
16.  Kelly Bires            Ford        105
17.  Kerry Earnhardt        Chevrolet   105
18.  Jason Keller           Chevrolet   105
19.  Bryan Clauson          Dodge       105
20.  Marcos Ambrose         Ford        105
21.  Brad Coleman           Ford        105
22.  Mike Wallace           Toyota      104
23.  Jason Leffler          Toyota      104
24.  Kevin Lepage           Chevrolet   104
25.  Kenny Wallace          Chevrolet   104
26.  Stanton Barrett        Chevrolet   104
27.  Brad Baker             Ford        104
28.  Derrike Cope           Chevrolet   104
29.  DJ Kennington          Dodge       104
30.  Mark Green             Chevrolet   104
31.  Morgan Shepherd        Dodge       103
32.  Robert Richardson Jr   Chevrolet   103
33.  Josh Wise              Dodge       102
34.  Donnie Neuenberger     Chevrolet   101
35.  Colin Braun            Ford         97
36.  James Hylton           Chevrolet    82
37.  Brian Vickers          Toyota       76
38.  Eric McClure           Chevrolet    58
39.  Mike Harmon            Chevrolet    52
40.  Johnny Chapman         Chevrolet    28
41.  Shane Huffman          Chevrolet    23
42.  Kertus Davis           Chevrolet     6
43.  Brad Teague            Chevrolet     4