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Kyle Busch wins Texas Nationwide

Kyle Busch dominated on his way to his eighth Nationwide Series win of the season at Texas Motor Speedway

From sixth on the grid, the 24-year-old grabbed the lead on lap 11 from pole-sitter Matt Kenseth and went on to control the race to the end. He briefly lost the lead due to the timing of his pitstops and during a couple of restarts, but nobody had the speed to hold him off.

The Joe Gibbs driver claimed his fourth consecutive win at Texas in NASCAR's second-tier series, and his second of the weekend as well, having won Friday night in the Trucks after beating points leader Ron Hornaday with an impressive passing manoeuvre.

On Sunday, Busch will be looking at becoming the first driver in history to win all three NASCAR races in the same weekend, taking the start from fifth on the grid in the Sprint Cup series event.

"This track is fun; it's fun obviously when you have good cars off course, " Busch said. "The team did a phenomenal job for me and (crew chief) Dave (Rogers), have done a great job on the Cup side for tomorrow too, worked their butts off this weekend.

"I feel like we've got a decent car, not a great car, but we can contend tomorrow and if things fall our way we could do it."

Not only was Busch on a different league on the track, but he also dominated on pit road, where his team was fastest of all, allowing him to stay up front.

His 19th NASCAR victory of the year allows him to stretch his lead in the championship even further, and with just two races remaining, he is in position to clinch his first NASCAR title next weekend at Phoenix if he manages to finish 15th or better.

Casey Mears impressed finishing second in only his first outing for more than two years in a Nationwide Series car, replacing Jeff Burton who was initially scheduled to compete but preferred to sit out today's race after hitting the wall on Friday during Sprint Cup practice.

Jason Leffler and pole-sitter Kenseth followed, while Brad Keselowski finished fifth, narrowing the gap to 20 points to Carl Edwards in the battle for runner up honours in the championship. Kevin Harvick looked as a likely contender in the early going leading six laps, but he finished sixth in the end.

Edwards only managed a ninth-place finish, after being unable to profit much from taking new tyres during the final caution of the day with 20 laps to go.

Only 23 cars finished the race, some retiring with mechanical issue while at least nine were involved in incidents. Kasey Kahne led laps driving a Toyota for Todd Braun, but retired with suspension failure, while Joey Logano hit the wall hard after a left-rear tyre blew up on the backstretch.

Pos  Driver                  Make        Laps
 1.  Kyle Busch              Toyota      200
 2.  Casey Mears             Chevrolet   200
 3.  Jason Leffler           Toyota      200
 4.  Matt Kenseth            Ford        200
 5.  Brad Keselowski         Chevrolet   200
 6.  Kevin Harvick           Chevrolet   200
 7.  Brian Vickers           Toyota      200
 8.  David Ragan             Ford        200
 9.  Carl Edwards            Ford        200
10.  Mike Bliss              Toyota      200
11.  James Buescher          Chevrolet   200
12.  Jason Keller            Ford        200
13.  Trevor Bayne            Toyota      200
14.  Scott Wimmer            Chevrolet   200
15.  Tony Raines             Chevrolet   200
16.  Brendan Gaughan         Chevrolet   200
17.  Kenny Wallace           Chevrolet   198
18.  John Wes Townley        Ford        197
19.  Eric McClure            Ford        197
20.  Kevin Conway            Chevrolet   196
21.  Steve Wallace           Chevrolet   179
22.  Michael Annett          Toyota      177
23.  Bobby Hillin, Jr        Dodge       167
24.  Joey Logano             Toyota      152
25.  Justin Allgaier         Dodge       144
26.  Robert Richardson Jr    Chevrolet   138
27.  Josh Wise               Chevrolet   134
28.  Mike Wallace            Chevrolet   119
29.  Michael McDowell        Dodge       118
30.  Kasey Kahne             Toyota      112
31.  Shelby Howard           Chevrolet   109
32.  Morgan Shepherd         Chevrolet   103
33.  Jeremy Clements         Chevrolet   103
34.  John Borneman III       Ford         50
35.  Danny O'Quinn Jr        Chevrolet    32
36.  Joe Nemechek            Chevrolet    25
37.  Kenny Hendrick          Ford         15
38.  Mark Day                Chevrolet     8
39.  Chase Miller            Toyota        6
40.  Johnny Chapman          Chevrolet     4
41.  Terry Cook              Chevrolet     4
42.  Dennis Setzer           Dodge         2
43.  Mark Green              Chevrolet     2

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