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Kyle Busch wins Busch at Phoenix

Kyle Busch took his fourth Busch Series victory of the season after holding off Matt Kenseth in a green-white-chequer final in the Arizona Travel 200 at Phoenix International Raceway

Busch was the class of the field all day, leading the most laps during the afternoon en route to his second victory of the weekend. On Friday Busch won the Craftsman Truck Series race and now he looks to make history and take a full sweep out of the weekend at Phoenix.

"When you have a car that good, you can make whatever happen, whatever possible," said Busch. "For the past couple of weeks we've kind of struggled to have that good of a car and we've had bad pitstops but today we just have to thank everybody."

"Kenseth and I would run faster on the top than what we were on the bottom and it's kind of weird that the car didn't move that much. We'll see what [the track] is like tomorrow, but the Cup cars tend to get tighter the more you move up. So, I don't think that's going to be the way to go for tomorrow."

Kenseth was a threat for Busch in the final part of the race but the final two-lap sprint didn't help his cause. The Roush Fenway driver had the handicap of a fading power steering on his car, which probably made the race a bit tougher physically for him, although he says the real problem was getting the right feel for what the car was doing.

"Kyle did a great job and put his car where it needed to be so that I couldn't get by him," Kenseth said. "Physically you could turn [the car] but it was just hard to feel the front tyres, hard to feel what the car was doing exactly. That was a little bit of a hindrance. It wasn't that hard physically to drive."

Pole-sitter Clint Bowyer finished the race third while Scott Wimmer was fourth in the No. 29 RCR entry, which all but clinched the owner's title. The entry has also been driven by Jeff Burton in 18 races this year and just by taking the start in the season finale at Homestead they will win the championship.

Kevin Harvick finished the race battling with Wimmer but eventually crossed the line fifth, ahead of Kasey Kahne, Series' champion Carl Edwards, Jason Leffler, Jamie McMurray and Phoenix local JJ Yeley who rounded up the top-ten.

The race was pretty eventful with 14 caution periods lasting for 46 of the 203 laps, including two red flag interruptions for pile-ups along the front stretch.

One of them involved Dario Franchitti, who looked set for a decent finish on his third Busch Series race, until he tapped the rear of David Gilliland with three laps to go, sending him into a spin exiting turn four, and causing a wreck that also caught Stanton Barrett and David Ragan.

Franchitti and Gilliland crashed into the inside wall of the front stretch, while Barrett was hard into the outside barrier, causing the race to be red flagged for nearly 12 minutes to allow officials to clean the track for the green-white-chequer finish.

The Scot was running 24th when the incident happened, and he had already recovered from a brush with the wall, a spin and being a lap down shortly before that. He was classified 29th although after the crash he didn't return to the track to finish the race.

His former IRL IndyCar Series rival Sam Hornish Jr didn't have a good race either and was involved in an incident very early into the race with Todd Souza, which ended both of their afternoons on the spot.

The Busch Series season finale at Homestead next weekend will be a mere formality as both the drivers' and owners' titles are not in contest anymore.

Pos  Driver              Make        Laps
 1.  Kyle Busch          Chevrolet    203
 2.  Matt Kenseth        Ford         203
 3.  Clint Bowyer        Chevrolet    203
 4.  Scott Wimmer        Chevrolet    203
 5.  Kevin Harvick       Chevrolet    203
 6.  Kasey Kahne         Dodge        203
 7.  Carl Edwards        Ford         203
 8.  Jason Leffler       Toyota       203
 9.  Jamie McMurray      Ford         203
10.  Ron Hornaday        Chevrolet    203
11.  J.J. Yeley          Chevrolet    203
12.  David Reutimann     Toyota       203
13.  A.J. Allmendinger   Dodge        203
14.  Michael McDowell    Toyota       203
15.  Marcos Ambrose      Ford         203
16.  Brad Coleman        Chevrolet    203
17.  Mike Wallace        Chevrolet    203
18.  Tony Raines         Chevrolet    203
19.  Stephen Leicht      Ford         203
20.  Robby Gordon        Ford         203
21.  Brad Keselowski     Chevrolet    203
22.  Kelly Bires         Ford         203
23.  David Ragan         Ford         203
24.  Bobby Hamilton Jr   Ford         203
25.  Kyle Krisiloff      Ford         202
26.  John Graham         Ford         201
27.  Brian Vickers       Toyota       199
28.  Denny Hamlin        Chevrolet    199
29.  Dario Franchitti    Dodge        198
30.  Richard Johns       Ford         197
31.  Stanton Barrett     Chevrolet    197
32.  Mike Bliss          Dodge        182
33.  Blake Bjorklund     Chevrolet    180
34.  Landon Cassill      Chevrolet    170
35.  Jason Keller        Chevrolet    139
36.  Greg Biffle         Ford         138
37.  Steve Wallace       Dodge        138
38.  Jeremy Clements     Chevrolet     35
39.  Sam Hornish Jr      Dodge         24
40.  Todd Souza          Chevrolet     22
41.  Kertus Davis        Chevrolet     19
42.  Frank Kreyer        Chevrolet      9
43.  D.J. Kennington     Dodge          8

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