Busch makes history at Fontana

The 23-year-old led 243 laps out of 250 he raced between the Camping World Truck Series and the Nationwide events at the two-mile oval. He had to work harder for his second win of the day than for the first one, but still came out undefeated looking in a class of his own all day.

Busch dominated most of the race and was only challenged when the last caution of the race came out following an incident involving Greg Biffle. As the leaders pitted, pole-sitter Carl Edwards won the race out of pit road, with Busch dropping to second behind him.

However on the restart with 16 laps remaining, Edwards was unable to fend off Busch and actually got shuffled down the order when he made slight contact with the Joe Gibbs driver, who dived on his inside to retake the lead.

Kevin Harvick watched the action unfold in front of him and made the most of the battle up front to briefly grab the lead. However that didn't last long as Busch drove on the outside of him showing once again his superiority on cold tyres.

From then on he did enough to stay up front, keeping Harvick and his rivals at bay to claim his second win of the day at Auto Club Speedway. The win allowed his crew chief Jason Ratcliff to make a winning comeback, returning after being suspended from his role by NASCAR last year.

"This is just a blast," said Busch, who will attempt to make three out of three on Sunday when he races in the Sprint Cup event. "To run like that here and beat guys like Carl (Edwards) and Kevin (Harvick) is pretty special. To win here twice in one day that's even more special.

"It was great to have (crew chief) Jason (Ratcliff) back. That really means a lot to us. We just get through practice quicker. Before we had to text him or call him or whatever and get changes made but now we can just buzz right through practice and like last night we only used fifteen minutes of the second one, so we're pretty cool."

In the closing laps a recovering Joey Logano heated up the battle for second with Harvick. The 18-year-old put the former Nationwide series champion under immense pressure but ran out of laps to put a decisive move on him.

Carl Edwards just managed to recover up to fourth place after dropping down the order on the last restart. His teammate David Ragan completed the top-five ahead of Richard Childress Racing's Jeff Burton.

The race saw only four caution periods, one of them following contact between Greg Biffle and Brad Keselowski, which sent the latter backwards into the wall. Biffle also caused the last caution when he crashed at turn two, while Michael McDowell brought out the first one when his car caught fire and left oil on the racetrack.

Following his victory Kyle Busch leads the driver standings, twenty points ahead of Carl Edwards.

Pos  Driver             Make        Laps
 1.  Kyle Busch         Toyota       150
 2.  Kevin Harvick      Chevrolet    150
 3.  Joey Logano        Toyota       150
 4.  Carl Edwards       Ford         150
 5.  David Ragan        Ford         150
 6.  Jeff Burton        Chevrolet    150
 7.  David Reutimann    Toyota       150
 8.  Brian Vickers      Toyota       150
 9.  Brendan Gaughan    Chevrolet    150
10.  Steve Wallace      Chevrolet    150
11.  Jason Leffler      Toyota       150
12.  Scott Lagasse Jr   Toyota       150
13.  Mike Bliss         Chevrolet    150
14.  Justin Allgaier    Dodge        150
15.  Michael Waltrip    Toyota       150
16.  Michael Annett     Toyota       150
17.  Jason Keller       Ford         148
18.  David Green        Toyota       148
19.  Morgan Shepherd    Chevrolet    148
20.  Ken Butler III     Chevrolet    148
21.  Tony Raines        Chevrolet    148
22.  John Wes Townley   Ford         147
23.  Brandon Whitt      Ford         146
24.  DJ Kennington      Dodge        146
25.  Kertus Davis       Chevrolet    145
26.  Kenny Hendrick     Dodge        145
27.  Brad Keselowski    Chevrolet    145
28.  Stanton Barrett    Chevrolet    144
29.  Brian Keselowski   Dodge        144
30.  Eric McClure       Ford         144
31.  Kenny Wallace      Chevrolet    142
32.  Scott Gaylord      Chevrolet    142
33.  Danny O'Quinn Jr   Chevrolet    134
34.  Greg Biffle        Ford         127
35.  Joe Nemechek       Chevrolet     61
36.  Michael McDowell   Toyota        50
37.  Terry Cook         Chevrolet     15
38.  J C Stout          Chevrolet     13
39.  Johnny Chapman     Chevrolet     10
40.  Casey Atwood       Chevrolet      5
41.  Justin Ashburn     Chevrolet      5
42.  Dennis Setzer      Dodge          3
43.  Derrike Cope       Chevrolet      3