Edwards wins again at Nashville

The uncontested series leader was in the hunt for the win all day but took the lead from Clint Bowyer with 32 laps to go and never gave gave it back, instead opening a big enough gap to secure his second victory of the year at the 1.3-mile oval.

"The biggest thing on this concrete tracks is the car is so important and I've got the best crew in business," said Edwards after celebrating with his traditional back-flip from his car in front of the start-finish line, receiving a unique guitar as the trophy in victory lane.

"[The car] was just extremely tight at the beginning and I though we were in big trouble but my team, they're real thoughtful about how to set this cars up. No matter what I tell them, but loose or tight they can fix it. They give me that room; that's awesome."

Edwards didn't take part in the two practice sessions held during Friday, with Matt McCall filling in for him.

The Roush Fenway driver was on Nextel Cup duty at Pocono during the morning, and landed in the infield in a helicopter with teammate David Ragan to make it just in time to qualify seventh.

But while Edwards had no problems getting to grips with the car at such short notice, Clint Bowyer felt his lack of time in the car before the race probably prevented him from taking victory despite leading more than half the laps of the evening at Nashville.

"Without practicing you've basically got what you've got," a disappointed Bowyer said. "Brandon Miller did a really good job practicing the car but it just wasn't my driving style, you know, I needed it to be freer in so I could put more speed in the corner and we just couldn't get that. You could try to crush it for a few laps but in the long run it's what put us back."

Jason Leffler finished third in his No. 38 Braun Racing Toyota overtaking Bowyer's RCR teammate Scott Wimmer in the last lap of the race. Wimmer led 41 laps and had another good weekend filling in this time for Jeff Burton, having finished third a week ago at Dover.

"It was fun racing Wimmer at the end. and we caught him on the last lap and were able to pass him," Leffler said. "We turned it around here; we've had an up-and-down season, mainly down. If we keep doing this, we'll be happy."

Regan Smith rounded up the top five with yet another good showing for Ginn Racing, while officially the best rookie finisher was David Ragan, who crossed the line seventh in his Roush Fenway Chevrolet.

Pole-sitter Steve Wallace was not able to profit from his good qualifying and despite leading the first six laps, most of them under caution, he finished 12th.

Kevin Hamlin finished 23rd filling in for Juan Pablo Montoya, who sat out a Busch race for the second time this year, as he plans to race only in the companion events of the Nextel Cup races - Mexico being the only exception.

After Saturday's race, Carl Edwards increases his lead in the standings to a massive 662 points as he closest pursuer, reigning Busch Series champion Kevin Harvick, stayed at Pocono.

Pos  Driver                  Make        Laps
 1.  Carl Edwards            Ford        225
 2.  Clint Bowyer            Chevrolet   225
 3.  Jason Leffler           Toyota      225
 4.  Scott Wimmer            Chevrolet   225
 5.  Regan Smith             Chevrolet   225
 6.  Jason Keller            Chevrolet   225
 7.  David Ragan             Ford        225
 8.  Todd Kluever            Ford        225
 9.  David Reutimann         Toyota      225
10.  Aric Almirola           Chevrolet   225
11.  David Green             Toyota      225
12.  Steve Wallace           Dodge       225
13.  Bobby Hamilton Jr       Ford        225
14.  David Stremme           Dodge       224
15.  Kelly Bires             Ford        224
16.  Mike Bliss              Dodge       224
17.  Dave Blaney             Toyota      224
18.  JJ Yeley                Chevrolet   224
19.  Shane Huffman           Chevrolet   223
20.  Timothy Peters          Chevrolet   223
21.  Brent Sherman           Chevrolet   223
22.  Chase Miller            Dodge       223
23.  Kevin Hamlin            Dodge       223
24.  Bobby East              Ford        222
25.  Mike Wallace            Chevrolet   222
26.  Cale Gale               Chevrolet   222
27.  Kyle Krisiloff          Ford        221
28.  Greg Biffle             Ford        221
29.  Danny O'Quinn Jr        Chevrolet   220
30.  Robert Richardson, II   Chevrolet   220
31.  Kevin Conway            Chevrolet   193
32.  Kertus Davis            Chevrolet   187
33.  Stephen Leicht          Ford        165
34.  Richard Johns           Ford        147
35.  Eric McClure            Chevrolet   145
36.  Marcos Ambrose          Ford        109
37.  Bobby Santos            Toyota       63
38.  Stanton Barrett         Chevrolet    44
39.  Brett Rowe              Ford         28
40.  Brad Keselowski         Chevrolet    23
41.  Morgan Shepherd         Dodge        18
42.  Brad Teague             Ford         16
43.  Justin Diercks          Chevrolet     5