Edwards wins Dover Busch race

Edwards was the driver to beat all afternoon, leading 122 of the 200 laps at the 'Monster Mile'. With 17 laps to go, he was third behind Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin but easily went by Hamlin and then fought Kenseth for three laps to finally take the lead away from him.

A caution came out with 10 laps to go and despite Hamlin putting some pressure on Edwards on the restart, he was able to pull away to cross the chequer and yellow flags first, after one of his Roush teammates, Greg Biffle, crashed out of 13th place on the last lap.

"The car was awesome," Edwards said. "Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin and all these guys are so fast that it really means a lot win this Busch race.

"You couldn't be very patient and it all worked out great. It's just so much fun; this racetrack is a blast when your car is right. There were times when the car was so good I couldn't believe it."

Pole-sitter Denny Hamlin led the first few laps but was later overtaken by Biffle. Despite that, he was able to stay in the leading pack and was Edwards' shadow for most of the afternoon.

"It was a lot of fun to race with those guys there at the end," said Hamlin. "We were just to tight to race them in the long run and Carl had the car to beat all weekend. He did a great job getting through that traffic and working Matt, so hats off to him."

Scott Wimmer finished third behind Hamlin and looked to have probably the second best car of the day but had a lengthy pitstop which cost him track position. In the end he claimed his best result of the season in the No. 21 RCR Chevrolet.

"It was real fun racing with Denny and Carl there but just in the long runs," Wimmer said. "We were really good in the long runs and at the end we didn't get any there.

"Fortunately this car was really strong today, had a few miss-queues on pitstops and dropped us back to tenth but we're still able to get up to third."

Casey Mears had another good weekend with his Busch team finishing fourth, ahead of Matt Kenseth and an impressive Marcos Ambrose who lived up to his qualifying promise to get his best result of the year thus far.

"We've turned a corner, there's no doubt. I feel like I've arrived somewhat holding Harvick up there at the end," said an excited Ambrose, who benefited from a strategy which allowed him to stay on the track when the leaders pitted for the last time.

"The front right tires were showing cords so we used everything up there. Good strategy, good teamwork, good team, good race. I've got to thank Mark Martin because he jumped in our No. 47 car in practice yesterday when Jon Wood got sick. Caught on to a couple things, we copied it, and look where we are."

Juan Pablo Montoya avoided most of the incidents unfolding in front of him to finish 14th in what looked as a promising race for the Colombian early on.

He was able to avoid being involved in the biggest accident of the race with 34 laps to go, when Kevin Conway tapped the left rear of Regan Smith's car out of turn four, causing a multi-car incident which took four cars out of the race.

A few laps later however, Montoya had contact with Jason Keller sending the latter into a spin. He was forced to pit for repairs falling down to 17th, but then on the last lap he grabbed a few places when Greg Biffle crashed on the main straight.

He ran some laps in the top ten midway through the race but problems with his left rear wheel hampered his race.

"We were okay," said Montoya. "We were a little lucky. We had problems with the left-rear tire so we lost a lot of places coming in every run.

"We had to come in too tight and off again and the lug nuts were coming loose and that was that. That was the end of the day. I finished like 13th or something but it's okay."

The race proved quite eventful for many as there were 10 caution flags during the race during 46 laps and only 23 of the 43 cars that started the race were able to make it to the end.

Pos  Driver                  Make        Laps
 1.  Carl Edwards            Ford        200
 2.  Denny Hamlin            Chevrolet   200
 3.  Scott Wimmer            Chevrolet   200
 4.  Casey Mears             Chevrolet   200
 5.  Matt Kenseth            Ford        200
 6.  Marcos Ambrose          Ford        200
 7.  Kevin Harvick           Chevrolet   200
 8.  Tony Raines             Chevrolet   200
 9.  Mike Bliss              Dodge       200
10.  Bobby Hamilton Jr       Ford        200
11.  Jason Leffler           Toyota      200
12.  Kasey Kahne             Dodge       200
13.  Jason Keller            Chevrolet   200
14.  Juan Montoya            Dodge       200
15.  David Reutimann         Toyota      200
16.  Dave Blaney             Toyota      199
17.  Ward Burton             Ford        199
18.  Greg Biffle             Ford        199
19.  Jeff Burton             Chevrolet   198
20.  Jamie McMurray          Ford        198
21.  Kyle Krisiloff          Ford        197
22.  Steve Wallace           Dodge       196
23.  DJ Kennington           Dodge       195
24.  Brad Keselowski         Chevrolet   189
25.  JJ Yeley                Chevrolet   177
26.  Regan Smith             Chevrolet   171
27.  Reed Sorenson           Dodge       165
28.  Eric McClure            Chevrolet   163
29.  David Gilliland         Ford        162
30.  Kevin Conway            Chevrolet   162
31.  Travis Kvapil           Ford        152
32.  David Ragan             Ford        125
33.  Mike Wallace            Chevrolet   124
34.  Stephen Leicht          Ford        124
35.  Brent Sherman           Chevrolet   103
36.  Robert Richardson, II   Chevrolet    87
37.  Shane Huffman           Chevrolet    36
38.  Morgan Shepherd         Dodge        20
39.  Donnie Neuenberger      Ford         20
40.  Kevin Lepage            Chevrolet     6
41.  Jerick Johnson          Chevrolet     4
42.  Brad Teague             Chevrolet     3
43.  Randy MacDonald         Chevrolet     2