Edwards wins Nashville Busch race

Edwards dominated the later part of the race, leading the final 25 laps after overtaking Jason Leffler on the inside of Turn 1.

He ran all the distance within the top ten and led a race-high 74 laps to take an extra ten points for the championship.

"I really had a lot of fun out here. A great race, a great track and an honour to finish in front of David Reutimann, he was running really well today," said the Roush Fenway driver, who also took his second consecutive victory at Nashville.

"I was a little nervous about coming out third from the last pitstops. We had a loose right front wheel for the last two runs. It kept coming loose but it was good timing to get it right in the end."

As Edwards said, Reutimann was the man he was keeping in sight in the last part of the race. The Michael Waltrip Racing driver took the lead of the race early on from pole-sitter David Stremme and opened up a huge gap in front.

However he was hampered by a penalty due to a pit-road violation which dropped him back, although he was able to recover to finish second, achieving his best result of the season to date.

"Those types of things happen every once in a while, but [the crew] picked me up two spots on the last stop," Reutimann said.

"No matter what happened, I think we had a second place car today and that's where we ended up."

Reutimann wasn't the only Toyota in contention for victory. Dave Blaney finished third despite and early incident while Jason Leffler finished fourth after leading the race four different times. It has been the best showing by the Camrys so far in their debut season in the Busch series.

Coincidence or not, NASCAR officials mandated all Toyota teams in the Busch series and Craftsman Truck series to change the intake manifold on their cars from this weekend onwards, because the one in use previously was supposed to be giving them a horsepower advantage.

Regan Smith rounded up the top five in his Ginn Racing Chevrolet, getting his best ever result in NASCAR.

Mike Bliss finished tenth as the best Dodge driver, ahead of David Stremme who was driving the No. 41 entry for Chip Ganassi this weekend.

Kevin Hamlin, who replaced Juan Pablo Montoya in the No. 42 Dodge for the first time this season, finished 18th, behind Australian Marcos Ambrose, who had started from the front row.

Edwards now holds a massive 321 points lead in the driver standings over Toyota's Dave Blaney and 392 over reigning champion Kevin Harvick, who did not take part of the race this weekend.

The Busch Series will race again next weekend at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway.

Pos  Driver                  Make        Laps
 1.  Carl Edwards            Ford        225
 2.  David Reutimann         Toyota      225
 3.  Dave Blaney             Toyota      225
 4.  Jason Leffler           Toyota      225
 5.  Regan Smith             Chevrolet   225
 6.  Shane Huffman           Chevrolet   225
 7.  Scott Wimmer            Chevrolet   225
 8.  Stephen Leicht          Ford        225
 9.  Bobby Hamilton Jr       Ford        225
10.  Mike Bliss              Dodge       225
11.  David Stremme           Dodge       225
12.  JJ Yeley                Chevrolet   225
13.  Todd Kluever            Ford        225
14.  Steve Wallace           Dodge       225
15.  Brad Coleman            Chevrolet   224
16.  Jon Wood                Ford        224
17.  Marcos Ambrose          Ford        224
18.  Kevin Hamlin            Dodge       223
19.  Aric Almirola           Chevrolet   222
20.  Brent Sherman           Chevrolet   222
21.  Kyle Krisiloff          Ford        221
22.  Brett Rowe              Ford        219
23.  Danny O'Quinn Jr        Chevrolet   219
24.  Justin Diercks          Chevrolet   219
25.  Sam Hornish Jr          Dodge       218
26.  Eric McClure            Chevrolet   217
27.  Cale Gale               Chevrolet   204
28.  Jay Sauter              Chevrolet   204
29.  Boris Said              Dodge       199
30.  Mike Wallace            Chevrolet   196
31.  Robert Richardson, II   Chevrolet   191
32.  Timothy Peters          Chevrolet   167
33.  Jason Keller            Ford        133
34.  Richard Johns           Ford        131
35.  Johnny Sauter           Ford        126
36.  David Ragan             Ford         92
37.  Kertus Davis            Chevrolet    91
38.  Brad Keselowski         Chevrolet    26
39.  Brad Teague             Ford         24
40.  Mike Harmon             Chevrolet    20
41.  Jerick Johnson          Chevrolet    10
42.  Morgan Shepherd         Chevrolet     8
43.  Ruben Pardo             Dodge         4