Kenseth takes Texas Busch win

 Kenseth recovered from being a lap down after an early spin, timing his pitstops perfectly to get back on the lead lap and move up the field to challenge for victory.
 
Coming from fifth at the penultimate restart, Kenseth overtook Carl Edwards and then Casey Mears, both on the outside. He then got ahead of leader Denny Hamlin with nine laps remaining after the Joe Gibbs driver got loose out of turn four. 
 
Hamlin came back on Kenseth's bumper with five laps to go but could not find a way through to beat the Roush Fenway driver.
 
"It was a heck of a race. Denny is a great competitor, a great driver, and I was able to barely hold him off," Kenseth said.
 
"My car was working really good on the high side, he got loose and got around him. I couldn't get away from him so fortunately we were able to hang on."
 
Kenseth could not explain his spin on lap 55 where he was able to keep his car in one piece despite blowing a tyre. 
 
"We don't know exactly what happened but we blew up a tyre," he said. "I think we must have run over something. Luckily we were able to recover from that." 
 
Hamlin was disappointed to lose the race so close to the end by his own mistake, which he claimed was a result of his car's balance being right on the edge in the closing laps. 
 
"Up front our car was really good but it was on the edge," he said. "We just got loose right there and opened up the door and gave one away. On the top Matt just got a better run than us there at the end."
 
Kyle Busch was also left hoping for what might have been once again. He led almost every lap in the first half of the race, but was one of several top runners who got caught out by the fourth caution which came out on lap 126 just after he had pitted under green.
 
Hamlin, Casey Mears and eventual winner Kenseth had not pitted when the yellow flags came out for a crash involving Regan Smith and they were able to improve their track position as a consequence.
 
Juan Pablo Montoya was also a beneficiary of the situation as he moved up from 15th to fifth.
 
The Colombian overtook David Reutimann on the next restart to take fourth and when a further caution came in time for the next round of pitstops, he had only two tyres changed instead of four to take the lead.

However, NASCAR officials called him back into the pits a lap later to have one of his wheel nuts put back on. 
 
"We screwed up on one of the pit stops. One of the lug nuts came off so they brought us back in. That was that," Montoya said. 
 
He rejoined on the lead lap and was recovering until he brushed the wall going out of turn two while trying to overtake slower cars on the outside.
 
"It was the 37 (Jamie McMurray), I went to the outside of him," the Colombian added. "I think he went to the middle of the racetrack and it just pushed me up a little bit. It was just too loose."
 
Montoya immediately pitted for repairs which put him a lap down. A few laps later, when he was running on the outside of Marcos Ambrose, the Australian got loose and put him out of the race for good.
 
"We were running okay but behind traffic there, if a car came across and got the side of you, you lost the whole nose and that's really what happened," Ambrose said after apologising to Montoya.
 
"I feel bad for Juan. I wasn't trying to take him out. We were just trying to finish the race."
 
Rookie David Ragan, who had started from pole, completed a solid performance finishing fifth behind Mears who also led the race briefly.

Carl Edwards finished third and increased his lead in the standings to 403 points over Dave Blaney. 
 
David Reutimann was the best-placed Toyota in sixth, showing clear signs of improvement for Michael Waltrip Racing.

Results:

Pos   Driver              Car         Laps
 1.   Matt Kenseth        Ford        200
 2.   Denny Hamlin        Chevrolet   200
 3.   Carl Edwards        Ford        200
 4.   Casey Mears         Chevrolet   200
 5.   David Ragan         Ford        200
 6.   David Reutimann     Toyota      200
 7.   Kyle Busch          Chevrolet   200
 8.   Kurt Busch          Dodge       200
 9.   Paul Menard         Chevrolet   200
10.   Jeff Burton         Chevrolet   200
11.   Kevin Harvick       Chevrolet   200
12.   Mark Martin         Ford        200
13.   Jason Leffler       Toyota      200
14.   Bobby Hamilton Jr   Ford        200
15.   Mike Wallace        Chevrolet   200
16.   Brad Coleman        Chevrolet   200
17.   Jamie McMurray      Ford        200
18.   J.J. Yeley          Chevrolet   199
19.   David Stremme       Dodge       198
20.   Stephen Leicht      Ford        198
21.   Ward Burton         Ford        198
22.   Bobby Labonte       Chevrolet   198
23.   Johnny Sauter       Chevrolet   198
24.   Justin Diercks      Chevrolet   198
25.   Dave Blaney         Toyota      197
26.   David Gilliland     Ford        197
27.   Kyle Krisiloff      Ford        197
28.   Kasey Kahne         Dodge       197
29.   Eric McClure        Chevrolet   195
30.   Juan Montoya        Dodge       179
31.   Marcos Ambrose      Ford        179
32.   Steve Wallace       Dodge       141
33.   Stanton Barrett     Chevrolet   132
34.   Regan Smith         Chevrolet   129
35.   Reed Sorenson       Dodge       127
36.   Greg Biffle         Ford        115
37.   Brent Sherman       Chevrolet   112
38.   Jon Wood            Ford        111
39.   Shane Huffman       Chevrolet    69
40.   Brett Rowe          Chevrolet    57
41.   Timothy Peters      Chevrolet    17
42.   Kevin Lepage        Ford         15
43.   Brad Keselowski     Chevrolet     6