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Kyle Busch wins in Mexico City

Kyle Busch scored his third victory in a row in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and his first ever on a road-course, winning an incident-filled Corona Mexico 200 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez

Scott Pruett seemed to have the race under control in the closing stages despite pressure from a charging "Rowdy" Busch, but he outbraked himself at turn four with nine laps remaining, handing the lead to the Joe Gibbs driver who seized the opportunity to win on Mexican soil.

Busch was eleventh on the penultimate restart due to strategy as he had led the race earlier, but made his way through the field - and a number of incidents in front of him - to be second only seven laps later when the last caution flag came out with 16 to go.

Following the last restart he put pressure on Pruett and even tapped the rear end of the Ganassi car a couple of times, although he later seemed to lose contact with it. However he kept filling Pruett's mirrors until he saw him lock wheels and open the door for another Nationwide win.

"We ran up front the majority of the race there and Pruett had a little miss out there in turn four and I was able to get by him," said Busch, who has led nearly 64 percent of the laps of the Nationwide season thus far. "It looked like [Pruett's] car was fading back a little bit, but our car stayed pretty decent the whole time.

"If I ran good clean laps I knew I could build a big enough gap so those guys couldn't get me. Luckily I built a good enough lead because [Marcos] Ambrose was pretty good there at the end."

The race saw seven caution periods - and two red flags for 28 minutes - but that number didn't to justice to the amount of incidents on the track. The last 30 laps were action packed right behind the leader, and Busch was able to keep his nose clean through the carnage.

"It was just mayhem," Busch added. "We kept just trying to make sure that we missed all that stuff and get through it all but we were able to do it and kept our nose clean and make it here first."

Australian Marcos Ambrose had a bumpy afternoon but still came out without major damage from a number of clashes he was involved in, notably one with Boris Said.

He was able to mount a late challenge for victory after getting by Patrick Carpentier and Scott Pruett in the last 13 laps, but he ran out of time to get close enough to Busch.

"That was tough," said Ambrose. "Another two laps and we would've been in victory lane probably but congratulations to Kyle. He has driven a heck of a weekend. He's really driven well and had the car to beat. We restarted at the back and just couldn't get to him on time."

"I didn't mean to get into Boris. He's a great racer and I quite like him, and still do. It's just hard racing out there."

Once again Pruett saw his maiden NASCAR win slip though his fingers in the last ten laps, after losing to teammate Juan Pablo Montoya last year following a controversial clash at turn one.

This time he blamed set up issues for losing a win that looked in the cards, having led the most laps of the day but taking third in the end.

"We weren't real happy with the set up," Pruett said. "It was just a little off. We took a pretty big swing at it pitting a little early towards the end. We took some spring rubbers out and it got a little better but just not good enough to run hard. We were hanging on but that was about it."

Carl Edwards finished fourth behind Pruett after almost ripping off the rear panel on the Ganassi car when he tried to overtake under braking for turn one.

The reigning Nationwide Series champion had to pit from the lead under caution when all the other front runners had already made their last stops. He had to fight his way through to get back up front after that, finishing ahead of Patrick Carpentier.

Adrian Fernandez managed a 14th place finish despite making contact with the wall at the Peraltada corner after getting spun by Sam Hornish. The American was not a favourite among the crowd after that, but still was able to finish just ahead of the local hero.

Pole-sitter Colin Braun was a contender until he got a penalty for a pit road violation, which dropped him down the order. He was later involved in a couple of incidents while trying to move up through the field.

Clint Bowyer finished sixth and continues to lead the driver standings.

Pos  Driver              Car        Laps
 1.  Kyle Busch          Toyota     80
 2.  Marcos Ambrose      Ford       80
 3.  Scott Pruett        Dodge      80
 4.  Carl Edwards        Ford       80
 5.  Patrick Carpentier  Dodge      80
 6.  Clint Bowyer        Chevrolet  80
 7.  Scott Wimmer        Chevrolet  80
 8.  Brad Keselowski     Chevrolet  80
 9.  Mike Bliss          Chevrolet  80
10.  Steve Wallace       Chevrolet  80
11.  Sam Hornish Jr      Dodge      80
12.  David Reutimann     Toyota     80
13.  Mike Wallace        Toyota     80
14.  Max Papis           Chevrolet  80
15.  Adrian Fernandez    Chevrolet  80
16.  Jason Keller        Chevrolet  80
17.  Brad Coleman        Ford       80
18.  Ruben Pardo         Dodge      80
19.  Kenny Wallace       Chevrolet  80
20.  Rafael Martinez     Ford       80
21.  Jason Leffler       Toyota     80
22.  David Ragan         Ford       80
23.  Landon Cassill      Chevrolet  80
24.  Kevin Lepage        Ford       80
25.  DJ Kennington       Dodge      80
26.  Erik Darnell        Ford       80
27.  Kelly Bires         Ford       80
28.  Alex Garcia         Chevrolet  80
29.  Brian Simo          Chevrolet  80
30.  Kyle Krisiloff      Dodge      80
31.  Stanton Barrett     Chevrolet  80
32.  Ron Hornaday        Chevrolet  78
33.  Colin Braun         Ford       76
34.  Antonio Perez       Dodge      75
35.  Boris Said          Ford       54
36.  Michel Jourdain Jr  Toyota     39
37.  Kevin O'Connell     Chevrolet  32
38.  Kenny Hendrick      Chevrolet  30
39.  Jose Luis Ramirez   Dodge      28
40.  Chris Cook          Chevrolet  20
41.  Larry Gunselman     Chevrolet  17
42.  Scott Gaylord       Ford       12
43.  Kertus Davis        Chevrolet   1

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