Kyle Busch wins Nationwide at Fontana

The Sprint Cup series points leader started from pole position and paced the field all night long. Not even a smaller restrictor at a 'power' track, nor the suspension that a number of crew members from the team are serving were enough to prevent Busch from winning his seventh Nationwide race of the year.

As the race progressed though, it all started to look way too familiar for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver, resembling what had happened a week ago when he led nearly the whole Sprint Cup race at Bristol, only to be bumped out of the lead in the closing stages by Roush Fenway's Carl Edwards, leading to a post-race exchange that has both of them under probation.

However, this time Busch was superior and he was able to keep it all together on the last restart with eight laps to go to win a NASCAR-sanctioned race for the eighteenth time this year including his victories across the three main NASCAR series.

"It was a great race car tonight," said Busch before dedicating his victory to the suspended JGR crew members. "It was just a phenomenal job by all of the guys at the shop. I've really got to thank Jason Ratcliff, Dave Rogers and all the boys that have been on this team that deserve to be on this team here at the race track that weren't.

"They just did such a great job in paying attention to detail and being able to put this car together and making it a phenomenal car to drive."

Carl Edwards came home in a good second place, which allowed him to close on the runner-up place in the championship. The closest he got to Busch all night was at the finish line at the end of the race, when he jokingly bumped the rear end of the Toyota as the race finished under caution.

"Oh yeah, I was just messing around with him," Edwards said. "I couldn't get to him to hit him all day. Even if I wanted to wreck him, I couldn't because he was so fast. It was a good race and tomorrow's going to be real good. We've got a great car for tomorrow going for three in a row, so that should be a blast."

Brian Vickers finished third driving for Braun Racing, recovering from a pitroad violation for a loose lug nut and a sideways moment early in the race. Fellow Cup regulars Jeff Burton and Jamie McMurray followed him to the flag, while Joey Logano finished sixth as the best Nationwide series regular.

The 18-year-old lost a few spots in the closing stages of the race after running closer to the front earlier in the race.

"I thought we were sitting okay after that last pit stop because my pit crew is awesome and they did awesome pit stops," said Logano. "We gained like four spots at one time. That last caution tightened me up a little too much to really do much with anything. We had to get a balance at the end.

"We would have liked to run fast with Kyle (Busch) and those guys but I guess we'll take what we learn and go to the next one."

Title contender Brad Keselowski had a bad night in terms of his championship hopes as electrical issues forced him to go to his garage. He lost several laps in the process and could only manage 33rd place, which now puts him 204 points behind leader Clint Bowyer with eight races remaining.

Pos  Driver               Make        Laps
 1.  Kyle Busch           Toyota       150
 2.  Carl Edwards         Ford         150
 3.  Brian Vickers        Toyota       150
 4.  Jeff Burton          Chevrolet    150
 5.  Jamie McMurray       Ford         150
 6.  Joey Logano          Toyota       150
 7.  Clint Bowyer         Chevrolet    150
 8.  David Reutimann      Toyota       150
 9.  David Ragan          Ford         150
10.  David Stremme        Chevrolet    150
11.  Kevin Harvick        Chevrolet    150
12.  Mike Bliss           Chevrolet    150
13.  Kelly Bires          Ford         150
14.  Jason Keller         Chevrolet    150
15.  Marcos Ambrose       Ford         147
16.  Mike Wallace         Toyota       147
17.  Jimmie Johnson       Chevrolet    147
18.  Bryan Clauson        Dodge        147
19.  Bobby Hamilton Jr    Ford         147
20.  Steve Wallace        Chevrolet    147
21.  Stanton Barrett      Chevrolet    147
22.  Josh Wise            Dodge        147
23.  Chase Miller         Dodge        146
24.  Kevin Hamlin         Dodge        145
25.  Brandon Whitt        Ford         145
26.  Jason Leffler        Toyota       145
27.  Danny Efland         Chevrolet    144
28.  Kenny Wallace        Chevrolet    144
29.  John Borneman III    Ford         145
30.  Derrike Cope         Chevrolet    143
31.  David Gilliland      Ford         142
32.  Eric McClure         Chevrolet    140
33.  Brad Keselowski      Chevrolet    127
34.  Morgan Shepherd      Dodge         48
35.  Burney Lamar         Ford          39
36.  Larry Gunselman      Chevrolet     26
37.  Kenny Hendrick       Chevrolet     23
38.  Justin Hobgood       Chevrolet     20
39.  Johnny Chapman       Chevrolet     17
40.  Scott Gaylord        Chevrolet     14
41.  Kevin Lepage         Dodge          8
42.  Johnny Sauter        Chevrolet      4
43.  Kertus Davis         Chevrolet      2