Kyle Busch wins Nationwide at Lowe's

Busch has now won nine races this year - four in Nationwide, three in the Sprint Cup Series and two in the Craftsman Truck Series. Remarkably, he has won driving for three different teams, Saturday's victory his first at the wheel of a Braun Racing Toyota.

The 23-year-old, who leads the Cup standing entering Sunday's Coca-Cola 600, led the most laps during the race for the sixth time in his Nationwide Series season, but still had to run on saving-fuel mode for the latter part of the race to be able to get to the end without an extra stop.

He had stayed out on a late caution while most of his rivals pitted for fuel and three further cautions helped him save enough fuel. However, yet another caution came out with two laps remaining, forcing a green-white-chequered finish, which eventually made the race two laps longer.

Despite that, he was still able to stay in control on the last two laps, do a few burnouts on the frontstretch and then make his trademark bow to the booing crowd.

"It was a good clean race for us," said Busch after ending a six-race streak of wins by Joe Gibbs Racing cars in the Series.

"I knew that the tyres were going to be an issue at the end but staying out and taking a gamble was worth it. I was conserving (fuel) a little towards the end, but wasn't conserving much under green.

"You could cut the motor off during cautions and coast for a lap or so and save some gas."

However, at the end of the race the spotlight was not on Busch but on a fight developing on pit road between the crews of the second and third place finishers, Denny Hamlin and Brad Keselowski respectively.

Under the last caution Keselowski tapped the rear of Hamlin's car and then drove beside him on the outside. Hamlin retaliated by turning into the JR Motorsports car of Keselowski, making contact, while Dale Earnhardt Jr watched from behind in fourth.

"I said at the end of that race - I want to do whatever it takes to make that 88's (Keselowski) job the hardest to get around me," said Hamlin. "I'll block to let the 32 (Busch) win if I have to because of the way he raced me earlier."

"Brad has enough talent to be in these Cup Series, no doubt he'll be there in a few years, but I don't know if it's just these short races that he's been in - you just shoudn't race like that. You can, but it will hurt you in the future."

NASCAR is apparently reviewing the incident, which could result in penalties as there were apparently some punches between crew members despite the quick intervention of a number of NASCAR officials.

"Denny and I seemed to race together all day, which is cool, because that's obviously a great car the he's got there," Keselowski said. "We just raced each other hard and there towards the end we had a little bit of fun but it didn't make any difference with the green-white-chequered finish.

"One lap was not going to be enough to pass both of them. Just racing."

Earnhardt, who was driving one his team's cars for the sixth time this season, supported his driver and criticized Hamlin for retaliating in the way he did against Keselowski under the caution.

"I saw Brad hit [Denny Hamlin] a little bit under caution and then Denny knocked the fender off his car," Earnhardt said. "I'm not happy about that. I was happy with the finish but there was no excuse for Denny to tear up his fender like that."

Polesitter Brian Vickers rounded up the top-five in another Braun Racing Toyota, while Clint Bowyer was sixth and continues to lead the points, although Kyle Busch has narrowed the points gap and is now 67 behind him.

The race finished under caution following a crash involving Mike Wallace on the last lap of the green-white-chequered finish.

Pos  Driver                Car        Laps
 1.  Kyle Busch            Toyota      202
 2.  Denny Hamlin          Toyota      202
 3.  Brad Keselowski       Chevrolet   202
 4.  Dale Earnhardt Jr     Chevrolet   202
 5.  Brian Vickers         Toyota      202
 6.  Clint Bowyer          Chevrolet   202
 7.  Greg Biffle           Ford        202
 8.  Jeff Burton           Chevrolet   202
 9.  David Ragan           Ford        202
10.  Jimmie Johnson        Chevrolet   202
11.  David Reutimann       Toyota      202
12.  David Stremme         Chevrolet   202
13.  Carl Edwards          Ford        202
14.  Marcos Ambrose        Ford        202
15.  Mike Bliss            Chevrolet   202
16.  Kasey Kahne           Dodge       202
17.  Jason Keller          Chevrolet   202
18.  Bobby Hamilton Jr     Ford        202
19.  Kevin Harvick         Chevrolet   202
20.  Steve Wallace         Chevrolet   202
21.  Brad Coleman          Ford        202
22.  Mike Wallace          Toyota      201
23.  Kenny Wallace         Chevrolet   201
24.  Josh Wise             Dodge       201
25.  Kertus Davis          Chevrolet   199
26.  Kevin Lepage          Ford        199
27.  Brad Baker            Dodge       199
28.  Brad Teague           Chevrolet   196
29.  Eric McClure          Chevrolet   196
30.  Cale Gale *           Chevrolet   179
31.  Bryan Clauson         Dodge       178
32.  Jason Leffler         Toyota      175
33.  Kelly Bires           Ford        158
34.  Derrike Cope          Chevrolet   139
35.  Stanton Barrett       Chevrolet   133
36.  Chase Miller          Dodge       128
37.  Morgan Shepherd       Dodge        99
38.  Robert Richardson     Chevrolet    79
39.  Sam Hornish Jr        Dodge        66
40.  Andy Ponstein         Chevrolet    20
41.  Kenny Hendrick        Chevrolet    16
42.  Carl Long             Chevrolet    10
43.  Danny Efland          Chevrolet     3