Logano wins Kentucky Nationwide

The 19-year-old had started from pole position after beating Busch by just three thousandths of a second in qualifying.

Although Logano lost the lead to his team-mate as soon as lap one, and was among a number of drivers penalised for speeding on pitroad, he was able to quickly recover and get back in contention, leaving his best for last.

Right before the final caution period of the race, Logano had been chasing down Busch, showing he had the speed to put the leader under pressure and stir up the fight during the final sprint.

When the race resumed for the decisive 12-lap shootout, following nearly nine minutes under red flag for an incident involving Mike Bliss and Jason Leffler on the frontstretch, Logano attacked Busch on the inside and categorically claimed the lead from him with just 10 laps remaining.

He then pulled away comfortably to score his second win in a row at the scene of his first career Nationwide Series victory, where he became the youngest winner ever in NASCAR's second-tier series a year ago.

"We're now two for two at Kentucky, two poles, two wins, that's a perfect record here and hopefully we can keep that going," Logano said. "Once I got behind Kyle, he just moved up the track a little bit, I got a big run and got underneath him. I just had a great car and once I got that clean air I knew I was going to be good."

Busch had taken the lead from Logano on the first lap of the race but then surrendered it back on lap 15. Following the first caution he took the lead from Justin Allgaier and stayed ahead seemingly without rivals, leading the most laps for the seventh consecutive event this season.

However, for the second time during the day, the 24-year-old was beaten in the closing stages of the race, as earlier in the afternoon Colin Braun overtook him with 24 laps remaining to win the Truck Series race at Michigan.

On Sunday, he will be second once again when he lines up on the grid for the Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan.

Brad Keselowski was able to beat rookie Brendan Gaughan in a tight battle for third place, while Penske's Justin Allgaier had another impressive run finishing fifth, recovering well from a pitroad penalty that dropped him down the order during the third caution period of the race.

Title contender Carl Edwards had a tough night, first struggling with the balance of his car and then getting two penalties for speeding on pitroad towards the end of the race.

Unlike Logano and Allgaier, he had to serve his penalties under the green flag, which meant he finished three laps down in 20th place.

The Roush Fenway driver is now 137 points behind Busch in the Nationwide Series driver standings, while Keselowski moved up to third, dropping Leffler down to fourth place.

Pos  Driver                Car        Laps
 1.  Joey Logano           Toyota      200
 2.  Kyle Busch            Toyota      200
 3.  Brad Keselowski       Chevrolet   200
 4.  Brendan Gaughan       Chevrolet   200
 5.  Justin Allgaier       Dodge       200
 6.  Jason Leffler         Toyota      200
 7.  Michael Annett        Toyota      200
 8.  Burney Lamar          Toyota      200
 9.  Ricky Stenhouse Jr    Ford        200
10.  Kelly Bires           Chevrolet   200
11.  Erik Darnell          Ford        199
12.  Trevor Bayne          Toyota      199
13.  Scott Lagasse Jr      Toyota      199
14.  Steve Wallace         Chevrolet   199
15.  Kevin Conway          Toyota      199
16.  Scott Wimmer          Chevrolet   198
17.  Ken Butler III        Chevrolet   198
18.  Danny O'Quinn Jr      Chevrolet   198
19.  Mark Green            Chevrolet   197
20.  Carl Edwards          Ford        197
21.  Tony Raines           Chevrolet   197
22.  Derrike Cope          Dodge       197
23.  Jason Keller          Ford        196
24.  Brandon Whitt         Ford        196
25.  Morgan Shepherd       Chevrolet   195
26.  Shelby Howard         Chevrolet   195
27.  Bobby Hamilton Jr     Dodge       192
28.  Mike Bliss            Chevrolet   182
29.  Michael McDowell      Toyota      168
30.  Eric McClure          Ford        154
31.  Stephen Leicht        Chevrolet   137
32.  John Wes Townley      Ford         83
33.  Mike Harmon           Chevrolet    77
34.  Kenny Hendrick        Dodge        75
35.  Brian Keselowski      Dodge        38
36.  Kevin Hamlin          Chevrolet    35
37.  Kenny Wallace         Chevrolet    19
38.  Chris Horn            Chevrolet    17
39.  Johnny Chapman        Chevrolet     6
40.  Brad Baker            Ford          2
41.  Justin Hobgood        Chevrolet     2
42.  Chad Blount           Toyota        1
43.  Stanton Barrett       Chevrolet     1