Sorenson wins Busch at Gateway

Sorenson took the lead on a restart on lap 159, overtaking Michael Waltrip Racing's David Reutimann. From then on he never looked back and categorically stayed up front all the way to the chequered flag.

"(My car) was dominant all night," said Sorenson, after ending a 60-race winless streak. "It was as good as the car I had when I won here earlier. It's been a long time since we won, and we knew we had a good shot coming in here."

"Everybody on the team was real excited about coming in here, and the car was just dominant all night. I'm just real proud of everybody. We knew we had a good car after practice; we didn't know it was going to be this good, though."

Sorenson's victory comes after a series of crashes have marred his Busch Series season. Also, just a few races ago his former crew chief went to work on Juan Pablo Montoya's car, while Brad Parrott, formerly working with the Colombian, took the leading role with the No. 41 Dodge.

"I knew Reed could do it," said Parrott, who had been crew chief for Montoya in his Mexico Busch Series win. "It took him 61 races to get back here and I promise you it won't take him 61 more before he goes back."

Pole sitter Scott Wimmer, who returned to the wheel of the No. 29 Richard Childress car, came home in second claiming yet another top-three finish. He passed David Reutimann in the closing laps after recovering from a puncture early on, having led the first 53 laps.

Points leader Carl Edwards looked a contender for victory also, and up to a point he was indeed emerging as the favorite to win at Gateway for the second year in a row. However, he had a brush with the wall, which ended his hopes of making the most out of his weekend off from the Nextel Cup schedule.

The race itself started as a very clean one, but seven caution flags came out from lap 100 until the end of the night. From the 43 starters, only 27 were able to make it to the end after a series of wrecks, which saw nearly a quarter of the distance being run under the yellow flags.

Carl Edwards still holds on to his massive lead in the standings, in fact opening the gap even more to 852 points ahead of David Reutimann, who runs now second ahead of reigning champion Kevin Harvick who did not compete this weekend.

Pos   Driver              Car         Laps
 1.   Reed Sorenson       Dodge        200
 2.   Scott Wimmer        Chevrolet    200
 3.   David Reutimann     Toyota       200
 4.   Jason Leffler       Toyota       200
 5.   David Ragan         Ford         200
 6.   Carl Edwards        Ford         200
 7.   Kevin Hamlin        Dodge        200
 8.   Ron Hornaday        Chevrolet    200
 9.   J.J. Yeley          Chevrolet    200
10.   Todd Bodine         Toyota       200
11.   Todd Kluever        Ford         200
12.   Mike Wallace        Chevrolet    200
13.   Bobby Hamilton Jr   Ford         200
14.   Tim McCreadie       Chevrolet    200
15.   Chase Miller        Dodge        200
16.   Bobby East          Ford         199
17.   Travis Kittleson    Chevrolet    199
18.   Marcos Ambrose      Ford         198
19.   Mark Green          Chevrolet    198
20.   Stanton Barrett     Chevrolet    198
21.   Brett Rowe          Chevrolet    195
22.   Robert Richardson   Chevrolet    193
23.   Stephen Leicht      Ford         188
24.   Kelly Bires         Ford         181
25.   Brent Sherman       Chevrolet    181
26.   Brad Keselowski     Chevrolet    177
27.   Brad Coleman        Chevrolet    154
28.   Steve Wallace       Dodge        149
29.   Cale Gale           Chevrolet    135
30.   Jason Keller        Ford         131
31.   Richard Johns       Ford         119
32.   Landon Cassill      Chevrolet    108
33.   Mike Bliss          Dodge         98
34.   Kenny Wallace       Chevrolet     97
35.   Dave Blaney         Toyota        97
36.   Kyle Krisiloff      Ford          96
37.   Eric McClure        Chevrolet     45
38.   Frank Kreyer        Chevrolet     41
39.   Morgan Shepherd     Dodge         25
40.   Brad Teague         Ford          20
41.   Jerick Johnson      Chevrolet     12
42.   Derrike Cope        Chevrolet      8
43.   Danny Efland        Chevrolet      1