{"id":4609,"date":"2011-03-20T05:52:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-03-20T05:52:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T10:52:40","slug":"nns-race-recap-kyle-busch-triumphs-bristol-leads-10000th-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/nns-race-recap-kyle-busch-triumphs-bristol-leads-10000th-lap\/","title":{"rendered":"NNS Race Recap: Kyle Busch Triumphs At Bristol, Leads 10,000th Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"

NNS Race Recap: Kyle Busch Triumphs At Bristol, Leads 10,000th Lap<\/strong><\/p>\n

BRISTOL, Tenn.\u2014So what else is new? Kyle Busch hit another milestone in Saturday\u2019s Scotts EZ Seed 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

Yes, he won the race. That\u2019s almost a given in the NASCAR Nationwide Series these days. The victory was Busch\u2019s second of the year and the 45th of his career, leaving him four behind Mark Martin (idle Saturday) for the career lead.
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\nPerhaps even more impressive was what Busch accomplished on Lap 265 of 300. In his 206th start, Busch, the 2009 series champion, led his 10,000th lap in the series. No one else is close. Busch, who swept the Bristol weekend in August, is the first back-to-back winner at the track since 1993 series champ Steve Grissom in 1995.<\/p>\n

Fast-closing Kasey Kahne finished second, .524 seconds behind Busch, followed by two-time series champion Dale Earnhardt Jr., Elliott Sadler — the higheset-finishing driver championship contender — and Joey Logano. Danica Patrick finished 33rd after wrecking late in her Bristol debut.<\/p>\n

Busch took the lead from Earnhardt moments after a restart on Lap 32 and held it the rest of the way, with the exception of one lap led by Kahne under caution and two led by Brad Keselowski, who won the series title last year.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Saturday\u2019s win wasn\u2019t exactly a walk in the park. Under a competition caution called after Lap 25, teams were required to replace their right-side tires with a new construction rushed to the track by Goodyear after tire wear issues plagued Friday\u2019s practice sessions.<\/p>\n

The new tires affected the handling of Busch\u2019s No. 18 Toyota.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt changed the dynamic of the car quite a bit,\u201d Busch said. \u201cWe had to compensate for that driving-style-wise and with some changes to the car, but (crew chief) Jason (Ratcliffe) and these guys did such a great job.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played a lot (Friday) with different setups and what we wanted to do and how we wanted to do it and what exactly we were looking for. I know the feel that I need, but it\u2019s just hard to get it sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Lap 248 Danica Patrick\u2019s Chevrolet tangled with the Toyota of Ryan Truex, spun and slammed nose-first into the Turn 1 wall. Patrick, who was running two laps down in 17th at the time, thought Truex moved off the frontstretch wall into her racing line.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like to me that I came out of the corner, and I was running down the straight, and I felt like he came off the wall. \u2026 I know I was running him early, and he just runs hard. He\u2019s run hard every time I\u2019ve been around him, and it just seems like overkill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason Leffler finished eighth and took over the points lead by two over polesitter Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who finished 14th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NNS Race Recap: Kyle Busch Triumphs At Bristol, Leads 10,000th Lap BRISTOL, Tenn.\u2014So what else is new? Kyle Busch hit another milestone in Saturday\u2019s Scotts EZ Seed 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Yes, he won the race. That\u2019s almost a given in the NASCAR Nationwide Series these days. The victory was Busch\u2019s second of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}