Despite a battered car at the finish, Kyle Busch prevailed in an exciting and wild Saturday afternoon of Nationwide Series racing at Talladega Superspeedway.
After being involved in a 21-car accident late in the Aaron’s 312, Busch thought his day at Talladega was over. He was wrong.
Busch sustained very minimal damage to his Toyota during the lap 88 incident. The scheduled 117-lap race was extended with two green-white-checkered finishes.
“Look at the thing; I got hit on the left side about three times,” Busch said. “The [car] didn’t look the best, but it was certainly the best right there at the end, especially with the guy who was pushing me. Joey was a great teammate today.” MiamiHerald.com
“I wish we could’ve gotten to the checkered flag,” the runner-up said. “Maybe we could’ve done something with Kyle. But we were committed to push him. It’s a bummer that a caution came out there at the end. All I know is I saw a car go upside down in my mirror.”
Logano’s car was all beat up, too, looking as though it had just been through a short-track brawl at Martinsville instead of a race on the longest oval in the Sprint Cup series.
“I got hit in the door. My bumpers are falling off,” he said. “It was crazy out there.”
Joe Nemechek, who paired with Wallace to contend with the better-funded teams, wound up third. Brad Keselowki was fourth, pole-sitter Elliott Sadler took fifth and Bayne, who led a race-high 23 laps, slid all the way to sixth. The Canadian Press
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 2 20 Joey Logano Toyota 3 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota 4 22 Brad Keselowski Dodge 5 2 Elliott Sadler Chevrolet 6 16 Trevor Bayne Ford 7 31 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 8 7 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet 9 32 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 10 88 Aric Almirola Chevrolet 11 11 Brian Scott Toyota 12 40 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 13 12 Sam Hornish Jr. Dodge 14 15 Timmy Hill * Ford 15 38 Jason Leffler Chevrolet 16 182 Blake Koch * Dodge 17 60 Carl Edwards Ford 18 1 Mike Wallace Chevrolet 19 62 Michael Annett Toyota 20 81 Donnie Neuenberger Dodge 21 52 Danny Efland Chevrolet 22 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet 23 30 James Buescher Chevrolet 24 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 25 9 Kenny Wallace Toyota 26 14 Eric McClure Chevrolet 27 28 Derrike Cope Chevrolet 28 23 Robert Richardson Jr. Dodge 29 70 Dennis Setzer Chevrolet 30 89 Morgan Shepherd Chevrolet 31 39 Josh Wise Ford 32 66 Steve Wallace Toyota 33 99 Michael Waltrip Toyota 34 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet 35 19 Mike Bliss Chevrolet 36 21 Tim George Jr. Chevrolet 37 141 Jennifer Jo Cobb * Ford 38 6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 39 4 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 40 174 Mike Harmon Chevrolet 41 79 Tim Andrews Ford 42 168 Carl Long Ford 43 44 Jeff Green Chevrolet
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