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Days after suffering serious flu-like symptoms, Kyle Busch put on a dominating performance and outran the rain to win Friday’s Dollar General 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway for the second year in a row.
With showers approaching the 1.5-mile track, Busch moved into the lead for good after a cycle of green-flag pit stops was completed with 55 laps remaining. He easily held off Mike Bliss at the finish by nearly two seconds to end an 11-race winless streak in the series. MiamiHerald.com
The victory was Busch’s seventh in the series this season, his fifth at LMS and the 28th of his career.
“It’s been a holding pattern,” Busch said of his recent drought, which included a 90-point dent in his lead last Saturday at Fontana, Calif., when Busch was forced from the car because of illness, and relief driver Denny Hamlin was involved in a late-race wreck. “This thing was on a rail tonight. It was a great racecar. We had some points to make up.”
LMS was the ideal venue for Busch’s comeback.
“I love this place,” he said. “It’s my house on the Nationwide side. … This is one of my favorite tracks. For some reason, I really jell with it. … Man, it was a freight train for sure. There was not much that could have stopped this Toyota tonight.” NASCAR
FIN CAR DRIVER MAKE 1 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 2 11 Mike Bliss Toyota 3 87 Dave Blaney Toyota 4 32 Brian Vickers Toyota 5 60 Carl Edwards Ford 6 88 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet 7 33 Ryan Newman Chevrolet 8 143 Kasey Kahne Toyota 9 29 Jeff Burton Chevrolet 10 234 Tony Raines Chevrolet 11 5 Tony Stewart Chevrolet 12 12 Justin Allgaier * Dodge 13 15 Michael Annett * Toyota 14 20 Joey Logano Toyota 15 62 Brendan Gaughan * Chevrolet 16 10 Reed Sorenson Toyota 17 27 Jason Keller Ford 18 24 Eric McClure Ford 19 1 David Gilliland Chevrolet 20 99 David Reutimann Toyota 21 28 Kenny Wallace Chevrolet 22 0 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 23 196 Michael McDowell * Dodge 24 26 Kevin Conway Chevrolet 25 40 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 26 31 Tim Andrews Chevrolet 27 42 Aric Almirola Dodge 28 9 John Wes Townley * Ford 29 61 Matt Carter Ford 30 1 Mike Wallace Chevrolet 31 66 Steve Wallace Chevrolet 32 38 Jason Leffler Toyota 33 16 Matt Kenseth Ford 34 6 Erik Darnell * Ford 35 23 Ken Butler III * Chevrolet 36 81 Kevin Hamlin Dodge 37 7 Danny O'Quinn Jr. Chevrolet 38 49 Mark Green Chevrolet 39 102 Andy Ponstein Chevrolet 40 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 41 47 Chase Miller Toyota 42 192 Dennis Setzer Dodge 43 90 Johnny Chapman Chevrolet
