Kyle Busch continued his domination of the NASCAR Nationwide Series on Saturday at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, winning the CampingWorld.com 300.
Busch posted his 12th victory in the Nationwide Series in 2010 by edging Nationwide points leader Brad Keselowski to the finish line by 1.034 seconds.
“Pit road probably won this race, so I can’t thank this team enough,” said Busch, who led at total of 38 laps. “For us to come out here and get number twelve, it’s awesome, and this team enjoys doing this.”
Busch has now won four of the last five Nationwide races at California.
Harvick ran third, despite leading a race-high 86 laps. Carl Edwards, second in the series standings, came home fourth and trails Keselowski by 384 points with five races left. Joey Logano finished fifth.
Danica Patrick, the IndyCar icon qualified 14th and was on pace for a top-15 finish, only to get taken out in a hard wreck with two other cars with 10 laps. She wasn’t hurt, but was clearly frustrated, throwing her arms in the air after driving her car to the garage.
“The frustrating part is that I feel like we had a really good car on those last two restarts,” she said after finishing a probably-should-have-been-better 30th. “I got into the car that spun on the lap before, but I didn’t mean to. Next time, I got pretty close, but I came off and gave him room. Looking at the replay, it looks like it could have been avoidable.
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RANK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND 1 Brad Keselowski 4764 Leader 2 Carl Edwards 4380 -384 3 Kyle Busch 4279 -485 4 Justin Allgaier 3938 -826 5 Paul Menard 3866 -898 6 Kevin Harvick 3763 -1001 7 Joey Logano 3392 -1372 8 Trevor Bayne 3391 -1373 9 Steve Wallace 3351 -1413 10 Jason Leffler 3315 -1449 11 Brendan Gaughan 3216 -1548 12 Michael Annett 3187 -1577 13 Brian Scott* 3019 -1745 14 Reed Sorenson 3016 -1748 15 Tony Raines 2930 -1834 16 Mike Bliss 2908 -1856 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.* 2766 -1998 18 Mike Wallace 2758 -2006 19 Kenny Wallace 2714 -2050 20 Joe Nemechek 2583 -2181 21 Michael McDowell 2472 -2292 22 Jason Keller 2289 -2475 23 Colin Braun* 2146 -2618 24 Eric McClure 2073 -2691 25 Josh Wise 1901 -2863 26 Shelby Howard 1700 -3064 27 Robert Richardson Jr. 1633 -3131 28 Mark Green 1622 -3142 29 Willie Allen 1605 -3159 30 Morgan Shepherd 1601 -3163 31 Brian Keselowski 1420 -3344 32 Greg Biffle 1368 -3396 33 Scott Lagasse Jr. 1328 -3436 34 Clint Bowyer 1273 -3491 35 Ryan Newman 1255 -3509 36 Jamie McMurray 1234 -3530 37 James Buescher* 1073 -3691 38 Tayler Malsam 1045 -3719 39 Jeremy Clements 1038 -3726 40 Danny O'Quinn Jr. 954 -3810
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