Saturday was another dominating day for Kyle Busch. It wasn’t a winning day.
Busch, the NASCAR Nationwide Series points leader, led 173 of 200 laps in Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway, but Joey Logano led the right four laps to take the victory, his fifth in 37 Nationwide starts. Topeka Capital Journal
Busch padded his championship lead to 245 points over Carl Edwards with six races to go in the season. Edwards finished seventh.
“The guys did a great job working on (the car) all weekend long and made it the best car out there all day, but unfortunately I got beat by another driver,” Busch said. “It just wasn’t meant to be, it wasn’t our day today, I guess, and unfortunately we’re sitting here talking about a second-place finish.” Auto Racing Daily
RANK DRIVER POINTS STARTS 1 Kyle Busch 4729 29 2 Carl Edwards 4484 29 3 Brad Keselowski 4422 29 4 Jason Leffler 3879 29 5 Justin Allgaier* 3390 29 6 Steve Wallace 3377 29 7 Jason Keller 3249 29 8 Mike Bliss 3220 29 9 Brendan Gaughan* 3139 29 10 Michael McDowell* 3024 29 11 Kenny Wallace 2908 29 12 Michael Annett* 2904 29 13 Tony Raines 2885 29 14 Joey Logano 2799 18 15 Kevin Harvick 2763 19 16 Scott Wimmer 2498 24 17 Eric McClure 2437 29 18 David Ragan 2202 16 19 Scott Lagasse Jr.* 2194 21 20 Danny O'Quinn Jr. 2080 26 21 Brian Vickers 1917 14 22 Greg Biffle 1840 13 23 Erik Darnell* 1636 13 24 Paul Menard 1552 13 25 Morgan Shepherd 1550 18 26 Clint Bowyer 1505 10 27 Joe Nemechek 1475 18 28 Jeff Burton 1462 11 29 John Wes Townley* 1461 20 30 Matt Kenseth 1448 10 31 Brian Keselowski 1412 18 32 Shelby Howard 1367 14 33 Scott Speed 1350 11 34 David Reutimann 1303 10 35 Trevor Bayne 1297 12 36 Brandon Whitt 1260 15 37 Mark Green 1236 24 38 Ken Butler III* 1154 14 39 Matt Carter 1141 13 40 Casey Atwood 1138 19 41 Robert Richardson Jr. 1096 13 42 Stephen Leicht 1047 8
