Kyle Busch Wins Best Buy 400

Kyle Busch dominated the second half of the Best Buy 400 at Dover International Speedway, and earned his fourth victory of the season.

Rounding out the top 5 were Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth, and Jeff Gordon.

Martin Truex Jr., defending race winner, finished sixth, followed by Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Burton, Dave Blaney, and Jamie McMurray.

Notables: Mark Martin (23rd), Kasey Kahne (31st), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (35th), Clint Bowyer (36th), Kevin Harvick (38th), Tony Stewart (41st), and Denny Hamlin (43rd).

On lap 18, Elliott Sadler turned down in front of David Gilliland, the two made contact, sending Sadler into the wall. Sadler’s No. 19 Dodge bounced off the wall and came to rest in the middle of the track.

Stewart came off the corner and drove right into Sadler’s car. His car turned towards the inside wall, effectively blocking the track.

Earnhardt Jr. managed to slow down and avoid hitting both cars. As he drove around Stewart’s car, Bobby Labonte hit him from behind, sending him into the inside wall. He splitter got stuck under the wall.

Hamlin, much like Stewart, came off the corner and couldn’t get whoaed down before he hit Sadler’s car.

All in all, the accident involved: Sadler, Gilliland, Stewart, Earnhardt Jr. Harvick, Labonte, Paul Menard, Kasey Kahne, Scott Riggs, Clint Bowyer, and Bill Elliott.

Stewart said:

I take 100 percent responsibility — it’s my fault for being anywhere close to Elliott [Sadler]. If I’m within half a lap of him, I expect that to happen. It’s my fault — I’m the one that hit him. When I hit him it caused all the guys behind us to wreck, so it’s my fault.

 

Busch, Leffler Incident From Heluva Good 200

Hamlin Wins Heluva Good 200

Denny Hamlin cruised to victory in the Heluva Good 200 from Dover Internation Speedway, earning Joe Gibbs Racings’s ninth victory in the Nationwide Series this season.

Kyle Busch had a decent car that could have contended for the win. On a restart late in the race, he got a run on his Braun Racing teammate Jason Leffler. Busch went to the outside. Leffler got really loose and chased it up the track and collected Busch. Both cars made hard contact with the wall, ending their days.

Top 10: Hamlin, Carl Edwards, David Stremme, David Reutimann, Greg Biffle, Joey Logano, Brad Keselowki, Mike Wallace, Clint Bowyer, and Kasey Kahne. 

Notables: Dario Franchitti (15th), Kevin Harvick (17th), Leffler (27th), and Busch (28th).

Give a call to Joey Logano. In his first Nationwide start, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver finished sixth.

In his first race since suffering a broken ankle at Talladega, Dario Franchitti finished 15th.