Guess Who? Again!
The question isn’t whether Kyle Busch will win at Bristol Motor
Speedway—it’s whether anyone else can find a way to keep
him out of victory lane.
First off pit road after stops under caution on Lap 429, Busch held
off polesitter Carl Edwards and defending race winner Jimmie Johnson
to win his fifth straight race in NASCAR’s top three national
series at the .533-mile short track.
Busch’s victory in Sunday’s Jeff Byrd 500 was his 20th
in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, his first of the season and his second
straight at Thunder Valley. Busch capped his second straight weekend
sweep at Bristol, having won Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series
event.
Last August, Busch became the first driver to win three national series
races at the same track on the same weekend when he claimed victories
in NASCAR’s Camping World Truck, NASCAR Nationwide and NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series.
Edwards finished second for the second time in four races this season,
and Johnson finished third, also for the second time in 2011. Matt
Kenseth was fourth and Paul Menard fifth. Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick,
Greg Biffle, Kasey Kahne and Ryan Newman completed the top 10.