Kyle Busch held off a fast charging Carl Edwards on the final restart to win Saturday night at O’ Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis!

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The two were side-by-side for a nail-biting, yet clean finish with Busch crossing the finish line by 0.198 seconds ahead of the defending race winner.

“It was a good, clean hard-fought battle,” Busch said in victory lane. “When you treat people with respect, that’s what you get, respect back. Carl was awesome tonight. I had a tough battle there at the beginning with (polesitter) Trevor Bayne. I had to do what I had to do to get by him sometimes. Of course I have to thank the fans. It’s fun to come out here and put on a great show like this and hopefully they enjoy it.”

Joe Nemechek hit the wall with four laps to go bringing out the final caution flag of the night. It set the stage for a finish reminescent of last week’s in which Carl Edwards restarted second and fought hard for the race win. Contact with the points leaders put Edwards in victory lane while Brad Keselowski wrecked.

“I wasn’t going to move Kyle out of the way. I couldn’t move him out of the way,” Edwards said. “My hats off to those guys they did a great job. I can’t complain, second place isn’t what we came here for but about 20-laps in we were running 12th and 15th and it wasn’t looking good.”

Both, Edwards and Keselowski, were placed on NASCAR probation until December 31st. Edwards was also docked 60 championship driver points and fined $25,000. Even after a round of short track racing, Edwards and Keselowski kept their distance on and off of the track.

“We gave each other plenty of room, and that’s good,” Edwards said. “Hopefully, we can keep doing that going forward.”

Busch turned in a dominant performance after leading 144 of 201 laps including the last 79 laps. It seems it’s tough for any driver to beat him in the Nationwide Series. It’s his fifth win in the past six races that he has entered. It’s a series leading eighth win of the season for Busch and his thirteenth top-10 finish this season.

Starting from the pole, Trevor Bayne went on to lead 55 laps and held on for a fourth place finish.

Reed Sorenson finished fifth followed by Brendan Gaughan, Justin Allgaier, Brad Keselowski, Paul Menard and Steve Wallace completed the top-10.

For the (unofficial) race results, click here (nascar.com)

There were 6 cautions for 36 laps and 7 lead changes among 4 drivers: T. Bayne 1-39; K. Busch 40-77; A. Almirola 78; K. Busch 79-82; T. Bayne 83-98; K. Busch 99-120; Brad Keselowski 121; K. Busch 122-201

Brad Keselowski continues to lead the standings by 205 points over Carl Edwards.