Kyle Busch dominated Friday night at Bristol Motor Speedway to score his tenth win of the season!

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Busch tied Sam Ard’s 1983 Nationwide Series record for most race wins in a season.

“That’s pretty cool,” Busch said. “I forgot all about that. It didn’t matter to me. What’s more special is this car and this is (chassis) 61. This car has won now that a half-mile, a three-quarter mile, a mile, a mile and a third, mile and a half. I don’t think there are any mile and three quarters, but it’s won at a two-mile race track as well. So, it’s won everywhere. This baby, it’s an awesome race car.” Chassis 61 has won eight races.

Busch led a race-high 116 of 250 laps, but had to fight for the win -- almost literally.

The Finish:

Keselowski vs. Busch:

Kyle’s post-race reaction:

Kyle Busch: I raced and raced and raced him (Brad Keselowski) and I don’t know for 12, 15 laps and my Z-Line Camry was pretty awesome tonight. The guys did a great job. It was loose, but it was good. I thought I had him cleared on the back and I moved up in front of him and instead of him doing an Earnhardt crossover move he decided that he would just run into the back of me and put me in the fence. So, that’s Brad Keselowski. So, you know, I went down into the next corner and dumped him. He does it to everybody else. Why can’t I do it to him? So, whatever.

Brad Keselowski: Early in the race, I had the lead on a restart and he (Kyle Busch) ran me up the track in (Turns) 3 and 4 and I lifted, gave him the lane there when I didn’t have too. Just being a good guy, because I’m a member of the good guy club. But when the end of the race comes, man you don’t let people in line. They ought to know better than try and take it. That answers it all right there. I’m on probation for racing hard and that allows everyone to intentionally wreck me. We made good moves in the race and worked our way to the front. We had a great car. The fans saw what happened. He’ll get his.

Brad’s post-race reaction:

Keselowski led 62 laps himself and appeared to be a definite contender for the win as the laps ticked down.

“We ran a heck of a race,” Keselowski said. “We got up to the front legitimately. I’m proud of my team for that and then we got intentionally wrecked. It is what it is. We’ll go to work and work on beating his (Kyle’s) ass.”

Keselowski leads the standings by 313 points over 2nd place driver, Carl Edwards.

It’s the second win for Busch this week at Bristol Motor Speedway. Busch also won the Camping World Truck Series race Wednesday night. It’s the fifth time in his career that he has won a truck and Nationwide Series race in the same race week, but can he pull off the perfect trifecta and win the Sprint Cup Series race Saturday night at Bristol?

“I just hope that I have a good enough race car to do it,” Busch said. “It’s going to be difficult, but coming down to decision time at the end of the race, if you’ve got an opportunity to do it and it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity as we’ve seen. I haven’t been able to get it done yet. I’ve been close a few times, but it seems like the last one is always the hardest one to get. You never know what happens. It’s 500 laps of racing at Bristol under the lights so we could have something bad happen early on and be done right there. If we can get to the end of the race and have a shot, I wouldn’t want anything other than that and to take that Doublemint Camry to victory lane would be pretty special. To do the triple here at Bristol, where no one has ever done it ever in NASCAR I think would be cool too.”

Series regular Jason Leffler finished second.

“First lap on the track I knew we were going to have a good day, Leffler said. “Track position was really important here at Bristol, but on the long run my car really hauled butt. That was good. And then the last couple of restarts worked out really well for me where I was able to restart on the outside line which helped a lot. It’s easy to get pinched down here, but the racing is great here at Bristol.”

Elliott Sadler finished third followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards, Trevor Bayne, Clint Bowyer, Reed Sorenson, Parker Kligerman and Joey Logano completed the top-10.

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

There were 8 caution flags for 48 laps: 57-61 (Debris -- Turn 3); 83-90 (#12, 38, 99 Accident -- Frontstretch); 118-123 (#1 Accident -- Turn 2); 159-165 (#01, 21, 39, 87 Accident -- Frontstretch); 188-192 (#7, 12, 35 Accident -- Turn 4); 220-224 (#18, 22 Accident -- Turn 4); 227-233 (#10, 15, 20, 21, 22, 32, 66, 98 Accident -- Frontstretch); 236-240 (#05, 11, 62 Accident -- Turn 2)

Kasey Kahne, Justin Allgaier and Trevor Bayne were involved in a scary crash on lap 83.

“They pushed me into the wall, I had nowhere really to go except lift,” Kahne said. “I lifted and hit the wall. It’s disappointing. We’ve always had pretty fast cars here and I never seem to finish very well.”

Kahne is ok. He was cleared at the infield care center soon after the accident and will be able to drive in Saturday night’s Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol.

There were 10 lead changes among 6 drivers: E. Sadler 0; J. Logano 1-30; K. Busch 31-57; B. Keselowski 58-61; K. Busch 62-118; B. Keselowski 119; C. Edwards 120-128; E. Sadler 129-154; C. Bowyer 155-161; B. Keselowski 162-218; K. Busch 219-250

Next:
Sunday, August 29th -- NAPA AUTO PARTS 200 presented by Dodge at Circuit Gilles Villenueve