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Kyle Busch Survives to Win at Talladega


Kyle Busch may have missed his pit stall once during Sunday's Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway, but it didn't hold him back from finding victory lane as he put his No. 18 Toyota into victory lane for the 2nd time in 2008.

Busch secured the victory after a pileup in turn 2 on the last lap took out a number of drivers battling for a Top-10 finish.

Because of the incident, the final finishing order is definitely unofficial, but as of now, Juan Pablo Montoya finished second, Denny Hamlin third, David Ragan fourth, and Brian Vickers fifth.

Tony Stewart, Martin Truex Jr., Kurt Busch and a host of others were taken out in a crash on lap 173 as they entered turn 1. Stewart was four-wide with Dale Earnhardt Jr. when contact got the pack shuffling around. Bobby Labonte eventually spun and collected a number of cars.

Then, on the last lap an incident in turn 2 took out Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Regan Smith, Kevin Harvick, Reed Sorenson and a host of others to complete jumble the finishing order after NASCAR waved the yellow flag as the leaders jockeyed to pass Busch on the backstretch.


Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth had similar tire issues early in the event and both found the wall to bring out cautions. They finished 40th and 41st respectively.

FanHouse Warmup pick Tony Stewart wound up 38th, despite leading several laps.

The race was indeed more exciting than that of last fall at the same track. Drivers were willing to hang out it and dice around for position much more either because the Chase for championship wasn't bearing on their minds and/or they had a better knowledge of the new race car.

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