Kyle Busch, bounced from his former team to make room for Dale Earnhardt Jr., is leaving competitors in his wake this season and ruffling some NASCAR fans' feathers. AOL's Monte Dutton says the way the points leader rolls could work out.

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Kyle Busch has made it clear he's racing to win, and after taking out NASCAR's most popular driver, it's clear that he's not letting anyone stand in his way.

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Bowyer picked up his second career Sprint Cup Series win.

Perhaps it just wasn't meant to be. With Dale Earnhardt Jr. less than 10 laps from breaking a 71-race winless drought, Kyle Busch wrecks the No. 88 driver, and Clint Bowyer streaks to Victory Lane instead at Richmond International Raceway. "Whether it was fair or not, he's going to need security," Earnhardt said.

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With his hometown 15 minutes away, Denny Hamlin was far from comfortable at the track. Still, Hamlin shakes off the anxiety to surge to his first victory at Richmond in the Nationwide Series race, and earlier posts the fastest lap in qualifying for the Sprint Cup Series race. "It's unbelievable," Hamlin said. "This is my biggest win, Cup, anything. It doesn't matter."

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