The hometown Busch brothers have taken the front row for Sunday’s Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

1 18 Kyle Busch
2 2 Kurt Busch
3 48 Jimmie Johnson
4 00 David Reutimann
5 47 Marcos Ambrose
6 39 Ryan Newman
7 9 Kasey Kahne
8 5 Mark Martin
9 29 Kevin Harvick
10 14 Tony Stewart
11 12 David Stremme
12 77 Sam Hornish Jr.
13 25 Brad Keselowski
14 31 Jeff Burton
15 55 Michael Waltrip
16 99 Carl Edwards
17 96 Bobby Labonte
18 78 Regan Smith
19 44 A J Allmendinger
20 20 Joey Logano #

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Wreck-Filled doesn’t begin to describe the Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday. Here’s how the “Survivors” stacked up.

1 3 16 Greg Biffle
2 7 60 Carl Edwards
3 10 32 Brian Vickers
4 23 38 Jason Leffler
5 15 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
6 16 47 Michael McDowell #
7 13 62 Brendan Gaughan #
8 11 12 Justin Allgaier #
9 42 11 Scott Lagasse Jr. #
10 14 29 Jeff Burton
11 28 40 Scott Wimmer
12 35 42 Kenny Hendrick
13 24 89 Morgan Shepherd
14 20 28 Kenny Wallace
15 39 34 Tony Raines
16 33 24 Eric McClure
17 37 23 Ken Butler #
18 31 01 Danny O’Quinn Jr.
19 32 26 Brian Keselowski
20 29 87 Joe Nemechek

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In a display of virtual perfection on and off pit road this past Sunday at Auto Club Speedway, Matt Kenseth (No. 17 USG Ford) and crew became the fourth team in NASCAR history to win the Daytona 500 and the following event.

What is even more impressive is the No. 17 team has the opportunity to become the first to win the first three races of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, and just might do it.

Kenseth joined some elite company by starting off 2-0. Ironically, the last driver to pull off such a feat was four-time series champion, Jeff Gordon (No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet) in 1997, winning Daytona and Rockingham. Gordon, incidentally, battled Kenseth last weekend in the closing laps at ACS, finishing second.

The other two drivers to open with two wins are three-time series champion Cale Yarborough (1977, Daytona/Richmond); and seven-time champion, Richard Petty (1973, Daytona/Richmond).

After going all of 2008 without a win, the No. 17 team has turned it around by adding crew chief Drew Blickensderfer.

“I just feel great about the group we have assembled,” said Kenseth. “Everybody’s having fun. Everybody’s loose. Everybody’s performing at the same time. I think that, Drew has given the leadership and the spark they (the team) kind of needs.”

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Las Vegas is the home of the Busch Brothers, Kyle Busch (No. 18 M&M’s Toyota) and Kurt Busch (No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge), who grew up racing on the “bull-ring” dirt track across the street from Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The Busch brothers had much success at the dirt track, but surprisingly, neither have won a NASCAR national series race at LVMS.

Both have kicked the ‘09 season off to a good start. Kurt Busch is third in the series standings with a 10th-place finish at Daytona, and a fifth-place finish at Auto Club Speedway. Kurt has posted one top five and two top 10s in eight starts at LVMS. He has a Driver Rating of 89.9 and an Average Running Position of 13.354 at the 1.5-mile oval.

Kyle Busch is 18th in the series standings after finishing 41st in the Daytona 500 and third in the Auto Club 500.

He became the first driver ever to win a NASCAR Nationwide Series and a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in the same day this past Saturday, sweeping the doubleheader at Auto Club Speedway.

Kyle will attempt to carry his momentum to Las Vegas this weekend. He has two top fives, three top 10s and a pole (2008) at LVMS. Loop Data has him ranked first at the track in Average Running Position with (6.777), third in Driver Rating (109.8), second in Quality Passes with (174) and second in Laps in Top 15 (93.1%).