NSCS Recap: Kurt Busch Wins At Texas Motor Speedway
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By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

FORT WORTH, Texas (Nov. 8, 2009) — In recent weeks, Jimmie Johnson has worn out the already threadbare phrase, “Anything can happen in our sport.”

On Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, it finally did.

Capitalizing on superior fuel mileage, Kurt Busch drove his No. 2 Dodge to victory in the Dickies 500, after disaster struck Johnson like a lightning bolt and made a race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup after all.

Johnson suffered a Lap 3 wreck that sidelined his No. 48 Chevrolet for more than an hour as his team made extensive repairs. With a 38th-place finish, Johnson lost 111 points of his 184-point lead in the Chase to second-place Mark Martin, who finished fourth and trails Johnson by 73 points with two races left.

Busch won the race at the expense of brother Kyle Busch, who ran out of fuel three laps short of completing an unprecedented weekend sweep of races in NASCAR’s top three divisions. Busch had won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday and the NASCAR Nationwide Series event on Saturday.

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RACE RECAP | TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
10 A.J. Allmendinger
9 Jeff Burton
8 Greg Biffle
7 Clint Bowyer
6 Tony Stewart
5 Kevin Harvick
4 Mark Martin
3 Matt Kenseth
2 Denny Hamlin

VICTORY LANE

1 Kurt Busch grabs his second win this season moves from 6th to 4th in points

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-ZZ Top performed the pre-race concert

-A dual blade military helicopter landed on the infield dropping off the pace car

-On Lap 3 The Chase for the Championship began again as David Reutimann tapped Sam Hornish Jr who got loose and wrecked points leader Jimmie Johnson returned to the track on lap 116 and finished the race 38th. The 48 team lost 111 points in this race but still leads by 73 over second place Mark Martin

-Sam Hornish Jr. brought out the second caution as well

-Carl Edwards got wrecked when Juan Pablo Montoya got loose and got into the 99 car

-This turned out to be a fuel mileage race

-Kyle Busch dominated this race led 232 laps and ran out of fuel with 3 laps to go and finished 11th. Kyle was hoping for the Texas weekend sweep after winning both the Truck and Nationwide Series races.

By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

FORT WORTH, Texas — Two down. One to go.

Kyle Busch moved one race closer to an unprecedented weekend triple Saturday — and, oh, by the way — a giant step closer to his first title in a major NASCAR touring series.

Busch dominated the 300-mile O’Reilly Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway, leading 179 of 200 laps and pulling away after a restart on Lap 187 to beat substitute driver Casey Mears to the finish line by 3.154 seconds to win his eighth Nationwide Series race of the season and the 29th of his career.

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