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LOUDON, N. H. (Sept. 20) — Unbelievable. That’s the only word to describe it.

Mark Martin wins New HampshireAgeless Mark Martin, 50, held off a tremendous charge by Juan Pablo Montoya and Denny Hamlin with three laps to go to win the Sylvania 300 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Hamlin finished second and Montoya third in a race full of action.

Three-time champion Jimmie Johnson was fourth and Kyle Busch finished fifth. His brother Kurt was next, followed by Ryan Newman, Elliott Sadler, Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer and Brian Vickers.

Four of the top five finishers are in The Chase for The NASCAR Sprint Cup. The younger Busch did not qualify for it this season.

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RACE RECAP | NEW HAMPSHIRE | RACE #1 IN THE CHASE
Mark Martin New Hampshire10 Clint Bowyer
9 Greg Biffle
8 Elliott Sadler
7 Ryan Newman
6 Kurt Busch
5 Kyle Busch
4 Jimmie Johnson
3 Denny Hamlin
2 Juan Pablo Montoya led the most laps

VICTORY LANE

1 Mark Martin grabs his 5th Cup win of the 2009 season, he continues as the points leader over Jimmie Johnson by 35. It’s Mark’s first career win at New Hampshire.

OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY

-Kasey Kahne is the first Chase driver to have trouble, he blew a motor and finished 38th

-Other Chase drivers finished like this, Brian Vickers 11th, Tony Stewart 14th, Jeff Gordon 15th, Carl Edwards 16th

-Kurt Busch got clipped on pit road by David Ragan who ended up in his pit stall backwards

-A big wreck involving no Chase drivers, but Elliott Sadler, Robby Gordon and others

-Jeff Gordon pounded the wall just before the above wreck

-The axle cap was discovered as loose while leading the race on Tony Stewart’s #14

-Jeff Burton got spun by his teammate Clint Bowyer

-David Stremme brought out a caution hitting the wall with some help from AJ Allmendinger

-Juan Pablo Montoya led the most laps in this race

-Dale Earnhardt Jr. demolished his #88 after running top 10 all day long, after some help from David Reutimann. Dale Jr. finished 35th

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By Reid Spencer
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

Kyle Busch Samantha SarcinellaLOUDON, N.H. — Kyle Busch didn’t have the fastest truck on Saturday, and he had barely enough fuel to make it to the finish line.

Neither circumstance prevented him from winning his third straight start in NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series and his fifth race of the season. Busch took the checkered flag in the Heluva Good! 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, as points leader and runner-up Ron Hornaday Jr. and his team owner and third-place finisher, Kevin Harvick, battled for position behind him.

Harvick believed Hornaday’s failure to move over in favor of Harvick’s faster truck in the closing laps — which Harvick attributed to lack of communication between crew chiefs and spotters — cost Kevin Harvick Inc. the victory.

Busch took on four seconds’ worth of fuel during a splash-and-go on Lap 172 of 200 and got back on track ahead of Hornaday, whose stop on Lap 170 had lasted almost twice as long. A debris caution on Lap 189 helped Busch conserve enough gas to get to the end of the race. His fuel cell hit “empty” as he approached victory lane.

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Juan Pablo Montoya1 42 Juan Pablo Montoya
2 14 Tony Stewart
3 2 Kurt Busch
4 11 Denny Hamlin
5 99 Carl Edwards
6 12 David Stremme
7 1 Martin Truex Jr.
8 71 Bobby Labonte
9 18 Kyle Busch
10 24 Jeff Gordon
11 9 Kasey Kahne
12 29 Kevin Harvick
13 00 David Reutimann
14 5 Mark Martin
15 66 Dave Blaney
16 48 Jimmie Johnson
17 33 Clint Bowyer
18 39 Ryan Newman
19 07 Casey Mears
20 87 Joe Nemechek

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