Friday, April 11 Phoenix Int'l Raceway Phoenix, Arizona

Kyle Busch not only won the Bashas' Supermarkets 200, but started from the pole position.

Kyle Busch Wins Bashas' Supermarkets 200
By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

AVONDALE, Ariz. (April 11, 2008) -- Kyle Busch liked the taste of victory so much that he came back for a second helping.

Kyle Busch celebrates his second consecutive NASCAR Nationwide Series win.

After picking up his first win of the season in NASCAR's Nationwide Series last Saturday at Texas, Busch staved off a determined challenge from Carl Edwards to win Friday night's Bashas' Supermarkets 200 at Phoenix International Raceway.

In a green-white-checkered-flag finish that took the race two laps beyond its scheduled 200 laps, Busch crossed the finish line .241 seconds ahead of Edwards. The victory was Busch's 13th in the series and the fourth for Toyota this season. The 22-year-old led 133 laps on the evening.

Denny Hamlin ran third, followed by Kevin Harvick and David Ragan. Mike Bliss, Stephen Leicht, points leader Clint Bowyer, David Reutimann and David Stremme completed the top 10.

Edwards passed Busch for the lead on Lap 159 and gradually pulled away to a lead of more than three seconds before a caution for debris slowed the field on Lap 178. That brought the lead-lap cars to the pits for their final stops.

Busch and Edwards each took four tires, with Busch beating the defending series champion out of the pits for a restart on Lap 184. The green-flag run ended before one lap was complete, when Marcos Ambrose spun Landon Cassill in traffic to bring out the seventh caution of the race.

"Those boys won the race for us on pit road," said Busch, who was able to hold off Edwards on restarts after three subsequent cautions.

"He (Edwards) had a great, great racecar that might have been better than this Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry here. He had a great racecar, but it's a good thing we had all those cautions that gave us a chance to get a two-lap bump on him."

Busch held the lead for a restart on Lap 189, and as Edwards was beginning to close in on the No. 18 Toyota, Jason Leffler's spin brought out the eighth yellow flag of the night. The final caution occurred on Lap 198 when Jeff Burton's No. 29 Chevrolet banged the wall.

Though Edwards closed in on the final lap, he couldn't overtake Busch before time ran out.

"It's too bad somebody's got to lose a race like that," Edwards said. "It was fun, but it's too bad we had to run second. That last caution hurt us a little, and he got us off pit road (on Lap 180). We came in first and went out second."

Complete Race Results click here

Post-Race Driver Point Standings click here

Schedule/Broadcast Times - AT*

Practice: Thursday, April 10 (SPEED at 9:30 p.m.)

Qualifying: Friday, April 11 (SPEED at 6 p.m.)

Pre-Race: Friday, April 11 (ESPN2 & TSN-alt at 10:30 p.m.)

Race: Friday, April 11 (ESPN2 & TSN-alt at 10:45 p.m.)

*AT is one hour ahead of ET, i.e. if it's 2 p.m./AT - it's 1 p.m./ET...

Stats

Year-To-Date Race Results & Point Standings: click here

Thursday First Practice click here Stremme quickest at 130.577 mph

Thursday Final Practice click here Hamlin quickest at 131.124 mph

Qualifying Order click here

Track Map



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