*Kyle Busch won the San Bernardino 200 at Auto Club Speedway. He scored his second win in his second series start at California. Busch has scored 10 career series victories in 56 starts (17.8 percent). Busch dominated the race, leading three times for 95 laps, including the final seven laps. Busch led all but two green-flag laps.
*All 10 of Busch’s series victories have come with Billy Ballew Motorsports.
*His previous series victory came at Bristol last August.
*Busch gave Billy Ballew Motorsports its 11th series win. (10 by Busch and one by Shane Hmiel.)
*Doug George, Busch’s crew chief, scored his first career win.
*Busch has finished in the top 10 in his past 14 series starts, dating back to Texas in June.
*Todd Bodine, who finished second after winning last week, has finished in the top five in the past eight series races.
*Busch joins Ted Musgrave (three wins) and Jack Sprague (two) as the only multiple race winners at California.
*This marked the third straight victory for Toyota at the speedway: Mike Skinner (2007) and Kyle Busch (2008 and ’09).
*This is just the third time in 13 series races at California that the pole winner won the race: Mike Bliss (1997), Kurt Busch (2000) and Kyle Busch (2009).
*Busch scored three series wins in 2008.
*Ricky Carmichael (eighth) was the highest-finishing rookie contender among the six rookies in the race.
*The top 10 consisted of six Toyotas and four Chevrolets. The best Ford was 13th, by James Buescher and the best Dodge finish was 21st, by Brett Thompson.
(ESPN.com)(2-23-2009)
