* Kyle Busch won the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
* Busch moved to ninth all time in combined NASCAR wins, tying Rusty Wallace with 55.
* Busch scored his fourth win in 2009, tying Mark Martin for the most this season. His last win came at Richmond, 14 races ago.
* Busch scored his third Cup win in 10 races at Bristol. It was his 16th career victory in his 174th start.
* Busch scored his 12th win for Joe Gibbs Racing. His other four wins came with Hendrick Motorsports. This is Joe Gibbs Racing’s sixth victory in 2009.
* Busch has finished first or second in five of the past seven races at Bristol.
* Busch climbed from 15th to 13th in the point standings. He is 34 points out of the Chase, behind 12th-place Matt Kenseth. Busch gained 36 points on 12th. He went into the race 70 points behind.
* Any driver with a 391-point lead or more over 13th-place Busch is mathematically locked into the 2009 Chase. Tony Stewart locked at Michigan, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon locked at Bristol. Any driver more than 391 points behind 12th-place Kenseth has been eliminated from the Chase (19th on back).
* This marked the second win by Toyota at Bristol, both in 2009.
* Chevrolet has scored 12 wins in 2009, leading all manufacturers. Toyota has eight, while Dodge and Ford each have two.
* Mark Martin (second) posted his 250th career top-5 finish.
* Denny Hamlin (fifth) has scored four straight top-10 finishes.
* Crew chief Chad Knaus made his 300th Cup start in the race. His driver, Jimmie Johnson, finished eighth. Johnson has led at least one lap in 20 of the 24 races in 2009, the most by any driver.
* Dale Earnhardt Jr. (ninth) scored his fifth top-10 finish of the season.
* Brian Vickers (12th) extended a seven-race streak of top-15 finishes that began at Daytona in July.
* Scott Speed (15th) was the highest-finishing Rookie of the Year contender.
* Jeff Burton (18th) has finished 16th or worse in the past 10 races.
* Ryan Newman and Martin are the only drivers to score top-10 finishes in all four short-track races in 2009.
* Tony Stewart (33rd) ended an 18-race streak of lead-lap finishes that began at Martinsville in March.
* Kevin Harvick (38th) has scored just one top-10 finish in the past 20 races.
* Stewart (33rd) and Elliott Sadler (26th) have each been running at the finish in the past 47 races, the longest current streak.
* The top 10 consisted of three Toyotas, four Chevrolets, two Fords and one Dodge.(ESPN)(8-24-2009)
