Kyle Busch won the Nationwide Series Royal Purple 300 at Auto Club Speedway, the 46th career series win in his 207th race. He also won last week at Bristol, and it was his third win of 2011. It was the fifth time he’s won at Auto Club Speedway in his 13th race. Busch has won five of the last six series races at ACS.
Saturday’s victory was Busch’s eighth NASCAR win at ACS (one Cup, five Nationwide, two Camping World Truck).
Busch led twice for 18 laps on Saturday, including the final 17. He leads all drivers with 587 laps led in 2011. Carl Edwards is second with 116 laps led.
Saturday was the 13th time there was a 1-2 finish for Busch and Edwards in the series. Busch has won nine of them.
This was the 61st career win for Joe Gibbs Racing and the seventh for the team at ACS.
This was the seventh win at ACS for Toyota.
Edwards earned his 150th career top-10 finish. It was his seventh straight top-5 finish at ACS.
Kevin Harvick (third) earned his 197th top-10 finish in the series, only one behind Tommy Houston for the most. Harvick led his 7,000th series lap in the race, remaining third all time.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (fourth) has finished in the top 10 in six of the last seven events and he leads the points for the first time in his career. He is the fourth points leader in five races this season.
Elliott Sadler (fifth) got his second straight top-5 finish. He started 34th.
Mark Martin (eighth) scored his 150th career top-10 finish.
Brad Keselowski (10th) rebounded from a Lap 67 wave around to get his third straight top-10. (ESPN.com)(3-28-2011)
