Sunday
Kyle Busch WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race in IRWIN Tools Night Race
Press Release
- Kyle Busch led four times for 282 laps to earn WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors in tonight’s IRWIN Tools Night Race. Busch has led the most laps in three of the four most recent NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Bristol. He has now led 17 times in 14 races this season for a total of 977 laps. In 34 career short track races Busch has now led a total of 1,961 laps.
- UNOFFICIALLY Busch and Denny Hamlin are tied for the lead (5-5) in the overall WIX Filters Lap Leader standings.
- Busch won tonight’s race at Bristol, crossing the finish line .677 seconds ahead of second-place David Reutimann. He claimed his third win of the 2010 season and the 19th victory in 210 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts. Busch won for the fourth time in 12 races at Bristol. He became the first driver in NASCAR history to win all three of NASCAR’s national series in the same weekend.
- The driver leading the most laps has now scored FIVE wins in the 11 most recent IRWIN Tools Night Races and has finished ninth or better in each of the last seven August races.
- UNOFFICIALLY Busch climbed five positions in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship standings, moving into third-place, 72 points behind second-place Jeff Gordon and 57 ahead of fourth-place Carl Edwards.
- Drivers that have led the most laps in the 11 most recent August race at Bristol:
2000: Rusty Wallace, 279 laps, FIRST
2001: Jeff Gordon, 199 laps, third
2002: Jeff Gordon, 235 laps, FIRST
2003: Jeff Gordon, 179 laps, 28th
2004: Dale Earnhardt Jr., 295 laps, FIRST
2005: Matt Kenseth, 415 laps, FIRST
2006: Jeff Burton, 263 laps, ninth
2007: Kasey Kahne, 305 laps, second
2008: Kyle Busch, 414 laps, second
2009: Mark Martin, 240 laps, second
2010: Kyle Busch, 282 laps, FIRST
- BUSCH QUOTES: “Coming up through the field and working traffic the way you had to work traffic and just kind of pick and choose your way, do you go high, do you go low. You had to have a car that would really work everywhere. I was unsure about it going in, about how good our car was going to be but Dave [Rogers, crew chief] made some really good adjustments this morning and thought about it over the night to get us a good car for today. This Doublemint Camry was awesome and it goes back to good teamwork.”
WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD STANDINGS Denny Hamlin 5 Kyle Busch 5 Kevin Harvick 3 Juan Pablo Montoya 3 Kasey Kahne 2 Jeff Burton 2 Tony Stewart 2 Marcos Ambrose 1 Jamie McMurray 1 WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD WINNERS BY RACE EVENT DRIVER Daytona 500 Kevin Harvick, 41 laps Auto Club 500 Jeff Burton, 46 laps Shelby American Tony Stewart, seven laps Kobalt Tools 500 Kasey Kahne, 144 laps Food City 500 Juan Pablo Montoya, 29 laps Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Denny Hamlin, 172 laps Subway Fresh Fit 600 Kyle Busch, 113 laps Samsung Mobile 500 Tony Stewart, 74 laps Aaron’s 499 Jeff Burton, 28 laps Crown Royal 400 Kyle Busch, 226 laps SHOWTIME Southern 500 Denny Hamlin, 104 laps Autism Speaks 400 Kyle Busch, 131 laps Coca-Cola 600 Kyle Busch, 36 laps Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 Denny Hamlin, 88 laps Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 Denny Hamlin, 123 laps Toyota/Save Mart 350 Marcos Ambrose, 35 laps LENOX Industrial Tools 301 Kasey Kahne, 110 laps Coke Zero 400 Kevin Harvick, 28 laps LifeLock.com 400 Jamie McMurray, 72 laps Brickyard 400 Juan Pablo Montoya, 86 laps Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 Denny Hamlin, 19 laps Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen Juan Pablo Montoya, 74 laps CARFAX 400 Kevin Harvick, 60 laps IRWIN Tools Night Race Kyle Busch, 282 laps
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