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Kyle Busch WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race in Bank of America 500
Press Release
- Kyle Busch led six times for 217 laps to earn WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors in tonight’s Bank of America 500. Busch has now led 22 times in 17 races this season for a total of 1,245 laps. In 147 superspeedway starts, he has led 75 times 3,156 laps.
- Busch scored a second-place finish tonight at Charlotte, 1.866 seconds behind race winner Jamie McMurray. Busch claimed his ninth top-five of the season and his 37th in 147 superspeedway races.
- UNOFFICIALLY Busch and Denny Hamlin are tied for the lead (6-6) in the overall WIX Filters Lap Leader standings.
- DID YOU KNOW? The driver leading the most laps in the 10 most recent fall races at Charlotte has now scored SEVEN top-10 finishes.
- Drivers that have led the most laps in the 10 most recent fall races at Charlotte Motor Speedway:
2001: Sterling Marlin, 135 laps, FIRST
2002: Jamie McMurray, 96 laps, FIRST
2003: Tony Stewart, 149 laps, FIRST
2004: Kasey Kahne, 207 laps, 32nd
2005: Elliott Sadler, 112 laps, 27th
2006: Kasey Kahne, 134 laps, FIRST
2007: Jimmie Johnson, 95 laps, 14th
2008: Jimmie Johnson, 67 laps, sixth
2009: Jimmie Johnson, 92 laps, FIRST
2010: Kyle Busch, 217 laps, second
- UNOFFICIALLY Busch is fifth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship standings, a gain of FIVE positions (he and Tony Stewart each have the same point total but Busch is listed higher because he has more race wins). He is 177 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson, 21 behind fourth-place Jeff Gordon and 23 ahead of seventh-place Carl Edwards.
- BUSCH QUOTES: “It was a really great race for us. The car was phenomenal all night, one of our best cars that we’ve ever had, being able to drive through people, get back towards the front and stuff at a difficult racetrack to pass at and everything. This was a great run, a surprising run. The runs that we’re supposed to have, the runs that we’re supposed to make happen and it was a great feeling there all up until about 20 to go when we got a caution and then got beat on the caution and then the ensuing laps until the end. Just very, very frustrating. I can’t say enough about all my guys and everybody that works and as hard as they work and do such a great job that they do it’s just very, very frustrating. I apologize to everybody at Joe Gibbs Racing for just not being able to bring it home tonight. Apparently just didn’t have the right adjustment in the car there at the end. Perfect example two nights in a row and didn’t quite find what it took here from last night into tonight.”ARE YOU MORE FRUSTRATED WITH THE CAUTION OR THE RESTART? “Both. I mean, I don’t know what the caution was for. Apparently there was a mouse that ran across the racetrack or something and then the restart, just trying to get going there. Jamie got a good restart and I don’t know if he got pushed from Jimmie or not but he had a good run, a good head of momentum getting into Turn 1 and then I got there and my car pushed up the racetrack and I back to the gas and it was too late. He was already gone so nothing I could do. Couldn’t
stay to his outside even.”WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH YOUR THROTTLE EARLY IN THE RACE? “It was sticking for some reason. I’m not sure why. We have a cable drive system that I haven’t liked since I came to Joe Gibbs Racing. I don’t know what happened in the mechanism but something apparently got wedged in there for a while and I was able to work it free. It came back to normal so. Took it about 50 laps or so but got it back normal.”
WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD STANDINGS Denny Hamlin 6 Kyle Busch 6 Tony Stewart 4 Kevin Harvick 3 Juan Pablo Montoya 3 Kasey Kahne 2 Jeff Burton 2 Clint Bowyer 2 Marcos Ambrose 1 Jamie McMurray 1 AJ Allmendinger 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 Emory Healthcare 500 Tony Stewart, 176 laps Air Guard 400 Denny Hamlin, 251 laps Sylvania 300 Clint Bowyer, 177 laps AAA 400 AJ Allmendinger, 143 laps Price Chopper 400 Tony Stewart, 76 laps Pepsi MAX 400 Clint Bowyer, 40 laps Bank of America 500 Kyle Busch, 217 laps
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