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After dominating the Kroger 200, Kyle Busch held off Carl Edwards in a green-white-checkered restart in the Nationwide race at O'Reilly Raceway Park outside Indianapolis and won his eighth race of the year in NASCAR's second series, including five of his last six starts.Edwards did everything he could to get past Busch on the final lap, diving deep and hard into turn three, but raced clean as Busch held his outside line to the checkered flag.
"It was a good, clean, hard-fought battle. When you treat people with respect, that's what you get -- you get respect back," Busch said in victory lane. "Carl was awesome tonight. That was good, hard racing."
The finish was in stark contrast to last weekend's drama at St. Louis, where Edwards intentionally wrecked Brad Keselowski coming to the checkered flag to snatch the victory.
"He got me on the start," Edwards said of Busch. "I could get under him and I could work him, but he beat us today. It's amazing how fast those cars are on old tires."
"I just knew that I had to get going and I had to get a launch," Busch said of the final restart. "I smoked 'em tonight."
Aric Almirola was third, followed Trevor Bayne and Reed Sorenson. Points leader Keselowski finished eighth.
Edwards sliced through the field after the green flag came back out, clawing his way to second with 21 laps to go. With 18 to go, he was a second behind Busch. But Busch was better the longer the run went, and Edwards seemed stuck when the final yellow flag flew with six laps to go when Joe Nemechek spun in turn three.
That set up the green-white-checkered finish, and Edwards's best hope was to dive under Busch in turn one on the restart. But Edwards said he laid back a bit on the restart, expecting Busch to do the same, and as soon as Busch saw that, he powered forward and took off to gain an advantage that Edwards could not overcome.
"It was a fun night," Busch said. "I knew we had a really good car. I thought it was going to be unfortunate when Carl took tires and beat us. Man, we made it work and we ended up coming out on top tonight."Keselowski and Edwards certainly had plenty of opportunities to escalate their hostilities, including making several restarts side by side. But all was calm.
"Yeah, I thought it was pretty decent racing by most everybody, just good hard short-tracking," Keselowski said.
Keselowski holds a 205-point lead over Edwards in the Nationwide series champoionship points standings, but the racing is nonetheless dominated by Busch, who's won eight of 20 so far this year, although he's not running them all and thus is not competing for the championship.
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