Busch wins 5th race of year with victory in Sonoma
Ashly Elam
Story Created:
Jun 22, 2008 at 10:08 PM CST
Story Updated:
Jun 22, 2008 at 11:35 PM CST
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) - Kyle Busch snapped the brief slump that's
plagued him the past two weeks, racing to his first Sprint Cup
Series win on a road course Sunday.
Busch, who had a poor qualifying run and started 30th at
Infineon Raceway, steadily moved through the field and grabbed the
lead away from defending race winner Juan Pablo Montoya on an early
restart. Nobody came close to taking the lead from Busch the rest
of the way, but he did have to hold off a pair of challenges on two
late restarts.
It was Busch's series-best fifth win of the season, and 11th
overall spanning all three of NASCAR's top series. It also was his
second road course victory of the season - he won the Nationwide
Series race in Mexico City in April.
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