This one is pretty cool."īubba Wallace brought out the 11th and final yellow flag when he was fighting for a top-10 finish and his brake rotor let go with five laps remaining, the last in a series of broken rotors that ended the race for at least three other drivers.īusch, who had held off fellow Chevrolet driver Kyle Larson on each previous restart, had one last phenomenal jump in him. "We're going to have a great time with this one.
It was pretty phenomenal for us," said Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion who is in his debut season for Richard Childress Racing. "That was pretty awesome, man, to sit on the pole, lead a lot of laps and have my guys do such a great job today. Busch got a big push from Denny Hamlin on the last restart, then held off his former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate in a green-white-checkered finish for his third victory of the year. It finally did in the twilight, though, some six hours after the green flag initially dropped. Must have seemed like Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Race at World Wide Technology Raceway would never end. He had kept his poise through 11 cautions, including five down the stretch as he tried to protect his lead. He had idled on the track through two red flags. Kyle Busch had been in and out of his car through a lengthy weather delay.