Kyle Busch Marks 100th Victory in All Three Series With 49th Nationwide Win

Kyle Busch not only won the New England 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, but he also tied Mark Martin as the record holder for Nationwide wins at 49. And for good measure, Busch became just the third driver to score 100 NASCAR national series victories.

[media-credit name=”Kirk Schroll” align=”alignright” width=”227″][/media-credit]The 26 year old driver from Las Vegas, Nevada has won 22 times in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 49 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, and 29 in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Busch is now third in the ranking of NASCAR National Series wins, behind Richard Petty, with 200, and David Person with 106.

Busch has won at 25 different tracks, including achieving an historic first three-race weekend sweep at Bristol. He is ranked 28th with Terry Labonte in NASCAR Sprint Cup victories.

“It certainly feels good and it means a lot,” Busch said. “To come out here and win for Z-Line Designs and get the 49th win in their car, we couldn’t do it without their support.”

“To tie Mark Martin’s win is pretty awesome as well.”

Speaking of Mark Martin, he was one of the first to find Busch in Victory Lane and congratulate him.

“It’s just incredible,” Martin said of Busch tying his record. “Everybody forgets that he’s 26 years old. There’s so many more out there for him.”

Busch had to do battle with his nemesis and probation partner Kevin Harvick, behind the wheel of the No. 33 Rheem Heating, Cooling and Water Heating Chevrolet, at the end of the race. Harvick finished in the runner up position and attributed his not winning the race to being warned by NASCAR.

“I was told a few weeks ago that if we touched the 18 car, we’d be parked,” Harvick said. “I just had to be really careful and that’s just the way NASCAR put it to me.”

“It would have been a lot easier to win if you didn’t have handcuffs put on you.”

Even though Harvick did not win the race, he, like Busch, achieved his own record when the checkered flag flew. Harvick scored his 199th top-10 finish, which is an all-time record in the Nationwide Series.

“We’ve been fortunate to have a lot of fun in this Series since it first started,” Harvick said. “I just came up one short.”

Kasey Kahne, driving the No. 7 GoDaddy.com/Verisign Chevrolet, followed closely behind Harvick, coming in third. This was Kahne’s third top-10 finish in four races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

“We were a seventh or eighth place car,” Kahne said. “My car was bouncing pretty bad throughout the race. But we were able to miss some of those wrecks and got up to third.”

“It ended up being a pretty good result.”

After spinning on Lap 33, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. recovered to come in fourth. The driver of the No. 6 Fenway Park 100 Years Ford admitted to having a pretty good run after his early error.

“I made a mistake there early trying to get by the 31,” Stenhouse, Jr. said. “He was holding everybody up and I tried to push the issue too hard.”

“We got in there and got too tight and spun the car around there,” Stenhouse, Jr. continued. “This Red Sox Fenway Park 100 Year’s edition is a cool looking car and I wish we could have gotten it into victory lane.”

Aric Almirola, behind the wheel of No. 88 Grand Touring Vodka Chevrolet, rounded out the top five.

“We were a top ten car off the truck so to come out with a top five has been good,” Almirola said. “Everybody at JR Motorsports has been working their guts out.”

“So, it’s fun to come and have a good weekend and put it all together and show off some of the hard work the guys have been doing back at the shop.”

There was plenty of action throughout the race, from Carl Edwards blowing an engine and returning to his seat in the broadcast booth to several on-track altercations involving Rusty Wallace’s son and driver Steve Wallace.

The driver of the No. 60 Fastenal Ford Mustang blamed a broken value or broken valve spring on his falling out of the race.

“Something just broke,” Edwards said. “You don’t really know until you get it apart but I did shut it off early so we should be able to troubleshoot and look at it to see what was actually broken.”

Steve Wallace, driver of the No. 66 5-Hour Energy Toyota Camry, also had an eventful race, but in a different way than Edwards. He was at the heart of several racing incidents and eventually spun out and wrecked at the end.

“I really like Jason Leffler a lot – I get along with him really, really well,” Wallace said of one of his altercations. “He hit me about five or six different times today and he cut up in front of me and spun himself out.”

“It’s as simple as that,” Wallace continued. “Got in the back of the 20 (Joey Logano) there and just a lot of things happened today – some were my fault and some were not.”

Joey Logano, one of those who was caught up with Wallace in one of the incidents, had his own take on the on-track tussle.

“The 66 (Steve Wallace) just drove in there a little too high and got us,” Logano said. “That was the end of our day.

 

Unofficial Race Results
New England 200, New Hampshire Motor Speedway
http://www.speedwaymedia.com/n2s/race.php?race=19
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Pos. No. Driver Make Points
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1 5 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 0
2 2 33 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet 0
3 12 7 Kasey Kahne Chevrolet 0
4 14 6 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 41
5 4 88 Aric Almirola Chevrolet 39
6 13 9 Kenny Wallace Toyota 39
7 18 62 Michael Annett Toyota 37
8 1 22 Brad Keselowski Dodge 0
9 17 66 Steve Wallace Toyota 35
10 8 31 Justin Allgaier Chevrolet 34
11 16 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota 33
12 15 2 Elliott Sadler Chevrolet 32
13 7 16 Trevor Bayne Ford 32
14 20 19 Mike Bliss Chevrolet 30
15 6 32 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet 29
16 19 30 Mikey Kile Chevrolet 28
17 9 11 Brian Scott Toyota 27
18 25 81 Blake Koch * Dodge 26
19 26 51 Jeremy Clements Chevrolet 25
20 23 14 Eric McClure Chevrolet 24
21 27 89 Morgan Shepherd Chevrolet 23
22 28 40 Charles Lewandoski * Chevrolet 22
23 24 15 Timmy Hill * Ford 21
24 36 52 Kevin Lepage Chevrolet 20
25 39 44 Angela Cope Chevrolet 0
26 35 39 Matt Frahm Ford 18
27 22 1 Mike Wallace Chevrolet 17
28 21 167 Andrew Ranger Ford 0
29 3 20 Joey Logano Toyota 0
30 11 38 Jason Leffler Chevrolet 14
31 31 28 Derrike Cope Chevrolet 13
32 34 70 Dennis Setzer Dodge 12
33 30 23 David Green Chevrolet 11
34 10 60 Carl Edwards Ford 0
35 42 113 Jennifer Jo Cobb * Dodge 9
36 40 141 Carl Long Ford 8
37 29 174 Mike Harmon Chevrolet 7
38 38 175 Johnny Chapman Chevrolet 6
39 33 146 Chase Miller Chevrolet 5
40 41 104 Danny Efland Ford 4
41 32 142 Tim Andrews Chevrolet 0
42 37 147 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet 2

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