Dollar General 300

Kyle Busch dominated the Dollar General 300 at Lowes Motor Speedway Friday night and got his seventh Nationwide Series win of the season. Prior to Friday night’s race, Busch averaged a seventh-place finish each week, finished outside the top 10 in only five events, and held a 155-point lead over second-place Carl Edwards in the point standings.

“This thing was on a rail tonight, it was a great racecar,” Busch said. “This is my house on the Nationwide side, I really like this place.”

The race was never in doubt as Busch led 137 of the 200 laps and extended his points lead to 195 over Carl Edwards; the win was the 28th of Busch’s Nationwide career. With the win, Busch broke a tie with Jeff Burton for fourth on the all-time series wins list. He also had a perfect driver rating of 150.0.

“I felt like we did everything right, but anything could have happened tonight,” Busch said.” Now we’re this late in the game, it’s just going to be about luck. I think some of my best competition fell away, I don’t know what happened to the 16, but he was there in the beginning. I just felt like we were in another zip code tonight.”

Mike Bliss brought the Ridemakerz.com Toyota home in second for his 12th top-10 finish of the season. The second-place finish was the fifth top-10 finish in the last 10 races for Bliss.

“It means a lot to me, it feels really good, I love Charlotte, I love this racetrack,” Bliss said.” I felt really good from the moment we parked the trailer. I’m excited about that finish. I think he (Busch) just dominated the race, we knew he was the car to beat.”

Dave Blaney finished third, his third top-10 finish in 16 career races at Lowes Motor Speedway at Charlotte. Making just his fourth start of the season, Blaney was pleasantly surprised with the final result.

“Everything was going great tonight. I haven’t been able to do much racing this year,” Blaney said.” that was fun. I thought it was real good in practice, it just took off early and went all night.”

Ninth-place starter Brian Vickers finished fourth in the Dollar general Toyota and Pole winner Carl Edwards rounded out the top five in the Ortho Ford.

One of the biggest movers on the night was Brad Keselowski in the Hellman’s Chevrolet. After starting in 29th, Keselowski progressively improved his position and eventually battled his way to a sixth-place finish. The sixth-place finish leaves Keselowski third in the points standings, 272 behind Busch.

Kyle Busch will look to continue his hot streak next week when the Nationwide series heads to Memphis.