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DOVER, Del. — Same song, different verse.

Points leader Kyle Busch made mincemeat of the competition and Sunday’s Best Buy 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway.

In a race that stayed green for the final 153 laps, Busch gained a total of five seconds over runner-up Carl Edwards on his final two pit stops, built a lead that topped eight seconds and cruised in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to a 4.225-second win, his fourth of the season and the eighth of his career.

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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Best Buy 400 benefiting
Student Clubs for Autism Speaks
Dover International Speedway
Qualifying Fast Facts

Pole Winner: Greg Biffle
Age: 38
Team: No. 16 3M Ford
Owner: Jack Roush
Crew Chief: Greg Erwin

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Darlington, SC — Kyle Busch won the Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington Raceway. By the only method that works — taming the track’s “Too Tough To Tame” reputation with patience and refusing to lose to everything the South Carolina speedway throws at a driver.

First let her stripe you, let her think she’s in control. Watch her take out the competition one by one. Let the new car think it isn’t going to turn through the corners the way you want it to. Get into the wall with the right side 3 or 4, even 5 times.

Overcome a loose lug nut penalty in the process.

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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Dodge Challenger 500
Darlington Raceway
Qualifying Fast Facts

Pole Winner: Greg Biffle
Age: 38
Team: No. 16 3M Ford
Owner: Jack Roush
Crew Chief: Greg Erwin

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Carl Edwards announced that he has re-signed with Roush Fenway Racing – a multi-year deal that will keep him behind the wheel of the No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion. In addition, crew chief Bob Osborne is back this week after completing his six-week NASCAR suspension. Edwards spoke about those issues after Friday’s practice session at Richmond International Raceway.

CARL EDWARDS – No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion – WHAT’S YOUR CONTRACT STATUS? “I signed my contract yesterday, so I’m staying with Roush. I looked at everything and I talked to everybody and, for me, the number one thing is looking into the future and saying, ‘Where can I win the most races and have the most success?’ I was honored at the people who I got to speak with and I just feel like for me personally this is where I want to be for the near future and we got it done. It’s good. I’m real happy about it. It’s a huge relief. It really wasn’t that painful. Geoff Smith and I get along really well and we just pretty much sat down and he’s really easy for me to deal with. It took us about a week-and-a-half of going back and forth with just little things and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world for the contract I got.”

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NASCAR Nationwide Series
Corona Mexico 200
Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
Qualifying Fast Facts

NASCAR Nationwide Series Pole Winner: Colin Braun
Age: 19
Team: No. 16 3M Ford
Owner: Jack Roush
Crew Chief: Eddie Pardue

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FORT WORTH, TX. — Carl Edwards must know how the West was won… state by state.

He won in California. He won in Nevada. And, Sunday, he won in Texas.

The back-flipping Edwards is on a roll.

And he’s doing it without his regular crew chief, who is sitting out a suspension for rules violations earlier in the year.

Running either at the front, or just behind Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch most of the race, Edwards took the lead on lap 214 of the 339-lap Samsung 500 and practically held it the remaining distance.

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Car owner Jack Roush held a Q&A session in the Martinsville Speedway infield media center to address the issue of his comments in the recent issue of ESPN The Magazine.

JACK ROUSH, Car Owner – Roush Fenway Ford Fusions – “I find myself in the eye of the storm. Unlike the last time I was here, I’m not mad today. I’m not gonna answer any question that all of you might have that would take me past the point of giving you information that I think is appropriate given the other considerations that are going on behind the scenes right now. My apologies to one or more of you that approached me as I entered the garage area this morning before I had a chance to see what in fact had happened in the news. I don’t hang on the web for any inflammatory comment than anybody might make that could aggravate me or be relevant or irrelevant to facts that are developing.

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JACK ROUSH, Car Owner – Roush Fenway Ford Fusions – “The reason I’m here this morning is because I’m mad. I got woken up this morning to the news that Lee White, on behalf of Toyota, had made some disparaging remarks in the USA Today. I will comment on those at the end, but I’d like for David Poole and Mike Mulhern and anybody else who want so accept some off the record information about Lee White. Lee White worked for me in the eighties and I won’t say more than that, but I can give you some insight to Lee. Lee is a real nice guy. I respect him, but he’s also a great racer and will seek any advantage that he think he might have an opportunity for.

“I’ve got the part here that is in question and I’m gonna talk about that and a little big about our position on the appeal process that’s being considered. I’m gonna talk about what happened and how it happened and what we know about it today.

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Carl Edwards is one cool customer. It seems nothing can rattle him. He lives for the anxiety of top-level racing.

No. 99 Crew Chief Bob Osborne is a smart cookie. They’re talking about making him wear a helmet to protect that racing brain of his.

Jack Roush is a fiery competitor. After being what he describes as “thousands of unauthorised test miles behind” in last year’s CoT introduction, he’s made it up, with strong personel changes, factory support and dedcated resources that will rival any other team of manufacturer out there.

California last week and Las Vegas today have proven to be the pay-off. Four of Roush Fenway Racing’s entries were top ten finishers. Including the “W” … twice.

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