Burton leads every lap at Darlington

DARLINGTON, S.C. -- - It wasn’t even close, except at the very end.

Jeff Burton dominated the Darlingtonraceway.com 200 for Saturday’s NASCAR Busch Series race at Darlington Raceway by starting on the pole and leading every lap.

			Jeff Burton climbs out of his Ford after leading all 147 laps at Darlington.

Burton, behind the wheel of the No. 9 Gain Ford, repeated the same performance he turned in at Las Vegas two weeks ago by winning from the pole. He's the second NASCAR Busch Series driver to lead every lap and first to accomplish the feat on a superspeedway.

The only threat to Burton came late in the race when Randy LaJoie slapped the frontstretch wall with 18 laps remaining in the 147-lap event to bring out the caution. Burton then held off a hard-charging Greg Biffle to claim his 17th trip to Victory Lane in 221 career starts.

Biffle started fifth and followed his Roush Racing teammate for most of the race in the No. 60 Grainger Ford.

Jeff Green was third. Jason Keller re-gained the Busch Series points lead with a fourth-place finish. Kenny Wallace was fifth.

"Our strength was in long runs," Burton said. "We were fast to start, too. Jason Keller was fast but we hurt him on the long runs, mostly.

"I didn't want to see that caution there at the end."

"Greg (Biffle) keeps that pistol loaded all the time. That's just a great race team and we've worked really hard together this winter and they're as much to do with our success as our own team.

"It's great to finish first and second."

			Lyndon Amick crashes on lap 25. Amick finished 41st.

Biffle fell behind early in the event but quickly rallied back and was on Burton's back bumper when the checkered flag flew.

"I didn't know how strong my car was going to be there at the end," Biffle said. "I felt if there were a few more laps at the end I might have been able to put a fender inside of Jeff (Burton).

"We did a different strategy here this time because we've done so bad here before. The key was to take care of the tires and wait until 10 to go and go after the leader.

"I just didn't know my car was going to be that good when I turned it up at the end."