Logano gets best of Busch again, wins at Kansas

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Apparently, Joey Logano is none the worse for wear.

Six days after tumbling down the banking in a spectacular Sprint Cup Series wreck at Dover, Joey Logano found his way to a far more friendly environment -- Victory Lane at Kansas Speedway.

Kansas Lottery 300

Results

Pos.	Driver	Make
1.	Joey Logano	Toyota
2.	Kyle Busch	Toyota
3.	Brad Keselowski	Chevrolet
4.	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet
5.	Greg Biffle	Ford
6.	Justin Allgaier	Dodge
7.	Carl Edwards	Ford
8.	Scott Speed	Toyota
9.	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet
10.	Reed Sorenson	Toyota

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Race Video

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• Victory Lane: Logano
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With three laps left in Saturday's Kansas Lottery 300, the 19-year-old Logano surged past Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch to the outside as their Toyotas raced toward the finish line. Logano pulled away to win the race by .574 seconds.

Busch, who led 173 of 200 laps and set a record for laps led in a Nationwide Series season, finished second to Logano for the fourth time this season. Nevertheless, Busch extended his lead in the series standings to 245 points over seventh-place finisher Carl Edwards and by 307 over Brad Keselowski, who ran third.

Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle and rookie Justin Allgaier came home fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.

"The good thing about this win is it should shut everyone up about, 'Am I going to be ready, am I going to not be as good because I rolled over like that?'" Logano said. "Hopefully, that will put things to rest. ... I had no fear. If you can barrel-roll a car like that and come out OK, that's going to give you all the confidence to drive harder. ...

"That's all I've got -- dig as hard as I can every lap for everything I'm worth. After I got by the 88 [Keselowski], then we had another restart, and I'm like, 'I've got a shot at it.' I felt like I was pretty good the long green-flag run before the restart, and then there was another restart, and I felt like I was gaining on him [Busch].

"I knew I had to go up to the high side [to pass]. My car was just too aero-tight when I got behind cars. So I had to go where no one was, pretty much, for me to go fast. I got out there and had a big run and got outside of him and kept digging. It was a blast."

Busch, naturally enough, was disappointed with the result, which extended his winless streak in the series to 10 races. Five times in those 10 events, Busch has finished second.

"Unfortunately, I got beat," Busch said succinctly. "The kid outdrove me. That's what you'll have sometimes. The [car] was good [Saturday]. Unfortunately, I couldn't drive it hard enough in order to get a win out of it."

As a consolation prize, Busch set a series record. On Lap 94, he eclipsed Sam Ard's 1984 mark of 2,127 laps led in a single Nationwide Series season. Busch finished the race with a total of 2,226 laps led thus far in 2009. Busch also tied Jack Ingram's 1983 single-season record for runner-up finishes (10).

Note
• Pole-sitter Parker Kligerman, who ran 16th, was the 10th driver to win the pole for his first start in the Nationwide Series, despite having never run a practice lap before this weekend. The 19-year-old, a developmental driver for Penske Racing, posted his eighth ARCA victory of the season Thursday, moving with 15 points of series leader Justin Lofton.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.