Battling back from one lap down, Vickers finished 11th behind race winner Kasey Kahne, good enough to edge David Green for the NASCAR Busch Series title.

"This is everything I've dreamed of and everything I've worked for my whole life," said Vickers, who will move up to the Nextel Cup Series in 2004, the youngest full-time driver ever in NASCAR's top series.

The previous youngest driver to win a NASCAR championship was 21-year-old Rob Moroso, who took the Busch title in 1989. More