KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Joe Nemechek kept Tony Stewart winless in the NASCAR Busch Series, then earned his first victory of the season in the series' closest race this year.

Stewart, who has a Winston Cup championship and an Indy Racing League title but has never won a Busch race, dominated all but the last few laps Saturday at Kansas Speedway. But Nemechek reeled him in after a late restart, and Stewart was trying to hold him off when the two made contact in the backstretch with 1 1/2 laps to go.

"He just kept coming and coming, and I said, 'Please, please, don't come all the way up,"' said Nemechek, whose victory was the 16th of his Busch career. "But he come up, and his bumper poked a hole in the nose of my car, and he went into the wall." More