Kyle Busch scores first win for Toyota
Kyle Busch gave Toyota its first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory, driving away from the pack in the waning laps to win the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday.
Busch, winning for the first time since last March 25 at Bristol, took the lead for good with 50 laps to go when Carl Edwards, trying for a third straight victory, went out with a broken transmission.
The first win for the Japanese automaker in NASCAR’s top series came in its 40th race and is the first NASCAR victory by a foreign manufacturer since Al Keller drove a Jaguar to a road course win in Linden, New Jersey in June 1954.
After Busch crossed the finish line ahead of teammate Tony Stewart, he screamed on the radio, “Congratulations, (crew chief Steve) Addington, it’s your first one.”
It was the fifth Cup victory for Busch, who became the youngest winner on Atlanta’s 1.5-mile (2.4-kilometer) oval since Jeff Gordon won in 1995 at 23 years, 6 months. Busch will be 23 on May 2.
Stewart, who continued to complain bitterly about the tires furnished this year by Goodyear, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. both passed Greg Biffle in the final laps to take second and third, with pole winner Gordon fifth.
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