An impressive night for Kyle Busch at Richmond Speedway who started 32nd and weaved his way to the front, then survived a series of late restarts and overtime to win his third straight race.
The completion of the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway will be completed on Monday after officials postponed the race after the third red flag of the day because of rain.
After four straight finishes of 2nd or 3rd, Kyle Busch finally came to the finish line as a winner on Sunday at the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Sunday's race at Martinsville Speedway needed overtime to decide. It went five extra laps and on the final lap Kyle Busch held off Martin Truex, Jr. to win for the second time, fifth time this season and his 43rd career win. It guarantees him a spot among four drivers in the championship race at Homestead-Miami on November 19th.
Only 14 cars were able to finish Sunday's Alabama at Talladega Superspeedway. Three major wrecks, including one involving 17 cars brought out red flags and at the finish just four of the 12 playoff drivers were still running. But it was Brad Keselowski who used a last lap pass Ryan Newman to win his fifth restrictor-plate race and an automatic pass into the Round of 8.
The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs is down to the Round of 12 after Sunday's race at Dover. For the second week in a row Kyle Busch was the winner, this time at Dover International Speedway.
Kyle Busch assured himself of a spot in the Round of 12 in the NASCAR Championship with Sunday's win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Busch led 187 of 300 laps for his third win of the season, third at New Hampshire and the 41st of his Cup career.