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Busch Wins Richmond Unchallenged

The first Sprint win for Kyle Busch in the 2010 season entered the books this weekend at Richmond, where the recently Joe Gibbs Racing driver led for no less than 226 out of the 400 laps of the Crown Royal 400.

Busch's toughest rival on Sunday was Jeff Gordon, with whom he battled most of the race. Gordon himself led the race for 144 laps, but managed to lose the lead when it really mattered. Five laps before the checkered flag, Busch took advantage of a restart and passed by Gordon, beating him in the end by 0.755 seconds.

"I figured I was going to get the outside," Busch said according to NASCAR. "All I wanted to do was just get into Turn 1 smooth and get a good launch up off Turn 2 down the backstretch -and then make sure I got into 3 without over-driving it. ..."

"I knew if I could just get through Turn 3 OK and hammer down off Turn 4 and get him cleared that it would be pretty good -- and it worked. That's what I did. Did I have a plan? Was that exactly my plan? No. I was just going to drive it as hard as I could, and make whatever happened happen. It worked, just off the cuff."

On the other hand, Gordon's winless streak continues for 39 races now. He last won the Texas race in April last year.

"I've been doing this long enough to know they don't give out trophies for leading any lap other than the last one," Gordon said. "Yeah, it's a little disappointing that we haven't won some races yet, but if we keep doing this, those will come. We've got to keep putting ourselves in position."

The top five was completed by Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Carl Edwards.
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