Filed under: Carl Edwards, Joe Nemechek, Kyle Busch, Reed Sorenson, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, NASCAR Fights, Nationwide Series, NASCAR

After dominating the Kroger 200, Kyle Busch held off Carl Edwards in a green-white-checkered restart in the Nationwide race at O'Reilly Raceway Park outside Indianapolis and won his eighth race of the year in NASCAR's second series, including five of his last six starts.

Edwards did everything he could to get past Busch on the final lap, diving deep and hard into turn three, but raced clean as Busch held his outside line to the checkered flag.

"It was a good, clean, hard-fought battle. When you treat people with respect, that's what you get -- you get respect back," Busch said in victory lane. "Carl was awesome tonight. That was good, hard racing."

The finish was in stark contrast to last weekend's drama at St. Louis, where Edwards intentionally wrecked Brad Keselowski coming to the checkered flag to snatch the victory.

"He got me on the start," Edwards said of Busch. "I could get under him and I could work him, but he beat us today. It's amazing how fast those cars are on old tires."

"I just knew that I had to get going and I had to get a launch," Busch said of the final restart. "I smoked 'em tonight."

Aric Almirola was third, followed Trevor Bayne and Reed Sorenson. Points leader Keselowski finished eighth.

 

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