Kyle Busch won the Toyota Owners 400 from Richmond
Raceway on Saturday night for his third-straight victory.
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“The pit crew tonight, they won this race for us,”
Busch said. “Those last two times we
came down for tires...they got us where we needed to be.”
Busch took the lead late, and he had to hold off the
field on two late restarts after cautions forced the race into overtime. On the final restart, Busch pulled ahead of
Chase Elliott to win for the third-straight time.
Busch said he was excited to win his third race, but
that it would be hard to go for four-straight with Talladega looming next weekend.
“It’s hard to go to Talladega with that much of a
winning streak and think you can win,” Busch said. “I don’t know if you can shoot for
four-in-a-row, but we’re going to go there and give it a shot.”
Elliott finished second for the eighth time in his
career after he couldn’t catch Busch in the closing laps.
Elliott said his cars still don’t have the speed to
win, but that he was happy to get a good finish.
“We still have a lot of work to do…to have the speed
that we need to drive it like we want it to,” Elliott said. “Our restarts fell into our hands there at
the end; having short runs kind of fell into our favor and I was able to move
forward.”
“Circumstances were on our side tonight, which is not
normal, so I’m happy about that.”
Unofficial results:
1. Kyle Busch
2. Chase Elliott
3. Denny Hamlin
4. Joey Logano
5. Kevin Harvick
6. Jimmie Johnson
7. Kyle Larson
8. Brad Keselowski
9. Clint Bowyer
10. Daniel Suarez
11. Kurt Busch
12. William Byron
13. Erik Jones
14. Martin Truex Jr.
15. Austin Dillon
16. Matt DiBenedetto
17. Aric Almirola
18. Alex Bowman
19. Jamie McMurray
20. Ty Dillon
21. Trevor Bayne
22. Ryan Blaney
23. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
24. Paul Menard
25. Darrell Wallace Jr.
26. Chris Buescher
27. AJ Allmendinger
28. Ross Chastain
29. Kasey Kahne
30. Cole Whitt
31. Michael McDowell
32. Daniel Hemric
33. David Ragan
34. Landon Cassill
35. Gray Gaulding
36. Harrison Rhodes
37. Ryan Newman
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