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Kyle Busch turned in his exemplary high Bristol Motor Speedway performance on Sat to get the Scotts EZ Seed 300 Nationwide Series event at the track, his fourth-straight NASCAR get at Bristol. It was also a record-setting period for the Nationwide Series, as Busch became the prototypal driver to advance more than 10,000 laps in series history. He achieved that milestone on travel 265 of the 300-lap race.

"It's big," Busch said of the 10,000 laps led mark. "It's cool.

A monkey wrench of sorts was tangled into the vie leveling this weekend, when NASCAR and Goodyear definite to attain a convey to the right-side ring utilised at Bristol terminal year. Teams experienced and eligible on the tires originally regular to be utilised this weekend, and modify ran the prototypal 25 laps of the vie on them before a rivalry caution, during which teams were required to switch over to terminal year's right-side tire.

Drivers struggled somewhat to find grip. Pole-sitter Ricky Stenhouse Jr. told his team over the broadcasting that the tires after the changeover felt same they were running on top of the vie road instead of dig in and effort grip. He likened them to the feel of tires with likewise such expose push in them.

Despite the needed fitting to a assorted ring compound, the prototypal half of the vie was relatively incident-free, as exclusive digit other warn came discover prior to travel 183. But it was that travel 183 warn that brought fate on the life of several competitiors.

Most of the earth began cycling through green alarum stops around travel 167, but Busch remained on the racetrack. When the warn came discover on travel 183, most cars were caught a travel down, as a termination of them already corroding and Busch not having made his kibosh yet.

Busch was able to kibosh under the chromatic and uphold in the lead, patch most of the earth either took the wave around or restarted digit or more laps down. Stenhouse Jr. was among the drivers a travel down, but he unsmooth up for the uphold with the advance travel cars. As a termination of restarting in the criminal position, he was penalized by NASCAR and lapse added travel down.

"I didn't know where we were questionable to start," Stenhouse Jr. said of the incident. "They told me we were behindhand the 34, so it was meet a bad period every the artefact around."

Stenhouse was still digit laps downbound at the end of the vie and ended up with a 14th-place closing after starting on the tangency and running second to Dubya most of the vie up until the wheel of stops that started on travel 167.

While that warn taste such of the field, added warn -- the sixth of the period -- was a support to drivers including Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne. That portion warn put Earnhardt Jr. backwards on the advance lap, and he and Kahne, who was already on the advance lap, pitted quaternary four fresh tires, patch most of the frontrunners stayed out.

With the benefit of underclassman tires, the digit worked their artefact toward the front.

"We were catching him (Busch)," Kahne said after the race. "I intellection maybe we had a shot."

That shot lapse meet short, though, as Kahne ended second and Earnhardt Jr. wound up third.

"I intellection we had a second or third-place car," Earnhardt Jr. said.

Elliott Sadler ended fourth, and Joey Logano amygdaliform discover the top-five.

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