The victory was Busch's third of the season and 10th of his Busch career.

"It's a testament to this team, they don't give up," said Busch.

Kenseth brought the field to the green flag for 200 laps of racing, but it was points leader Carl Edwards who led the first lap and beyond. Edwards led eight laps before he gave up the top spot to Denny Hamlin, who lasted just one lap before Kenseth retook the lead.

Things then began to settle down and Kenseth took control of the early portion of the race. But only for about 20 laps and then they played some more "leap frog."

First Greg Biffle, then Jeff Burton took turns in the lead, but Kenseth was never far from the top, only falling as low as fourth.

Burton began to expand his lead as the field hit the 80-lap mark (to more than four seconds), but a caution flag erased Burton's lead in a heartbeat.

On lap 95, Edwards suddenly slowed after colliding with Kenseth which caused a cut left-front tire. . Try as Edwards' pit crew might, they couldn't get the repairs done in time and the points leader went down a lap to the leaders.

Up front, Brian Vickers was challenging Burton and in fact, took the lead on lap 96. He still held it at the halfway point.

Vickers, Biffle and Burton quickly opened up a working margin after a restart on lap 119. Meanwhile, Kenseth had some problems that forced an early pit stop and left him in 18th place with 80 laps to go. And Edwards pulled his car behind pit road for major repairs (oil cooler).

A round of pit stops for the leaders left Casey Mears and Kenseth, both of whom did not pit, with the lead.

Three drivers, Mears, who still had to pit one more time, Kenseth, who might have to pit one more time and Clint Bowyer who stopped at lap 130 and probably could go the distance, took control of the race. Their lead was two seconds over fourth-place Busch with 50 laps to go. Then Mears fell back and it was between Kenseth and Bowyer.

One lap later, Edwards, who had returned after his repairs, suffered a hard crash after spinning and his day was done.

"That was pretty hard...kind of a long day," said a frustrated Edwards. "Something broke on the car."

Mears came in on the Edwards caution as did most of the leaders except for Kenseth, Bowyer and Busch.

With 35 laps remaining, the trio built a one-second lead on the field. Busch got around Bowyer and headed for Kenseth as the No.2 Chevrolet began to fade. Kenseth and Busch were almost side-by-side with 30 laps to go, Kenseth at the top of the track and Busch at the bottom.

Then a caution flag, the ninth of the race and one short of the record, by Brad Keselowski on lap 176 slowed the fun and set up a short sprint to the finish.

Kenseth and Busch immediately went back to their battle for the top spot. This time Busch got around Kenseth with 17 laps to go just as rookie Bryan Clauson slammed the outside wall to bring out another caution flag.

When they cleared the track and got going there were just 13 laps to go. Busch got off to a good restart and still held a half-second lead with 10 laps to go.

This time Busch used the top of the track and forced Kenseth to the bottom. It paid off as Kenseth could only get close, but couldn't complete the pass.

Despite a 38th-place finish, Edwards will bring a 696-point lead to the next race at the Lowe's Motor Speedway on Saturday, October 12th.

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